{"product_id":"2940152602241","title":"Secure the Ranch a Josephine Stuart Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eJosephine 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 their new home. 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 become dire--no way to escape. One captor has a knife, the other has a rifle. Can she save herself and her friends?\u003cbr\u003eSecure the Ranch is the first in a seven-book series. The cozy mystery stories take place on the California Central Coast. They are short on murder and blood and long on sleuthing, adventure and fun.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joyce Oroz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081092153584,"sku":"2940152602241","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152602241_p0.jpg?v=1764026928","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152602241","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}