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Loretta Simpson lost her parents to a daring Comanche raid seven years ago--and now she lives as a mute with her extended family.

Torn between the white and Comanche worlds of her parents, Indigo Wolf has grown up estranged from the townspeople of Wolf's Landing, Orgeon.

Prince of the Carpathians Mikhail Dubrinsky has witnessed numerous mysterious events during his many centuries on Earth, but now he is faced with the ultimate horror: the extinction of his species.

Byron the Carpathian has traveled the globe for centuries, desperately seeking a mortal woman for his lifemate. And then, in an Italian villa, he hears the threads of enchanting music.

Dr. Lily Whitney has been recruited by her father to help conduct a government experiment studying the psychic ability of an elite group of soldiers.

A specialist in geo-spatial intelligence and crime-mapping techniques, Patrick Bowers is trailing a ritualistic killer who patterns his gory handiwork after a medieval manuscript.

FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers confronts the Navy's darkest secret--and his own painful past.

Ex-cowgirl and quilter Bennie moves to California to start over after the sudden death of her husband. Working as the curator of a folk-art museum, Benni uncovers clues to a small-town murder.

Down in Salt Lick, Texas, a lot of folks got sass. Debbie Sue Overstreet's got a bit more than most. After dropping her husband--the town's hot sheriff--she decides to open a beauty parlor.

It's apparent to 12-year-old Jill that her I'm-just-fine-without-a-man mom Allison has grown jaded and needs to get back on the dating scene.

A victim of foul play, Firman Birdsong spends the Grand Opening of the Birdsong brothers' chicken restaurant dead under a table--with his gravy-covered, parsley-garnished body and his tomato-stuffe

Mailman Luther Abernathy has a bad habit of opening everyone's mail and sharing their most intimate secrets with anyone who will listen. So it's no surprise J.R. finds him murdered one day.

As J.R., Biggie Weatherford's 12-year-old grandson, recounts Biggie's uncanny ability to solve the peskiest cases, his observations are spiced with his wry adolescent view of grownups.

Billie is in her forties, running a little jewelery shop in Bradford, watching over her godson Natty, trying to live a quiet life, trying to forget her past.

Twenty-something David Gould's girlfriend just left him, he's faced with an impossible book deadline, he's obsessed with the online blog of a 22-year-old woman who calls herself Miss Misery, and a