
The last light of a Louisiana winter sunset burned copper over the cane fields, turning every blade into a thin,…

The rain had stopped by the time Eleanor Whitmore stepped onto the courthouse square, but the air still carried that…

In the summer of 1842, the Caldwell sugar plantation sat outside New Iberia, Louisiana, where the bayou moved like a…

They laughed before the auctioneer even finished clearing his throat. The February air in Natchez, Mississippi, sat heavy on the…

Evelyn Harper’s fingers had gone the color of storm clouds by the time the stagecoach finally groaned to a stop….

The July air in New Orleans didn’t float so much as press. It leaned on shoulders, turned collars into damp…

The pie sat untouched on Colton Mercer’s desk, still warm under a cooling skin of cinnamon steam. Outside his office…

The rain in downtown Philadelphia didn’t fall so much as it pounded, a steady drumming that made the windows of…

I was arranging fresh flowers in the entryway when I heard Marcus’ SUV roll into the driveway. The sound used…

Airport security footage never showed what really happened near Gate 47, because cameras don’t record the weight of a glance…

I froze as my phone lit up with my brother Nate’s name. The moment I answered, his voice erupted with…

Claire Rowan had told herself the dress was a tool, not a luxury. That was the only way she could…

Thirty minutes after John Cooper nearly died, the most violent thing that happened to him was not the heart attack….

The divorce papers came in a birthday gift box. A white satin bow, a lid that opened with a soft,…

Nathaniel Pierce told himself it was just another Tuesday. The lie fit neatly into his life, the kind of lie…



The air inside La Cantina Aurelia always smelled like money wearing perfume. Rosemary and garlic drifted from the open kitchen…

The fluorescent lights above my head buzzed with the stubborn impatience of insects trapped in a jar, turning the linoleum…

I never imagined that the moment my sister gave birth would become the moment my entire life shattered. That morning,…