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On the day after Thanksgiving, 1868, George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry attack a sleeping Cheyenne village on the banks of the Washita. Amidst the heartless and senseless slaughter of men, women, and children, the Seventh Cavalry discovers a white woman living among the Cheyenne. Her name is Eden Murdoch, and she was presumed dead years before.

When an unusual picture called a spirit photograph, which some Victorian spiritualists claimed was a photograph of the dead, sells at auction, Flynn Keirnan is determined to discover the story behind it. She soon learns the ghostly figures in the picture were the subjects of a sensational murder trial in 1875 Chicago. Flynn tracks the story through many sources, including the trial transcript, a journal kept by one of the victims, and notes from a jailhouse interview with the husband conducted by feminist firebrand Victoria Woodhull for her radical newspaper.

As women seek political equality with men, an unlikely heroine steps forward to make history. When her father's death forces Laurel McBryde to leave her beloved childhood home in the Flint Hills to live with the Hartmoors, a prosperous banking family, she feels like a lonely outcast among the prim and proper Victorians of Chisholm, Kansas. Soon a growing attraction to radical politics and to Carey Fairchild, a tenant farmer on Hartmoor land, change Laurel's life forever.

A storm the size of Texas brews when Gloria Powell and Kai Chang meet in a Ft. Worth hotel. They have come to discuss the future of Lily, the daughter Gloria adopted from China and the sister Kai hopes to reclaim. Kai is a doctor who had to give up her little sister during the Cultural Revolution and has since discovered that an inherited genetic defect may be waiting to fatally strike Lily. Gloria's relationship with her daughter is tattered and strained, and the arrival of Kai, makes Gloria fearful.

Sold to settle her husband's gambling debts, kidnapped... betrayed... and promised to the Mayan gods as their sacrificial bride. Texas-born beauty Mercy Cameron pursued one recklessly romantic dream - to be desired in all ways by the man who bought her as a bondswoman - to discover in his arms the depth of ecstasy and the consummate crest of love.

Rich with vivid settings - from the picturesque crofters' villages to the windswept moors and harsh seas - and filled with stunning characters you will never forget, it is the story of a remarkable people struggling to survive in a harsh and beautiful land. It is also the moving tale of two star-crossed lovers: Captain Iain MacDonald, a man torn between passion and honor, and Mairi of the Isles, the fiercely proud peasant girl who has sworn to save the land and the Gaelic traditions that are in her blood. Together, they'll embark on an adventure of the spirit and of the heart, in this powerful novel that will leave your memory long after the last chapter is heard.

Businesswoman Leigh Taylor Cole and islander Deke Kearney have nothing in common. Nothing, that is, but a sizzling chemistry that turns their lives upside down. As they fight to keep Deke's son safe from kidnappers, Leigh begins to question the promise she made her mentor to find Deke and bring him 'home' to Seattle. The provocative breezes of Maui force Leigh to unlock a secret buried so deeply in her past, she's hidden it even from herself. She and Deke discover that when love blooms - passions flower.

The faced the scalpers....the desert...and the love they all had for the same man! Patrick O'Shea – with gold flame hair and eyes the color of a storm, a man as bold, as brave as any who tamed the wild land, but as gentle as the breeze that stirred the heather of his native Ireland.

Successful TV journalist Alison Reynolds' career comes to an abrupt end when top executives decide they need a "younger face". As if that's not enough, Ali discovers her media mogul husband is cheating on her: and her best friend from high school is missing.

Growing up on the Kansas prairie, Samantha Martin cherished two desires: to love God and marry her childhood sweetheart. But the War between the States took nearly everything - her family, her home, and Nathan, her love.

Deafened at a young age, her natural-born means of expression taken from her, Amelia Anne Polley must learn to communicate all over again. In 1874, left to grow up in frontier territory, Amelia is determined to live the life she'd dreamed for herself before becoming deaf. One thing she won't be is a mail-order bride to the handsome rancher Aaron Zachary. But true love is hard to deny if they can find their way out of their troubled pasts, overcoming hardship and heartache.

John Davis has a "dull aching sense of missing out, of not getting anywhere". There must be millions like him, he thinks. His relations with his wife, Serena, are shallow and unsatisfying. In the late 1930's, he tries to rekindle their marriage by bringing her to a special place from his past, the Montana Mountains. He is chagrined when she asks other people to join them on the camping trip.

During a stormy festival at a mountain lake, a retired sergeant, on a painful quest to find a daughter he never knew he had, joins forces with two cattle ranchers (a retired Fed on assignment and a lovelorn musician/part-time deputy) as they find themselves tangling with an eclectic collection of characters: a murderous con man who will stop at nothing, a widowed young mother with no history, and a wealthy family with a shameful secret.

Sepp Amsel, a fabulously successful gambling hall and saloonkeeper entrepreneur, is about to become the bridegroom in the most public wedding ever to take place in wild and woolly Spokane, Washington. He wants to engage China's detective services when his fiancée’s sister is kidnapped and a substantial ransom demanded. There's just one problem. The client thinks it's possible he's being bamboozled because things don't quite add up.

In 1900 a steadfast and feisty young woman, Jocelyn Belle Royal, joins a mule drive to earn back her Kansas farm lost to the bank. Entanglements over the mules, outlaws, women’s suffrage, and a disagreement over the governor’s mansion test her mettle to the limit. Jocelyn can’t give up if "home" can ever again be more than a few belongings tied in a shawl - all that she owns.

Claire DuMond can't believe her father would just lapse into a coma for no apparent reason. Even his doctors are mystified. But one thing is clear, she must find the cause before it's too late. Claire sets out to do just that, and soon arrives on the Caribbean island of Martinique. And wouldn't you know? Her boyfriend followed her. Why does he never seem to listen? There they meet a Voodoo priest who may be able to help find the answer. Does it have to do with the eruption of Mt. Pelée that killed more than 30,000 inhabitants some 50 years prior?

Married to a fire-and-brimstone preacher, Hannah Barnes had given up hope of love and happiness. Then three gunmen killed her husband, and she feared she would lose her life as well. A former Texas Ranger, Jeb Welles, was determined to save the tart-tongued widow and be on his way. But while Jeb only had rescue on his mind, his body ached with desire for the stunning redhead. Courageous beauty and valiant loner, Hannah and Jeb have nothing in common, yet everything to share.

The Comanches named her Fierce Tongue; Texans called her a white squaw. Once the captive of a great warrior, Katherine Bellamy found herself shunned by decent society, yet unable to return to the Indians who had accepted her as their own. Slade was a hard-riding, hard-hitting lawman, out to avenge the deaths of his wife and son. Blinded by anger and bitterness, he would do anything, use anyone to have his revenge.

China Bohannon may be a modern 1890s' career woman, but her uncle, Montgomery Howe, and his partner, Gratton Doyle haven't turned her loose on an investigative case of her own just yet. With her name newly added to the roster - though in small print - China is champing at the bit. China's friend Porter Anderson hires the agency saying his uncle has disappeared and a Johnny-come-lately timber baron claimed the family homestead. What's more, he has a bill of sale for it that Porter knows his uncle didn't sign. The problem is proving it - or so it would seem.

Smart and sassy bookkeeper China Bohannon is a modern 1890s career woman who'd rather sleuth than type. China is in charge of the Doyle & Howe Detective Agency office on the day a 14-year-old girl shows up seeking the detectives' help in a case of what she's calling murder.