Author: minhtr

Part 1 Roman Vale did not enter the underground fight club beneath the abandoned Chicago freight terminal because he enjoyed winning. Winning had become boring…

Part 1 By the time Maya Bennett noticed the little girl outside Honey & Rye, the rain had already turned the sidewalks silver. It was…

Part 1 The first bucket struck Nero across the shoulders. The second landed directly over his head. Nearly four gallons of warm, lavender-scented water poured…

Part 1 “Still hiding behind the dessert tables, Mara?” Grant Hollis’s voice reached her before she saw him. Mara Ellison stood in the private salon…

Part 1 The man blocking Elena Marrow’s apartment door was either dead or very close to it. For three long seconds, she considered stepping over…

Part 1 My bags were already sitting on the front steps when I came home from my father’s funeral. Not suitcases. Trash bags. Three black…

Part 1 The first lamb weighed one hundred fifteen pounds. Eli Warren stared at the glowing numbers as though the scale had accused him of…

Part 1 The red notice appeared on Clara Mercer’s gate before sunrise. It had been fastened to the weathered cedar with four silver staples, one…

Part 1 My clothes were waiting in black garbage bags when I came home on my nineteenth birthday. There were four of them lined up…