The owner of the Dallas Guns, the local arena football team, has been receiving threats on his life from someone he believes to be on his team. So Dallas detective Sammy Kidman gets roped into trying out for the Guns in order to uncover the perpetrator.
As Sammy embraces the novelty of arenaball to the detriment of his work and family, his wife Marni loses all patience. With the connivance of society matron Dolly Threlkeld, Marni does a little investigative work of her own. What they discover about the owner's true purpose throws her into a terrible quandary: How can she tell Sammy that...

The private detectives of Sammy and Marni's agency are happily engaged in collecting delinquent child support on a pro bono basis. But since Sammy can't refrain from opening his wallet to every struggling parent he meets, Marni is forced to tighten the purse strings.
Whereupon Sammy discovers another income opportunity in ghostwriting a handbook on crime for Christian celebrity Anne Paget. Wading through the seamy underside of Christian ministry is disconcerting, but Sammy is not truly devastated until his dad, who is working for wealthy Dallas socialite Dolly Threlkeld, decides to marry...

Former Dallas Police detective Sammy Kidman is now a private investigator working for his wife Marni's agency, MK & Associates. While he is out tracking down scofflaws who owe past-due child support, he rescues a dog from becoming road kill.
Miraculously, Marni allows Sammy to keep the gangly mongrel, whom Sammy soon discovers to be an unexpected asset in his work. He has no idea how much of an asset, however, until he tangles with a high-powered woman executive who resents his collection efforts so much as to concoct a particularly harrowing revenge.
"Sammy: The Consolation of...

It's just a job, right? With a wife and baby to support, Sammy Kidman decides that it's time to get a safe, reliable job for a change. Sure, he loves his work as a detective in the Dallas Police Department, but it does get hazardous. So, in a fit of maturity, he decides to put his family's security first.
Too bad his good intentions count for squat. When Sammy gets fired, he tries several questionable jobs-security guard, -Rent-a-Boyfriend, - even underwear modeling-to pay the bills. However, when Sammy is finally drawn back to his true calling, he's faced with an assignment so full of...

Circumstances do not look propitious for Dallas Police Detective Sammy Kidman. His longtime partner receives a promotion to sergeant, so Sammy gets a new partner who happens to be a woman.
But this is not just any woman-this is "Rosie the Riveter," who attained her rank of detective by threats of a lawsuit, and who keeps getting bounced from one investigative unit to another because of her caustic, uncooperative nature.
So on Sammy's first assignment with Rosie, he guarantees himself trouble by preventing her from shooting an unarmed suspect, and then saying so when she lies about...

New York copywriter Royce Lindel takes a chance on a camping trip with two female friends in remote Big Bend, Texas. Little do they know that their schedule of activities includes being dumped in the desert by their guide. Matters look bleak until they stumble across other campers: three men whose business in the wilderness involves drugs and guns.
When the men reluctantly rescue the stranded New Yorkers, Royce falls in love with the one they call Padre. But she doesn't know his real name or why he's running. She doesn't even know how he feels about her-until she's kidnapped by the...