A septuagenarian business owner evaluates her grandchildren as possible successors to her multi-million-dollar beauty empire, including New York movie studio editor Daisy, womanizing sports PR representative Matt and religious Legal Aid lawyer Raquel.

While investigating his sister's death, Ben Vicksburg sees patterns that don't fit and clues similar to other unsolved murders in the evidence, but his obsession leads the police to suspect him and makes him a target of the real killer.

"When bankruptcy forces widow Susanna Jenkins to follow her family to New Mexico, what they see as a failure she sees as a fresh start. Owen Turner is immediately attracted to Susanna, but he's afraid of opening up his heart again, especially as painful memories are stirred up. But if Owen can't face the past, he'll miss out on his greatest chance at love"--

Twenty-five-year-old Isabella Garcia returns home to a small silver-mining town in the California desert and receives news that permanently changes her comfortable life.

Carolina May - Carly to her friends - never knew her biological family. Ironic, considering she is a successful family historian. Recently hired by the eccentric aunt of New Mexico's multimillionaire Governor Quintrell, the future looks bright. Until things start going wrong…and Carly begins to learn the true meaning of fear. Daniel Duran made a career out of fighting for other people's beliefs - principles they'd given their lives for. But now

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Newly elected sheriff Sunshine Vicram is challenged to prove herself when her New Mexico community becomes the center of a manhunt, and a missing persons case, which is complicated by her feelings for a childhood crush.