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NEVER CON A CON MAN After being away ten years, Holly Foster was back in Pine Mountain, Arizona. As a teenager, she’d had a crush on her then step-brother Drake Cox. It was time to figure out if she still had feelings for the rugged Chief of Police. When someone empties the town’s bank accounts almost everyone believes Drake’s uncle Max is behind the theft. After all he’s been a screw up and con man most of his life. But Holly is just as sure he didn’t do it. When Max turns up dead, she plans on proving he didn’t take the money with the evidence he left behind. First she has to ...

ROSIE’S SECRET Life in a small town is supposed to be simple, but Parker was finding it exactly the opposite. More than a year after inheriting her great-aunt’s estate, she thought all of her questions had been answered. But that wasn’t the case. There was a steady stream of income still coming in to the estate account. Trying to find out where the money was coming from was an act of futility. The new manager at the bank wouldn’t release any information. A “foreigner from New York” was trying to buy up farms around the small town, but he wouldn’t say what his plans were. When ...

ROSIE’S TEXAS FAMILY Jeremy Fallon was looking forward to seeing Shep and Parker Baker again after meeting them during the previous summer. The only family he’d been close with was his great-grandparents. Having a large extended family was exciting and scary. Crime had been on the rise recently in Shep’s hometown of Promise, Texas. With Jeremy’s arrival, someone upped their game. Why had the Baker family been targeted? How was any of it connected to Jeremy? He’d never been in Texas before. But when the past rears its ugly head and grudges are held too long, they can lead to murder.

PAYBACK OR JUSTICE Just when Jerrod thought he had life figured out, Gwen Hardesty sailed back into his life. They had dated before he moved to Tumbleweed, but it hadn’t been serious. At least, not on his part. Imagine his shock when she was expecting him to propose to her. Angry when he said he had no such intention and learning he was seeing someone else, Gwen starts a series of revenge attacks. The small attacks on the hotel and restaurant were right up Gwen’s alley. But what about the other things that were happening? Two bears had managed to get into the dumpsters behind the hotel....

SOMETHING SHADY When Gwen’s great aunt Bess was suddenly diagnosed with dementia she knew something else was going on. Dementia didn’t happen overnight. The courts named an attorney as guardian for Bess to oversee her accounts even though Gwen held Power of Attorney. Something fishy was going on, and it was beginning to smell. Gwen and Jake, a college friend, worked to get Bess out of the greedy grasp of the guardian and his accomplices at Shady Acres before they managed to drain her accounts. Things turn deadly when someone at Shady Acres ends up dead on the floor of Bess’s room. Who...

A BIG GAMBLE Gossip is the life blood of most any small town. How do you combat something like that when gossip is so much more interesting than the truth? Bruce Cartwright was willing to feed the gossip mill if it got him what he wanted. It had been six months since Melanie Jarvis had seen him when he showed up claiming they were married. If that was true, why had he just now come forward? If it was a lie, what was he hoping to gain? But she was just a pawn in his effort to get what he wanted. Rik O’Shea wanted to be part of Melanie’s future. That wouldn’t be possible until they ...

PLENTY OF GUILT Murder doesn’t happen often in the small town of Bisbee, Arizona. When it does, the police are eager to pass it off as a suicide. Jillian Connors isn’t willing to let that stand. She is convinced her sister, Claire, didn’t kill herself, and she’s willing to pay for the autopsy to prove it. Someone else is just as determined to stop that from happening. While falling in love with Jillian, Detective Dan Tobin is willing to help her as long as she doesn’t get involved in the investigation. He doesn’t want the same thing to happen to her. When a second person is ...

TRAPPED IN A WHIRLWIND The murder of Quinn Reed’s husband throws her life into turmoil. He left her buried in debt with no foreseeable way out. Who would murder him? Had he been into something illegal, or was he just a cheating husband? She had no answers. When the boy she had loved in high school reenters her life, her already topsy-turvy world is turned upside down again. Is Sergio DeCosta the same sweet person she had known seven years ago or a cold blooded killer as the police believe? Her heart didn't want to believe the latter, but could she trust her heart? She was discovering her ...

A GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE When Jennifer Miller's parents are brutally murdered she knows who killed them, but who would believe her? After all, she's only fourteen. Besides, his fingerprints and DNA are supposed to be in the house since he lives there. When the social worker charged with taking care of her is found dead in her bathtub, Jennifer knows it's only a matter of time before he comes for her. Her only option is to dis-appear before that can happen. Fourteen years later Casey Gibson returns to Phoenix. Now a Forensics Scientist, with a new identity and appearance, she hopes to catch ...

BACK FROM THE GRAVE Meeting the father she had always assumed was dead wasn’t the birthday present Cady Townsend was expecting for her twenty-first birthday. Neither was finding out that her parents had never been married. At least not to each other. But the surprises kept coming. Not only does she have a father she knew nothing about, she also has a half-brother and half-sister. The man she had been casually dating wasn’t who she thought he was either. Instead, he’d been spying on her. But for whom? Her life is further turned upside down when someone shoots at her. When she manages ...

