James "Orlando" Sherwood has resurrected the old Shadow Dance religion having his followers dance for days at a time for the promise of an Indian paradise. For Orlando and his followers, nothing must delay the coming of the New World--not even the investigation of Ben Holden's death. It has been four months since lawyer Vicky Holden left her high-powered job in a legal firm to return to her home on the Wind River Reservation. She agreed to meet her...

Suzanne felt the tears press at her eyes as the dream-state drifted away taking with it the sight of the man she loved. Awake, she blinked back the tears. This was her life now. The sounds of the women and oxen, those were real. And the darkness, her darkness. She lay inside it, resigned. She was not a wife reaching out for her husband but a widow, a blind widow, wistful and full of desire.

Sister Agatha is a member of the Sisters of the Blessed Adoration, a New Mexican cloistered community. She is one of two extern nuns, giving her some contact with the outside world when she buys groceries and makes frequent trips to salvage the rattletrap monastery car, which she calls the «anti-Chrysler.» Sister Agatha is no walled-up innocent, however. Before entering the monastery in her thirties, she worked as an investigative journalist. Her...

A mother's tragedy, a daughter's desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives. In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in an effort to earn $10,000. Bringing along her nineteen year-old daughter Clara, the two made their way on the 3500-mile trek by following the railroad tracks and motivated by the money they needed to save...

Serving as an assistant in F.J. Bauer's studio, fifteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele is trained in the artistry and business of photography, but she is unnerved by a growing attraction to her married tutor.

Joshua Ryder is an orphaned young man raised by an old ex-cowboy. After his guardian's death, Josh is hired to help drive a herd of longhorms form Texas to the cattle markets in Kansas. Along the way he falls in love with a ranchers daughter, but feels he must leave to bring his mother's murderer to justice. who would lay bets on an eighteen-year-old going up against a seasoned, ruthless killer?