Two women discover a dead women when they arrive at the local flea market to open their booths. They decide to investigate the murder on their own because they don't believe the police arn't working too hard to solve it.

Willow is called to the dog kennel she owns by Detective Rundel, to tell her there is a dead body in her outdoor kennel. The dead woman is hiding from her drug-lord boyfriend, who she stole &50,00 from when she escaped him. There are several suspects until one suspect tells police who the murderer is. The guy terrorized Willow's family and her sister Arial's family. There are injuries and more murders before the guy is caught.

Anna realizes one morning when her husband wanders in at six am that she has had enough and tells him to leave. He has a crazy girlfriend who tries to steal the children and ultimately loses it and causes great harm to the family. The harassment leads to murder and injury to Anna when a bomb explodes in her driveway.

Faith Good wakes up with a feeling something bad will happen that day. Little does she know her husband, Dan will find the body of a woman dumped in one of his thousand-acre sunflower fields. Another body is found days later in someone else's fields. When the case is solved, human trafficking is involved.

Riva is a detective who decides to go to church after her husband's murder. Just as the service ended a madman entered the sanctuary and blindly shoots and injuries forty three people. Later it is discovered the gunman was after Riva because she was secretly investigating her husband's death.

Stories about women and girls who faced odds and rose above them.

Willow and her sister Arial are involved in yet another mystery in Carthage, Texas. A women who grew up in town, but left to pursue a country music star, changed her name and made multiple changes to her appearance. When Tyler Fremont refused to buy stolen songs from her, she determined to kill him at a concert in their home town. It was the first time Tiffany had returned home in ten years and knew no one would recognize her. The one murder resulted in a serial crime spree in east Texas a...

Do historians “write their biographies” with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they have made about their own research and writing as scholars. These authors, historians of American immigration and ethnicity, revisited family and personal experiences and reflect on how their lives helped shape their later scholarly ...