Author: cuongtr

“MOVE AWAY FROM THE CHILD, OR YOU’RE FIRED.” Grant Haskell’s voice sliced through the restaurant so sharply that even the people pretending not to watch…

The silver spoon hit the marble floor, and thirty dangerous men stopped breathing. Claire Bennett turned toward the sound with a tray balanced against one…

“Please don’t hurt her.” Claire Bennett’s knees struck the wet grass before she realized she had fallen. Her three-year-old daughter was curled against the chest…

“Please buy my bicycle before my mother stops breathing.” The child’s voice was so small that Grant Whitmore almost mistook it for the wind scraping…

“DON’T CALL AN AMBULANCE.” The bleeding stranger said those words before he opened his eyes. His hand closed around my wrist with enough strength to…

Daniel Whitaker caught Claire Harrington before the most powerful woman in Chicago struck the marble floor. One second, she was standing at the head of…

The punch landed before Claire Whitmore saw the man’s shoulder move. One moment, she was standing beside the corner booth with a coffeepot in her…

The most dangerous sentence I ever spoke began with the words, “My mother has one just like that.” It was 2:13 in the morning at…

Fourteen dollars and twenty cents should not have been enough to pull Claire Bennett into the private war of Baltimore’s most feared crime family. But…