
“I’ll put mud on your eyes, and you won’t be blind anymore…” Victor Hale nearly laughed when he heard it….

She pretended to be poor when she met her in-laws at the party— but nothing prepared her for their.. They…

Catherine Sloan had lived in the Hillridge Estate for twenty years, yet she had never truly slept peacefully. The mansion…

You cut the engine of your sleek sports car outside the gate and keep both hands locked on the wheel…

You were supposed to be done.Twelve years moving through the gray corridors of other people’s wars, and then six months…

You hear the engine before you see the car, a low purr that doesn’t belong on your street. It rolls…

You sit on the edge of your mother’s oversized bed, the kind carved from dark wood that looks like it…

CHAPTER 1: THE HOSPITAL SMELL OF LONELINESS The hospital room smells like bargain disinfectant and cafeteria beans that have surrendered…

You spend ten years learning the exact sound of people pretending they’re not talking about you.In Maple Hollow, Oregon, gossip…

The first thing Maya Hart noticed at the funeral wasn’t the minister’s voice or the rows of polished wood or…

The Texas Hill Country looked sun-bleached, as if someone had left the whole world out to dry on a clothesline…

The first thing Evan Caldwell noticed in the courthouse conference room wasn’t the judge’s portrait or the steady hum of…

The penthouse sat above Manhattan like a polished threat, all glass and skyline and silence that cost more than most…

The first thing Grant Whitmore noticed in the cathedral wasn’t the organ, or the winter light bleeding through stained glass,…

The first snowfall that truly stuck came down like the town’s final decision, white and heavy and impossible to argue…

You still remember the exact sound of the trash bag tearing when you tried to knot it closed, because plastic…

You land at Chicago O’Hare a little after dawn, the kind of hour when the airport feels like a machine…

You are sitting on the curb outside Super Save with your back against a sun-baked pillar, the kind that holds…

Austin, Texas, knows how to look alive even when it’s chewing people up. The city glowed in neon and tail…

The two-lane road through Hawthorne Ridge, West Virginia lies half-asleep in the afternoon heat, the kind that makes the air…