Keeper (Powell)

Anna and Bart have been best friends since childhood. Bart is in love with Anna, but she wants to graduate college before surrendering to love. After Anna's parents die, Jaeger, involved with a drug and human trafficking cartel, forces Anna into an illegal marriage and holds her captive. He plans to sell her in South America and take her inheritance after she disappears. Anna escapes, enrolls in college, and finds a job as a live-in nanny for Carol Dugan. Charles and Mary Dugan, Carol's parents, are compassionate Christians who accept Anna as a family member. They support and try to protect her, even after they learn that Jaeger is part of a human trafficking cartel and he and his friends want to kill Anna. Raised on an Arkansas horse farm, Anna is an expert with horses, a rifle, and revolver. Although she is often afraid, she uses her skills to protect herself and the Dugan family, but relies on God more than her proficiency.

The police reported that Jaeger was killed by his drug gang, still Anna cannot shake the feeling that her abusive ex-husband is watching from the shadows- waiting to kill her. Neighbor boys, Hank and Bill, ask Bart for help butchering bears that Hank shot because they were after his brother. Before Hank finds relief from his troubles, he must cope with a rattlesnake, hospital staff, Child Services, the Game and Fish Commission, and the Prosecuting Attorney. A Cherokee lawyer speaks for the Indian boys, and the Dugans take the two into their home as foster children. A little girl in Carol's class, apparently abandoned, also comes to live with the Dugans as a foster child. Her mother and father were murdered setting off a full-scale investigation that reveals Maddi's true-identity. Her biological father was wealthy, now she is first in line to inherit a fortune.

Anna tutors the six children in the Dugan home and helps cook and clean. When Maddi's Grandmother buys the house next door, Maddi moves in with her. Grandma Berta, frightened when someone broke her fence and entered the backyard, asks Bart and Anna to move onto the second floor of her new home with their guns. Berta's cousin comes to visit-she is near when fire burns Maddi's hair, and a landslide causes dirt and rock to fall on Hank and Maddi. Berta and Anna take Carol and Maddi on a trip to California where someone follows them, a rifle bullet narrowly misses Maddi, a man tries to break into their guesthouse, and Anna finds a tracking device on their rented car. Anna wonders-is Jaeger's family still seeking revenge, does a member of Maddi's family want her father's millions, or does Olga want to eliminate Maddi and Berta, so she will inherit great wealth?