Police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is contacted to investigate the grisly murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of a woman accused of the crime. Lynn Martinson is dating the dead woman's ex-husband, and she and her boyfriend Chip Ralston have been charged. Ali is simultaneously drawn to the case of A.J. Sanders, a frightened teen with secrets of his own. He's the first to find the body in the Camp Verde desert when he goes to...

Covers the history of the Yavapai-Apache Nation in Arizona's Verde Valley.

In February 1864, a party of 17 men and two women left the security of the territorial capital at Prescott, Arizona, and headed east into the Verde Valley, homeland of the Yavapai and Apache. Drawn by the promise of ample water, rich bottomland, and lush grassland, the party established a farming and ranching community near the confluence of West Clear Creek and the Verde River. In spite of conflict with the Yavapai and Apache, the settlement survived,...

"Come sit with me as I share my stories. Some came from my journals. A few are from my Southwest travels. Others tell of people, animals, beauty, and my religious and philosophical musings. Some were previously published in a column called 'A Voice in the Wilderness' I wrote for my home town newspaper. Some are tragedies, but most tell of happy and humorous times- like a visit to a Las Vegas casino where Doris lost a quarter in a slot machine.."--...

"Camp Verde, Arizona where the dead don't rest. A gruesome discovery on the local high school football field leads the Camp Verde Marshal's Office into a complicated case. The clues are slowly unraveled by newcomer Deputy Wayne McFarland after circumstance throws him into the case with a closeness no man should know. Yet the deeper the police force delves into the case, the stranger the clues to the murderer's identity become as the body count continues...