Lyman, a thirty-year-old orphan, is sipping coffee on the front steps of the trailer he calls home one morning, when a ninety-year-old parrot arrives with a mysterious past and beakful of cryptic sayings -- such as "That which hath wings shall tell the matter." Convinced that heeding the bird's wisdom will lead him to answers about himself he so desperately seeks, Lyman combines his night job as a courtesy patrolman, circling the highway that loops...

While trying to establish her law office, Cézanne Martin gets engaged--but her fiancée disappears shortly after--survives a murder attempt on her life from Darlene Driskoll, and mourns the death of her father, whose lack of a will draws out lots of estranged relatives looking to cash in.

"After a devastating flood orphaned Noelle Brown, she thought her handsome and charming benefactor, Andrew Paige, could be the man of her dreams. So, why did his steely-eyed older stepbrother, Jared Dunn, make her heart race and her breath catch in her throat? Desperado turned lawman, Jared had come home to Fort Worth, Texas, ready to leave his dangerous past behond. The green-eyed, feisty young woman his stepbrother had taken in wasn't the gold...

Fort Worth and Dallas were rivals for the outstanding metropolis in the great Lone Star State; but to Jim Wayne, who knew Fort Worth as the end of the trail to which all the big ranches were sending their herds to sell them to the highest bidder, that town had the upper hand. With so much money changing hands, the town was a gathering place for all sorts of desperadoes. So when Wayne rode in with his longhorns, he found violence a constant companion....

"One last job. Former Pinkerton agent Talbot Roper has a begrudging respect for his old boss. When Allen Pinkerton dies, and his sons send for Roper to attend the funeral, he has no choice but to oblige them. But Pinkerton's sons, who now run the agency, want Roper to do more than pay his respects. They have a dangerous assignment that no man on their payroll can handle. Now Roper is headed to Fort Worth, Texas, where someone is sabotaging the Union...