Gable explained, led by their ruthless patriarch Arthur Vance, owned the largest logistics and cattle operation in the county — the kind of family that owned enough of a place that no one crossed them twice.

Mabel had been their head accountant, trusted, respected, good at her job, until four years ago, when nearly two hundred thousand dollars had vanished from the company’s corporate accounts.

And Arthur Vance had stood up and publicly accused Mabel of grand larceny.

They never found a single stolen dollar in her possession.

They never produced one piece of digital proof that she had authorized the transfers.

It did not matter.