Saving The Sheriff: A Three River Ranch Novella (Entangled Bliss) - Plot & Excerpts
Shading her eyes with her free hand, she leaned on her shovel and looked to the tractor at the end of the yard where Red was plowing the last few feet that might allow them out. Might being the operative word. The drifts had that wind-packed resilience that made removal more like chopping glaciers than shoveling snow. And all she’d done was clear around Red’s pickup. Red cut the tractor engine and silence descended onto the frozen landscape. The earlier howling winds had retreated, but even lower temperatures accompanied the brief, brittle sunshine, lending an ominous sense of foreboding to their enterprise. “Ready for step two?” he asked. His cheeks were ruddy and rough and his words slurred through lips numb with cold. Frankie felt a rush of gratitude. “You bet.” They’d pull Conrad’s rig out of the ditch and she’d drive off, watching him in her rearview mirror, getting smaller and smaller.
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