By the time the rain began to strike the tall windows of the colonial house…
I was still awake when I heard the front door open at 2:17 in the…
“Get him out of my party!” Janet’s voice cracked across the ballroom like a snapped…
“My husband planned to hand my mansion over to his pregnant secretary, but he never…
I am sixty years old. At this age, people expect certain things from a woman.…
The boardinghouse matron stood in the kitchen doorway with her arms crossed over her broad…
That was when Martha Patterson looked up. She had been bent over her mending on…
The dog came first. He was a lean cattle mutt with a nicked ear and…
Part 1 The wind screamed through the high peaks of the Colorado Rockies and bit…
Part 1 The winter wind moved through the broken cracks of the wooden hut like…