
Part 1 The morning of Erik Lindquist’s burial came clear and cold, with a hard blue sky stretched over the prairie and a wind that…

Part 1 Steve Miller turned eighteen under fluorescent lights that made everybody look tired. The county foster home sat on a rise above a damp…

Part 1 The sound that ended her childhood was almost nothing. Just the light click of a latch settling into place. No slam. No shouting.…

Part 1 The cold did not blow in that evening. It sat over the town like judgment. It pressed low against the roofs, turned every…

Part 1 In the winter of 1912, the Ozarks still had enough empty country left in them for a person to disappear without the land…

The Sisters at Thorn Ridge Hollow Part I By the time anyone outside the mountains might have cared what happened at Thorn Ridge Hollow, the…

Part 1 In 1852, there was a ledger in Lafourche Parish that should not have existed. It was not unusual in itself. Louisiana was built…

The Red Ledger Part I In the autumn of 1851, New Orleans was a city that smelled of perfume laid over rot. By daylight it…

Part 1 By 1873, people in the mountains of eastern Kentucky had learned two kinds of silence. There was the ordinary kind, the kind that…

The Sinking Creek Covenant Part I Long before West Virginia had a name of its own, when it was still a hard western shoulder of…





