The story describes the recent uprising along the border, and ends with the finding of the gold which two prospectors had willed to the girl who is the story's heroine.

In the remote mountains of Arizona where he lives with his mother, stepfather, and two sisters, fourteen-year-old Chase discovers two kidnapped boys and gets caught up in a dangerous adventure when he comes up with a plan to get them to safety.

An over-achieving Phoenix high school student's life changes dramatically when she is responsible for a car crash that kills a child, and she goes from honors classes and tennis team captain to doing community service and rebelling against her controlling mother.

Mojo Sheepshanks, a struggling private investigator with the ability to see ghosts, is in way over her head when a situation involving her wealthy sister, who is being terrorized by a blackmailer, turns into a murder, revealing shocking secrets about the family she thought she knew.

"Jess Porterfield fled to the big city after his father's sudden death, leaving behind his family ranch--and his childhood sweetheart. Now he's returned as the local lawman, determined to win back the one woman he could never live without. Young frontier doctor Addie Wilcox was devastated when Jess left her behind. Now it's difficult to remember why she should keep her distance. But with the town's richest man set to see her hang, Addie must put her...

"The heat is on...Twelve people have been shot at point-blank range and left to rot in the desert sun. It's Sophia St. Claire's job to do something about it. She's Bordertown, Arizona's new chief of police--and she's out of her depth. Help arrives in the form of Department 6 hired gun Roderick Guerrero. As far as Sophia's concerned, his involvement only makes things worse. Maybe he's managed to turn his life around. And maybe he's a good investigator....

The most unsettled of the "no-account Raines boys," Devlin Raines has long been protecting his heart from injury. But his latest case - and client - forces him to lay everything on the line--Back cover.

Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona.

Investigating the discovery of a skeleton at one of the holiest places in Navajo religion, Jim Chee and the newly retired Joe Leaphorn realize that the body is that of a missing person from one of Joe's long-unsolved past cases.