Author: cuongtr

At 11:47 on a humid July night, Ethan Mercer heard a man humming in the pond behind his parents’ house. The humming bothered him more…

“Don’t touch the door.” Clara Whitfield froze with her hand inches from the brass handle of the Red Creek boarding house. Behind the glass, Lydia…

Clara Whitmore knew her stepmother meant to get rid of her when she saw the thirty dollars on the bank steps. She had not understood…

Snow had erased the road before Caleb Mercer realized somebody had opened his barn door. Christmas night had settled over western Montana with the kind…

Emma Carter had three dollars, one carpetbag, and nowhere to sleep when the door of the Raven Creek boardinghouse closed in her face. Mrs. Lydia…

The first knock came just after the mountain disappeared. Clara Whitmore had been standing at her kitchen window, watching snow erase the last visible line…

Claire Whitmore knew her youngest daughter was in real danger when the little girl stopped shivering. Five year old Lily lay against Claire’s chest beneath…

Nora Bennett knew she was the woman nobody wanted before the last man shook his head. Nobody needed to say it. Nine women had climbed…

The contract struck the kitchen floor hard enough to splash Claire Bennett’s coffee across her shoes. “Sign it,” Victor Langford said. Claire looked at the…