After the sudden death of his best friend, Steven Creed becomes the adoptive father of his friend's five-year-old boy, and this development is a deal-breaker for his long-term girlfriend. Steven and his new son pack up and move to Stone Creek, Arizona, looking for a fresh start. What he absolutely isn't looking for is someone like fiery prosecutor Melissa O'Ballivan, a woman with plenty of demons of her own, to fall for.

Where does an outlaw go when he's ready to turn straight? For Wyatt Yarbro, reformed cattle rustler and train robber, Stone Creek is his place of redemption. And lovely Sarah Tamlin is the perfect angel who will help him clean up his act. But Sarah hides a dark secret behind the prim and proper façade she maintains, even while she has lost her heart to the charming, sexy Wyatt.

The sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, widow Joanna Brady becomes caught up in a deadly family tragedy initiated by a pair of star-crossed lovers, while trying to prove herself in the male-dominated world of law enforcement and struggling to cope with echoes of Tombstone's infamous Clanton gang.

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Cochise County, Arizona, and Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most personal and dangerous case when her daughter discovers a body in the Arizona wilderness.

Hondo Lane was a man who'd come to terms with the hard land in which he lived. He rode dispatch for General Crook through the Arizona desert--a severe and beautiful landscape where one mistake could lead to a quick and lonely death. It was on the way to deliver an important message about an imminent Apache raid that he came upon an isolated ranch defended by a lone woman and her young son. But Angie Lowe wasn't just any woman. She was a fighter with...

No sooner is Jeb McKettrick married than he discovers that his bride, schoolteacher Chloe Wakefield, is already married!--and his chances of winning the Triple M Ranch in a marrriage race with his brothers are over.

Determined to ignore the attraction between them, schoolteacher Lark Morgan and Marshal Rowdy Rhodes, both of whom are hiding dark secrets, form a tentative alliance when the past collides with the present.

Former TV journalist Ali Reynolds takes on more than she bargained for when she assumes a media relations position with the Yavapai County Police Department. Ali is called in to deal with the press when a woman, badly burned and suffering from amnesia, is discovered in the charred remains of a subdivision in the making. Sister Anselm, the woman's hospital-appointed advocate, asks Ali for help uncovering her identity.

Sheriff Joanna Brady of Cochise County, Arizona, investigates the death of the mayor and his mother. The probe leads to a drug ring involving highly placed people in town.