A skeptic battles a psychic for the soul of a fragile artist after a seemingly chance encounter and a "message from beyond" lead to the discovery of human remains hidden in a forgotten dry well. Evan Traherne and Jocelyn Prowd are reclusive artists content with their nearly-idyllic life on a farm in Connecticut, until self-proclaimed psychic Magnus Isaksen delivers a message from Evan's mother who disappeared when he was five years old. With Jocelyn's uneasy support, Evan begins to search, and they find a body buried under their studio. Evan's estranged father, now a US Senator, dispatches a...

A fiercely independent woman returns to the frontier of her birth only to find that western society is even less receptive to her notions of women's rights and sexual liberty than strait-laced New England. Trace Bannock hasn't always been a lawman but he's always been alone. Sorrel McCaffrey is smart, reckless and plays like she has nothing to lose. They are drawn to each other from the day Sorrel returns to Garnet, Montana. Ostracized by the more sophisticated world where she was sent for an education, Sorrel just wants her freedom, to dress in pants, to gallop her fine mare as fast and as...

A loner who has never been alone, a free spirit who has never been free, Miranda craves what she missed while her life was defined by work and obligation. Restless and reckless, she needs to fill the empty hours of a life suddenly unstructured. Tending bar in a small-town tavern seems the perfect antidote and the introvert thrives. She's smart and funny and develops a fan club bantering with the regular patrons, and she's gratified by the attention of men who want more than a drink and a debate. Another life-long loner looking for change, the cold-eyed detective Pearce Donnellan vies for her...

In an isolated rural cemetery a grave robber witnesses a woman's lonely death and adds the hands of a suicide to his sack of treasure. On that day Keller Stoneking is released from a federal prison after completing a thirty-year sentence for bank robbery and kidnapping. He just wants to come home to Wychelm and be with his cousin Maddie, the only constant in his life. Maddie welcomes Keller home and tries to ease him back into small town life. Their reunion is complicated by her growing rapport with Ross Glendower, the chief of police. Ross finds himself in the curious position of defending...

Skye McLir is a loner who tried to fill the void in her life with the adrenaline rush of emergency medicine, but she never wanted to be a doctor. Disillusioned and disaffected, she comes home for the funeral of her grandfather Lucas Outlawe, a reclusive rebel who may have left her his property to atone for the transgression that resulted in her exile from her family. But Skye finds no sanctuary at Outlawe Lake. Others covet the secluded Eden in the New England woods and try to drive her out again. Investigation of a current murder turns up another corpse, dating back to the days when Lucas...

Sage Durrell gives a lift to a drifter who calls himself Ransom and seems content to ride with her to the frontier town of Stilicho, where folk live with one foot in the Wild West and the other in the 21st Century. Immediately taken with Sage, Ransom willingly steps into the controversy that surrounds her. Her brother Seth has disappeared, leaving the family homestead on her hands and a deepening mystery for local law enforcement. An intensely private woman with secrets of her own, Sage has walked out on the literary lion for whom she worked since she left Stilicho decades before, ducking his...