Murder becomes the name of the game when small-town librarian Kennedy Killingsworth meets Foster Scoggins, the leathery-faced resident who applied for a library card just hours before his gruesome death. To complicate matters, Kennedy's ex-husband, Deputy Cade Burrell, seems desperate to find any reason to talk to Kennedy ever since his scandalous affair.

The Gamble: British aristocrat Thomas Clayborne anticipated a grand adventure in America--but what he imagined is a far cry from the rough-and-tumble reality. When his journey West brings a bold young woman into his life, will he risk everything for true love? Her Frontier Bandit: When Rebecca and her physician father relocate to a frontier town in desperate need of a doctor, Rebecca believes it will be an opportunity to mend her recently broken...

The ex-cop detective, Kinsey Millhone, helps a young man who muddled his memory after being forced off the edge of a canyon, but three days later he is dead.