CHAPTER
2
Following his cryptic words, only dead air met my ears. Mystified, my thoughts tumbled over each other as I slid the phone in my pocket and reached over to stroke Starlight Sky’s silky hindquarters. What in the world had that been about? I was 90% certain that one of the background voices belonged to his reclusive sister Ronda. The second person could have been his mother or perhaps Ronda’s lifelong friend, the ubiquitous Lucinda Johns, who detested the ground I walked on—and the feeling was certainly mutual. Even though Lucinda was now in a relationship with one of Tally’s ranch hands, I still suspected she had never wavered in her amorous quest of thirty years to snag Tally’s affections. Her cunning decision to buy and board her horse at the Starfire provided her with e
