Everything changes for Kelly Stolter the morning she finds her mother dead from pneumonia. The rug is suddenly jerked out from under her and her two younger siblings, Lola and Colton. Their steady world started to shake. Bills were coming due. The ranch loan on Windy Ridge Ranch must be paid. The tears won't stop.

It is still the Wild West in 1850s Southern California. Shifty cattle ranchers rubbed their hands together ready to prey on the seemingly naIve young children. Kelly had watched her blue-ribbon cutting horse riding mother and champion rodeo winning father negotiate horse...