Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction

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.

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.

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

Lizzy, 14 and Tim, 13 are left on their own to survive the winter storms in the Adirondack Mountains after their father dies in a canoe accident.

Eve Tilden Klein, a scion of an upstanding Connecticut family, finds that the clairvoyance she has inherited from her mother is more a curse than a blessing.

Nate Walker has never shied away from the hard road. Even when it meant leaving behind his family's wealth...and the fiancée who only wanted a rich man. Nothing was going to stop him from opening his own five-star restaurant. And he was on his way--until his car broke down on a dark road in the Adirondacks, leading him right to White Caps Inn...and Frankie Moorehouse. Suddenly Nate has a job he doesn't really need--and an affair that has to end when summer does. Except Frankie has a way about her. She gets under his skin.

Fifteen-year-old Jenny relates her family's misadventures homesteading in the Adirondack Mountains during the summer.

Ten-year-old Winks and thirteen-year-old Josh inadvertently bring a serial murderer back to life when they use his hat and scarf to dress a snowman for a winter carnival, freeing him to seek revenge against the vigilantes who killed him.

Robert Sochia, a young man just acquitted of murder, returns to face the hostility of his home town not far from the Canadian border. Julia, a recently arrived music student, befriends him and helps him start a new life. When a suspicious fire burns his house to the ground, the outlaw suddenly abducts Julia. This small, provincial community gathers a search party to rescue her, with comical and disastrous results. -- cover.