**Mail order wife, Rebecca Smallwood leads a boring life on her wealthy husband's Wyoming ranch. She deals with his daily remarks and annoyance toward her inability to provide him with a child--the one reason he paid a high price for her and the one requirement of her new life. **Brantley Mitchell has never known a day without danger. Born into outlaw life, fighting for survival is all he knows--that's why being hold up with a busted arm has made him more than a little riled. Then the gang rides in with the latest money making scheme.. a hostage that's all his to watch over. **Rebecca is terrified of her captor. Not for any of the logical reasons such as his ability to cause her a great deal of pain or kill her. No, she's terrified because of the desire that flares to life within her every time she looks into those dark gray eyes. **How will Rebecca survive her captivity and how will she ever return to her husband and look him in the eye after she's had a taste of captive romance?

Frieda Lockner has a secret: she hears echoes of the dead. Caught in the tension between her personal misgivings and this psychic ability, she seeks redemption by using her 'gift' to help Kriminalkommissar Tobias Schluter solve the most brutal crimes. But with a serial killer known as The Stick Man haunting nighttime Münster, Frieda must face her darkest fears. And on top of everything, she has a poltergeist wreaking havoc at home.