Author: cuongtr

“By sunrise, you’ll either be in an emergency room or begging for an annulment.” My best friend said those words while fastening the final pearl…

The man in the charcoal coat had almost reached the twins when eight-year-old Lily Bennett grabbed Vincent Hale’s sleeve and said the sentence that killed…

“Cut off his arm tonight, or prepare his body before sunrise.” The words fell across the library like a death sentence. Dr. Nathaniel Brooks stood…

“Sing it again.” The command came from directly beneath my ladder. My hand stopped against the leather spine of a book nobody had opened in…

The gun was not the cruelest gift Grant Mercer gave his wife on their seventh anniversary. The cruelest gift was a key. It rested inside…

Blood darkened the left cuff of Grant Mercer’s white dress shirt. Claire Bennett noticed it before he stepped into the armored SUV, but she did…

The pistol touched my temple before the dying man’s blood reached my shoes. “Save him,” the gunman said, “or you follow him.” Nobody in Trauma…

My mother drove a needle into my thigh while my sister held my arms behind my back. “Stop fighting us, Claire,” my mother said as…

My husband ended our marriage without turning down the television. Ethan Whitmore was still watching a baseball game when he calmly told me he wanted…