
Extra Chapter: The Day Philadelphia Wore Black My mother used to say our family did not arrive in Philadelphia on…

“Excuse me… are you Sierra?” The voice was small, confident, and completely unexpected. Sierra Brooks looked up from her phone…

For a moment Sophie froze, the color draining from her face. Then she moved, fast, dropping to her knees beside…

Single Dad Was Tricked Into a Blind Date With a Paralyzed Woman — What She Told Him Broke Him When…

Jake Donovan pushed open his front door like a man trying to enter his own life without waking the grief…

His mother’s house wasn’t in Seattle. “Grandma’s” was in Snohomish, forty-ish miles away, with chickens in the yard and a…

Ethan Cole had learned to measure time in smaller and smaller units. Not months, not years. Not even weeks. Days….

Carlos came home near midnight and went straight to the shower. His phone buzzed on the kitchen table. I wasn’t…

Adam Bennett used to think the worst part of grief was the silence it left behind. The way a house…

Clare Donovan had tried the ignition four times already. The fifth time was pure spite, her manicured fingers tighter on…

Even now, she tried to protect me with ordinary words. I sat beside her. The chair was cold enough to…

The helicopter testing facility sat outside the city like a secret, a wide concrete island surrounded by chain-link fences and…

Rain turned the world into a blurred watercolor at eleven p.m., the kind of night where headlights looked like pale…

The snow attacked sideways, tiny hard pellets that stung like sand. His eyelashes began to clump; his eyebrows stiffened. He…

The cameras loved the gala. They loved the clean geometry of the Lane Corporation ballroom, the chandeliers cut like frozen…

Caleb carried her to the wagon and laid her on the bench inside. Another figure leaned forward from within: a…

Now, standing in the wreck of the house, she understood something she hadn’t allowed herself to understand in the city:…

The day Shanti’s hands began to tremble, the air itself seemed to take on the color of old dust. Heat…

Silas set her trunk down hard enough that the floorboards complained. He finally looked at her fully then, and the…

Rain had been falling all day, the kind that turned sidewalks into mirrors and made the city feel like it…