She knew enough English to understand the lady officer’s words all too well. Danilo had been kidnapped, and it was her fault he had been taken.I’m the one they wanted.Fear clenched her stomach. Pablo had found her again. First he’d killed Lupe, then burned down Isabel’s house. Now he’d stolen awa...
Abigail murmured, staring down at the red-brown liver in her hands. “The dead teach the living.” John nodded at the stainless steel scales. “Lay it down there. We’re going to weigh it first.” Abigail glanced at him as she laid the spongy organ in the scale. “You can translate when you try.” “I ca...
Camilla stood at the doorway of Jamie’s room with a breakfast tray, bringing with her the smell of sausage and eggs and Portia’s biscuits. She walked in, noting the fading yellowish cast of her brother’s face and the slight droop of his eyelids. The entire family was concerned that after a week h...
In a city full of dark-skinned people, this wouldn’t have been difficult if her mother hadn’t insisted she make the twenty-four-hour flight in the traditional Pakistani shalwar kameez. “Jarrar will expect his bride to be properly dressed for the first meeting,” Ammi had told her, adjusting the em...