By noon the marble had begun to throw the heat back at the living. Light lay hard and white over Arlington National Cemetery,…
The sound arrived before the motorcycles did. It came low through the winter-dark like distant thunder dragged along the earth, a rolling vibration…
I The first thing Alejandro noticed was the red. It lived behind glass on the second floor of the Aurora Galleria like a…
The first thing she noticed was that the young process server had polished his shoes. It seemed an absurd detail to matter…
By the time Elena Ward turned into her parents’ circular drive, dusk had already lowered itself over the street in a soft blue…
By the time Crystal turned onto Sycamore Lane, dusk had already settled into the bare branches, and the windows of her parents’ house…
The soda can struck the marble edge with a blunt metallic crack, spun once in the hard white sunlight, and burst against the…
PART I By the time Thatcher Sterling laughed at her across a white tablecloth and a tower of oyster shells, Rowan Harrison had…
He called me “sweetheart” in front of everyone… and had no idea he was seconds away from dropping his glass. I didn’t raise…
The soda can struck the marble edge with a blunt metallic crack, spun once in the hard white sunlight, and burst against the…