By Award Winning Author C. Forrest Lundin
She's trying to protect those she loves.
It's the reason the boy doesn't live with her and why Dixie wants the sheriff to move back into his place. He won't leave. Fearing the upper crust of the town could demand his badge for moral turpitude, she keeps trying. The man has a head like a chunk of granite.
Not worried about the job, Tucker isn't moving out. Dixie doesn't realize the town is dying. Ore from the mine gets less profitable the deeper they go. On the trip to the valley to collect her son and bring the boy up for Christmas, he hopes to arrange the sale of her stock. Dixie needs to close the saloon and leave. His goal is to have her leave with him.
