Author: tuantr

PART ONE THE FOUR CHILDREN ON THE PORCH The smallest boy took Clara Bennett’s hand before she had decided whether to stay, and in that…

PART ONE THE FOUR CHILDREN ON THE PORCH The smallest boy took Clara Bennett’s hand before she had decided whether to stay, and in that…

## PART ONE — THE CHILDREN IN THE DUST The first thing Cal Whitmore noticed about the abandoned girl was not her broken leg. It…

PART ONE THE PALE BLUE DRESS The day Elias Crane laughed at eight-year-old Clara Vale, the snow had not yet covered the graves on Copper…

PART ONE — THE WOMAN IN THE RAIN The first time Naomi Vale saw Horseshoe Hollow, she was standing outside its iron gate in a…

PART ONE THE GIRLS WHO CHOSE ME The telephone stopped ringing, but Helen Pritchard’s anger remained in the room like smoke after a lamp had…

## Part 1 – The House That Still Had Light My name is **Beatrice Daniels**, and if you had walked through Portland, Oregon, in the…

PART ONE THE SOUND OF LEAVING The first thing Bethany Good remembered was the sound of her husband’s wagon leaving her to die. Not the…

PART ONE — THE DAY OF LAUGHTER The first thing Ruth Bell remembered about Copper Bluff was not the snow, the church bell, or the…