Central Kansas Library System

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the...

Maddie Grande grew up a thief and beggar in a tribe of street urchins in New Orleans. Hoping for a new life, she moves to the bayou with her twin "brothers" and fellow tribemates. But her brothers kidnap the daughter of a wealthy carpetbagger and force Maddie to hide the precocious eight-year-old. As Maddie stands at a crossroads in her life, the child escapes. When Pinkerton agent Tom Abbott is assigned to the case, there's no denying their mutual...

"From a tough stint in the armed forces to stalking the unknown as a bayou cop, leopard shifter Remy Boudreaux has been served well by his uncanny gifts. And right now, New Orleans could use a homicide detective like Remy. A serial killer is loose, snatching victims from the French Quarter with pitiless rage and unnatural efficiency. But something else is drawing Remy into the twilight--a beautiful jazz singer bathed night after night in a flood of...