I turned and walked out. Outside, Alabama hit me in the face: warm damp air, cut grass, the sweet rot of magnolia somewhere down the block. Cicadas screamed from the...
I set my fork down before my hand could betray me. The handle clicked against the china. My fingers had gone cold, though the room was warm enough to make...
Later, on the range, I watched him work his class through reload drills. He was competent, which made him more dangerous than if he’d been lazy. Lazy men are easy...
Judge Shaw looked over the top of the packet. “This,” she said, “is good. Very good.” I felt my knees go weak, not from fear exactly. More from the sudden,...
Weeks earlier, one of the planning committee members had stopped me outside church and said, We’d love to recognize your service properly this year, Clare. I’d gone home with that...
I looked at my father, and some old buried instinct in me understood immediately: he had been telling a version of my story while I was too busy surviving mine....
Instead, the family attorney, Leonard Green, unfolded a cream-colored file beside his plate and cleared his throat the way men do when they want a room to believe they’re reluctant...
Before she could answer, Julia floated into view behind her, one hand under the curve of her belly, the other lifting the skirt of an expensive cream dress away from...
Lydia Hayes only wanted to escape the rain, but she stepped straight into a hotel lobby filled with men who could end a life with one silent nod. She did...
The crash was violent. Metal screamed, glass shattered, the world spun, and then everything went dark. When Marco Santelli opened his eyes again, he didn’t move. He heard voices. Doctors....