The Tender Mysteries Series of Inspirational American Historical Romance: After a flood annihilates a wagon train in 1888, eleven female survivors build a life in Hope, Nebraska. RETRIBUTION, RECRUITED, Books 3 and 4. RETRIBUTION: April, 1896: Susan Willet vows to capture and boil in oil the man who's kidnapped her sister Bonnie. Sheriff Sam Feist realizes Susan is a passionate woman. Her feisty verve is one of the things he finds most attractive about her. However, when she insists on going after a ruthless kidnapper, he's got no choice but to tell her to stay out of lawmen's business. Susan promptly ignores the handsome sheriff's advice. No one is going to stop her from going after Bonnie. Neither will anyone hinder her from keeping her pledge to seek retribution for her sister's kidnapping. As Susan and Sam separately pursue a dastardly abductor, they cross paths. Tensions soar, and hearts break when dangerous liaisons put lives in peril and lead to a violent confrontation which changes Susan's life forever. RECRUITED: Liza's accused of stealing fifteen hundred dollars from her employer. Antonio seems to be the only person who can help her out of the mess she's in. June, 1896: Liza's not sure she can trust the handsome private investigator she needs to help her, but she decides to work with Antonio anyway. Antonio believes Liza is as guilty as the prosecutor says she is, but, having been instantly smitten with the beautiful woman, he wants more than anything to find a way to get her acquitted of the charges against her. He devises a plan to prove Liza's innocence by trying to connect the missing money to a ring of pickpockets who have been operating in eastern Nebraska. Despite the fact that he has every intention of running his investigation on his own, Liza, trusting her life to no one but herself, doggedly stays at his side. Caught up in the adventure of dealing with pickpockets, train robbers and desperados, Liza is swept into romance as well, and, before long, she realizes she's found something special with Antonio she hadn't even known she'd been seeking.