
At seven months pregnant, Maya Carson thought her body was the only thing about to swell beyond her control, ankles…


Claire Hart first learned the true cost of her father’s gambling on an ordinary Tuesday, the kind that pretends to…



The marble floors of The Halston Gallery Mall on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile were so polished they didn’t look walked on,…


On the morning of December 20th, Emily Carter did not pack suitcases. She packed evidence. The difference mattered, because suitcases…

The first time I met Lena Mendez, Austin felt like a city that had decided to be kind for once….

Norah Ashford learned early that a body could be treated like a verdict. In her parents’ house, everything had a…

Emma Hale learned the cruelest kind of contradiction in the weeks after the funeral: the mind can accept what the…

Emma Whitmore’s hand hovered above the paper so long her fingers began to tremble, not from doubt, but from the…

The general store in Mesquite Ridge always smelled like two things at once: ground coffee and judgment. Hannah Whitmore stood…

The money in Micah Holt’s saddlebag did not clink like wealth. It thudded. It carried the dull weight of days…

Isaiah Mitchell woke at 6:00 a.m. the way he always did: abruptly, as if his body still expected the streets…

The Saturday market in Briar Hollow always smelled like fresh bread and judgment, like cinnamon had learned to gossip. Ruby…

The first thing Wade Mercer noticed wasn’t the Mustang. It was the way the woman in the driver’s seat waited…

The first time Isabella Lauron said those words in my car, my world didn’t just tilt. It re-labeled itself. I…

In the town of Alder Hollow, people believed they could tell the whole truth about a person just by looking…

The night Michael Williams lost control of his car, the rain looked like it had teeth. It came down in…