Speaker Hawke wants things to be better for her than they were for her mother when she grew up on the Tohono Oodham Reservation outside Tucson. That wish leads her to take John Overland for a short walk early one Saturday morning. She smokes a joint just as two pickups race across the valley below them. And that starts everything that follows.

The next morning, she goes to visit her friend and discovers a blood bath. Dorinda's parents are gruesomely dead and her friend is missing. That spurs John Overland into action, into a mystery where he will meet FBI agents, crooked cops, drug dealers...

What compels Ruth McCain to commit suicide by putting a gun in her mouth inside the lobby of the "Savannah Morning News" as reporter Morgahna Hamilton watched? The answer to those question will lead Morgahna to the Bahamas, to danger and back.
Everything that will happen to Morgahna results from two things Ruth gave her before she committed suicide - an envelope and a question, "Do you consider yourself to be a good reporter?" She does and will discover where that talent will lead and why.
It begins in the McCain home when Morgahna discovers the three McCain children dead in their beds....

Set in the aftermath of Bordering On Hatred, John Overland has been hired by the Tohono O'odham Reservation outside of Tucson, Arizona, for one reason: find the person that tried to smuggle a bomb across its borders. It doesn't matter that he knows he will be fired as soon as he has that answer. John isn't Native American and that alone is enough for the tribe to fire him once he does what they ask of him.

It starts innocently enough with a dead duck jammed into the window of John's pickup one morning in October. That leads him to a man who lives in Tucson, a man who is pimping his wife's...

Marcus Dent will meet Gracie Wallace somewhere. That much seems certain. Whether or not they will meet in time to stop whatever is being planned is another question. Dent is an operative of the US government. Wallace is the property of CS Senator Sam Buford. Their meeting becomes imperative when Buford decides to kill her because he has no further use for her. Before he does, he tells her about plans he has for relations between the USA and the CSA. It is done in gloating terms, but he dies of a massive heart attack before he can kill her. That leaves Gracie Wallace with a secret she cannot...