STEPPINGSTONES THROUGH JAKE'S RANCH VOL. V *portable edition

(NOVEL SIZE) The Smith ranch-gang and the overlapping of OTHER folks affecting their lives--even as things go wrong--set folks to see healing-situations, and for Bass as well. Bass, reaching for manhood,learns that boyhood issues, affect manhood ones, and he has some troubles that are strongly connected to Jake's condition--though Isabel plays a key-part at a particularly hard time. Jake's seizure hit hard, after being gone for five years. Yet--Bass and Jake, and all prepare for the future.