Kate Blanchard woke up one morning in a dream home she could no longer afford, a young son who needed a man's influence and not a friend among those who had claimed to be prior to her husband's mysterious disappearance. About all she could lay claim to was a ramshackle ranch along Terlingua Creek, sitting forlornly in the desolate reaches of the lower Big Bend in Texas. It was the only place left she could go. There she finds a home, and a presence...