Resisting Isaac (Triple Creek Ranch #2)

Prologue

Paradise Valley, Montana

Jimmy Peterson prided himself on being a simple man.

He’d married the preacher’s daughter, and they’d enjoyed a humble life on his family’s modest ranch.

Their house was nearly a hundred years old.

Jimmy had offered to upgrade it many times, but his wife, Ida, wouldn’t hear of it.

She said it had weathered life’s storms and retained a certain charm, much like the rancher she’d married.

After the loss of their only child shortly after birth, Jimmy and Ida found what joy they could in raising prize-winning livestock and a thriving garden together.

A small roadside stand selling their vegetables and the homemade soaps they made from goat’s milk had kept them from going under and made their marriage feel like young love for many years.

But they weren’t young anymore, and as Ida’s illness progressed, Jimmy was reminded every day of how fragile it all was. And how desperate love could make even an honorable man.

When the doctors told him that without expensive experimental medical treatments and medications, Ida would have months instead of years left, Jimmy did everything in his power to try and come up with the money.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough.

His body could no longer do the work the ranch required and the money to pay someone else a living wage to manage it had run out years ago. The two drifters he’d hired as ranch hands turned out to be dangerously incompetent idiots.

When the men in the fancy suits arrived with promises of a big payout to purchase his land, Jimmy thought his prayers had finally been answered.

But when the call came in that Jack Logan was found dead in his bull pasture on the property line they shared, he knew his nightmare was only just beginning.