A divorced wealthy New York woman enters a sanatorium in the Adirondacks.

Twelve-year-old Daniel Rider draws upon some extraordinary resources while helping his grandmother resist land developers who wish to purchase her property in the Adirondack Mountains and build a resort.

Lonely Daniel Rider, living with his parents in his dead grandmother's house in the Adirondack Mountains, becomes involved with a young poet grieving for a dead friend and a mysterious black bird that reveals other people's dreams.

When drug company goons kidnap Callie, Marcella's best friend, Marcella and her husband Quinn track Callie to the Adirondack Mountains to try to rescue her and retrieve a stolen memory stick that contains information about a leukemia cure.

On Lake George's historic Bass Island, Matt O'Malley awakens in his tent to the sounds of moaning. Investigating, he finds a nearly drowned woman has floated ashore. His entanglement with the beautiful and manipulative Heather Grant over the ensuing fourteen Desperate Hours will forever change his life and alter the future of the nation; as he uncovers, and attempts to prevent, a major terrorist attack on a leading presidential candidate. -- cover.

In this second Matt O'Malley mystery novel, "Matt has returned to upstate New York from his home in Florida only to learn that Erin, the beautiful young daughter of his friend, has disappeared. Carol has gone to the police, who believe she is overreacting; and with no evidence of foul play they refuse to look for Erin. In desperation, Carol turns to Matt O'Malley for help, but he has problems of his own. Almost since he arrived back in the Adirondacks the Men of Islam have been seeking their revenge on him.