Private Detective Jason Black with his wife, Patty, and their son, Jay, have returned to their log home in the Adirondack Mountain Hamlet of of Old Forge and Detective Black is busy working on routine check cases, when he receives a telephone call from Private Investigator Wayne Beyea of Mableton, Georgia concerning a missing young woman who failed to return to her parents home in Mableton after selling magazine subscriptions with other sales people in the vast Adirondack Mountain Park region.

Ruthless might as well be Gray Bennett's middle name. When the renowned Washington, D.C., insider talks, powerful people listen. But Gray hasn't come home to Saranac Lake to play politics. Or play at all. A tragedy has shaken the unshakable Gray Bennett to his hardened core. And so has the most unlikely of women.

While camping in the Adirondacks, teenage best friends Doug and Loop fall in with Ernie and her belligerent brother, as a Soviet missile attack heralds the beginning of a dangerous war with biological weapons and the entire country enters a state of chaotic emergency conditions.

Time: 1775 - 1850

Incidents in a small Adirondack town including a murder and interactions between a number of notable Adirondack characters.

Letters describing the Adirondacks from a British lady whose husband has consumption writing to a friend in England.

Three boys travel to the Adirondacks only to find a note warning them to leave immediately because of a gang of counterfeiters.

A wealthy brewer's body is found in a cabin in the Adirondacks. The mystery is solved and a playwright living on the property relays the tale.