Single-Dad Sheriff
GARRETT MCQUIRE LEANED ON the fresh timber andwire fence—erected properly within the surveyors' stakes, he noted—and looked out over the newly created pasture that had Tanner Harris in such a lather. As elected sheriff of Colum County, Garrett felt an obligation to listen to the concerns of all the citizens, but Tanner had been a sneak and a whiner all his life, someone who thought the world owed him, and he wore on Garrett's last nerve.
"When I saw you stop at the head of her road," Tanner said, "I thought you were gonna talk to her. Why didn't ya?"
Garrett took his time answering. Officially he was responding to Tanner's complaint against his neighbor's new fence. As sheriff, he didn't need to get into the fact his son was applying for a job at Whistling Meadows. To Tanner, that alone might look as if Garrett were taking sides. He wasn't. He hadn't even met the o ... read full excerpt from Single-Dad Sheriff ebook
