Sandra Brannan has once again masterfully delivered on her latest compelling installment in the Liv Bergen Mystery Series. Liv has recently returned to work at the FBI from a forced leave of absence after witnessing the brutal murder of her boyfriend, Jack Linwood. As she painfully emerges from her grief, Liv comes face-to-face with two facts: She did not truly love Jack, and she does love her long-time colleague and mentor Streeter Pierce. But she...

"It was perhaps the most infamous murder case in state history. Ladonna Mathis was shot twice in the head at point-blank range inside the family's metal shed serving as their makeshift home. Two of her three children, ages 2 and 4, were also shot in the head. The brutality of the killings shocked the state and set off a frenzy of law enforcement activity. Despite its intensity, the investigation never found the murderer or the murder weapon. Though...

"I run for a tapestry of reasons. Woven in the fabric of my being is a need to control some facet of my life. To subjugate a truculent body to my will, to prove myself every day against a latent temptation/desire to sleep in, over-eat; succumb to the rigors of aging." - taken from the chapter I'm Hooked! from Running On... by Elaine Doll-Dunn.

Growing up ‘Guy Doll’s daughter”’ was a privilege and a challenge. Not a sobriquet for the faint hearted...we learned to strive, thrive, and survive a legacy lived. With ‘living on the edge’ modeled and endorsed, we had the courage and support to do what we dared, with what we had, where we were; and be ready for either a badge or a band aide...at least we tried. This book attempts to capture the essence of the man in a few of his succinct...

Even at the tender age of nine, Anna Ingevich knows her life will never be the same when her mom, Karin, dies at the age of thirty. Anna's father, Bjorn, is a hard man but that is what living in Norway requires. Life does not get any easier for her when he marries Marion, who already has three children of her own. As the days go on, she begins to ask herself one question, over and over: How do I escape Norway and get to America? Iver Olson loves his...

As Liv Bergen investigates the long-ago murder of her niece, she uncovers a well-guarded secret—and stumbles into one the most prolific killer she’s faced yet Once an amateur sleuth, Liv “Boots” Bergen has now found her footing as an official FBI agent. It should be Liv’s dream career—she’s working closely with a bureau legend, Agent Streeter Pierce, as well as the exotic Agent Jack Linwood, with whom she shares a growing romance. Liv...

August 18, 1862. On the Sioux reservation in southwestern Minnesota, Indians desperate for food and freedom rise up against whites in the region. Sarah Wakefield, the wife of a physician, is taken captive with her two babies. Their fate falls into the hands of the warrior Caske, with whom she has slim acquaintance. As war rages, little does she know how entwined their lives will become. Beneath the Same Stars is the gripping story of two people, caught...

A prophesied girl on a black stallion, a boy falconer and a Barbarian Prince share destinies with a deadly female warrior/mystic. But not happily ever after. After the fall of the glorious matriarchal Ambri Empire an infant girl named Tyme mysteriously appears in the stables of a magnificent borderland castle, now part of a Barbarian Kingdom. She learns to ride Spike, a notorious mountain ibex, is taught the sword by the castle champion, and spiritually...

When Eliza Blue first moved to northwestern South Dakota, she didn't plan on staying long. After all, the singer/songwriter had spent most of her adulthood hopping from place to place. But then she fell in love with a Perkins County rancher -- and the land, the wind, the livestock and the giant blue expanse of a West River sky. Now the former urbanite tackles her daily duties on the ranch -- bottle-feeding bum lambs, milking her dairy cow, Rita, and...