Author: tuantr

Rhett reached for the box slowly. “May I?” She nodded. He opened it and read the first letter. Then the second. Then a third. With…

Annalise did not comment on the dust, the dishes, the cold hearth, the abandoned sewing, or the child whose hair looked like birds might have…

Then Thomas found the spring. No one knew how long it had been there, hidden beneath mesquite roots and stone, seeping cold through a basin…

She studied him. “Why come to me?” “Because I watched you work forty minutes in the rain.” Something shifted in her face. Not softness. Not…

“When did she pass?” “Three years ago.” He moved to the wash basin and worked the pump handle. “Owen was four.” “I’m sorry for that.”…

At last I said, “What is in Pueblo?” “A teaching position at a church school that does not pay enough to live on.” “Before that?”…

“By who?” The name stuck to her tongue. “Josiah Coulton.” The fire cracked. Jeremiah turned his head slowly, and the gentleness left his eyes without…

Elias closed the door behind her. “For what?” “A well-dressed man came through my trading post yesterday asking about a red-haired woman and a little…

“Which are you?” “That depends who is speaking.” “Which do you call yourself?” Cal’s mouth shifted, not quite a smile. “Tired.” Despite herself, Eleanor nearly…