Smoke filling the air made it hard to breathe. Ally coughed as she tried to get the last baby goat herded into the pen without letting any of the others escape. Goats were non-compliant on a good day, panic caused by the scent of the approaching fire only made things worse. Finally giving up on the gate, Ally picked the kid up and set him over the fence where he could huddle against his mother while she went in search of two missing sheep.
Not for the first time in the last two days, Ally wondered what had possessed her to invest every penny she had and some she didn’t, to buy a piece of property outside the tiny New Mexico town of Garrett and start her own little ranch. Unlike most ranches in the area, she didn’t own a single head of cattle and not a single horse. No, she’d had the brill
