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A rattlesnake fang pegged in a teenager’s eye is just the beginning of a spring day for Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman.

It’s Christmas in Posadas County.

When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions.

Busy stitching and bandaging lumberjacks’ injuries, young Dr. Thomas Parks has no idea that his worst enemy is lurking in the sleepy village of Port McKinney in the spring of 1892.

When Posadas Register reporter Linda Real barely survives her nighttime patrol with one of Undersherrif Bill Gastner's deputies who is killed by a more accurate shotgun blast than the one that

Parked on a side road on the flank of the second highest peak in the San Cristobal mountains, almost 70-year-old Bill Gastner doesn't foresee that a car full of drunk adolescents will run into

Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman can’t help but feel that the recent beating of Carmen Acosta and the disappearance of Carmen’s neighbor, Kevin Ziegler, are related. She’s just not sure how.

Strong-willed and free spirited, Marjory de Warenne long ago gave her body and soul to the charming and beguiling Guy de Beauchamp. But her family never approved of the pairing.

In the prim and proper days of England's past, sexy vixen Catherine "Cat" Seton Spencer designs dresses for Queen Elizabeth.

It is 1322, and the Marcher lords are rebelling against King Edward II. Lady Brianna de Beauchamp, daughter of a powerful Marcher, knows she should not involve herself in the battle.

When the betrothal of Elizabeth Velvet Cavendish and Robert Greysteel Montgomery is arranged by their parents, the union seems doomed from the start.