Böcker av Joann Conner

Nothing hits hardened Detective Frank Riley like kids in danger, and he finds himself embroiled in an ever shifting case to stop these kids from dying. In the midst of trying to catch the dealer slipping them the drugs, he lands a strange case of a woman sitting on the bench outside the hospital. She has been shot, but remembers nothing about how she came to be there. Dead coyotes start turning up, shot with the same caliber of bullet as the woman. Then two young girls, who have been savagely beaten and assaulted, are found half buried in snow outside of the emergency room. What is the connection between these cases? Riley and his partner Sam Rayburn are hard pressed to put all the pieces together before there is another victim.

Lucas Randall worked hard to build a good ranch, and he had just driven his first herd ofcattle to market in Virginia City, Nevada. He had three loyal riders, a wonderful little family, andhe had just secured a deal to provide lumber to Virginia City.But Hal Colter and Sly Booker, two of the meanest outlaws in the west, had noticed theyoung rancher and they had plans to steal his lumber, take his wife, burn his ranch, and kill allthe witnesses.The ranch is attacked while Luke is away on the cattle drive and his young son is injured.Ruth Randal sets off over the mountain to get her son to the doctor in Bridgeport, leaving Rusty, their wounded hand, alone to fend off the attacks.Can Luke get back in time to save his ranch, find his wife and child, and stop Colter andBooker? He will have to face more than twenty hardened loggers and outlaws, and time isrunning out!

Matthew Raines headed west after the War Between the States, planning to find a ranch for him and his brother Tim. He buys a ranch, but his brother never arrives. Instead, Matthew comes face to face with a young woman who robs his friends, steals his horse, and is finally caught stealing the knife his father made for him. What is her connection to his dead brother and how did she get his knife?