Jacob's Journals Discovered

It’s 2008 in Wisconsin and RaeNell Pullman is about to lose her house. The Hospital calls. David Pullman lost his job, crashed his Harley and wonders what she saw in him. Can an old family myth carry truth enough to help? A story set in the old west over a century ago?
Jacob Payne, in 1869 examines the rock wall near the fireplace. He slides the rock into it’s niche concealing what he has hidden there. Abigail waits outside on her horse. Here she sits, now his wife. He had ridden across the country, killed her brother and found her, making true his statement of years ago that he would marry her. Will this mountain house stand long enough to fulfill their hopes?
Jeff Payne, a continent away can’t close a sale in the dead Durango market. Disaster looms unless he finds the missing clue. A clue storied to be inside a journal. A personal journal so old it may not even exist. The internet leads him to RaeNell.