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The savage land of the West beckons- With her life and home ripped out from under her, Jo's left with an unexpected inheritance and a chance to start over. Except in 1868, a woman owning land was a new concept. Running a cattle ranch was unheard of.As the country rebounds from the ravages of civil war, she heads west for the Blue Mountains. It's deep in the wilds of Oregon, a land full of both beauty and terror. Armed with a promise made to her dying father and a will of iron, the last thing Jo expects to find there is love.

A lethal home invasion reveals the darkest of secrets... and there's no going back. From her earliest memories, Chris Johnson had a unique and special relationship with her mother. It wasn't until her teens that she understood how the assortment of self-defense classes, survival training, and endless 'Rules to Live By' was unusual. Except it was necessary because she was being prepared for the life her mother left behind but would never be able to outrun. When her father is brutally murdered, Chris is suddenly plunged into that world of spies and terrorists, left to solve the triple homicide her missing mother is accused of. Armed with nothing more than her odd skillset and the warning not to trust anyone, Chris navigates her new reality the only way she knows how-with a vengeance. Not entirely alone, her best friend might be the only person left in Chris's life to understand her. But others are vying for her attention: the local police, the FBI, and the faceless adversaries lurking in the shadows that have defined her life. Some offer protection, one a subterfuge of information, and the dangerous chance to learn the twisted truth. A truth that carries a weight much greater than the disrupted life of a high school senior. Through the darkened streets of Seattle, Washington, to the quiet outskirts at the base of the Cascade Mountains, Chris follows the web of deceit laid out for her. She can draw on the knowledge instilled throughout her childhood to unravel it or grab the offered lifeline and let her mom pick up the pieces. Both choices come with a price.

Vacation isn't supposed to be terrifying- Chris Echo thought the perfect escape from the terrors of her life as a CSI profiler would be a private island in the South Pacific. But the tropical setting proves to be anything but peaceful when she finds herself trapped in the middle of something far more dangerous. Kyle Stone's own demons aren't anything a remote luxury island can fix. He and the guerrilla band he's infiltrated for a long undercover mission are traveling to an exchange when a storm washes them ashore and they take the resort's guests as hostages. Stone is left with the choice to either keep his cover intact or save their lives--including the life of a beautiful woman who may prove to be his salvation. Each of the island's visitors harbors their own personal fears, but they're about to confront the ultimate fear of all--the struggle between life and death. In the midst of the turmoil, Chris realizes that perhaps death isn't her greatest challenge. Sometimes, it's your own memories that can destroy you.

Criminal profiler, Chris Echo, has worked hard to become one of the elite members of Seattle's police department. Nothing, not even her personal life, gets in the way of her pursuits to track down ruthless killers. With a serial murderer on the loose, Chris struggles to find the connections necessary to close in on a suspect. While taking risks to force the answers, she unexpectedly places herself in the path of her worst nightmare. A Distant Echo is a short story of around 10,000 words and takes the average reader one to one-and-a-half hours to read. It is a lead-in to a thrilling crime series called The Chris Echo Files.

Something strange is happening in the mountains of Sanctuary Veterinarian Ember Burns makes a grisly discovery and it leads authorities to the body of a man in the woods above her home. Although the circumstances are suspicious, the only witness is her dog and the death's ruled a suicide. But things aren't that simple. When Ember looks into the man's local connections, it creates more questions than answers. Including the source of an unusual rock, and what he was really doing in the mountains. As a mysterious illness sickens the local animals, Ember's battle to save them leads to a startling discovery. She races to prove both the cause of the animals' symptoms and how the man died, but will it be too late?