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THE MAFIA KING ORDERED HIS SHY SECRETARY TO SIT BESIDE HIM—THEN MADE THE WHOLE ROOM WATCH HER TAKE THE SEAT THEY SAID SHE NEVER DESERVED…

The first thing Decker Hail saw was not her face. It was the blood. It soaked through the wad of gauze pressed against her side…

Part 1 There was a stretch of the northern Maine coast where, according to the men who worked it, the shore did not always keep…

The first snowflake landed on Clara Bennett’s sleeve while she was carrying the last sack of potatoes up the mountain. She stopped beneath the limestone…

The night the wind came for the plains, Clara Hargrove was standing at the mouth of the broken root cellar with dirt on her sleeves,…

## Part 1 In the winter of 1891, in a hollow so far up the mountain that the mapmakers had left it blank, Elias Ainsworth…

The first knock came from under the floor. Sarah Hutchinson did not move. She stood beside the dying fire with an iron poker in one…

The first warning did not come from the storm. It came from the dog. Lien woke before sunrise to a bark so sharp that it…

Clara Mercer had already made peace with the worst thing she believed she would have to do that morning. The revolver in her hand was…