It's time to put the past to rest…Ben Packard was just a boy when his older brother disappeared. Ben watched him walk out the back door of their grandparents' house and into the cold night.His brother was never seen again.Decades later, Deputy Packard finds himself with too much time on his hands. A shooting has him on leave and under investigation, and all he can do is dwell on the past. For the first time in years, new information about his brothe...

Christmas in New Mexico was supposed to be a family reunion. Instead, Ben Pecos finds himself investigating a suspicious death at Taos Pueblo.Ben's sixteen-year-old son, Zac, has arrived from Alaska for the holidays with an unexpected guest: Alana Bearpaw, a fellow dog musher and aspiring Iditarod competitor. Ben and his wife, Julie, can't help wondering whether Zac is rushing into a romance only two months after losing his mother.Then Ben gets a call from the Indian Health...

Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakesThroughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two centuries...