Inspector Hugo Sutherland makes a surprise visit just as Alexandra is leaving on the train to Baltimore for Rebecca's wedding. He divulges shocking news of her supposed late father and she becomes the messenger to disclose her father's secrets to John, Rebecca and family. When visiting the Reynolds Plantation in S.C., Alex's curiosity gets the better of her and she enters a forbidden, locked room, and confronts the ghost of the late Brenda Connor Reynolds. Riding the high seas to the Island of Bimini in the Bahamas aboard her uncle's ship, the Spice Queen, Alex finds out the sea is in her blood and explores the tropics with the handsome and passionate J.W. Reynolds. Is he the cool and collected bachelor that she thinks he is or does he fall in love with the blonde, sensual beauty he knows as Vicky?

Victoria Alexandra Highland loves two men, J.W. Reynolds and Marshal Mac McClellan. One has proposed and one she wishes would. With both, she experiences bonds of desire. With J.W. out of town, Mac McClellan joins her for Thanksgiving. Sleigh rides, slow dancing and hot searing nights clarify the difference between love and in love. Madam Grace Talbot needs to take leave of the Good Hour brothel and entrusts Vicky to manage her business. During her stay, there's a series of dramatic events, including murder. Vicky travels to Denver for her brother John's wedding and spends Christmas with her family. Just when she thinks that Marshal McClellan may be back in her life, the unexpected beauty named Elizabeth VanBuren arrives on scene. When things begin to settle down, Phillip Bouvier, McClellan's brother-in-law, escorts Victoria to Durango, where New Year's Eve brings another surprise. Meanwhile, Inspector Hugo Southerland continues the hunt for Dr. Frances Highland. Victoria takes possession of the brass box, the key to Dr. Frances Highland and James Brody's nefarious secrets.

The second book in the series Let the Wildflowers Bloom, brings forth a stunning blue-eyed beauty, a proud and resourceful young woman of eighteen years as she makes choices to survive in a western boomtown, Durango, Colorado, in the 1890's while the price of silver collapses. She becomes a scarlet lady at the Good Hour bordello. Victoria Alexandra Highland is her name. They call her Vicky at the bordello and Alex outside its walls. She meets two unforgettable men, Mac McClellan and J.W. Reynolds, and falls in love. Decisions she makes drive her to ambitious excursions and her life's transformation is unpredictable. She learns early on that life can change within one breath.

SARAH MARGARET MATHIESON, a "Southern Belle," is at age sixteen forced to become self-reliant. Her life changes drastically from the affluent politeness of southern family culture to the shocking crudeness of death, destruction and mayhem of 1862 Savannah, Georgia. Her true love, a young Confederate soldier, disappears while a barrage of Union cannon fire claims the lives of her parents. Grief stricken and forlorn, she sacrifices love for security by marrying an older man, who moves them to Chicago to raise a family, and then on to Colorado. Traveling, they experience the raw, crude, unsettled lawless territories of the west. Her un-daunting character triumphs as she faces the challenge to balance her desires with her obligations. After two decades, she's never stopped longing for her beloved Savannah but fate has another door for her to open. It is a story of true love broken, passionate dreams dismantled and life threatening events that prove her mettle.