Christmas at Henderson’s Ranch I should have seen this coming, I really should have… The two leaders of The Night Stalkers series, Emily Beale and Mark Henderson, also became the founders of my Firehawks series. I knew they had hired a nanny to take care of their child while they fought fires, but I didn’t give it any more thought. When I set out to write Christmas at Henderson’s Ranch, it was just a small story. Beale and Henderson often talked about visiting Mark’s family ranch and I thought it would be fun to see it at Christmas time. I should know by now that such stories are never that simple. The ranch manager is gobsmacked the very second that the nanny steps off the plane. Suddenly these two background characters stepped to the fore. Instead of a quiet story set in a Montana