June 21, 2010: Josephine Stuart is a heroine that you'll cheer for in this carefully crafted mystery. She's an artist and muralist who gets herself in a heap of trouble while on a job in a remote mountain community. There are strange happenings with accidents, fires, and of course murder.


Secure the Ranch is a well-written, entertaining mystery with characters full of depth that builds from the first page and doesn't stop until the very end. You won't see what's in store for Josephine - I guarantee it. I couldn't put this book down. I couldn't believe that this is a debut novel for Oroz. It drew me into the lives of the likeable, and some not so likeable, characters in the story.


I highly recommend this book for anyone who loves mystery and suspense stories. I can't wait for the next installment to see what's in store for Josephine.


-Jennifer Chase, Author of Compulsion & Dead Game

I Also Recommend: Compulsion and Dead Game by Jennifer Chase.

Secure the Ranch
First of the Josephine Stuart Series
Josephine Stuart, a fifty-year-old widow, is blessed and cursed with an overactive curiosity, a strong sense of right and wrong and a willingness to put herself on the line for her friends. Josephine has been hired to paint murals in the secluded Munger mansion, located at the top of a wooded mountain. Certain local reprobates have their reasons for wanting the Mungers to leave. Accidents, fires and the death of a forest ranger have everyone on edge. Josephine's curiosity drives her down the mountain, into the world of illegal activities and nefarious characters. Her situation becomes dire - no way to escape. One captor has a knife, the other has a rifle. Can she save herself and her friends?