Edgar Award-winning author

Dr. David Westbrook goes to northern Michigan to start over. He wants to open a small country clinic where he can heal injured animals. But when the remains of a Michigan farmwoman named Rachel Hayes, who vanished in 1871 in one of the Great Fires that ravaged the Midwest, are recovered from a long-lost well, fires and violence begin to erupt all around. David becomes entangled in an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Rachel Hayes' death. And as the people around him are placed in more jeopardy, David realizes the he must find out who - or what - is behind all of this.

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Vicki Sanders, recently promoted Quality Control Manager at Standard Silver, reports to work one day only to discover the Production Manager murdered. A few days later, the company president is found dead. Detective Walter Henderson, Vicki's father, begins his investigation. The interviews reveal a number of personality conflicts, but nothing that offers any possible solution. Vicki conducts a private investigation of her own, following leads that end up getting her nowhere. While it appears that everyone who could possibly have killed either man has an ironclad alibi, Henderson reluctantly considers the possibility that there might be two different killers. But it is Vicki who still has to work with the employees at Standard Silver, one of them possibly the killer.

Cornelia Upshaw is a single mother now living in New York and working as a temporary secretary at Dayborne Ventures, Inc. Some executives there get expensive perks and any of them would kill for a corner office - and one of them has. Cornelia soon becomes a suspect, but good looking, single Lieutenant Victor Kosciusko is pretty sure Cornelia didn't do it. Cornelia needs all the help she can get. After all, there's still a murderer loose and there's one more name on the killer's list: Cornelia's.

In this tale of misplaced trust, betrayal, and greed, a dedicated family man tries to balance his home life with his increasingly dangerous career. Carl Jacobs, a private investigator, agrees to meet an informant, Jimmy "The Blue" Jay - a man Carl grew up with. As soon as Carl arrives, Jimmy starts shooting at him from a dark alley. Carl is wounded but returns fire, and Jimmy is killed. Now Carl has to find out why Jimmy tried to murder him. After more attempts are made on Carl's life, he learns that some people prove ruthless when millions of dollars are at stake. And some men can be even more ruthless when their families are threatened.

High-spirited horse trainer Jessica Stanson stumbles into the perfect job on one of the most elite ranches in Montana. Or at least it would be if her boss, ex-detective Michael Carven, stopped acting like he didn't want her there. Jessica has to prove herself to him on the ranch, and also try to penetrate his armor to get to the man inside. Michael Carven is a man who has left a difficult past behind him, and now works at his dream job raising horses under the Montana sky. But he knows that the past has a way of coming back to him, and soon enough, it does. A wave of violence hits the nearby small town of Riverside, nestled deep in the mountains, as a cunning serial killer preys on the population. Against his will, Michael finds himself both drawn into the case and coming to care for his independent new trainer. And if having a killer on the loose wasn't enough, his two worlds collide when Jessica becomes the only material witness in the case. Before it is over, Michael and Jessica will put everything they know and hold dear on the line to catch a vicious, cunning killer - and to protect each other as well.