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One thing all deserts have in common is they are arid, or dry. Most experts agree a desert is an area of land receiving no more than ten inches of precipitation a year. The amount of evaporation in a desert often greatly exceeds the annual rainfall. In all deserts, there is little water available for plants and other organisms.Deserts are found on every continent and cover about one-fifth of Earth's land area.

COCKTAILS, CON MEN, CONSPIRACY! Slip into the secret society of the Travellers, modern day gypsies who will stop at nothing to win their deadly con games. Maggie Leman leads a fairytale life in California's Newport Beach. But when cheating golfer husbands from her Club get knocked off, along with the Travellers muscling into Newport Beach society, Maggie fears she's bitten into a poison apple, spewing its venom into her life. To stop this deadly flow, Maggie, ex-marketing exec, now Country Club Mom, launches an investigation into these sordid affairs. What she finds is shocking. It appears Newport blue blood is tinged with red. Does this deadly tide bleed from the Travellers? Or from the upper crust of societal elite? Worse, can Maggie stop this deadly flow...or will her questions make her the next victim?

TREACHERY, DUPLICITY, DEATH Elizabeth Kearn thinks her biggest problem is having a run of bad luck with men. That is, until someone spray paints her garage door with the word, WHORE, and leaves her unconscious with a deep gash in her head. Then two exes come back into her life, neither particularly welcome. A recent ex, Walt, asks for her help when he's suspected of doing away with his current girlfriend Patti. Edgar, now married, comes into town on a mission to reignite their decade-old romance, and not happy to find he has to compete with Walt for her attention. When Patti turns up alive, everyone involved is relieved, especially Edgar. But that relief does not last long when someone is murdered. Elizabeth is drawn into a web of treachery, duplicity, and revenge when she starts uncovering secrets, and finds her own life in danger from an anonymous stalker intent on seeing her dead. With so much drama, what's a little thing like murder?

Looking for family among strangers, a woman finds that seeking out distant relatives can be deadly and that some Arizona mysteries are better left buried!PILAR SAGASTA steps into a world of cunning deception when she travels to Arizona to connect with her late grandfather''s sister, Virginia. Eager for details of their Mexican history before the family fled the political turbulence in 1916, Pilar realizes quickly that she made a mistake. Far from the loving relatives she envisioned, she finds a group of odious characters who doubt her motives and want nothing more than to drive her away. When Virginia dies suddenly, Pilar takes that as her cue to leave. But when she agrees to investigate after another relative is murdered, she discovers her family has a dubious past enmeshed in unsolved Arizona robberies, foreign politics, missing loot, and murder. Secrets buried deep in the past reach to the present generation and obscure motives in a family where no one is who they seem and everyone has a secret to hide.