Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Quiet, cautious Ella Lantz has spent her entire life in the close-knit Amish community of the Home Valley. Tending her lavender fields, she finds calm and serenity in purple blooms, heavenly scents and a simple life. But the sudden arrival of a stranger visitor to her parents' home heralds a host of new complications.

Alex Miller and his mother have moved from one place to another and changed their identities repeatedly since his testimony put a man in prison, but he really puts himself to the test when he decides to pose as a skateboarder in Virginia Beach.

Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.

Kate O'Brien has been leading a quiet life in small-town Shelter Cove, Arkansas, for the past four years when her past suddenly comes roaring back to life. Four years ago, she and her twin sister were attacked by an elusive serial killer. Only Kate survived, and it was her drawing of the attacker--along with some last-minute evidence--that convicted the suspect. She's been in witness protection ever since, but new evidence suggests the convicted...

After a botched undercover operation, ex-NYPD officer Marshall Grade is living in witness protection in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Marshall's instructions are to keep a low profile: The mob wants him dead, and a contract killer known as the Dallas Man has been hired to track him down. Racked with guilt over wrongs committed during his undercover work and seeking atonement, Marshall investigates the disappearance of a local woman named Alyce Ray.

A New York mob lawyer who testifies against his associates relocates to a small Colorado town after entering the Witness Protection Program. The life long city boy adopts a loquacious mule and befriends his closest neighbors, including a renegade US Marshall, a lesbian couple, and an ex-army ranger. When the mob associates are released and come looking for him, all hell brakes loose.--Adapted from publisher's description.

Falling for Justice Garrett was a high point in Patience McGraw's otherwise awkward adolescence. Even after he disappeared, Patience never forgot the boy who captured her heart. Now, he's back in Fool's Gold, California, and her passion for him is as strong as ever. But how can she trust that he won't abandon her again and her daughter, too? When bodyguard Justice Garrett was a young man, witness protection brought him to this idyllic town and...

Hiding out in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, Beth Venable, a witness to a major mob hit who even the FBI can't protect, dreams of a new life with Ryal Walker, the man she's always wanted, but must survive her old one first.

After two years at the St. Louis U.S. Marshals Office, Casey Sloane is tasked with escorting a reporter to Washington to testify before a grand jury. The reporter's research on an up-and-coming environmentalist who suddenly disappeared is now even more vital than anticipated. At first, Casey's assignment seems routine. But a dangerous attack on the Marshal office puts everyone on high alert. When Casey and two other Marshals--one a man from her past--are...

" After eight years, 17-year-old Sloane is about to leave the witness protection program. When she runs into a childhood friend, Sloane must choose: turn her back on love or follow her heart into danger." -- publisher.