In a mystery as twisty as the Rio Grande, Loveda Brown takes a fateful Texas two-step on her journey West and has to hunt down a rattler. Señora Loveda Dunn's newly found marital bliss is interrupted when she discovers the maid sleeping in the bridal bed instead of making it.

When Loveda Brown arrives in the tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet theWild West of 1912, she is running from her husband. But when a body turns up the next day, she realizes she might have worse things following her… that cold, clenched fist holds something that forces Loveda to stay in Idyllwild and use all of her wits to stop another murder from happening. Probably her own.

Loveda Brown has inherited more than a tiny hotel in Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, she’s inherited trouble. A pretentious lawyer, a Boy Scout troop invasion, insufferable suffragettes, and a pair of pompous honeymooners are about to interrupt her best laid plans. Between murder and a kidnapping, the pressure is on for Loveda to clean up the town she longs to call home.

When opera singer André Bernardi arrives in the tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, mysterious accidents follow him. Can Loveda Brown prevent his murder while dealing with the advances of a passionate artist, and will a zealous paleontologist dig up more than he expected? A shocking package on the stagecoach might hold all the answers.

In the tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, Loveda Brown's guests stir up a perfect storm. One has a secret, one has a plan, and one has a grudge worth killing over. As she unravels the truth, Loveda must betray the people she loves in order to protect them, and nothing less than a local legend can light her way to redemption.

A wedding in Idyllwild is threatened when visions of the future are clouded by secrets of the past. Loveda Brown is a bridesmaid in the tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, but with the wedding only three days away, a guest drops face first into the chicken salad. Is it misdiagnosis or murder? Between a fortune teller, a nosy newspaper reporter, four physicians, and an overbearing aunty, Loveda wanders a maze of deceit to uncover the killer before the bride pays the ultimate price for a secret in the groom’s past.