With it raining like Noah’s flood and ACB yakking nonstop, it’d be a long trip to Auburn Correctional Facility, the home of the first electric chair. She was in the backseat, refreshing her makeup, which meant more coats of everything. When she pulled out a gallon jug of p...
Dad . . . what are you doing here?” I asked, giving and receiving hugs. “We got a call that you needed some help,” Mom said. “How are you feeling, honey?” “I’m okay. I wish I could do more, but luckily I have help. Aunt Stella is here with her frien...
“Trixie, you barely ate any of your meatball sub. Let me get you another one, a fresher one.” “Box it to go, please, Nancy. As long as everything is running smoothly here, I think maybe I’ll take another nap.” “I’ll take care of that sub, boss, and ...
Maybe now she'd be quiet so he could really sleep. He was kidding himself. He couldn't sleep now. He'd had his testosterone all reined in before he slipped into bed, but now, after Kate woke him up, all he wanted to do was to run his hands over every inch of her skin and kiss her until they were ...
Every afternoon since Kevin had entered the Gold Buckle Ranch contest, he had wheeled himself down to the mailbox at the foot of the driveway at three-thirty sharp in the hope that a letter would come from Wyoming, informing him that he was a winner. He had on his black cowboy hat as usual, the o...
The wide mahogany floors gleamed in the late-afternoon sun, and she could see the deep, blue, spring-fed lake through the arched, beveled windows.There was natural, beaded fir on the cathedral ceiling, accented by arched cherry trusses. This style carried through in the six bedrooms throughout th...
Right now.” He was dressed in his sheriff’s uniform, and I didn’t want to scare off Buddy. Ty didn’t miss a beat. He snapped his fingers as if he forgot something, and left. I went out the back door and was going to meet him out front, but he was wa...
A thrill of excitement shot through me as I stood in front of the Silver Bullet Diner. It was still hard to think of it as my diner, but the wad of keys in my pocket assured me that it was. It was mid-March in upstate New York, Sandy Harbor to be exact, and the snow was falling in big fat flakes,...
The cowboys showed the boys how to slap their ropes gently against their thighs to get the cows moving together so they could take them to their summer grazing grounds. Most of the cattle were branded with SRR, for Joe’s Silver River Ranch, though there were many yearlings without a brand. And ju...
No one's in sight," Jack whispered. Sara walked out of Seawind's stable, dressed again in her pale green lawn gown with the ruffled hem and puffy elbow-length sleeves. It was the lightest summer gown she owned, but the unforgiving sun was making her perspire. Or perhaps it was the thrilling ride ...