they told her the rocky hillside would never grow a crop, but the peppers she planted there saved her family farm and changed the county forever

Part 1 The clerk said five dollars, and half the room laughed. I did not. Five dollars was nearly a quarter of what I had…

Part 1 At three in the afternoon, the horizon disappeared. I had been standing beside the stable entrance with a hammer in my hand when…

Part 1 The morning I turned nineteen, somebody set my belongings on a plastic chair beside the emergency exit and told me I had until…

Emily Carter knew the photograph existed three minutes before the man who had once promised to marry her called her fat in front of half…

The blue paint hit Adrian Cole before anyone in Claire Bennett’s studio realized she had actually thrown it. One second, Boston’s most feared businessman was…

Emily Carter knew something was wrong when her eight month old son stopped crying. Noah had screamed through the entire drive to the emergency room,…