Kate's Life In Western Ranches

This book is a fascinating story of a female cowboy trying to find a way to get out of an unwitting trap. Western ranches are not always wholesome or idyllic. One, set in Central California and still in the hands of a pioneer family, is the setting for edgy science, cowboys, and a mysterious global cartel. Native American Kate Fox is caught in an unwitting trap within a few days after landing a job at the Mariposa Ranch.
She is thrust into a maelstrom of environmental regulators because of sudden mass illness at one of the town's schools not far from the Ranch. Finding a way to cope with and quickly solving the problem, she earns the respect of the eccentric ranch owner and his cowboy foreman.