Nebraska sheriff, Dewey Truet, wishes for a more exciting police career than barking dogs and domestic disputes. Life is good in small-town Nebraska, but a car chase once in a while would be nice. Kicking in a door would get his blood flowing. Anything would be more exciting than deciding if he should get rainbow sprinkles or chocolate glaze on his donut. A woman's doorbell rings and she's alone and frightened. Can she trust the man at the door? He seems so kind...and handsome. She lets him in. Another man is watching them from the tree line. That man is filled with rage and vengeance. The...

Gloria Larson is happy to take a job as editor of a weekly newspaper in the small town of Rosewood, Nebraska, even though her parents don't like the idea one bit. The town holds a secret-her birth mother's identity. Gloria's parents worry she won't like what she finds, but once Gloria starts unraveling the story, she can't be dissuaded. Gloria is armed with three pieces of knowledge about the woman who gave her up for adoption. 1) The woman was in her forties. 2) She lived in Rosewood. 3) She was accused of murder in 1974. No wonder Gloria's parents don't want her to dig into her past. How...

Lost shadows, forgotten memories, inexplicable happenings - what's wrong with Livia's perfect new life? Is it being manipulated or is it just an illusion? Yearning for the truth, she struggles against the man who claims to love her and his dominance over her life. Will Livia manage to escape and re-enter a world threatened by dark forces? And what on earth is translocation, a dangerous, mad and forbidden concept that the whole Arash world is whispering about? Livia's Arash family crumbles, disrupted by mistrust and hatred, her human sister Sophie is dying. Will Livia find a way back to her...

Steve Wolfe faces a tough decision. Does he track down his kidnapped sister using Pathfinder, his mystic sword, or does he exchange a friend for her safety? While traveling across the United States searching for clues to her whereabouts, he and his friends discover that a little girl also needs their help. Will time run out before they help everyone, or will someone become a sacrifice to save the others?

You may have met one without even noticing. You may have kissed one and been disappointed that he or she never called you. They may have been Arash. Livia is the black sheep of her family, self-conscious and underachieving. That is, until she meets her new friends: the exuberant Natalie, her brother Rupert, the sculptor, intelligent librarian Will, stunning interior designer Ruth, and arrogant horse breeder Cassius. The group of mismatched friends makes Livia feel as if she may fit in somewhere for the first time in her life. Then she begins to suspect that her so-called friends are not who...

The roles are changing: Bright may not be bright after all when the past catches up with dark sins. But dark isn't supposed to be the equivalent of bad, or is it? Livia has been an Arash for five months when her perfect life starts to crumble around her. A second Arash family, led by the fierce Philomena, harbouring a century-old hatred against Randolph, threatens to destroy them all, while Ruth spills Livia's best kept secret, wrecking her love affair. Philomena, out for revenge, infiltrates her followers into Randolph's family, but will everyone fall for the ruse? In the course of events...

He is evil and cruel, killing humans as well as immortal Arash in cold blood, yet an invisible bond seems to link Livia to Eamon. She seems to have it all, but the search for her mother Rebecca sets disastrous events in motion. Suddenly it's Livia who guards dark secrets, who hides the truth from her friends. Hurt to the core by Cassius' infatuation for another girl, which causes him to turn even against his closest friends, she alienates herself from her Arash family and becomes an outsider once again. Will she inevitably lose everything - her love, her family, her life - by defying all...

Lost shadows, forgotten memories, inexplicable happenings - what's wrong with Livia's perfect new life? Is it being manipulated or is it just an illusion? Yearning for the truth, she struggles against the man who claims to love her and his dominance over her life. Will Livia manage to escape and re-enter a world threatened by dark forces? And what on earth is translocation, a dangerous, mad and forbidden concept that the whole Arash world is whispering about? Livia's Arash family crumbles, disrupted by mistrust and hatred, her human sister Sophie is dying. Will Livia find a way back to her...

Murder shakes the town of Rosewood. A killer is in their midst. Everyone is suspect, even family. Blonde hairs and double lives; Gloria Larson can't seem to escape the heavy breath of suspicion on the back of her neck. With help from her Thorns, the four elderly women she's come to love, she tries to move on and adapt to the changes in her life, but she's a magnet for mayhem. Someone has an axe to grind and even a wedding won't keep them from holding their peace.