Bent Northrop Memorial Library

"Piper Manning's about as tough as they come, she's had to be. She raised her siblings and they've thankfully flown the coop. All she has to do is finish fixing up the lake house her grandparents left her, sell it, and then she's free. When a massive storm hits, she runs into a tall, dark and brooding stranger, Camden Reid. There's a spark there, one that shocks her. Surprising her further, her sister and brother return, each of them holding their...

"They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they...

Ex-cowgirl and current sleuth Benni Harper makes a fast friend at her family reunion--Shelby Johnson, a young photography student from Chicago drawn to the West by her desire to capture it on film--but the friendship ends just as fast when she discovers Shelby dead the next day

When a stranger leaves Benni Harper his entire estate, she finds herself embarking on a journey that will lead her into danger and help her discover the secrets that were buried with her mother more than twenty years ago.