In this follow-up to Traces of Guilt, detective Evie Blackwell returns with some familiar friends, this time working with a new task force dedicated to solving cold missing-persons cases. She and her new partner, David, have been assigned unrelated cases in Chicago, with Evie searching for a missing college student and David hunting a private investigator who disappeared. In the meantime, personal issues arise for both of them-David's famous longtime...

Heather Hampton returns to Moses Lake to help sell the family farm but finds herself on an unexpected journey into the area's history, hope, and heart.

"Kai Miller floats through life like driftwood tossed by waves. She's never put down roots in any one place--and she doesn't plan to. But when a chaotic hurricane evacuation lands her in Daily, Texas, she begins to think twice about her wayfaring existence. And when she meets hometown-boy Kemp Eldridge, she can almost picture settling down in Daily--until she discovers he may be promised to someone else."--Publisher's description.

"This is my favorite kind of historical fiction: evocative, deeply moving, and meticulously researched."—Jillian Cantor, author of Margot and The Hours Count

Meet Mary Surratt, the woman who could have saved Lincoln. Find out what stopped her in this vivid reimagining of Lincoln's assassination.

1864, Washington City. One has to be careful with talk of secession, of Confederate whispers falling on

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"Violet Jacobs is fearless. At least, that's what the cowboys she snatches out from under the hooves of bucking bulls think. Outside the ring, she's got plenty of worries: her young son, her mess of a love life, and her family's struggling rodeo. When she hires on a hotshot bullfighter, she expects to start a ruckus ... but she never expected Joe Cassidy. Rough-and-tumble, cocky and charming, Joe's everything a superstar should be--and it doesn't...

"It's hard to be a woman in the Wild Wild West. But if that woman is wearing a badge, slinging a six-shooter, and dishing out justice, it's even harder for the foolhardy man who gets in her way...The frontier town of Ring Bit, Texas has a way of attracting trouble. Shootouts. Showdowns. Shady drifters. But it's never seen anything like the mysterious gunman Hawkshaw. Is he good or evil? As the town marshal, it's Tennessee Smith's job to keep an eye...

Social worker/single mother Andrea Henderson and Moses Lake game warden Matt McClendon are drawn together in the search for the identity of a little girl who is seen with the town recluse.

After three years of marriage to two-timing cad Kent Bliss, Rosie realizes that her estranged friend Vickie was right about Kent and kicks him out. After beginning a diet and exercise regime, Rosie wins $302 million in a lottery and finds Kent ready to claim a share of her money and herself more in need of her friends than ever.

"Rodeo bullfighter Wyatt Darrington's got it all figured out. The perfect car, the perfect job, the perfect looks--the perfect lie. He may be on the fast track to the Hall of Fame, but he knows he'll always be an outsider to people like Melanie Brookman. Texas-born and bred, with the arena in her blood, Melanie's come to see Wyatt as her personal enemy, and that suits him just fine--this way, she'll never realize the truth. Melanie's always been a...

When Pepper Malone, on the run from a mistake that ended her career as a big-city reporter, bursts into his life, Mike McCulloch, the editor of the Bailee Bugle, offers her a job--and a place in his heart.