After recovering from her illness and the Christmas Snowstorm, Lil thought that the complications in life with Russell were pretty much over. Other things occupied her mind like getting Dr. Benjamin Pennington back to the cabin and together with Nancy Summerhill, Lil's choice as his permanent dancing partner. How to accomplish that, however, becomes a problem as life does a slight turn on Lil when two men chase her through Russell's forest then try to shoot at her. And successfully shoot Russell. The ensuing mystery would become the most difficult problem she would have to unravel. Worse than...

After Dr. Benjamin Allen Pennington married Nancy Summerhill, Russell was delighted to have his Woman to himself again. No Batsy, no Pennington, just the two of them in the cabin However, it wasn't his kissing that tried to kill her this time around. He wanted to take her someplace for their late honeymoon where they would be safe. A place where he didn't have to worry about poachers, angry dogs, drug smugglers, cougars, hungry coyotes, or grizzlies in their path. Instead, Russell placed Lil in the path of a very wealthy, very handsome man. And Lacy. Someone from Russell's past.

Maddy is a woman who is even overcoming her fear of men. The reason, a touchy subject for most writers, is in the novel. But all of the human spirit can dance the tango with a partner while envisioning Alex leading Maddy through the routine, perhaps even lightening the difficulties in the reality of One's day. Through the help of an email buddy, Maddy loves many men, but one man mistakes her love of mankind for love of a different kind. The misunderstanding lands Maddy in jail.

The most dramatic lava beds are in Craters of the Moon National Park, but the lavies in Idaho run from Idaho Falls in the east to the mountains in the middle upper portions of Idaho. Many ranches still exist in the thousands of open acres that encompass a land of sagebrush and lava rocks. All of it is as deadly in the heat of Summer as it is in the cold of Winter. The following people survived that life to find love, perhaps even romance in the deadly desert.

Of all things in life Humans face, no matter how loved or unloved they are, how righteous or otherwise, no matter their circumstances on the earth, even if the room is full, each dies alone. Tatie was prepared to do just that. Mark had already been through the difficulties of loss with his wife, Laura, and thought he was prepared. Then the whispers started. In his attempts to provide a safe place for the older woman to die, both Tatie and Mark had forgotten that the Lord can and does occasionally have something else in mind.