



Adrian Mercer had built his life the way architects build coastal towers: with angles, with control, with steel that refused…

The night Grace Okonquo’s life cracked open, it didn’t do it with fireworks. It did it with silence. No generator…



The rain in Manhattan didn’t fall so much as it negotiated its way down, persistent and cold, turning sidewalks into…

The courthouse in King County, Seattle had a way of looking holy from a distance and cruel up close. Its…

The eviction notice wasn’t on her door, and there was no villain twirling a mustache in the corner, but Claire…

The first thing he did was look at her shoes. Not her face. Not the tray balanced on her palm….

The plains had a way of swallowing sound, the way deep water swallowed light. In late September of 1878, out…

The kind of winter that makes a city feel like a locked jaw settled over Chicago, turning the lake into…

Dawn arrived the way a confession does, quietly at first, then all at once. Outside the little prairie town of…

The eviction notice was taped to Jamal Carter’s door like a verdict nobody had bothered to read aloud. He stood…


The blood on Lily Ashford’s apron had gone tacky with time, stiffening the fabric into a rough badge she could…


Marcus Cole pulled his truck onto the shoulder like he was easing a tired animal into rest. Ahead, a patrol…

Montana Territory, was a place where the wind could sand the softness off a man’s face, and where a person’s…