When beautiful actress Kit Masters returns to her native Aspen to make a film with famed actor/producer John Travis, a role that could make her a star, she encounters handsome, widowed rancher Tom Bannon, an old flame who had married someone else.

PI Sunny Randall of Boston searches for a rich man's daughter who ran away to be a prostitute. After finding her Sunny must guard her because the girl is on a hit list. She witnessed a conspiracy involving state government.

For decades-in China and in San Francisco-Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept each other's confidences, but those secrets are about to be revealed. Convinced that she is dying, Helen decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of hidden truths-not only hers, but those of Winnie and of Winnie's daughter, Pearl. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss, and trust-about the...

Two young people die violently on deadly Calder Moor, and detectives Lynley and Havers discover that neither the victims nor the suspects are who they appear to be.

Emotionally scarred Paul Giacomin begs Spenser, a tough-guy private eye, to help rescue his mother, and the request sets Spenser off on an emotional and dangerous journey.