Chapter 1Bud ran his fingers through his already disordered hair as he set down the phone. Then he started to pick it up again to call his friend Jesse. Maybe Jesse could pull enough strings to divert some material from incoming stock for the Glenwood Lumber Yard, to help fill the gap.
Then he hesitated. Could he really count on Jesse anymore? Did he even know the guy his best friend had become? The past few weeks Jesse had morphed into someone different—and it had begun the day Jesse had met LuAnne Lockner. A new arrival in Sand Creek, Colorado, LuAnne had all the men from eighteen to eighty panting. But it looked like Jesse was leading the pack to lay claim to her.
Dad had left Bud in charge of Hart Built Construction while he and Mom went on the cruise to celebrate their twenty-fifth
