Mules (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798197265944)

Bloodied and burned by the Arizona sun, stroked and nearly dead, Emilie stumbles out of the desert and onto the Kate Stanger mule ranch. Emilie has killed a man. Once healed, Emilie knows she should keep running if she wants to save herself. But Kate and the people of Bisbee take her in, knowing nothing about her past, caring only about who she is-and could be-to them now. Like the Stanger mules, the people she meets in this mining town are more than they appear to be, living lives that are a constant re-summing of fate, circumstance, and choice. Emilie comes to know who they really are, even as she hides from them who she really is, and what she has done. Until the mother of the man she killed arrives at the ranch.