One mans hatred sets off a community crisis in a chilling page-turner that isalso startlingly inspirational.

When a bizarre houseboat explosion rocks the close-knit community of Baxter, firefighters, friends, and neighbors stand powerless as the McConnells' blazing hull sinks to the bottom of Heron Lake. Grief turns to outrage as new evidence proves there was one survivor -- and points to murder, something this sheltered community has never faced in its hundred-year history. In a race with the FBI, Jed sets out to track down the sole survivor, coping meanwhile with his own painful marital struggle. Baxter's mystery and Jed's dilemma are ones only God can solve in this suspenseful, surprising story...

The third book in the popular Baxter series offers more suspense, supernatural twists, and engaging characters, both new and recurring. The thrilling story keeps readers captivated to the very end, while illustrating biblical truths about God's sovereign purpose.

CNA Sally Cox is about as happy to be at Walnut Hills Nursing Center as the patients are. But it s work or starve, now that her husband has found a younger companion. Sally s new crowd skews toward the elderly ninety-year-old Elsie Rigsby, for instance, whose dementia comes and goes with her gold-digging son and grandson s visits. Elsie s not going to tell those vultures where she stashed her money. Still, she s not getting any younger, and someone besides her needs to know. Three deaths later, is anyone watching Sally?The love of money
Poor Mrs. Rigsby gets so confused. But she s Sally...

Dangerous Secrets?
Ellen Jones, first introduced in the Baxter series, enjoys a leisurely lunch at a Seaport restaurant where she overhears a private conversation at the table next to her--and disturbing accusations involving the husband of a woman she has recently befriended.
When Ellen goes to the husband's employer and cannot get answers, she digs through old newspaper articles and stumbles onto information too frightening to keep to herself. Will Ellen become enmeshed in speculation and gossip--or will she take the lead and become a catalyst for truth and healing?...

Things Aren t Always How They Appear
Guy Jones is about to burst his buttons. He just won the biggest case of his career and is being hailed by his law partners. But his wife, Ellen, is consumed with her quirky, needy friends and misses his victory dinner. Little does she know that Kinsey Abbott, Guy s pretty legal secretary, is more than happy to keep him company. Communication between the Joneses rapidly deteriorates when Ellen s stubborn loyalty to an Iranian couple lands her in the FBI s spotlight and Guy s bad graces. Guy soon discovers Kinsey s dark side, which inevitably pulls him...

The Past Is Back
Ellen Jones s hands are full after she begrudgingly brings her aging father to Seaport. Lawrence s memory is failing though he can t seem to forget what he s been holding against Ellen for the past forty years. But when he s diagnosed with Alzheimer s, Ellen realizes she never released her resentment and it s too late for reconciliation. Then suddenly literally overnight her son, Owen, comes face-to-face with the consequences of his wilder days gone by. No one is prepared for the changes he, and the entire family, will have to make as a result. The past weighing heavily...

In Search of Significance
Thirty-year-old Brandon Jones arrives at his parents doorstep burned out, jobless, and now fiancee-less. Ellen and Guy can provide a place for him to stay only until he figures out what to do with his life. When he takes a temporary job at a summer camp for disadvantaged kids, Brandon begins a turbulent relationship with a biracial adolescent named Caedmon. Somewhere in the midst of the chaos caused by Caedmon s disappearance just before a hurricane is predicted to hit Seaport, and by a group of racists who will not stop at arson or murder Brandon begins to see...

Envy is a deadly poison. Faith is the antidote.
Things couldn t be better for Rue Kessler. He just married the mother of his eight-year-old son, Montana, and finally has the family he s always dreamed of. Not only that, his father-in-law hired him to be the new construction supervisor on a big condo project. He s been sober for eighteen months. He s finally plugged in at church. And he s building his wife Ivy the house she s always dreamed of. Life is good.
Then with no warning, Rue and his wife and son become the target of someone s cruel and frightening attacks. What reason...

Tattooed and pierced, 18-year-old Angie Marks finds herself at the center of the town's curiosity. At Monty's Diner, they say she might be involved with Billy Joe Sawyer, using rattlesnakes to intimidate the key witness in his upcoming trial. Is she? Or does Angie Marks have her own agenda?