Its Thanksgiving in Pecan Springs, and China is planning to visit her mother, Leatha, and her mothers husband, Sam, who are enthusiastically embarking on a new enterprise-turning their former game ranch into a vacation retreat for birders. Shes also looking forward to catching up with a friend, game warden Mackenzie "Mack" Chambers, who was recently transferred to the area. But Leatha calls with bad news: Sam has had a heart attack. How will Leatha...

Widow Lou Jean Perry finds her life turned upside down by the arrival of her new neighbors, the Sanders family, with their thirteen-year-old daughter Kayla, whose growing relationship with Lou Jean could reveal old secrets that bind both families together.

Smoke Jensen was once the fastest draw in the West. He was also tired of taking on every tinhorn upstart out to make a reputation. So Jensen hung up his .45s for good--or so he thought. Called to Texas, Jensen must help rancher Richard King face an insane former Union captain who intends to burn the King ranch to the ground.