Water Rights (A Marley Dearcorn Novel)

When Marley Dearcorn finds two brothers from the Lazy Ox Yoke Ranch settling an argument over irrigation water by swinging fists and pointing guns, she doesn’t think much of it. The Houston brothers have always solved disputes by punching first and talking later and they might get bruised, but not lethally, so she leaves them to it. Then word reaches her later that day someone on the ranch died under mysterious circumstances and she blames herself for not getting involved when she had the chance. Marley starts digging into the past to piece together what caused all the strife in the Houston family, and she gets a lot more than she bargained for. A decades-old dark secret hangs over the Lazy Ox Yoke Ranch and the closer she gets to uncovering it, the more she begins to realize that years ago someone in the family tried to take the secret to their grave. Knowing the truth might reveal the reason behind the recent mysterious death, but Marley is about to discover that if a secret is worth dying for, it’s also worth killing for.