Rita Hestand

Jax is a bassett hound that loves to sniff things. He forgets about things when he's sniffing. One day, he wanders off from home, and before he knows it, it's dark and he's lost....

Daniel Connor accepts an assignment to protect a senator's daughter from a drug lord. Her father suspects that she's romantically involved with this man. But he doesn't have all the facts. Gabby is out to save the drug lord's son, Tony....

Callie Evans was hanging around the wrong people, she was going to get into trouble if she kept it up. Gil Sutton had liked Callie all her life, but she had such a stubborn streak. Somehow he had to protect her from herself. And considering Joe Boggs was now after her for the bank money, that was going to be a full time job....

Julie was new in school...again! She was so tired of always being new and having to make new friends everywhere she went....

Little Willy, the hard-of-hearing duck, thought he heard Farmer Jack and Otis say that Mo was leaving the farm....

When the local town drunk sees a murder committed on Boot Hill on Halloween night, will anyone pay any attention to his story? Sheriff Joe Grubbs, though skeptical, investigates....

When Kendall quits stopping by after school to see Grandma Tyler, Grandma knows she has to find out why....

Everyone is staying out of the pond by the barnyard - everyone but Willy, the hard of hearing little duck. He doesn't hear their warnings and goes swimming. Boy is he in for a surprise....

Jeremy Michael Myers was my friend. We walked home from school together. Then one day, everything changed, and I had to decide if Jeremy was still my friend....

Book one of the Dog Hero's series. Little Jojo, the one-eyed puppy, can no longer get milk from his mother. So he sets out to find food. That's when he meets Tanker and the dog catcher....

Willy discovers Halloween and meets a ghost....

Mother Hen wants all the farm animals in the barn because Nado is coming....

Victor Frank is no ordinary killer. For one, he kills women with his bare hands. When he kills John T.'s mother and tells him he's "better off without her," John T. swears he'll track him down....

There'd been several killings in Melville. Unusual killings, no witnesses, no clues, and no suspects. Sheriff Jim Bonner was having a time trying to narrow his search down....

Mother Hen's eggs were missing. She was so upset. Willy was upset too. Who could have taken her eggs?...

Michael has become the star of the basketball team, and Tina feels pushed to the side as everyone crowds around him. But Michael has an idea to bring her closer....

Kelly Webster had buried herself in her phone since her father died in Afghanistan. So when her mother made her get out and join a club, she headed for Yosemite National Park on a backpacking tour....

Emily Carrington was running away from her controlling Uncle and overbearing fiancé. When she met Cole Morgan, he told her he didn't allow unmarried women....

When Tina finds her friend, Jennifer, on the bathroom floor at school, sick and crying, she wants to help her. Jennifer tells her she's pregnant with Zach's baby....

Every girl wants the most popular boy in school to notice her. But Tina was having a hard time getting Zach Taylor to pay any attention to her. Zach liked Jennifer, the cheerleader....