Cold River Studio: 6 books

The last person Marley Dearcorn ever expected would have an enemy was the gentle-natured Crow Indian teenager from Killdeer high school named Little Joe. But on a cold December morning, she gets a frantic phone call telling her that someone has left his body lying on the front deck of her old house....

When Marley Dearcorn is fired from her job at the Montana Fish and Wildlife office and blamed for tipping off a ring of poachers before a big bust by the local game wardens, her reputation is shot and her prospects look grim. The last thing she wants to do is crawl back home and accept charity from...

Marley Dearcorn is still recovering from a devastating loss when she comes across the body of a young woman by the side of a remote stretch of road. She knew the dead girl personally, and the discovery is a harsh reminder of recent tragic events in her own life and she's motivated to investigate....

It's no mystery to Marley Dearcorn what wiped out an entire colony of black-tailed prairie dogs on the Deep Creek Ranch. The moment she sees the devastation, Marley knows they were killed by the plague. But when she discovers the mangled body of a handsome local cowboy hidden in the brush not far...

Marley Dearcorn never thought the old box of arrowheads her father collected over the years was anything special, until a University of Wyoming paleontologist shows up on their ranch and starts digging into the past. The student is looking for dino- saur fossils, but what he uncovers instead sets...

It seems to Marley Dearcorn the harder she runs away from her troubled past the quicker it catches up. Losing her job with the Montana Fish and Wildlife office forced her to reinvent her life after returning home to tiny Killdeer, and she has managed to thrive. But the unexpected arrival of her ex-husband,...