Heartbreak Trail - Circle C Milestones #2

With her fifteenth birthday approaching, Andrea Carter knows she can ride, rope, and cut out cattle with the best of her brothers' ranch hands. And now—despite her mother's objections—she wants to test her skills. After all, what can go wrong on a two-week cattle drive to Los Angeles? Using newspaper clippings about spirited women who bucked society's expectations, she finally convinces her family to let her go along, but only as Cook's helper.

Andi quickly discovers that her longed-for adventure is definitely not a holiday. It's a dirty, dangerous business made up of late nights, balky cattle, mosquitoes, and an abrasive cowhand trying to win her attention. Though weary of dishing up the same food day after day, she grimly determines to stick it out.

Then a river crossing goes wrong, and everything changes. Now is Andi's big chance to really pitch in, and to help her brothers get their cattle to market... any way she can.