Tulane has come home after seeking his fame and fortune outside of Last Chance. And he's brought a young lady with him. Boston-bred Sarah, who does does PR for Tulane's stock-car team, is a sweet girl--but she's tired of being good. And no one is better at breaking the rules than Tulane.

Disgraced dime novelist Kate Tenney fled the city that banned her latest book for a fresh start at a cattle ranch in the Arizona Territory. She hopes ranching turns out to be as romantic as she portrayed it in her novels. But what awaits her is a much harder life. There is no room for mistakes on a working cattle ranch in 1895, and Kate is ill-prepared for her new life. Having been abandoned by a string of men, Kate has no intention of ever marrying....

Lark is in Last Chance, South Carolina, looking into her father's past and stirring up trouble without meaning to ; Ruby Rhodes' son Stone, the chief of police, has his hands full trying to keep up with Lark as well as avoiding the town's matchmakers and their plans for Lark and Stone.

When Miranda Hunt sees the classified ad for an heiress to the legendary Last Chance Ranch, she knows assuming the identity of Annie Beckman is the perfect cover. As one of the finest agents for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, Miranda has been tasked with apprehending the Phantom - an elusive and notorious train robber thought to be hiding on the sprawling ranch. But she isn't the only one there with something to hide. Wells Fargo detective Jeremy...

"After a painful divorce, Savannah White wants nothing more than to find her happy place. So when she gets the chance to pack up her life--and her son--and move to the idyllic town where she spent childhood summers, she jumps at the opportunity. Last Chance is just as charming as she remembered. She's even invited to join the local book club, where talk soon turns to Savannah's plan to bring the ramshackle downtown movie theater back to life. A new...

Mike Taggart has always been willing to take a gamble. But these stakes are just way too high--there's no way he's prepared to become a legal guardian to his five-year-old niece. His only option is to head from Las Vegas to Last Chance to sort things out as quickly as possible. Problem is, he arrives to find an inconsolable little girl, her sick cat, and a gorgeous veterinarian he can't get out of his mind. Charlene Polk has two talents: healing sick...

Fire chief Ross Gardiner returns to Last Chance to start over after a difficult divorce, where he gets a second chance to make things work with antiques shop owner Sabina Grey, who stole his heart when they were teenagers.

The world is changing, and the West isn't as wild as it used to be. Trey Porterfield welcomes a new era of law and order--and the influx of settlers coming to the Arizona territory. But not everyone is willing to see the old ways change, and as the cattlemen and the herders take sides, a full-blown range war may be inevitable. There's only one way Trey can see to bring peace to his feuding neighbors. Marry the enemy. Nell Stokes is a young widow fighting...

Winnie, Ben, and Spence have just found Mike's compass in the dirt at an old abandoned motel in town. And worse, the empty getaway car from yesterday's bank robbery is sitting in the motel's courtyard. The Last Chance Detectives launch a desperate search for one of their own--but it's a race against time, and the odds are against them. A manhunt . . . the figure of a winged jaguar . . . flames in the desert sky . . . and a trail of clues lead out...

At the edge of a small desert town, where a B-17 sits next to an old diner, a mystery has begun to unfold. At first it was just a strange voice on an old radio. Then there's a robbery at the Ambrosia cultural museum--priceless Aztec relics are stolen. And Ben has an encounter in the desert that can only be described as out-of-this-world. When mystery lights begin to appear in Navajo Mesa, the local sheriff grows strangely silent about it all. But...