The series
The first novel
Emma Conrad was eighteen when her parents died and the ranch became hers to hold together. Ten years later she is still holding it: the cattle, the books, her grandmother, her two sisters, and seven generations of Conrad history, all balanced on work, silence, and the stubborn belief that protecting people means never letting them see the cost.
But the modern world keeps trying to take the Triple C away from her. The bank wants a plan. A developer wants the land. And the season will not wait for Emma to figure out how a cattle operation built for another century survives this one.
Then a stranger stops on the county road when her cattle are out, handles the trouble like a man born to it, and drives on without a word of explanation. He has a sister in town. A bookstore figures in it. And what he came back to West River country carrying will change everything Emma thought she knew about strength, family, and what it means to let someone in.
The first West River story · Free now
Fourteen years before the first novel opens, Diane Reynolds sat down at a rodeo secretary's table with rules about cowboys, and Mike Sullivan spent a summer taking them apart one road trip at a time.
Page Ninety is the first West River story, it is free for Annette's readers, and some of it will sound familiar when the novel arrives.
