The winter did not arrive in the Montana Territory the way polite winters did back East, with a few graceful flurries and a picturesque dusting for postcards. It arrived like an uninvited debt collector, boots on the porch boards, knuckles on the door, not leaving until it took something.
Juniper Ridge sat in a valley where the pines leaned under …
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