Beautiful and beguiling Florida Jones is a small-town Missouri Ozarks success, with her thriving business, spirited young daughter, and engagement to a wealthy sought-after bachelor who promises to give her the wider world she yearns for. Then an unexpected visit from the mother who abandoned her sparks a tragic accident, unearths family secrets, and leaves her dependent on the very woman she loathes-as well as the ex-lover who long ago threw her...

Annie Mae Knepp has refused to follow her father, a disgraced ex-bishop, to a new community, and now she's taking care of her five siblings on her own. Her neighbor Adam Wagler has helped her through her trials, but Annie Mae fears all of her problems mean no man will ever love her.

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist...

In the exclusive, gated enclave of Olympia Forest Estates, death investigator Angela Richman watches a mansion go up in a fiery blaze. With it, seventy-year-old financier Luther Delor, a drunken, bed-hopping rhinestone cowboy. Embroiled in a bitter divorce, Delor may have scandalized Chouteau Forest, but his murder has united it against the accused: Delor's twenty-year-old girlfriend, Kendra Salvato, an "outsider." With an engagement ring bigger than...

"Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and over 2,000 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which was built to carry cargo, not men. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas finds himself further adrift. Returning home to Cape Girardeau,...

"Shadow Bends library closed years ago because of budgetary problems, so when a wealthy benefactor offers to reopen it, everyone, including Dev, is thrilled. But Devs excitement wanes when she realizes the mysterious donor is actually her runaway mother Yvettes latest husband, Jett Benedict. Dev suspects that Yvette and Jetts intentions arent as noble as they appear, but before she can discover what theyre really up to, Jett turns up dead--and all...

Nate Sathow and Frank Waverly track down Casey "Dog Ear" Pescaterro, a depraved killer with a hefty price on his head. "Ex-lawman Nate Sathow never cared much for the letter of the law. But when he was hired to kill former preacher Frank Waverly, Nate's sense of justice stayed his hand. Now Nate and Frank ride together--an unlikely pair specializing in tracking down escaped outlaws. For their latest job, Nate and Frank must first round up a few men...