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Benni Harper and the ladies of her Coffin Star Quilt Guild are enjoying San Celina, California's first-ever Memory Festival--when a sniper guns down a local cop. Fearing for the safety of her community--and for her family--Benni determines to root out the sniper before the once peaceful streets become a killer's free-fire zone.

When cosmopolitan lawyer Steven Creed becomes guardian to a five-year-old orphan, he leaves his law firm in the city and takes over a ranch nestled in the Stone Creek locale of his McKettrick relations. The chagne of scenery does him good, nurturing his soul, but life throws Steven another twist when he takes on the defense of a wayward teenager--and comes up against straightlaced and confoundingly intriguing county prosecutor Melissa O'Ballivan.

Preston Clearwater is scoring cash working a car-theft ring in post-World War II North Carolina. When he picks up 19-year-old Bible salesman Henry Dampier, Preston convinces the kid that he's an FBI spy. And before Henry knows what's up, he finds himself in way over his head with no apparent way out.

Now engaged to hardworking Silas Good, Rose Kauffman struggles with her feelings for longtime friend Nick Franco, who left the Amish community under a cloud of suspicion. Meanwhile, Rose's older sister has returned to her parents' farm, hoping to re-establish her place among the People and to retain custody of her daughter.

Recently divorced Holly Frick is still in love with her ex and woefully depressed, but that doesn't mean her friends will stop asking her for relationship advice. Her best friend is on the verge of having an affair, and another woman wants her help too--getting with Holly's ex! So what's a girl to do? Get two new men at once, of course--one a lovable dog, and the other a much younger lover.

A crime comedy on a dentist who mutilates his hands to collect $5 million in insurance. Dr. George Veale is forced into the scam by a woman who videotaped a sex session and is blackmailing him. But after Veale collects he turns the tables.

In 1973, Yankee transplant Daniel Msgrove can't seem to fit in at his new Mississippi school, Minor High. When he meets fellow outsider Tim Cousins, things begin looking up. The two begin a close friendship that includes time spent ridiculing celebrities and the world around them. Soon, a prom night accident sets them at odds with the school bully Red Martin. As their battle escalates, one violent act changes everything and threatens to shake the town to its core.

These nine stories follow a collection of unforgettable characters trying to get by while living in the South Texas border town of Brownsville.

When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her.

Escaping his life in 1820s Pennsylvania, young Sam Morgan joins the crew of a riverboat. Mixing with an eclectic group of scoundrels and misfits, Sam finds adventure at every turn on the American frontier.