
Part 1 The man who had promised to marry Eliza Turner looked at her limp, then drove away without saying a word. That was the…

Part 1 The sun had no mercy that afternoon. It hung over the desert like a white-hot coin, burning the color out of the sky…

Part 1 The stable door was barred from the outside. Eli Mercer noticed that before he noticed the blood. He had ridden twelve miles through…

Part 1 The heat came down on Promise, Dakota Territory, like something with a temper. By the middle of August in 1883, the streets of…

Part 1 The first thing Mara Venn noticed was that the windows were wrong. They sat too low. Not low in the charming way of…

Part 1 The first thing Dr. Mara Ellison noticed about the old asylum was that it did not look abandoned. Not truly. Abandoned buildings sagged.…

Part 1 Dr. James Whitaker reached Riverwood Plantation just after noon on August 2, 1852, with thunder swelling low over the marshes and the smell…

Part 1 The hidden room was discovered because the wall would not take a nail. In the summer of 1962, the old DeLaqua mansion on…

Part 1 In the winter of 1887, the trees north of Kaska, Michigan, were old enough to remember things men had forgotten. They stood in…

Part 1 On the morning of August 23, 1848, Richard Caldwell found the carriage half-swallowed by river mud. It sat crooked on the eastern bank…





