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Charlotte and Denise Dunn own an audio company supporting concerts and conventions. They are pulled over by the sheriff in the middle of the night because their truck is overloaded and has worn tires. Of course, their truck is overloaded. It’s always overloaded, which is why they were passing through this small town in the middle of the night to avoid the weigh station on the Interstate.

Drawings of Love opens as a 32-year-old former touring concert professional emerges from self-imposed exile. Shane Denning has been severely injured on the job. Broke and broken, he has spent the last two years in his parent’s care. Searching for gainful employment as a computer-aided drafting technician, he is hired to teach mechanical drawing at the local community college. As word of his skills spreads, Shane is conscripted to assist in several projects for the community and one local businesswoman in particular.

Part of the Logger’s Ridge series, Home on the Ridge starts almost immediately after the end of Welcome Home Doc, which means that it overlaps the last part of May You Meet a Stranger’s time period and merges the storylines. Citizens of the small towns of Logger’s Ridge and Sunny Valley have overcome significant hurdles to recover from a series of economic disasters. Their hard work is paying off, and they see a bright future ahead. Much hard work and buried secrets still lie before them.

A young pianist and his newfound singer girlfriend use their music to rescue a historical resort from bankruptcy and reverse the economic downturn of their small town while falling in love.

A young woman is rescued from an attempt by her poacher father to drown her in a Florida swamp by a mysterious woman alleged to have magical powers. Fearful at first, the young woman learns to trust the secretive woman, who has chosen to hide out in the depths of a hostile environment. The younger woman returns to civilization to claim the farm her father would have stolen from her and to build a relationship with the man she has loved since they were children.

A girl uses social media to avenge her father’s murder. A geeky young owner of a small Boston electronics store has his life turned upside down when he visits a woman's apartment down the hall in search of food for a stray kitten he has just picked up. The woman's sister embroils him in a vendetta against her father's hate crime murderer and drafts him into her small task force using social networking, the internet, legal, and "extra-legal" assistance to track and trap a serial rapist who targets single mothers with small children. Some things are what they seem, and some aren't.

The medieval era war lord sends his youngest son and one of his best soldiers to visit four cities and collect the final signatures on a peace treaty and mutual defense agreement that the warlord has been negotiating for years. The son is to be accompanied by the eldest daughter of the war lord's most faithful ally and her hand maiden. He is also assisted by his sentient pet crow.

Standing in the blood of the man who tried to kill him, the boy, almost a man, froze, horrified at what he had done. The head, separated from the body, lay face down in the forest undergrowth. Blood flowed from the open neck onto the mat of decaying leaves. There had been no time. There had been no time to think. No time to plan. Only one would walk away from that confrontation in the woods. The boy had gotten the better of this man who had killed many before him.

US Army Warrant Officer Second Class Rachel Levine suffers from burns to her face and shoulder. She suffers from the types of stress disorders one would expect of a combat veteran, but the burns on her face have scorched more than her skin. They have made her question her understanding of herself. Her road to recovery will involve her extended family, her employees at the company she and her sister have inherited from their father, and a court case where she defends not only her honor but that of her newfound friends.

Seeds of Anger follows the life of a high school junior whose police officer father has been shot in the line of duty, and whose mother is dying of cancer. Worst of all, the property that has been in his family for three generations is being split up for development. A renegade botanist on the hunt for new herbal medicines moves in across the street, and uses the large open property to cultivate the plants he needs for his research. He takes the boy and some of his friends to work as his assistants, and trains them to be scientists.

Three Warlocks, brothers, triplets, run a ranch where they train horses for cowboys and cattle ranchers. They use their special powers to keep their ranch solvent and, despite the recent death of their adoptive mother, are content with their lives. All that changes when a pre-teen equestrian shows up with her father to buy a horse. On the same day, triplet witches and their mother are directed to the ranch by a mysterious stranger.

Traveling east after witnessing the aftermath of the Massacre at Wounded Knee, the young man, who had seen more death in his short life than most people encounter in their entire lives, sought to rebuild the ruins of his life. His father had abandoned his mother, who had turned to prostitution to survive. She was shot when he was twelve, leaving him alone. Having learned to read at a very young age, his intelligence and attention to detail took him places typically reserved for his elders. The young man rode the train east, determined to leave the past behind.

It seems that vampire killers get no respect. One would think that protecting people from a race that would suck them dry and throw the desiccated husks on the street would earn some respect. One would think that converting large mythological beasts from enemies to allies would earn some gratitude. One would think that healers who use more than medicine along with their medical training, could practice without fear of exposure. Such is not the case. The book Cowgirls and Dragons explores the lives of people who do these things and who are forced into hiding because of it.

Female dragons have come to earth to find a safe place to lay their eggs, protected from predation by males of their own kind. They need humans to care for the eggs, keep the hatchlings from killing each other, and protect them from rival males. Unfortunately, before the dragons can leave their young in the humans' care, humans must stop killing each other. In surprise lighting-swift raids, fifty fire-breathing female dragons invisible to radar quickly disable all the world's air forces and navies, destroying any weapon that can threaten them.