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The family was universally admired Well, maybe not Trey He was the Sheenan who’d spent four years locked up after a fistfight killed a man But the rest of the faiven back the town the historic Graff Hotel, and Cor and e, old brick building on Main Street with the corporate offices

Shane had learned a fair amount about the Sheenan brothers, and yet it was Brock, the eldest Sheenan, that reest puzzle He was elusive, and distant, and yet he was the one that ht be able to unlock the Sheenan secrets…that would possibly knohat Shane wanted to know

But Brock lived high in Para

dise Valley and rarely came to town If the Sheenan brothers wanted to see him, they went to him, on his ranch Brock was the first to have moved out of the Sheenan homestead, and it was Brock who’d cut his father off as soon as he’d left home

For eleven years there had been little communication between Brock and his father, and it wasn’t until he’d ain By that ti about a reconciliation between her husband and father-in-law, but from what Shane understood, it was probably too little, too late

Shane wanted to know about the feud between Brock and Bill Sheenan

Shane wanted to know about Brock’s relationship with his late mother, Catherine Sheenan

Shane wanted to knohy Brock had become so antisocial and had removed hih in the Absarokas

The Sheenan faht be well-liked in the Marietta and Paradise Valley communities, but they weren’t without their secrets and feuds

Shane Sas part of those secrets and feuds

Only the Sheenans didn’t know it yet They didn’t know anything about hi on a book about Montana history and he needed a place to work for nine months

And all of that was true He was a writer, and he had a nice deal for a book about the Douglas ranch invasion, a cri about the unsolved murders was really just an excuse to come to Crawford County and live in Paradise Valley, and observe the Sheenan family

The family that was supposed to have been his family

The faive him up

Chapter Two

Jet couldn’t focus How could she after that conversation with Shane Swan, aka Sean S Finley, New York Ti author of six books? Books she’d read And loved

She did try, though

She’d even shifted her chair, atte to block him a bit from her view, but she could still see hi ers tapping away at the co cheekbone

Just looking at his—none of theether tooBetter to pack her things up and head back to Kara’s house on Bra a room Jet’s sister, Harley Sheenan, had found the place for Jet after she took the job teaching at the one room schoolhouse Harley had also found the job for Jet Harley was very e, always doing the right thing And in this case, the right thing was finding a job for her ard, younger sister in the States

Jet dragged her attention back to the one page essay in front of her, but alain

So hard to concentrate with Shane at thetable

But she had to concentrate Seo hoone horess based on the five and a half weeks she’d been in the classroom

But she was grateful to Harley for reaching out about the teaching position in the first place Jet had still been in Holland at the ti au pair for relatives in South Holland, outside Rotterdaone to Europe to babysit, but to have a series of adventures, and she had For fourmonths, she’d had an incredible time and then money ran out Europe was so much more expensive than she’d anticipated and rather than return hoone to Holland where she played nanny for lots of second cousins in exchange for roo restless and Harley’s eht her attention

Apply, Harley eained

When Jet didn’t ie herself in Montana, teaching in a remote, historic, one roorant Gulch—she’d had to Google the towns, they were so small—Harley shot off a second email What do you have to lose, Jet? It’s only for sixpaid

That second eone and her credit cards were full She needed a paycheck

Jet applied, was interviewed over the phone, and then interviewed again via Skype, and, after a background check, hired Ten days later she was on a plane for Boze two days into the New Year