"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...

Chris Crutcher, author of young adult novels such as "Ironman" and "Whale Talk," as well as short stories, tells of growing up in Cascade, Idaho, and becoming a writer.

"Fast track up the political ladder, fast cars, fast women--that's Garrett McKettrick. Make that was. A scandal has brought him home to Blue River, Texas, a place where a man can slow down, take stock and plan his next move. Which doesn't include staying at the family ranch with his brothers. A city boy, Garrett doesn't think he has the land in his blood. But Blue River has other attractions, like his former high school nemesis, Julie Remington. Now...

A whistleblower finds refuge—and passion—in the arms of a wealthy vampire in this erotic romance from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
 
Neely Wallace has a target on her back. She’s uncovered evidence that her boss, a powerful US senator, is involved in mob and drug activity. Now she’s hiding out with family in New England. But while she’s out trick-or-treating with her nephew,...

"A jealous, deranged husband assassinates the President-Elect of the United States two weeks before inauguration, and for the first time in history, a vice president-elect must step up and take the oath of office. Madison Hemsley-Tarlton, a war hero and former governor, will be the new president ... if she can stay alive long enough. Questions about the assassination quickly surface and eventually lead to a vicious and mysterious band of men who want...

"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...

"At fourteen, Gillis McCabe has a contentious argument with his father and angrily leaves his home, vanishing into the city. Years later, through hard work and innovative decisions he rises to become one of the wealthiest businessmen in Virginia. Feeling an urge to mend the relationship with his father, he decides to make the journey back to his childhood home. What he discovers shocks him, his father's estate is in shambles and the entire staff has...

"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...

Nine stories illuminate what it means to be Mormon and how faith serves to humanize, in a work that includes a seriocomic portrait of a young Joseph Smith.

At the end of the Civil War, Jim Parker goes back to the Indians to prepare them for the future that only he knows. As an astronaut lost in a time warp in 2008, he has befriended Major Mark Barkley of the War Department, who calls on Jim for special projects.