Author: cuongtr

The deadbolt snapped shut while Megan Cole was pouring coffee for a table of road workers. Four men in tailored suits had entered Ray’s Diner…

“Name your price.” Dominic Hale stood in the doorway of a failing Queens bakery with a newborn hidden beneath his black wool coat. The baby’s…

“You cannot go through that door,” the security guard said as Emma Brooks pressed one hand against the milk soaking through her blouse. A weak…

Daniel Mercer heard his wife say, “Put him down,” before he reached the nursery door. He stopped in the upstairs hallway, one hand still wrapped…

“Don’t touch him.” Emily Parker planted herself between four armed men and the enormous black Cane Corso pressed against her legs. One of the men…

Emma Reed reached for the teddy bear just as Declan Shaw pulled his screaming daughters against his chest. “Step away from them,” he ordered. At…

“That baby isn’t yours, Uncle Adrian.” Emma Bennett’s voice carried farther than the string quartet, farther than the polite applause, farther than the clink of…

The little girl entered Bellamy’s Café alone, wearing a red raincoat that hung nearly to her knees. Water streamed from the coat onto the black-and-white…

“The boys told me you were dead too.” Ethan Caldwell turned so quickly that gravel scattered beneath his polished black shoes. A thin boy stood…