Secure the Ranch: A Josephine Stuart Mystery (The Josephine Stuart Mystery Series)

Josephine Stuart, a fifty-year-old widow, is blessed and cursed with an overactive curiosity, a strong sense of right and wrong and a willingness to but herself on the line for her friends. Josephine has been hired to paint murals in the secluded Munger Mansion located near Boulder Creek. Certain local reprobates have their reasons for wanting the Mungers to leave the property. Accidents, fires and the death of a forest ranger have everyone on edge. Josephine's curiosity drives her down the mountain, into the world of illegal activities and nefarious characters. Her situation becomes dire--no way to escape. One captor has a knife, the other has a rifle. Can she save herself and her friends?