Chapter 3
“You’re telling me this is just a coincidence?” Michelle studied Emily Beale and Michael Gibson, who sat at the head of the table. “That Isobel just happens to be filming on your ranch and is on our Shadow Force?”
“Yes,” Emily said it simply with no hint of another agenda as she passed the bowl of baked potatoes around the big kitchen table.
The room was a mash-up of a massive commercial kitchen, a table that could seat more than a dozen ranch hands at a meal, and a cozy seating area of couches and chairs around a big river-stone fireplace—unlit at the moment, but clearly well used. Everyone else from the ranch was apparently out at a big bonfire with the film crew.
The chef had left them huge platters of mushroom-stuffed pork chops, tomato-spinach quiche, and crusty bread st
