The Mafia boss challenged a broke waitress to three rounds just to humble her, but when she removed her glove, one small object made his trusted lieutenant suddenly stop smiling…

The riding crop struck Claire Bennett’s arm before anyone in the marble hallway decided whether they had actually seen it. The second strike came harder….

The first man never heard Claire Bennett leave the cardboard shelter. One second he was pressing a pistol against Dominic Calloway’s neck in a rain…

Claire Bennett heard the first man enter the archive while her hand was still inside the locked cabinet. A wet shoe squeaked against the tile…

Part 1 By the time Mara Bell realized the freight wagon was not coming back, the water in her tin cup had already begun to…

Nora Bennett noticed the wrong initials at 11:47 on the first night of her marriage. They were printed in tiny black letters on a syringe…

The first time Nora Hale looked at me like I was someone she might trust, she was trapped beneath the weight of a falling bookshelf…