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Nell Vanogle renovates the ghost town of White Buffalo, ND, and also builds a bed-and-breakfast where she lives. Criminal activity stymies progress while a new romantic interest flourishes.

There’s something troubling in our midst, somehow lost among the myriad of problems and challenges we face individually and collectively. Stealing, spending and hoarding behaviors have slowly then rapidly exploded in front of our eyes—or, perhaps more accurately—silently and secretively. The lines between governmental or corporate overspending and greed vs. plain theft and fraud have blurred and, yet, sharpened.