The astonishing debut novel from international number one bestselling author Paullina Simons, beautifully repackaged Tully Makker is a tough young woman from the wrong side of the tracks and she is not always easy to like. But if Tully gives friendship and loyalty, she gives them for good, and she forms an enduring bond with Jennifer and Julie, school friends from very different backgrounds. As they grow into the world of the seventies and eighties,...

When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.

In her stunning debut novel, Janice Graham creates a love story that rises from the ashes of despair. Rich with passion and triumph, Firebird goes beyond romance to become a tale of greater challenges and revelations. Ethan, a young Kansas lawyer, is trapped between the demands of his fiance and his growing love for an exotic visitor to his small town. Suddenly, when tragedy strikes, Ethan is plunged into despair. But even as he mourns, strange forces...

Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.

"Looking for a fresh start, advice columnist Sissy Yoder heads to small-town Yoder, Kansas, to help in her aunt's café. But when a milkman is murdered, the newcomer becomes the prime suspect . . . After Sissy's rodeo cowboy boyfriend turns out to be more of a rodeo clown, she packs a bag; picks up her Yorkshire terrier Duke; and leaves Tulsa, Oklahoma, bound for her parents' former hometown. There are still plenty of Yoders in Yoder, Kansas, including...

Sewa Tribal Police Officer Heather English stumbles upon the body of the newly-elected governor as she patrols a desolate canyon on the Arizona reservation early on Christmas morning. A note explains his death is part of a drug war. Meanwhile, Heather's father, Sheriff English of Benteen County, Kansas, crosses paths with the local militia after he disarms a man seeking revenge for a desecrated crèche.

The award-winning author of "A Knight in Shining Armor" presents a historical family saga chronicling the lives and loves of three generations of women in a small Kansas community. "It's 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas, Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions. Vera is an activist who wants to join her boyfriend in the Peace Corps. But she is doing her duty caring for her widowed mother and younger...

V.I. Warshawski travels to Kansas to investigate the disappearances of a young film student and a faded Hollywood star, but long-simmering racial tensions stir up more mysteries as the body count rises.

One beautiful summer afternoon, Jody Linder receives shocking news: The man convicted of murdering her father is being released from prison and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. It has been twenty-three years since that stormy night when her father was shot and killed and her mother disappeared, presumed dead. Neither the protective embrace of Jody’s three uncles nor the safe haven of her grandparents’ ranch could erase the...

Discover an utterly captivating Midwest murder mystery from a bestselling author-filled with quirky small-town suspects you won't forget. Single mom Caley James has three kids, a good-for-nothing ex and the flu. When her furnace dies, during the longest cold spell Hampstead has ever seen, she thinks Christmas can't get worse. Until... Her youngest finds a dead body in the basement. Shifty-eyed repairman Tim Holiday was supposed to be fixing their...