The Emily Bernal Mystery Series

For fans of Janet Evanovich, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, and Lisa Scottoline — a complete Texas romantic mystery trilogy with heart, humor, and a heroine who fights for everyone she loves.

Emily Bernal comes back to Amarillo broke, freshly abandoned, and without a plan. Within a week she has a job working for cowboy lawyer Jack Holden, a murder client who only wants one thing — find my daughter — and a missing six-year-old girl named Valentina who may not officially exist. Emily believes she does. That turns out to be the right call, and the beginning of everything.

The Emily Bernal Box Set collects all three novels in Pamela Fagan Hutchins' beloved Amarillo trilogy. Across three complete books, Emily defends innocent clients, fights to adopt a little girl named Betsy whose parents were killed to silence them, investigates a human trafficking ring in the New Mexico mountains, survives a militia compound with a room full of rattlesnakes, and — eventually, improbably — gets married in a courtroom with a judge who has had enough.

These are romantic mysteries with the specific warmth of a woman who grew up in Amarillo and spent her happiest times at her family's New Mexico home. The Texas Panhandle, the Sacramento Mountains, Wrong Turn Ranch — all real. Jack Holden, the cowboy lawyer who hasn't smiled in five years and does it anyway when Emily says something stupid — also real, in all the ways that matter.

The series is complete with three books. Start with Heaven to Betsy — and clear your weekend.

She came back to Texas with nothing. She left with everything — and she's not going anywhere.