<DIV>Tess Rogers grew up in the midst of chaos and uncertainty, but she always knew one thing to be true?one day six hundred acres of prime farmland would be hers. Then she discovers not even that truth can be counted on. Tess's stepfather has leased their land to a huge international oil and gas company, and Tess's dream of breeding a line of enhanced milk-producing dairy cows suddenly goes up in a burst of smoke and flame. R. Clayton Sutter is an expert at managing just about anything?money, businesses, and people. She figures getting NorthAm Fuel's newest refinery operational on the rolling tract of land in Upstate New York should take a month or two, but then, she hadn't counted on local resistance in the form of vandalism, petitions, and one furious farmer named Tess Rogers.</DIV>