Author: tuantr

“Have you?” His eyes moved toward her, then away. Black Hollow Ranch appeared beyond a bend in the road, a collection of structures resting under…

“Where is he?” Ren asked. “Kitchen. I told him you were coming.” “How did he take that?” “He put down his fork, stared at the…

He waited three days. That was how I knew he was frightened. A man who believes himself righteous storms through the front door before breakfast,…

That reaction only made him more suspicious, and within minutes, two security officers and the night manager arrived. They searched the hallway and checked the…

That was what frightened Silas most. Had she wept, had she struck him, had she demanded answers loud enough for the whole of Red Willow…

For one strange moment, neither of them spoke. Fiona had imagined this man a hundred different ways during the journey from Denver. She had pictured…

Clara had not slept so much as lain beneath the quilt and listened to the house breathe around her. Boards creaked when no one walked…

She saw the small grave beneath the willow tree back east. She saw the blanket she had folded after her daughter no longer needed it….

## PART ONE ### The Price of a Daughter The last thing Abigail Carter heard before her father sold her was the sound of her…