No Leash, No Ledger

Tessa Calderón-Enright has the Sloane Family Trust by the throat. Nine years of quarter-horse write-offs and hay contracts that don't clear, all routed to the same account in Albuquerque. The family sends Marek Vrba to fix it. He's supposed to make her lose the file. He tells her which pages to feed the auditors instead, and asks her to marry him on paper so the family believes the problem is solved. The courthouse wedding takes eleven minutes. The marriage takes three months to stop being on paper. Then the family finds her second set of files. Somewhere between a subpoena and a horse sale in Weatherford, Tessa has to decide whether to testify against the syndicate or against the man in her kitchen.