Where There's Smoke the rook files in the face of a

in the face of a wrenching scandal-and a love he feels unworthy to claim-Jermaine will face his biggest challenge ever: to believe in God more than himself

a fine feather in the cap of Bowen's uniquely superb series

Kidd shows

he was the first president to invite black Americans to the White House and to treat them as equals

Talbot's razor-sharp honesty

Where There's Smoke the rook files in the face of aWhen a determined doctor meets the rebellious heir to a Texas oil dynasty, sparks fly . . . but the flames of passion blazing between them could destroy an empire. No one knows why Dr. Lara Mallory opened up her medical practice in the rowdy Texas town controlled by Tackett Oil. But everyone remembers her role in the well publicized scandal that caused the downfall of White House hopeful Senator Clark Tackett. Now the iron fisted matriarch of Tackett