Who is Spider Latham? Think John Wayne meets Miss Marple. When Spider is sent to help the Red Pueblo Museum, he doesn't suspect it will cause a rift between his wife, Laurie, and himself. Museum Director Martin Taylor is desperate, and his son Matt is angry. Some unknown person is bent on destroying the museum financially and is about to succeed. Then a handsome playboy's skull is bashed in with one of the museum's Anasazi ax, and everyone has motive for the murder. Can Spider untangle the web of secrecy and lies surrounding the museum before the Taylors lose it all? And in the process, can...

A Kane County Christmas contains two stories set in Kane County, Utah. Liz Adair's novella AMY'S STAR is a Spider Latham Christmas story. A new star appears over the Kane County landscape and draws some surprising visitors on Christmas Eve. Liz's brother, Ron Shook, adds a short story, THE HAY RIDE, about a new family come to Kanab from cold, snowy Soda Springs, Idaho. They are having trouble adapting to Christmas in a desert environment.

Cowhand Heck Benham rides the range in the high desert of the southwest. Ruth Reynolds moves in wealthy New York circles. She comes west during the Great Depression; chance throws them together, and they fall in love. But she's a married lady, and he's an honorable man.