Cardwell Christmas crime scene: Dee Anna Justice's world had turned upside down. She'd believed her convict father was her only living relative. Now Walter Justice, fearing for his daughter's safety, urges her to seek out her cousins in Montana. Calling in a decades-old debt, he also enlists Beau Tanner to protect her. Trust doesn't come easy to DJ. But the warm, embracing family she finds at Cardwell Ranch softens her suspicious nature. Still, she resents the bodyguard her dad foists on her, despite their fiery attraction...Secret of deadman's coulee: When Sheriff Carter Jackson gets the call, he embarks on an all-out search for the woman who once shared his bed--and whose memory still torments him. Finding Eve alive only intensifies his yearning. But her shocking discovery in the Missouri badlands soon thrusts her into greater peril. Eve came home to Montana to unearth her family's secrets. The dead body she found aboard a decades-old downed plane could be a vital clue. Except someone wants to keep the truth buried. Her best hope is the sensual lawman whose betrayal she can't forgive... even as reigniting passion tempts her to trust him one last time.