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Nora Bondurant is divorced--unfathomable for a woman in 1933--and has inherited a house from a dead aunt she never even knew existed.

When A.P. political reporter Lorena Hickok—Hick—is assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D.

In the newest China Bayles Mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, China comes to the aid of a nurse who ends up in the hospital...

In the exciting new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author, China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him.

It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Conferedates, leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land.

Set in the summertime splendor of 1913 England, this seventh tale finds Beatrix eager to marry her fiancé, solicitor William Heelis.

Based on 19th century history, this novel follows four women who pin their hopes for the future on a plan devised by Brigham Young to bring emigrants to Salt Lake City.

1912.

While Pecan Springs bustles back to life in the warmth of spring, one woman's life is tragically brought to an end.

Dallas' novel traces the experiences of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado house, from Nealie, a hired girl torn between two suitors; to motherless Pearl, whose grieving fa

After his haystacks are burned, Farmer Harmsworth barricades the common path through Applebeck Orchard. Reliable witnesses say the arson was the work of a lantern-bearing specter.

The high school principal asks China Bayles to secretly investigate the popular football coach who led the Panthers to six state championships.

When a man dies soon after Tullie bashes his head with her cane, China's estranged mother frantically calls for her daughter's help.

Deep in Texas hill country, ex-lawyer China thinks life is hectic enough already, and then her teenaged son unearths human remains while digging in a nearby cave.

China, owner of Thyme and Seasons Herbs, relishes her membership on the planning committee for the Picklefest in Pecan Springs, Texas.