US Park Ranger Series

Cameron MacGregor's lifelong dream was to become a US park ranger. In school, she'd earned the nickname Paula Bunyan. She knew more about the ecosystem of the forest than her teachers. Raised by her grandfather from the time she was nine years old, she'd come to appreciate the beauty and wonder of nature in the Alleghany Mountains of Pennsylvania. Only one boy looked beyond the un-female personage and saw the warmhearted, sweet girl she kept hidden from her classmates. Now, after twenty years, he's come back home to Laurel Heights. She's well trained and devoted her life to the job she loves, but is hesitant to act on the feelings she's harbored for Treig Taylor since high school. Could she risk him finding out about the secrets and guilt she's harbored all these years?  Treig John Taylor hadn't a clue what it was like to live a "normal" life. For the past eighteen years, he's worked undercover, associating with the slime of the earth. Darkness had grown inside him and he didn't know how to stop it from festering. His best friend and boss brings TJ in to save himself and offers Treig a job as head of security for the Laurel Heights Inn. He's reluctant at first but accepts the position for six months. There's more to the "temp" job than he anticipated, including getting reacquainted with US Park Ranger Cameron MacGregor.  The woman was heart-stopping beautiful, but a whole different class. Inside he was tainted and not worthy of her. He hadn't associated with a nice woman who wasn't part of an assignment, in a long time. Could he climb out of the darkness and turn his life around?  No matter what TJ does to try and live a normal life, someone from his past comes back, seeking revenge in a way he never saw coming. 

Lidia Cunningham has no memory of the first six years of her life.  Her adoptive parents provided a loving home but hadn't been forthcoming on information about her past.   As a well-respected fire marshal, she's made a personal commitment to investigate the cause of a fire and bring the ones responsible to justice.  When Blackwell Industries has unexplained fires, she discovers the remains of a body that, by all rights, should have been undetectable. This case is like no other and hits too close to home.  Eleven years ago, she had an affair with the President of Blackwell Industries.  It was one of the biggest mistakes of her life, but she was given the greatest gift, her son, Spencer. In retaliation to her bringing the arsonist to trial, someone burns down her house.  Before she can determine the identity of the victim, she receives threats against her child.  Her boss offers to put her up in a safe house, but she firmly rejects his offer.  She's capable of protecting her son.  On the run in a travel trailer with Spencer, and Albert Einstein, their wired-hair terrier, she is constantly looking over her shoulder. Kane Wallace is a US Park Ranger with a daunting past. The guilt over the loss of his friends has influenced the way he's lived his life the past fourteen years. While on medical leave due to a job injury, he agrees to do a favor for his uncle, who just happens to be Lidia Cunningham's boss.  He's not to tell her who he is because she's strong willed and will bolt if she knows someone is "watching" over her and Spencer. The wall Kane's built to keep love out of his life starts to crumble when he gets personally involved with his charges. He soon recognizes she could be the one who would accept his scars and troubled heart. He's torn between telling her who he is and protecting them from the men who have been following her every move.  Once she finds out who he is, she'll surely hate him for his deception.

Jordan Bishop is living her dream as a US Park Ranger in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation area. While patrolling the New Jersey side of the park, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the Delaware View House. This was once an Inn in the 1800s, but unfortunately fell victim to the Tocks Island Dam project that caused widespread devastation in the late 1960s on both sides of the Delaware River. She enjoys taking pictures with her old Hasselblad camera.  When she develops her latest photos, she's shocked to see what appears to be a ghost in the attic window. Then she starts having dreams about the same young girl.   Foster Scanlon's job as a Forensic Odontologist is currently on hold.  Recuperating from having injured his rotator cuff, he moves into the former bed and breakfast he inherited from his late aunt.  Milford, Pennsylvania, is on the cuff of the Delaware Water Gap, one of his favorite national recreation areas. He discovers boxes of pictures and journals from his eccentric Aunt Daisy.  The woman heavily protested the Tocks Island Dam project and made many enemies. He starts to question if her death, ruled a suicide, was accurate when he discovers threatening letters.  He also starts to have disturbing dreams about a soldier in the Union Army.   They'll have to work together to find answers, but first, Jordan will have to reveal the secrets she's been keeping from Foster.