Harkin County has its share of skeletons. But when a previously hidden skeleton surfaces in Bone Creek, the assignment falls to the Special Operations division at the FBI. Buried deep in the section of California known as The Free State of Jefferson, the local office doesn't want anything to do with Harkin County.Special Agent Nash Running Bear has her misgivings about returning to the small town she grew up in. But she only wants to think of two reasons she is right for the invest...

When someone threatens a congressman's family and career, he seeks the FBI's best. They give Special Agent Nash Running Bear no choice.She scoffs at the babysitting job in the high desert of New Mexico, but it becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse. And the cats are four international assassins. So to get the job done, Nash reaches out to her alphabet team. Hopefully, in time…

Hooker is a survivor. He reigns from high in the cab of a custom-built giant tow truck that is as powerful as the heart that he keeps hidden under his "rebel without a cause" skin.Cruising the highways and streets in the heady days of the early Silicon Valley, Hooker lives out his life with one hand on the steering wheel and one hand on the gearshift. Four radios, two of which are illegal, are his ears. Life is cherries as he tours his fiefdom with a one-eyed battle-torn oversized o...

Night jumps are scary.Finding bodies is scarier.But finding you're in a bombing range with unexploded bombs…When a hot shot crew, practicing high altitude/low opening parachute jumps in the desert, lands on two chest freezers, it's just an interesting surprise. Until one of the crew discovers the Air Force accidentally dropped them in the boom-boom section of an active bombing range.As the jump master calls in a high-wire dust-off, one of the crew opens the ...

The lifeless form of a spaceman lies sprawled amidst the remains of a ghost town's saloon.The local sheriff wants nothing to do with it. He doesn't want to get that close to Ship Rock and his troublesome mother. But he's willing to go gather the body and ship it to the FBI.Nash rolls her eyes as she mutters, "Who else?"But the body is only the sleeper car on the crazy train to You-Didn't-See-That-Coming.Nothing is as it seems—especially when...

"We weren't born her children. And she was black before she was white."1905, New Orleans. Dr. Walter Humphrey, a man of mixed race, must keep the dangerous secret of passing for white to survive. Alongside his lifelong companion Leatha, and a young woman named Betsy, they form an unconventional household, where they raise their brilliant daughter, Hannah Maria Rose Murphy.But it is their brilliant daughter, Hannah, whose story will capture your hea...

A shooting in New York is a daily occurrence—unless it's an upscale elderly woman in a high-end car. Then maybe not daily**…**Nash is taking care of other business, like presenting a class at Quantico for Women in Federal Law Enforcement group members. The lessons taught take on extra meaning when another killing is brought up.This one is rural in Upstate New York.And it wasn't a hunting accident.But this is just th...

Fort Mojave, CA—Ft. Mojave citizens woke horrified this morning to learn that they discovered nineteen bodies in a nearby compound. The alleged victims are possibly members of a religious cult known for mass suicides. Investigations are ongoing.FBI Agent Nash Running Bear has more important things to focus on than the daily media frenzy. That is, until her work takes her to Fort Mojave, and an anonymous caller on a talk radio, claims that what appears to be a suicide pact is actual...

Just as not all mysteries are killings, and not all killings are mysteries, not all mystery stories are told the same way. These are the stories of an ordinary group of people involved in extraordinary circumstances. Hooker, Hieronymus Octavius O'Keefer, is a tow truck driver with a collected family of retired detectives, cops, radio dispatchers, blind disc jockey, nurses, and a twenty-pound cat named Box.Death on a DimeA classic who-done-it of a serial kil...

Concealed in his jacket are ingots of gold; he just doesn't remember why.A young girl running from an abusive foster home kidnaps an older biker with a mystery for a past.Leaving the mining town in Colorado and crossing state lines, anything can happen.What neither is looking for or expecting is friendship.But in the cold of the desert night, life lessons can go both ways—even if they are not about a million dollars in gold.Growing u...

An old buddy reaches out to Nash from the other side, through her spirit world. He's desperate for her help to track down his granddaughter. Nash, not fully convinced it wasn't just a figment of her sleep-deprived mind, initiates a deep dive in the dead of night. But this time, it was bypassing her usual routes. The Feds have her back on New Mexico soil with an armored truck heist mission, but it's got a devilish twist. All leads hit dead ends, unraveling to events she never saw coming. Th...

Tribal police discover a body spread on the Four Corners monument.When the head rolls away from the investigator's touch, they call the FBI.San Francisco Medical Examiner's laboratory gets the body, and Muna calls Washington D.C. Even though Nash is already involved in a case, they assign the unusual body case to her and Powder.The more she investigates the unusual nature of the body, the more personal it becomes.Until a bomb explodes...