Five years is an eternity when you are trying to rebuild a shattered existence from the ground up. It is enough time for deep wounds to scar over and for...
The crystal chandelier above table twelve needed cleaning. I could see the dust gathering on its lowest tier even from where I stood by the kitchen doors, my arms aching...
A heavy velvet hood suffocated the frantic screams of a bride dragged through the service corridors of the Plaza Hotel. To the Rossi Syndicate, she was just collateral, a pawn...
The night Sarah Voss walked into the wrong elevator, she had exactly three things on her mind. The IV line she had misplaced on a twelve-year-old’s arm during her last...
The sharp scent of espresso cut through the air of Berto’s private office, mingling with the leather of the chairs and something darker, metallic, that I had learned not to...
What could happen inside a stalled elevator that would make a man who had ignored every woman for three years refuse to let the new maid walk away? Norah Hail...
Part 2 She turned to the room and lifted her glass. “Everyone, this is my sister Audrey. She’s in the Army. Logistics, I think?” A man in a navy blazer...
Part 2 I set my bag down and sat on the mattress. The springs complained under my weight. I hadn’t come because I missed them. I’d come because Emma called...
Part 2 I got waved through security, re-laced my boots, and headed for the gate with the ache of that memory still sitting behind my ribs. At the window, planes...
Part 2 He leaned back like he was preparing to explain adulthood to a child. “Margaret, with respect, technical people tend to dramatize. At the end of the day it’s...