Wade Into the River — Kennedy Foster

Domingo loves Alice, freckles and all. Alice loves Domingo back, and she also loves Domingo's daughter Socorro. Socorro loves them both, and even more she loves the old cow-pony Skookum. The sale price of beef is holding steady. The profits on timothy hay and alfalfa are up a little bit. Calving is done, and the weather is not too bad. Alice thinks cautiously that things at Standfast are looking pretty sunny. And then the unfixable happens: the mother, the boyfriend. The Border. Detailing the struggles of a ranching family in the Palouse Country of eastern Washington state, Wade into the River is the second volume in the Standfast series.