Homestead

Tess Rogers grew up in the midst of chaos and uncertainty, but she always knew one thing to be true--one day six hundred acres of prime farmland would be hers. Then she discovers not even that truth can be counted on. Tess's stepfather has leased their land to a huge international oil and gas company, and Tess's dream of breeding a line of enhanced milk-producing dairy cows suddenly goes up in a burst of smoke and flame. R. Clayton Sutter is an expert at managing just about anything--money, businesses, and people. She figures getting NorthAm Fuel's newest refinery operational on the rolling tract of land in Upstate New York should take a month or two, but then, she hadn't counted on local resistance in the form of vandalism, petitions, and one furious farmer named Tess Rogers.