The Gillian Jones Series

Gillian Jones is a thirty-three-year-old probation officer. A few years previous, she survived a car accident that shattered her ankle and her first marriage. Now she's remarried and walking again and life would be perfect—if only she could get pregnant. Fortunately, one of the Jackson County commissioners from Bend Brook, Nebraska, hatches a plan that will enable Gillian and her husband, Clint, to afford the next step in fertility treatment: Howard Mehrman wants Gillian to locate the biological parents of his adopted daughter, Caroline. With only one concrete fact to go on—Caroline was left at a Colorado monastery in 1967—Gillian heads for Aspen. Unfortunately, no one at the monastery remembers any such event—or so they say. When a monk goes missing and the woman who is sleeping in the bed reserved for Gillian is murdered, Gillian has second thoughts. She can't turn back, though, since most of Bend Brook has taken bets on whether she'll be able to solve the case. As she uncovers past events that lead to the discovery of Caroline's true identity, Gillian realizes that sometimes the perfect family might be the one you already have. . .

Probation officer Gillian Jones knows that someone or something drove her client, 17-year-old Jessica Coffers, to abandon her newborn baby. Even though Jessica is now raising the rescued infant, some people in Bend Brook, Nebraska still consider her a cold-blooded killer and they are pressuring the county attorney to file additional charges. Jessica's guardians want to put the baby up for adoption and Gillian would love to adopt the child – but not until she understands the circumstances surrounding his birth. Bob Johanson has cancer and needs some answers about his deceased daughter before he dies. Over twenty years ago someone attempted to rape his daughter and used her childhood nickname of JoJo. Now Bob wants Gillian to identify the would-be rapist. Gillian considers the request a lost cause until details of the assault reveal that Bend Brook might be harboring a serial rapist. When the county attorney is murdered, Jessica is the prime suspect, but Gillian knows the killer sought old police reports that would identify the rapist. As Gillian struggles to uncover the truth, she finds the questions painful and the answers deadly.

The patriarch of the Jacksonville commune has died, and taking his place is his mean and narcissistic son, Beau Baxter. Probation officer Gillian Jones is busy with her own life – an impending visit from the father she hasn't seen in twenty years and the unexpected departure of her foster daughter – the last thing she needs is the added burden of keeping Beau on the right side of the law. When Gillian's courthouse nemesis, Dot, accuses Beau of forcing her sister, Grace, to stay in Jacksonville against her will, Gillian agrees to an unannounced probation visit. While Dot is with Grace, Gillian hears the rifle shot that ends Beau's life. As the clues mount and the past reveals itself, Gillian is desperate to catch a killer before the murderer strikes again.

A mistake in the lab finds another woman carrying probation officer Gillian Jones' baby. Gillian desperately wants the child, but when her ex-husband, Vincent, is murdered, Gillian is considered a suspect. Determined to clear her own name and find the true killer, Gillian digs into the events that led to Vincent's death. In the process, her own past collides with the present and she finds herself in a chilling game of cat and mouse with the killer.

Nebraska probation officer Gillian Jones is finally expecting a family of her own, but that hasn't diminished her attachment to her former foster children, Jessica and Logan. Gillian's delighted that Jessica and Logan are spending the Thanksgiving holiday in Bend Brook – until a body is found and Jessica is suspected of murder. As Gillian uncovers layers of the murderer's motivation, she also reveals a hole in Jessica's alibi. Gillian desperately wants to prove Jessica's innocence, but doing so will test her own principles of right and wrong.