SalAnne "Silence" Ramirez was an exceptional artist, and, according to one of her teachers, brilliant. She was also autistic and mute and had not spoken a single word in her 17 years. When Silence is kidnapped, Detective Owen McKenna is desperate to find her. For McKenna believes that her biker-gang kidnappers are planning a ritual sacrifice at the next full moonrise.

Ryan Lear is a brilliant young bio-tech genius. When his company makes an amazing discovery at their high-altitude research lab on a mountain above Lake Tahoe, Ryan's business partners are murdered and someone plots to take over his company. Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna discovers that a vicious killer is out to destroy Ryan's life by planning the ultimate revenge...

When Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna responds to a boat hijacking on Lake Tahoe, he gets pulled into the case of a woman named Anna Quinn who is on the run and hiding from members of a fanatical militia group. The militia men believe that Anna has information about a treasure that dates to the Gold Rush, and they will do anything to find her and learn whatever she knows. In order to save Anna, Detective McKenna has to find her first. But he is out-manned and out-gunned, and it looks like the militia men intend to put both him and Anna into their burial ground...

When Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna's cabin narrowly escapes burning in an arson-set forest fire, the local fire department hires him to investigate. More fires follow, and people die in each one. Before Owen can close in, the firestarter kidnaps his girlfriend Street Casey. Owen has just hours if he is to save Street before she burns up in a fire so big that firefighters call it a BLOWUP.

When March Carrera went missing the same night a monster avalanche slid down to Emerald Bay, Detective Owen McKenna is approached by March's uncle Bill Esteban. Esteban thinks March was killed in the slide. McKenna brings in a professional avalanche search dog. What the dog finds is a surprise that sends McKenna after a devious killer. As more people die, McKenna uncovers a 140-year—old secret...

Tahoe TV talk show host Leah Printer had a successful life until a car accident killed her loving husband and left her face badly scarred, ending her career. Shortly after she gets out of the hospital, her father is murdered. When Detective Owen McKenna investigates, he is plunged into a harrowing case involving forged old-master paintings and a ruthless killer who still wants Leah dead.