
A small cabin sat a little distance away, newer than the ruins, patched with tin and prayer. On its porch…

On the morning of October 14th, the sky over New York wore a thin, bruised gray, the kind that made…

For a long time, he said nothing. Isolde told herself she preferred it. Then, as the carriage turned onto a…


Mara stayed by the table, her needle paused mid-stitch, watching him the way you watched a stranger near a cliff…

That night, she sent a telegram from the post office and bought a train ticket with almost all the money…

You don’t cry when you see him. You don’t freeze, or gasp, or do the dramatic thing people expect from…

Seattle winters have a way of sneaking up on you. Not with drama, not with a blizzard that makes the…

The message hits your phone like a slap you didn’t see coming, sharp enough to make your fingers go numb….


You’re sitting in the VIP lounge at Madrid-Barajas, letting the cold air-conditioning skim your skin while you swirl a glass…

Eleanor did not live long enough to see what her insistence had bought. Yellow fever came through the county in…

They say “gold digger” the way other people say “good evening,” like it’s just polite conversation and not a knife….

You don’t plan a comeback like this with dramatic music or a revenge dress. You plan it with a steady…

The rain in Portland didn’t fall like it did in movies. It didn’t dramatize. It didn’t announce itself with thunder…

Melissa looked at the producer, and in his face she saw the audience he represented: people hungry for revelation, for…

Nathaniel tried to smile like that warning was just superstition. “Is she dangerous?” The clerk didn’t smile back. “Danger ain’t…

The smell of funeral lilies clings to you like a lie that won’t wash off. It’s sweet in a way…


The glass conference room on the 37th floor looked like it had been designed to make people confess. Walls of…