Where the Creek Runs Dry
She bought a new life. She didn't know it was built on a lie.
Dr. Lena Petrova sank everything she had into a fresh start: a small veterinary practice in the sun-baked town of Verbena, Arizona. At forty-seven, with her daughter in college and a quiet divorce behind her, all she wants is a place to heal, both animals and herself.
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The clinic's beloved retiring owner, Dr. Desmond Langdon, is a local saint. But as Lena takes over, a shadow falls over his flawless legacy. A prominent ranching family shuns her, their prize-winning animals are strangely fragile, and Desmond's son seems too eager to keep the past buried.
Lena soon realizes the town's favorite son wasn't just a good vet; he was a good storyteller. And the one story he never told is a fifteen-year-old secret that could destroy the practice she sacrificed everything for, and tear the town's loyalties apart.
