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Childhood friends. . . Adult adversariesRaised in a carnival until she is thirteen and then abandoned on the doorstep of her fundamentalist Christian grandparents, Sara Kramer has a loathing for scams. When former best friend Garth comes to town as a psychic healer, Sara vows to shut his business down if she detects even a whiff of swindle. She has barely begun her investigation when she becomes the target of a stalker. Then a rock with a note attached crashed through her living room window. The message: Mind your own business Garth says he is not responsible and offers his help. Can he be trusted, or is he behind the threats?

A locked house and a strangled woman.Town gossips say the sister did it.Crystal Sands Marshall is furious. The local historical society has chosen another family as the subject for a book on the town's beginnings. Crystal hires her own writer and then sets off to collect the necessary family records from her eccentric sister, Iris.When Iris, who has not left the house since their mother's death five years ago, fails to answer the door, Crystal breaks in. She finds Iris unconscious on the kitchen floor. Fearing her sister has attempted suicide, Crystal delays the sheriff's investigation until she can search the house and dispose of anything that might set local tongues wagging. She discovers Iris's diaries and learns her mother committed murder to protect the family name. As increasingly horrible secrets are revealed, Crystal is faced with the same choice: public ruin or murder. Is this a case of like mother, like daughter?

A boy's search for truth and what it means to be a man.Kansas Territory, 1859Ambrose Pierce has been doing a man's work in his father's blacksmith shop since he was ten. At fifteen, he is tired of being seen as a boy. As he struggles toward manhood, his new stepmother's lies about inappropriate actions toward her result in Ambrose being beaten and disowned by his father. While recovering from his injuries, Ambrose overhears a brief mention of something scandalous in his stepmother's past. With little beyond a place, New York City, and a name, Gerald Ward, Ambrose and half-sister Cordelia travel across country in search of the truth. Ambrose hopes the truth will free his father from his stepmother's influence and they can be father and son again. Before embarking on his journey, Ambrose visits his mother's grave to say goodbye. Throughout his travels, he consults the book of Aesop's fables she made for him, remembering her love and being guided by the life lessons she taught him. Hiram's Boy is the third book in the Pierce Family Saga series. Visit piercefamilysaga.com for updates on book four, a novel set during the Civil War.