In the 1870's, when Lucien B. Maxwell sold his alleged two million acre grant in northeastern New Mexico to an English syndicate, controversies erupted over land entitlements destined to last for decades. read more

taken from Chapter 1

Faye Winslow's first glimpse of Will, through the café window that she was cleaning, slowly idled her hands. She couldn't ever remember seeing a man quite as tall, for he stood well above the shoulder of the big bay he had just watered and brought to the tie rail. Both the horse and pack mule were still slobbering the last bit of water as the man commenced to loosen his cinch.

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Horses, a fascination of the west, and a compelling urge to write have been the main factors dominating every move in Peggy's life.

After graduating from high school in Lansing, Michigan, She worked as an animal technician at the Department of Health where they maintained a herd of seventy-five horses used for tetanus and diphtheria toxin. They also had a beautiful, two year old palomino born there that took her eye. Though never used, he was nevertheless unattainable being property of the state.

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