The Inn at Verde Springs: It’s Where Everybody Wants to Be This Summer

Slip on your cowgirl boots, pour yourself a frosty margarita, and start your journey with “The Renaissance Sisters”

A woefully neglected chicken ranch in northern New Mexico sits empty and abandoned, just a scenic one-hour drive from Santa Fe. Where hens once laid their eggs, mice now frolic in the bits of leftover straw and the safety of the darkness. A hardworking ranch kitchen now sits empty and forlorn. And coyotes roam the fence-lines surrounding fifty-six acres of high desert. No one even remembers the old orchard full of heirloom peach trees — but the rooster who lives next door is about to change that…

When Sabina Crawley faces her final moments in life, she has a critical decision to make. Once her favorite place on earth, the old chicken ranch holds painful memories and a terrible legacy of heartache and betrayal. With no children of her own, she leaves the ranch, along with a boatload of unpaid taxes and a mountain of upkeep, to her estranged brother’s children. Her nieces, Harper and Paige Crawley, aren’t exactly “country people.” Raised in bucolic Richmond, Virginia, they have no experience with hardscrabble ranch living or the effects of the high-desert climate on youthful skin. But there is one thing they have…