New Mexico

#67-9 years ago,Winnie Porter gave up her son,and now she would like to see him one last time. She goes to stay at the old adobe home on the land where he is living. Little does she know how many opportunities she will have to see Robbie,and the uproar she causes in the life of his adoptive dad,widower,Aidan Black.

Beth is telephone operator in 1898 in Roswell, New Mexico. She's also ward to 2 young children that belonged to her fiancé but then he up and died on her. Now, she has to try to convince Jeb, her fiancé's brother, that the children will do best left with her. It shouldn't be too hard though, because Jeb has a reputation of having wanderlust with no penchant for settling down.

Jeb doesn't think he's ready to settle down to family life, either. He wants to sell his brother's farm, but it's in such a state of disrepair, he decides to fix it up first.

Elena knows she is adopted, and loves her adopted mother very much.  However, secrets from the past are stirring.  When the employee in their Santa Fe antique shop is murdered, Elena finds herself in danger as well, not only from the killer, but from her own heart.  Detective Daniel Stillwater is too handsome for comfort, and a devoted father to his young daughter.  Will Daniel be able to find the killer in time?  And who is stalking Elena? 

Kat Rawlings' life has always been overpowered by her four older brothers who raised her after their parents died but now she's decided that whether they like it or not

All is not well at Our Lady of Hope Monastery in Bernalillo, New Mexico.  It seems as though the sisters have an enemy.  First it's trouble with the computer as they manage the website of NexCen company.  Then a car deliberately crashes into their gate, ruining it.  Not having the money to repair the gate, it seems like a Godsend when John Gutierrez, the man who bought the winery next door, wants to hire Sister Agatha to find his niece.  Since Gutierrez is planning to sell out to a developer, he holds out as additional bait a wide buffer zone between the monastery and the proposed three-story condominiums.  But all is not as it seems, and Sister Agatha has her work cut out for her!

Eleven years ago, Detective Jack Grant's sister, Emma, was a victim in a series of Christmastime murders. The prime suspect was acquitted and has dropped off the map, and the case has gone cold. 

Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston

Audio book read by  Scott Sowers 

2005, 5 CDs 

What Makes A Family? by Nicole Foster 

• I love this one.

Sep 2007, 243 pgs