Thanksgiving Day. The café wouldn’t be open for breakfast but she’d still have to get in relatively early to make sure the Thanksgiving meal for forty people was ready by one when the first group of twenty was coming. She and Zach were planning to meet at seven to get things going. &n...
She quickly realized that and closed it without saying anything. Finally she asked, “Who was the victim?” “I can’t tell you that.” “If I guessed could you tell me yes or no?” “Off the record,” he said slowly. She knew she was...
All she’d done so far was bake bread, get coffee ready and plan what else would be on the menu. But she hadn’t made any waffle batter, arranged her cooking space or even gotten ingredients out. She’d only put them away. She glanced at the clock and saw that she had five mi...
She drove a short distance down the road and then turned her car around and waited. She wanted to see if Stanley came straight home after Nora’s house. She didn’t know what she would do when he arrived, but she felt like she had to wait. Only a few minutes after she parked...
They’d grown up together and gone through grade school together. Nora had teased Kori about Zach as kids. Nora was sure that Zach had a crush on Kori. At first she just wasn’t interested. But when boys started becoming an interest, she lost all of her confidence and though...