Rita Hestand

When the local town drunk sees a murder committed on Boot Hill on Halloween night, will anyone pay any attention to his story? Sheriff Joe Grubbs, though skeptical, investigates....

Jeremy Michael Myers was my friend. We walked home from school together. Then one day, everything changed, and I had to decide if Jeremy was still my friend....

There'd been several killings in Melville. Unusual killings, no witnesses, no clues, and no suspects. Sheriff Jim Bonner was having a time trying to narrow his search down....

Emily Carrington was running away from her controlling Uncle and overbearing fiancé. When she met Cole Morgan, he told her he didn't allow unmarried women....

Bonnie McDaniel had spent the last four years raising her brothers and sister after a tragic accident killed her parents....

Jeb and Hoot get more than they bargained for when they trade horses with an Indian village....

Callie Evans was hanging around the wrong people, she was going to get into trouble if she kept it up. Gil Sutton had liked Callie all her life, but she had such a stubborn streak. Somehow he had to protect her from herself. And considering Joe Boggs was now after her for the bank money, that was going to be a full time job....

Julie was new in school...again! She was so tired of always being new and having to make new friends everywhere she went....

Sam Tanner buried a man hanging from a tree the day he met Riley Morgan. He could tell from the moment he met her that she was trouble. After all, she was white and he was black....

Ray Connor knew all the guys would raze him about Kelly Price saving him from the burning building. He'd take it in his stride. From the moment she walked into the station, taking the job as his backup partner, he knew he had to fight even harder not to fall for Kelly....

Daniel Connor accepts an assignment to protect a senator's daughter from a drug lord. Her father suspects that she's romantically involved with this man. But he doesn't have all the facts. Gabby is out to save the drug lord's son, Tony....

Jax is a bassett hound that loves to sniff things. He forgets about things when he's sniffing. One day, he wanders off from home, and before he knows it, it's dark and he's lost....

Kelly Webster had buried herself in her phone since her father died in Afghanistan. So when her mother made her get out and join a club, she headed for Yosemite National Park on a backpacking tour....

Victor Frank is no ordinary killer. For one, he kills women with his bare hands. When he kills John T.'s mother and tells him he's "better off without her," John T. swears he'll track him down....

Mother Hen's eggs were missing. She was so upset. Willy was upset too. Who could have taken her eggs?...

Ben forgot his mother's birthday, but he was tired of giving her the same old home-made cards every year. He wanted to give his mother something nice like his brother and sister had....

When Tina finds her friend, Jennifer, on the bathroom floor at school, sick and crying, she wants to help her. Jennifer tells her she's pregnant with Zach's baby....

Tina's brother is quitting basketball, but why, he loves the game? Tina suspects something is up, and she gets an earful one afternoon after school. Mario is being bullied. What can she do?...

Willy discovers Halloween and meets a ghost....

Every girl wants the most popular boy in school to notice her. But Tina was having a hard time getting Zach Taylor to pay any attention to her. Zach liked Jennifer, the cheerleader....