Since the Gold Rush, California prospectors have siphoned off the waters of isolated Tufa Lake, exposing the fragile, otherworldly mineral formations of the lake basin. Now a local environmental group seeks to block the latest incursion by developers-a massive mining operation funded by TransPacific, a US-Hong Kong interest that seems to be behind a series of break-ins, disappearances, and shady land deals. Into this stark, lunar landscape treads...

Lake Tahoe attorney Nina Reilly's truck is stolen along with some of her most sensative files. The secrets in those files are released one by one, threatening her career and forcing her to turn to her ex-husband for help.

A quarter-life crisis causes Chinese-American Nicky Shen to drop out of college and go on a life-altering journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to San Francisco, she finds her hometown is overrun with crime and corruption, and her own parents Jin and Mei-Li are at the mercy of a powerful Triad. Nicky will rely on her tech-savvy sister Althea and Althea's fiancé Dennis, her pre-med brother Ryan, the Assistant District Attorney...

Professional gunfighter Paladin was a West Point graduate who, now that the Civil War is over, has firmly settled into San Francisco's Hotel Carlton where he has been awaiting responses to his trademark business cards.

A West Point graduate and Civil War verteran known simply as Paladin offers his services to the downtrodden in the old West.