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Forced to shelve a story about a murder victim whose information cannot be confirmed, "Alpine Advocate" editor Emma Lord investigates a series of local runaways at the same time Deputy Sam Heppner takes a leave of absence for secret reasons.

"Amidst the beauty of the Wenatchee Valley at the feet of the Cascade Mountains, apple orchardist Claire Courtney struggles to make a living. When strange and ancient artifacts are discovered beneath her land, Claire wonders whether the ensuing archaeological dig will save her, or be the final blow in her struggle to hang onto her home and livelihood. To make matters worse, conflict between the archaeologists on the dig-Joe Running from the west,...

"The Cassandra follows a woman who goes to work in a top secret research facility during WWII, only to be tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind. Mildred Groves is an unusual young woman. Gifted and cursed with the ability to see the future, Mildred runs away from home to take a secretary position at the Hanford Research Center in the early 1940s. Hanford, a massive construction camp on the banks of the Columbia River in...

Whatever happened to Eddie Martin? At age 19, Eddie Martin has a brutal fight with his high school teacher and leaves home. The first two books in the Strawberry Mountain Series, By the River and Secrets from the Little Red Box, leave readers wondering about Eddie, the youngest son of Sarah Ann and Thomas Martin. He journeys from the ranch in the Upper John Day Valley into the Blue Mountains where Strawberry Butte is the tallest and most beautiful...

The Wheedle, a large furry creature with a red blinking nose, has lived wrapped in peace and quiet atop the Space Needle for years and years. But late one night all of that changed as the empty streets echoed with the plaintive cries of a kitten in distress.

"Three doctors travel to Opportunity, Idaho in the 1890s searching for success and fortune in a town where they find more tragedies than opportunities."

"Hunkered down in his childhood bedroom in Seattle's worn-out Lake City neighborhood, idealistic but self-serving striver Lane Bueche licks his wounds and hatches a plot to win back his estranged Manhattanite wife. He discovers a precarious path forward when he is contracted by a wealthy adoptive couple to seduce and sabotage a troubled birth mother from his neighborhood. Lane soon finds himself in a zero-sum game between the families as he straddles...