"Angela Marie has spent all of her thirty-five years on Meadow Falls, the farm that's been in her Texas family for generations. It wasn't her plan. It was an obligation. Now that her parents -- less loving kin than strangers -- have passed, the whole shebang belongs to Angela. And a legacy she never wanted is hers to uphold. She can't forsake it now. Her beloved nanny, Mandy, who was always more of a mother, needs a caregiver herself. And Mandy's...

"The quaint, historic fishing village of Menemsha is a side of Martha's Vineyard that tourists don't always see. Maddie Clarke's late mother was born on the Vineyard, and Maddie hazily recalls childhood visits to her Grandma Nancy's cottage above Menemsha Harbor. Now divorced with a teenage son, Maddie is awaiting news of a tenureship at her Massachusetts college when a letter arrives that could change everything . . . It turns out Grandma Nancy didn't...

"Kenan Leach was mad clear through . . . Robbed by his partner, betrayed by his wife, he had no reason to stick around San Francisco any more. For a fact, there wasn't anything better he could do than set out to trail his old partner, Nate Morgan. There was money in it -- maybe -- and if Leach had anything to do with it, there'd be blood too. He didn't much care whose, either. . . . Kenan Leach was not a particularly vengeful man -- normally. But...

"From the enigmatic reflections of a down-and-out fella questioning the choices he's made to an action-packed expedition in the wild expanses of the Old West, each story paints a vivid portrait of the American frontier's enduring heart. Readers will navigate the steamy bayou as a determined young man faces unimaginable challenges to rescue a kidnapped friend, experience the seafaring odyssey of a man shanghaied on the eve of his wedding, encounter...