How the West Wasn’t So Fun
-written by Loyal2CrissAngel

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Summary: Rae, Cassandra and Isabella Fontaine are enjoying a relaxing stay on the family ranch in Montana when a seemingly harmless adventure to a ghost town turns into a race against time.

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Prologue
Way out west, in the small town of Huntley, Montana, there lived three sisters: Rae, Cassandra, and Isabella Fontaine. Ever since Rae had been 13-years-old (Cassandra had been 12 and Isabella 11 at the time), the girls had lived on their own. Their parents had died in a terrible plane crash, leaving the three sisters a small inheritance of money and a 60,000 acre ranch with 1,400 head of cattle and a horse each. Now, ten years later, the girls had made quite a living off the cattle industry, but also still held other jobs. Rae was a master illusionist and magician who made a good living traveling and performing with her boyfriend and fellow illusionist/magician Criss Angel. Cassandra was an archaeologist and Isabella was the editor of the newspaper in the nearby town of Billings. Since Isabella was the only sister who lived full-time at the ranch, farmhands had been hired to help out with the day-to-day chores, but Rae and Cassandra would always show up during the spring to help with the calf branding and for the cattle drives in the fall and spring.

Our story begins on a warm summer morning in July. Rae and Cassandra are just arriving at the Montana ranch for a one month stay with their sister, Isabella…