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Day of Reckoning - The Baxter Series 2
Multnomah, Apr 2002, 11.99, 350 pp. ISBN: 157673899X Grant Randall Logan IV closed down the Baxter Plant of Logan Textiles moving the factory to Costa Rica where labor is cheaper. The decision left 283 people out of work with few prospects. Some had put in three decades of loyalty only to be left with nothing except bills, bitterness, and beloved family members with no future. Wayne Purdy, an adult child of a displaced worker, thirsts...
Fine Line
A Multnomah, Oct 2003, 11.99, 320 pp. ISBN 1590522095 The city council led by mayor Charlie Kirby voted to allow the Thompson Tire Company to relocate to Barter, which means more jobs for the resident. Not everyone is in favor of the plant being built. Some residents fear that the new business will destroy the ambiance of the town and in turn the downtown shops. Charlie's most vocal enemy Avery Stedman starts a rumor that the reason the mayor ...
High Stakes
Multinomah, April 2003, 11.99, 320 pp. ISBN 1590520815 Baxter is a very small town where everybody knows everyone else, a place where a stranger sticks out immediately. When eighteen-year-old, Angie Marks arrives in town, people start whispering about the stud in her nose, the very visible tattoos and the black nail polish. Many people think she is dangerous but the town millionaire Patrick Bailey see beyond appearances and hire her to be his h...
Poor Mrs. Rigsby
Multnomah, Jul 2004, 12.99, 320 pp. ISBN: 1590523148 Angry with Sam since he divorced her after three decades of marriage to move in with a younger chick, leaving her with a run down house and two teens, Certified Nurse Assistant Sally Cox also hates her work at the Walnut Hills Nursing Center. She detests the patients and the staff though she likes nonagenarian dementia victim Elsie Rigsby even when the elderly woman loses her touch with realit...

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Vital Signs
Multinomah, Oct 2002, 19.99 271 ISBN 1590520408 Blake and Melissa have spent two years doing missionary work in a remote area of the Amazon Basin. However, now that Melissa is pregnant they return to their hometown of Baxter. Shortly after they return home, they come down with an unknown virus that causes a high fever and hemorrhaging. They are immediately shipped to the hospital and are quarantined. While Blake and Melissa are fighting for...