Author: longtr

Blood stains did not wash out of silk. Weakness did not survive long in Dante Gallo’s city. Khloe Bishop had learned both lessons from behind…

The makeup artist painted over the bruise as if a layer of expensive concealer could erase two years of terror. Paige sat perfectly still in…

Morgana learned the exact price of her father’s love while standing beside a sink full of dirty plates. Forty thousand dollars. That was all it…

The gun on the stainless steel table was still warm. Iris Hayes could smell it through the bleach, the rain, and the coppery blood spreading…

Nobody with any sense warns a man like Dominic Vasquez that the friend sitting across from him is trying to kill him. Not in a…

The wedding was still laughing when Nebula ran out into the freezing rain. Inside Oakridge Country Club, champagne flutes touched with bright little chimes, white…

Cormick Brennan opened his eyes beneath a ceiling he did not recognize. Above him, dozens of plastic stars glowed faintly in the dim morning light,…

Salvatore Renieri came home with a hospital band still wrapped around his wrist and found two cars parked outside his house. One belonged to his…

The glass of red wine hit the old woman before anyone in the restaurant had the courage to blink. It spilled across her white hair,…