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Smoke Jensen is spending his days herding cows and enjoying his wife's legendary meals.But trouble is always around the bend. A baleful blackcoat with a pistol in one hand and a Bible in the other, Lazarus Cain rides through the countryside claiming to carry out God's plan. In his ominous wake, he has left one of Smoke's cowhands fatally injured.

As the Civil War draws to a close, Captain Jack Brant and his Union troops unleash hell on ranch owner Richard King. But burning King's home to the ground isn't enough to sate Brant's appetite for destruction. After a stint in prison, Brant is out to pick up where he left off. This time, though, King has Smoke Jensen by his side. And Brant is soon to find out that slapping leather with the mountain man is about as smart as shaking hands with a rattlesnake.

When Destiny was only a child, her family was murdered and she was transformed into a Carpathian--a powerful and shadowy creature of the night, but not quite a vampire. Destiny shares a telepathic connection with Nicolae, her mentor. But now Nicolae needs to find her, or he may lose his soul and succumb to darkness forever.

Framed for robbery and murder by a pack of low-life outlaws, Smoke Jensen is locked up and sentenced to the gallows. But no bars of iron or bonds of rope can withstand a vengeful Mountain Man.

Mountain man Smoke Jensen never wanted to kill, but circumstance has plunged him into bloodbaths time and time again. Now Angus McDougal, the father of one of Smoke's victims, wants revenge. Tracked into the wintry wilderness of Colorado, Smoke must summon all of his survival skills to evade his enemy.

Kate divorces Alistair after 10 years of marriage, swearing off relationships altogether. But that was before she rented the extra space in her flat to the charming Davis Calder, who soon endears himself to Kate and her teenage daughter Roxy. Now married again and fresh off her honeymoon, Kate discovers a shocking secret about Davis and her daughter.

Sarcastic and bold, Maxine Phillips receives what she thinks is the shock of her life when she learns the father she thought was dead for 18 years is very much alive and living in Oklahoma. When she drives from her home in South Carolina and finally meets her father, Maxine learns she's in for an even greater shock.

After he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Jake Jameson retires from his architectural firm and begins reflecting on his life. As the hazy recollections come forth, Jake emerges as an unreliable--and perhaps unsympathetic--narrator.

Mired in an uninspiring pairing with her current beau, anthropology professor Aliesha Eaton is pierced to the heart when she encounters a mysterious barber. But then the intriguing stranger disappears after one night together--and she must try desperately to find out what happened.

Unafraid to use her assets, young Johnnie has wiled her way into the lives of several dangerous men. She also happens to be connected to three murders. Now that her enemies are closing in from all sides, it seems her luck may run out.