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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.

Sean Andros is tired—tired of hustling, tired of trying to make the rent, tired of running from his past. But the past can chase you down in a heartbeat.

When small-time thief Timmy Harwell recklessly “borrows” a Cadillac for a joyride, he doesn’t expect to find a cool $100,000 in the trunk.

To the casual observer, Paulie Banks lives the perfect life. After all, he's young, handsome and rich. But Paulie has a secret.

Thanks to fate and his own lack of good sense, 18-year-old Danny Shay is headed into what looks to be the worst summer of his life.

Welcome to the Belladonna Arms, a rundown little apartment building perched atop a hill in downtown San Diego, home to the city’s lost and lovelorn.

Dating is hard enough.

Jason Day, brilliant designer of video games, is not only a confirmed bachelor, but he’s as gay as a maypole.

Dillard Brown has a mother who's determined he's straight, a writing career that’s going nowhere and, at 30, he’s never been in love in his life.