He was a famous Cherokee painter and she was his greatest challenge. But when Tiana Vann, granddaughter of an Indian elder, posed for Jordan Ridge, it was with a fierce resentment born of anger and fear. Jordan Ridge had walked into her life and c...
She was the veterinarian newly come to claim her job on the largest quarter-horse ranch in Texas. He was the boss who thought he had hired a man. Dr. Leigh Alexander expected trouble before she even met Shane Casey, but she never expected to be as...
No other man had aroused her as Thorne had done with a touch -- or merely a look. Once, they had found each other. Once they had fallen in love. Once he had been the world to her. Even now the pain of betrayal pierced Rhea's heart like a stiletto....
Chilton, a small southwestern town, seemed far too peaceful to be the scene of a triple murder. Yet it had been, and after a year, the peace was beginning to return though the murders remained unsolved. Gwen Potter, the pretty high school English ...
Widowed and wary April DuBois thought she had everything she needed in Rusty her six-year-old son, and her chic Tulsa boutique. But from the moment Vic Leyland invaded her life, she was threatened by passions -- and fears she'd never known before...
She was irresistibly drawn to the arms of a stranger. But did love or danger await her there? For Rachel Drake, coming to a Florida seaside town was a chance for new beginnings. After the lonesome months nursing her invalid mother, Rachel longed ...
It had been eight years since Dr. Anabel Dixon had laid eyes on Dr. Jud Westby -- and still she couldn't forgive him for one fatal mistake in the operating room on the night of her beloved brother's death. Now the renowned surgeon had ret...
Private eye Samantha Preston collided with Tobin Fitzgerald the moment she walked into his law office. She was determined to win the handsome lawyer's business -- and save her own. Reluctantly he agreed to let her handle his case, a family matte...
Chief Mitchell Bushyhead, half-Cherokee and head of the four-man police force in Bushkin, Okla., gets his first homicide in 10 years when a prominent member of the Cherokee community is murdered. It's something of an event, not only because Bushkin's...
At least, according to anyone with a motive to kill the wealthy, arrogant owner of the new resort lodge in Buckskin, Oklahoma. And that meant just about everybody. The lodge was built on an ancient Indian graveyard, and the Indian employees are co...
Molly Bearpaw, an investigator for the Native American Advocacy League, looks into a suspicious death at the Country Haven nursing home and discovers an array of suspects driven by greed and money. Reprint....
DYING SEASON An autumn chill is in the air. The wind swirls in the hackberry leaves. And a murder is committed inside the Cherokee National Museum: a prominent lawyer struck down by a poisoned dart. Molly Bearpaw, investigator for the Native America...
HORTICULTURAL SHOCK A timely inheritance has enabled spunky, self-sufficient Tess Darcy to transform her late Aunt Iris's estate into a charming bed-and-breakfast inn. Aptly enough, among her first guests is a gaggle of gardening enthusiasts gathe...
Iris House is filled with Tess Darcy's old classmates for a high school reunion when the novelist writing a tell-all book is murdered and Tess must figure out which of the author's "friends" would kill to prevent publication. Original....
A CRUEL CUT IN THE QUILT The annual Victoria Springs Quilt Show and Sale attracts quilters and quit-lovers from far and wide and Tess Darcy and her guests at Iris House are caught up in a flurry of preshow activity. The stakes are high, with winni...
SPECTER OF DEATH I n the Oklahoma woods a small-time criminal turned prison escapee sees a light moving in the night. Henderson Sixkiller knows that he has come face to face with the Fire Carrier, the ancient Cherokee phantom. The next day, Hender...
To the police, the death of womanising, unemployed Ed is a simple suicide. But to Molly there is more. Molly is determined to climb a hill of clues to prove that the death was murder, and unravel the riddle of the seven stones found near Ed's body....
In this novel Molly Bearpaw investigates the murder of a woman who tried to communicate with the soul of a dead Cherokee. But before she can declare the case closed, she must face some difficult truths about her own family....
MURDER STEALS THE SCENE Peace and goodwill go out the window at Tess Darcy's Community Church in Victoria Springs the minute out-of-town drama professor Sherwood Draper walks in the door. He's been asked to replace the former director of the annua...
The murder of an Oklahoma wildlife officer assigned to investigate the killings of bald eagles sends Chief of Police Mitch Bushyhead after a band of hunters and an anti-government activist, in the Cherokee Nation mystery series. 12,000 first printing...
A CANTAKEROUS BIDDY... Newly engaged to her devoted boyfriend, Luke, and in the midst of wedding plans, Tess Darcy, owner and operator of the charming Iris House B&B, manages to vounteer some spare time at the senior center, but her goodwill is chal...
A Ton of Trouble It's March, and Tess Darcy has her hands full, planning both her own June wedding and the renovation to Iris House that will turn her living quarters into a lovely home for herself and Luke. Now she has a house full, and a weighty o...
Matrimony or Murder Wedding bells will soon be tolling for Tess Darcy, who is finally to tie the knot with longtime love Luke Fredrik. To celebrate the much anticipated occasion, Tess's Aunt Dahlia and Cousin Cinny are hosting a bridal shower at the...
CLAUDIA BISHOP AND NICK DICHARIO request the honor of your presence at a different kind of dinner party ... Festivities begin promptly at 8:3o. Sixteen short stories -- accompanied by dangerously delicious recipes -- will be served. Be the...
The Apportioner sees what's going on over there and she don't like it. When she gets mad enough, she'll send a punishment, like she did in the old days. Lot of people are going to die. The words were spoken by Zebediah Smoke, whose ramshackle propert...
Marie knew that she was attracted to the rich and powerful Dominic Cloud, but what did he want from her -- her love or her land! Maria Susan Hawk, a young and beautiful Osage attorney, returns to Pawhuska, Oklahoma, after seven years in Washington...