Judy Alter: 30 books

None of the pieces of the puzzle fit. What does the disappearance of a young girl and her disreputable boyfriend have to do with harrassment and threats against Kelly? How does a nurse in her doctor's office fit into the puzzle, and why are two men using the same name? Who is stalking Kelly and why? What...

A woman desperately seeking her biological mother, a televangelist determined to twart that search, a hired hit man, and in the midst of it all, a reclusive diva. Kelly has gotten herself involved in a dangerous emotional tangle this time, and Mike doesn't tell her to back off. Even when events take them from Fort Worth to San Antonio.

When free-lance journalist Sara Jo Cavanaugh comes to Wheeler to do an in-depth study for a feature on small-town America, Kate senses she will be trouble. Sara Jo stays at the B&B, Tremont House, run by Kate's sister, Donna, and drives a further wedge int Donna's marriage to Wheeler's mayor Tom...

Dallas developer Silas Fletcher sees endless real estate opportunities in Wheeler, Texas if only he can "grow" the town. Blue Plate Café owner Kate Chambers likes her hometown just the way it is, thank you very much, without big box and chain stores. When Fletcher tries to capitalize on...

When four young men sign the rental contract on a Fairmount House, realtor Kelly O'Connell has no idea she has just signed a contract for chaos. But the racial tensions sweeping the country erupt in Fort Worth, and her tenants fan the flames.  A young black policeman shoots an unarmed white teenage...

Educated, ambitious, and brilliant in a time not quite ready for her, Jessie elopes with the young explorer Charles Fremont, at the age of 17, defying the wishes of her father, the powerful Senator Thomas Hart Benton.Jessie expected a life of boundless adventure. Instead, the two most important men in...

Susan Hogan is smart, pretty—and prickly—with those who love her, prickly with her academic colleagues in the English department at Oak Grove University. When a coed’s body is found in her car and she is suspected of murder, Susan gets even more defensive. But when someone begins to stalk...

Susan Hogan thinks she's about to meet her maker when she confronts a rifle-carrying man, who looks like a pig, in a grocery store. Jake investigates the body of a young college student, shot in the back and found in an empty pasture. Aunt Jenny showers love on the new puppy a young man from the grocery...

AFTER PA WAS SHOT After her pa is shot in a turn-of-the-century Texas gunfight, 12-year-old Ellsbeth James has no time to go chasing off after the killer. She has to buckle down and take care of her mother and siblings, B.J., Little Henry and Maggie. "Time and place come to life...

Chicago, from swampland to host of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition, as lived by two leading historical figures: tycoon and hotelier Potter Palmer and his activist wife Bertha Honoré Palmer who fought for women’s rights and help for the poor. A story of love, major historical events, class warfare,...

In this second adventure of Maggie and Devildust, Maggie survives her year at Miss Porter's School for Girls in Kansas City, and returns home to Texas to continue her training of Devildust and to complete her plans to join the Mulhall Wild West Show. But the theft of Devildust and Lucille Mulhall's...

Her name is Martha Baird. Most know her as Etta Place, the fearless woman who rides with notorious outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Told in Etta's voice, "Sundance, Butch and Me" is history transformed. From daring train robberies and hair-raising escapes from the law, to her attraction to...

Maggie and a Horse Named Devildust Life for most young girls on the West Texas plains at the tum-of-the- century was routine with school, household chores, and sewing instruc­tion. But not for Maggie. Much to the dismay of her parents, she loves to ride, to rope and to live the life of a cowgirl....

Maggie and Devildust—Ridin' High! In this adventure of Maggie and Devildust, Maggie, an eighteen-year-old cowgirl at the turn of the century, realizes her dream of starring in a Wild West show in Madison Square Garden with her beloved horse Devildust.