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The Ghost Rig
Paperback
Series: Ridge Road, Book 4
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 23 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Something is stealing cattle...
And leaving no trace.
Not hoofprints.
Not broken fences.
Not even a missing signal.
Because the cattle still show up exactly where they should be.
On paper.
When Madeline Miller returns to her family's ranch, she expects a routine investigation.
What she finds instead...
is a system.
A quiet, invisible operation built on:
- cloned RFID tags
- signal dead zones
- trucks that don't exist
- cattle that are there... until they aren't
This isn't rustling.
It's precision theft.
Modern.
Scalable.
Untouchable.
Until she makes one mistake:
She follows it.
Now she's hunting a network that doesn't leave evidence-
only data.
And the deeper she goes, the clearer it becomes:
This isn't about cattle.
It's about control.
Because someone figured out how to steal without being seen.
And they're not planning to stop.
For readers who like:
- grounded, modern Western thrillers
- procedural investigations with real stakes
- tech-meets-rural crime (Blake Crouch × Longmire tone)
- quiet tension instead of noise
The Ghost Rig
A Ridge Road Novella
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