"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 fiancee'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. Only days remain...

In 1896, there aren't many career choices for a young lady. China Bohannon has fled one bad situation, and is looking to start her life over as a strong, independent woman in the wild and woolly town of Spokane, Washington. The trouble is, convincing Gratton Doyle to take her seriously as a bookkeeper is hard enough, and when it comes to working as an investigator in the Doyle & Howe Detective Agency, it's well-nigh impossible, but what if China is...

"China Bohannon may be a modern 1890's career woman, but her uncle 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 chomping 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. Monk says the case is out of China's league...

"An old LeMat revolver is the catalyst that sends gunsmith Boothenay Irons back in time to 1877, and sets her down in the middle of the Nez Perce war. She is following her lover, Caleb Deane, after he and an Appaloosa horse named Six Shot disappear into the past. But before she can hope to rescue Caleb from his capture by the Indian, Axe, Boothenay must avoid the attentions of a murderous sheriff, save a wounded man from certain death, and find new...

Boothenay Irons to her own bewilderment, is possessor of a mysterious power. By profession a gunsmith, there is something within her that answers to the history held within an antique gun. Not only can she hear its story, she is sometimes able to go back in time and interact with its history. Blood, as she comes to realize, is the road that carries her between times. Her strange ability began as a teen-ager while restoring an old gun. She slipped

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Border Patrol agent Lily Turnbow is fighting a terrorist for her life when everything around her dissolves into a maelstrom of light and thunder. Awakening one hundred years later, she finds a ruined world in which bands of mutants are at war with normal humans, and discovers she is as changed as her surroundings. Resurrected into a society only now beginning to recover from the Event that almost wiped out humanity, she has become a Cross-up, acquiring...

In the second of the Hometown trilogy, ex-Afghanistan vet paramedic Frankie McGill and resident deputy Gabe Zantos are caught up in a case of arson. A house at the end of a country road has stood vacant for years; its occupants mice and the stray raccoon or two. When the derelict house catches fire, the only reason the Hawkesford Fire Department responds is because of the danger to the dry wheat fields surrounding it. But then not only a gunshot victim,...