"Ben and Renny, now grandparents, raised two daughters on their Rocky Mountain ranch before moving to opposite ends of the acreage. In this debut work of fiction, Laura Pritchett enters the lives of this extended ranching family, giving flesh and blood to the mythical West. Her characters convey the universal truth that family relationships, like Hell's Bottom Ranch itself, are marked by moments of pain and glimpses of paradise."--BOOK JACKET.