CRY WOLF When is a prowler, not a prowler? When no one sees him. Lorelei had called the police about the prowler so many times with no one ever catching a glimpse of him. She couldn’t blame them for doubting her. How long before they stopped coming when she called? What would happen then? Would she be like the little boy who cried wolf so many times that when the wolf did come to steal his sheep, no one would come to his aid? Even her husband didn’t believe her. She was tired of being afraid, but what was she supposed to do? When she was finally able to save enough money to buy a gun to...

When Parker Evans inherits a farm from a great-aunt she never knew, she is confronted with a past she knew nothing about, finds a new home, a grandmother who loves her, unearths the answers to a sixty year old mystery, and finds a love directed from beyond the grave. In order to inherit the farm and all that goes with it, Parker must live in the house for a year: a house with no electricity, running water or bathroom. While living there she can modernize it, but she can’t move out. Her great-aunt, Rosie, has already selected a handsome contractor, and has drawn up the plans, all Parker ...

THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Romance has to take a backseat when someone begins following Pattiann and then breaks into her house. But she can’t figure out why anyone would do that when they didn’t take anything. Does the sexual harassment happening at the small hospital where she works have anything to do with it? When two people are killed, there is only one person linked to both victims: Chase Templeton. He owns one of the premier wineries in the small southeastern Arizona town. But why would he kill either victim? Is he behind the push to buy up the other small wineries in the area? Or is ...

YOU’LL BE SORRY You can’t have everything you want when you want it. But no one had ever told Trixie Bourdon that. Whatever she wanted, her rich father made sure it was hers. When Trixie sets her sights on Dirk Sutherland, she learned that he was the one thing her father couldn’t buy. She never had to deal with rejection before and didn’t handle it well. Credit card fraud, identity theft, and breaking into his house to cook him a delicious dinner didn’t convince him they were meant to be together. A false charge of domestic abuse backfired on her. What it did was introduce him to ...

MAN ON THE RUN Watching a television show, Becca Dutton is certain she’s seen the man the FBI is looking for in Flanagan’s Gap, Arizona, a small mountain town of less than six hundred people where she and her mother own and operate the general store. Mrs. Dutton is just as certain she’s mistaken; pointing out the man she has seen is much younger than the fugitive the FBI is looking for. Becca can’t let go of the feeling he’s somewhere around, especially with the petty thefts the town has recently been experiencing. Does that mean there is more than one man living in the forest ...

TRADING PLACES Returning home after being away for five years, Lindsey discovers that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Janice had been a bully in school, and she still was. She didn’t want Lindsey in ‘her’ town. Was Janice behind the attempts on Lindsey’s life? Or was it Shelley, the girl Lindsey had always considered her best friend? She had always wished she could trade places with Lindsey. Now she was claiming Lindsey’s accomplishments as her own. Or did someone else want her gone? Can Brad keep her safe long enough to discover the truth?

CHASING HIS SHADOW Lara went to the small town of New Haven, Arizona, to confront the husband who deserted her, and to introduce him to his daughter. With his brother in jail, Chase hoped his troubles were behind him. Neither of them got what they were looking for. They got so much more. When his twin brother escaped, Chase knew he had to protect Lara and Morgan from the scheme Charles had been planning for so long. Could Charles hide his obsession to control those around him long enough to win? How would Chase keep everyone safe if no one could tell if he was Chase or Charles?

Beginning her law enforcement career in a small town cop shop isn’t exactly what CJ Cummings hoped it would be. Corruption rides just below the surface of Backward, Texas, but no one wants to admit there is anything wrong. Domestic violence is ignored, a member of a biker gang threatens her, several teenage girls have turned up missing, and most of those who are supposed to have her back don’t want her on their all-male force. What other sinister things are lurking below the surface? Tate Wolfe has just returned home from the Army. He is as mysterious as he is handsome. He won’t talk ...

After being beaten and left in the desert to die, a young woman is rescued by a bunch of teenagers on ATV’s. It’s unknown who she is, or if she’ll even live long enough to tell who did this to her. When her attacker realizes she’s in the hospital in Phoenix, he must figure out a way to prevent her from waking up from a coma. But he’s too late. She wakes up in the hospital with no memory of what happened to her, who did it, or even who she is. His attempts to rid himself of the threat she presents are all thwarted. How many more will she be able to survive? Will Detective Rex ...

THE BOOK CLUB LADIES What happens when your past comes back to haunt you? Some people in the small town of Tumbleweed were about to find out. Mable took her position as head of the book club seriously. It was a position she felt she’d earned as the longest-standing member. She wasn’t going to let anyone take it away from her. Especially not an outsider. Gladys had her own agenda. Having her finger on the pulse of the town and knowing all the secrets, she would be able to use them to her advantage. She was willing to do anything to take over the position as head of the book club ladies. ...