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A mysterious phone call throws sensible single mom Beth Reilly into a whirlwind she never expected. Beth's twin brother Bill had gotten himself into quite a mess this time, and she wasn't sure she could get him out of it. When Phillip, an attractive federal agent assigned to bring Bill in, decides to go against orders and help Beth rescue her erstwhile brother, an unlikely partnership forms. From small-town Texas to the nation's capital, the pair must find Bill before time runs out. But can Beth save her brother from himself, and protect herself from Phillip's charms?

Lynda had always prided herself on never doing anything on the spur of the moment, but when she was awakened one morning by a mysterious phone call she decided to throw that idea away. Jackson Martin her handsome neighbor was knee deep in strange happenings and Lynda was foolish enough to follow him and he was foolish enough to let her. Jackson knew he had to help his parents after his dad's multi-million formula was stolen. He was no detective but with all the clues he had and the help of his sexy neighbor he felt he could get the formula back. When he was almost killed in an automobile ...

International criminal Abul, "the Evil One", has returned. Now, CIA agents Marilyn and Kenneth, a husband and wife team, find themselves on a manhunt for the terrorist and his accomplices in Mexico. When Kenneth pulls his team together to go to Mexico, it becomes clear that Abdul is still a dangerous threat to everyone. Five years earlier, Abdul had captured Marilyn and attempted to take her as his consort. Now, Marilyn is on a quest with Kenneth to finish what was started and save Abdul's next victim: Carlotta Hernandez. Tall with coal-black, long hair like Marilyn, Marilyn has no doubt ...

Katie Jo couldn't believe it when her best friend, Chelsie Johnson, called and told her that the Johnson's Drug Store had been robbed. Neither could she believe the rest of the events that began to talk place in the small north east Texas town of Littleton. No one seemed to understand. Things like this didn't happen here. The sheriff was determed he was going to show all of the people that he was in charge and could get the job done because he was possitive he knew exactly who had committed the robbery. He was sure it was Chelsie's boyfriend who was behind all the problems that was taking ...

The year 1958: Communism is alive and well in America. They are trying to infiltrate every area from the schools to businesses. In a small town like Weatherford, Texas, the normal people don't realize how terrible the Communist can be. Connie Dawson doesn't know anything about Communism. Clyde Finley fought against them in the Korean War, but even he is unaware how dangerous they can be. All Connie knows is that her best friend from high school made a new friend five years ago and she is dead. All Clyde knows is that Kelly Jenkins escaped from a Korean Prison Camp and now he is dead. Clyde ...

No one had ever been able to tell Moya what to do, but suddenly, she was no longer having things her own way. Had she finally met her match? Was this latest victim of her wiles too tenacious to let go when she wanted him to? Ron Douglas wanted a marriage, a family, to build a life with someone he loved. She promised him everything and he wanted so desperately to believe her. But could he? Could he protect his son?

Ashton is having trouble again and Mary Jane Wilford is coming back to town just in time to be in the middle of it. The thing is she has problems of her own. She left behind a secret that she doesn’t want anyone to know, especially her parents. While she struggles with her faith or lack of it and starting a new job as an elementary school teacher her past comes back to haunt her in the person of Adam Collins. He claims if she will just help him he will disappear from her life and no one needs to know anything about their time together in Denton, Texas. She lost her trust in him some time ...

1958 The Cold War is up and running. The arms race is in full swing. The U. S. is in a race against the Soviet Union and only time would tell who will win. The race has reached out and grabbed Weatherford, Texas and Mary Waters. Mary is oblivious, she just knows that her brother and his wife were killed and she is now the sole guardian of her six year old nephew. No one was able to find the one who killed Luke Waters’ parents and three years later Mary figured they never will. But suddenly she seemed to be in the middle of a cold war of her very own. The FBI is always trying to figure out...

The 1950's were a time of Rock N Roll music, Elvis, and poodle skirts. It was also a time of innocence, but all was not innocent as Darlene Hamilton and her friend Cecelia Scott found out on the night they went to Chiefs, a bar just across the Parker County line. Suddenly they were caught up in a murder and a feud between a mobster and a local owner of an illegal gambling house.Jeffery Swanson, a FBI agent, knew all wasn't innocent, but neither did he have all the answers. He liked the look of Darlene, in fact he wanted to get to know her better, but he also knew he needed to keep his ...

SPIES IN WEATHERFORD, TEXAS! It didn’t seem possible. After all this is 1958; not World War II, there didn’t seem to be any reason for spies anymore, but Carl Forester is dead. Jamie Forester and her mom have to live with that knowledge. Jamie would miss her brother, but she isn’t going to miss all the strange people who begin to show up asking about the letters her brother had in his possession. When she found the letters, what could she do with them? She certainly wouldn’t turn them over to people clamoring for them. Maybe she could speak with Chief Deputy Fisk about them. After ...

