Author: tuantr

The alley smelled like rust and rain that hadn’t fallen yet. Valerie’s headlights swept across a stained brick wall, a row of overturned trash bins,…

Frank had the answer before noon, the way he always did. The penthouse floor Dante occupied in Midtown cost more each month than Amelia Ward…

Knox’s words hung on the line long after he’d said them. Her mother’s dying in a South Side hospital. And her younger sister isn’t missing….

She never got a straight answer. That was the thing Audrey learned fastest at the Mercer estate — there were no straight answers, only things…

She didn’t have an answer. Not one she could say out loud, standing in the middle of that glass tomb of a penthouse with a…

“What are you doing here, then?” “The owner died. His son turned the hotel into offices.” Clara stirred the broth. “After that, I worked in…

“You knew?” she asked Luke. His face darkened beneath the sunburn. “I assumed your father had told you.” “You sat there while I spoke without…

“Do you imagine Wade would marry a woman who speaks this way?” “He will marry beauty, because men always do.” “Then bake your own tart.”…

“Cold compared to what?” She had not understood. William leaned forward. “A fox survives because the snow over its den stops the wind. A man…