The past Janeal thought had burned away is rising from the ashes. Years ago, the Gypsy Kumpania where Janeal Mikkado lived was attacked by outsiders. With her best friend about to be consumed by a fire, Janeal had two options: try to save her friend--at serious risk to her own life--or disappear with the million dollars that she had just discovered . . . But the past is quickly coming back to haunt her. Both the best friend and the boyfriend that...

Backlands continues the story of Patrick Kerney; his ex-wife, Emma; and their young son, Matthew, shortly after the tragic battlefield death of their eldest son, CJ, at the end of World War I. Scarred by the loss of an older brother he idolized, estranged from a father he barely knows, and deeply troubled by the failing health of a mother he adores, eight-year-old Matthew is suddenly and irrevocably forced to set aside his childhood and take on responsibilities...

For Will Innis and his daughter, Devlin, the loss was catastrophic. Every day for the past five years, they wonder where she is, if she is - Will's wife, Devlin's mother - because Rachael Innis vanished one night during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway, and suspected of her death, Will took his daughter and fled. Now Will and Devlin live under different names in another town, having carved out a new life for themselves as they struggle...

Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.

Wes Trevannon is a bank robber. Now heś desperately chasing his lost self-respect while a determined sheriff chases him. Calla Waybeck has already lost one man to the violence that has consumed the Kaysee ranch. Now sheś found Wes, and plenty of new trouble is brewing. The spreadś foreman, Bill Treat, has lost his job, and he means to get it back ̮at the point of a gun if necessary. In the end, lawman Jans Vandermeer will learn a powerful lesson...