THE YEAR IS 1958, ROCK ‘N ROLL IS NEW, FAMILIES ARE STILL CLOSE AND MOST HOMES CONSIST OF A FATHER AND A STAY-AT HOME MOTHER. Kathleen’s family is like that. She even works for her father who is a private investigator. Her secret dream is to become a private investigator also. When Travis Honeycutt walks in, will she get her chance? Travis Honeycutt is a CPA working for Summertime Construction. He came to see if someone will help him figure out whom in the Company has put $5,000 in his checking account. Is someone trying to make it appear that he is embezzling funds from the company? He...

Harmony Miller had lived in Ashton, Texas all of her life. It was a small northeast Texas town where nothing ever happened. Then one morning she came to work at the city hall where she was the secretary and found her boss, Mayor Maurita Sloane, dead. That was bad enough, but then a city councilman turned up dead and all of these deaths appeared to point to Harmony as the murderer. Sheriff Geoffrey Harper wanted to believe Harmony was innocent. After all he didn't want to think he had fallen in love with a cold blooded killer. But no one in the little northeast Texas town knew anything they ...

Have you ever wanted something more from life than your hum-drum eight to five existence? Marilyn had. She wanted more from life than teaching grade schooler's how to read and write, but as time went along she could feel the net pulling tighter around her. It was encircling her and she had to escape. She thought when she escaped to Europe and teamed with Kenneth Fisher, a C.I.A agent, she had escaped the net. But another net was falling around her and this net threatened her very life. His name was Abdul and evil seemed to emit from his very pores. He was like a snake ready the strike and ...

The world is a small place even in as large a state as Texas. Kathleen Bellamy finds that out when she talks her niece, Cecile Bellamy, to come with her to Irving where she has accepted a teaching position as an English Professor at the Dallas County Community College at Irving. She had just wanted Cecile to get away from Ashton after her ordeal with Jo Smith and her sidekick Carl Smith. In one of her classes she realizes that one of her students is the daughter of her old love. She had lost track of him after their break up and didn’t know where he had ended up. It came as a shock to her...

Lynda had always prided herself on never doing anything on the spur of the moment, but when she was awakened one morning by a mysterious phone call she decided to throw that idea away. Jackson Martin her handsome neighbor was knee deep in strange happenings and Lynda was foolish enough to follow him and he was foolish enough to let her. Jackson knew he had to help his parents after his dad's multi-million formula was stolen. He was no detective but with all the clues he had and the help of his sexy neighbor he felt he could get the formula back. When he was almost killed in an automobile ...

Amanda was exited about her first vacation since she had gotten out of college. The only problem was she appeared to have gotten involved with somethin sinister. A man was following her everywhere she went and then he tried to drown her. She could not figure out what she had stumbled into. David Wilson wanted to protect Amanada but every time he tried something bad would happen. While they were at the Mayan ruins Amanada disappears and David is sure someone is going to use her for a sacrifice to the Mayan gods. He hopes he will be able to find her before this happens.

1958 The world of computers is on the technical cutting edge of the future or are they? Willis Thurman and his friends don’t think so. They have developed what they are pretty sure is a revolutionary modem and are eager to sell it to someone who will develop it and make them a lot of money. Willis doesn’t want that money at the cost of his friend Eric’s life, but it looks as though it might cost that. When Willis and Jason, the other friend, find the prototype and the schematics have been stolen and by Eric’s new girlfriend, Willis’ problem is that he can’t ask Eric, his friend ...

It’s never a dull moment for the Hamilton girls, Roberta being the youngest, can’t let her siblings get the best of her. While she and her friends are out for some Labor Day fun on Weathrford Lake, she and her current boyfriend go for a walk and run across a dead body. Her father tells her she is too young to be hunting killers, but she is excited to be involved in her very own murder mystery. That is until Henry Miller, Roberta’s new boyfriend, gets almost killed. Henry really doesn’t care who killed the con-man, but he does care about Roberta and he wants to be close to her, so if...

Patricia Ann Hamilton had just graduated from North Texas College in Denton, Texas, and to kill some time until her teaching job at Travis Elementary in Weatherford, Texas started, she had taken a job cleaning an old run down house between Weatherford and Millsap. Little did she realize that ‘kill’ would be the operative word for her job. Stanley Lewis, Patricia Ann’s ex-boyfriend, shows up and helps her out not only with the cleaning, but in helping solve the murders that seemed to be pilling up. He is hoping to rekindle their romance, but Patricia Ann is uncertain that she is ready ...