Nearly losing his life when his best friend's house explodes, Peter Shaw is tormented by his need to find out who is behind not just his near-death experience, but a series of violent crimes that threatens those closest to him: his wife, his best friend, and his best friend's only child. Despite his best efforts, the one person who can help him most side-steps his every attempt to solve the crimes she seems to know too much about. As those around him fall victim, 'Pete' and his former partner, and best friend, retired Detective Jim Swartz, drive unswervingly toward the discovery of the menace...

Old Bill, Farmersville's postmaster, losses his wife in a terrible fire everyone knows the Fenton's started. Left to raise his daughters alone, he struggles to keep them on the straight and narrow as they come of age. Cindy Lou, the youngest, finds herself torn between two men: Cory, a very successful, much older, friend of her father's and Jimmy Fenton, the son of her mother's killers - the town outcast. While her father's eyes and attention are focused on Cindy Lou, Esther, her older sister, takes comfort in the arms of another young man whose commitment to her is fickle and fleeting....

Old Bill's family suffers more tragedy and Cindy Lou learns harsh realities about the choice she's made between her two suitors. The decision made, she moves into a new life head-long and head-strong, but without some of the most important people in her life by her side. The man she's chosen is changing - and not for the better - while the one she rejected makes her regret her decision more and more each day. As others try to help Old Bill's family cope with many terrible changes, the townspeople and those they've long rejected must come to terms with one another. Will the choices Cindy Lou...

Private Investigator, Mike Tine, finds himself empty-handed, beaten and unable to return to his home; a small apartment above his most trusted friend's restaurant, Mitchy's. As he searches for the girl a mysterious client has hired him to find, and then the client himself, he finds his friends turning into dangerous enemies he cannot avoid. Someone is watching his every move and that someone today is you.

A cunning man with a vivid imagination and the money to bring reality to other people's fantasies, Theodore Duncan finds himself in a position to gain an unlikely ally in his efforts to locate a woman presumed dead for over a year, or discover who has taken her place. The woman he seeks, Anna Peteskow, is the one remaining of three power figures in the underworld of the world, enjoying the freedom to influence governments around the globe and eliminate those who oppose her without ever hitting a headline, if you don't count her understated obituary in an Ohio newspaper. The ally he discovers...

A cunning man with a vivid imagination and the money to bring reality to other people's fantasies, Theodore Duncan finds himself in a position to gain an unlikely ally in his efforts to locate a woman presumed dead for over a year, or discover who has taken her place. The woman he seeks, Anna Peteskow, is the one remaining of three power figures in the underworld of the world, enjoying the freedom to influence governments around the globe and eliminate those who oppose her without ever hitting a headline, if you don't count her understated obituary in an Ohio newspaper. The ally he discovers...

A cunning man with a vivid imagination and the money to bring reality to other people's fantasies, Theodore Duncan finds himself in a position to gain an unlikely ally in his efforts to locate a woman presumed dead for over a year, or discover who has taken her place. The woman he seeks, Anna Peteskow, is the one remaining of three power figures in the underworld of the world, enjoying the freedom to influence governments around the globe and eliminate those who oppose her without ever hitting a headline, if you don't count her understated obituary in an Ohio newspaper. The ally he discovers...

A cunning man with a vivid imagination and the money to bring reality to other people's fantasies, Theodore Duncan finds himself in a position to gain an unlikely ally in his efforts to locate a woman presumed dead for over a year, or discover who has taken her place. The woman he seeks, Anna Peteskow, is the one remaining of three power figures in the underworld of the world, enjoying the freedom to influence governments around the globe and eliminate those who oppose her without ever hitting a headline, if you don't count her understated obituary in an Ohio newspaper. The ally he discovers...

A carefully planned robbery at the Royal Sloop Shipping Company leaves two men dead and two employees under a cloud of suspicion. The investigating police detective knows who she suspects, but her history and reputation in the department stand between her and the criminals she knows she can bring to justice. A police lieutenant, a prosecutor, and a defense attorney become unlikely co-conspirators, each promoting their own agendas and careers to protect the guilty.