Whispering Ridge

About the Book

The Nevada Kid and his sidekick, Smokey Embers, decide to go on a hunting trip in the mountains. The plan was to surprise their good friend, Jim Cappieona, “Cappie,” who lives in a mountain home. When they reach Cappie’s home, he is not there. Their hunting trip turns into a search-and-rescue mission in the mountains above Yuma, Arizona. They are confronted by Mexican outlaws, two beautiful senoritas, and an Indian boy named Keytoe who is protecting the sacred ground of the thunder god for the elders of his tribe. What dangers do they encounter near the abandoned gold mines in the mountains and the old mining town of Harshaw? Pedro, the leader of the Mexican outlaws, has no sympathies for any man that he captures, especially if that man is messing with his girlfriend, Carmelita. Who is Rosita, the cute Mexican girl that bakes delicious hot apple pies? After all this adventure, do Nevada and Smokey ever get any hunting done on this trip? When they arrive back at the ranch with two turkeys in tow, another twist is thrown at them. Nevada’s attorney, Mr. Parks, has set up the custody battle for guardianship of Nevada’s son, Thomas Trainor, “TJ.” Why is John O’Connor fighting so hard to keep Nevada from securing custody of TJ when it is Nevada’s paternal right? You must read the story to find out.

About the Author

Diane M. Cece is the best-selling author of the Southwest series of novels. Her works include The Trails Southwest, The Cattle Drive from Southwest, and The Rodeo Southwest. She worked twenty-five years as a management assistant for supervisory military personnel. She was an unpublished Nashville songwriter, a designer and seamstress for custom eighteenth-century period clothing, a living history and civil war reenactor, a historian for the mountain-climbing Morris Canal in New Jersey, a historic interpreter for Historic Waterloo Village, and a writer of Western novels. She lives in a small New Jersey farming community and enjoys visiting the local stockyards on auction days and follows the local and Midwestern pro rodeo action of the rough-stock riders and roping events. She can be reached on her website, www.dianesoldwestnovels.com.