Publisher's Synopsis
"In 1905, Rebecca Bryan begins her legal career in Kalispell, Montana, mentored by her senior law partner and only living relative, Max Bryan. Max suffers a stroke after learning of the death of Lucinda Cale, an affluent, artistic widow he'd loved for years. There's a troubling question of Lucinda's missing will. Max believes it could reveal financial information and truths long denied. After traveling by train to the boomtown of Jennings, Rebecca hires a coach to take her to join the Cale family at Lucinda's mansion, Eagle Mountain. After a wheel breaks and her drunken driver passes out, Rebecca braves a nocturnal forest trek during winter's first bitter-cold snowfall. She finds the cabin/studio of Lucinda's compelling youngest son, Bretton. Next morning she meets Damon, Lucinda's disgraced oldest son, his pregnant wife, and their children, mysterious thirteen-year-old Amy, and uncomplicated five-year-old Teddy. The stakes of inheritan
