The doctor from Jamestown had promised to make it down to the hundred by the twenty-fifth of February, but it was only the fifteenth of that month when she felt the first startling pain. She was out in the kitchen with Jonathan when she felt the constriction come around her, like a steel band tig...
Abby’s family had a plot there, a group of tombstones that ran the gamut from the mid-1800s, when the cemetery was founded, to the last burial before this one, when her father had passed away. A lovely low fence surrounded the small plot. The number of people who’d come to the church ceremony and...
It was a big, beautiful ceremony celebrated in St. Stephen's. Gayle wore a white gown with a massive train and a million tiny seed pearls, which she and Liz and Tina and Mary Richardson—Brent's housekeeper—had spent half the night sewing onto it. Brent wore a tailed tux and a ruffled blue shirt t...
He didn’t stretch his arms out over the covers—he knew that she was gone. How strange, he thought, to have had a night so sweet and spectacular, and to awaken now, feeling so pained and miserable! She still wouldn’t let him speak. She didn’t want to hear the truth. She wouldn’t believe anything i...
When Madison stepped outside to wait for Eddie Archer, she felt as though the day itself was in mourning for Jenny Henderson and the Archer family. It was just the beginning of summer, and in the past few days the sky had been powder-blue with wonderful puffs of snow-white...
Avery wasn’t responsible,” Sloan said.The scene was a repetition of the previous morning. Only now, it was Denise Avery who lay at the foot of the stairs, her neck broken.Sloan looked at Logan, who’d been on guard duty. “What happened?”“She was never on the second level to descend to the first,” ...
It was ruled by the great Duke Fiorelli, and beneath him, in power in their feudal lands, were two renowned warrior counts, the lords of Lendo and Baristo. Calasia, governed by the great Duke Fiorelli, prospered, laws were just, and art and music were loved and enjoyed. But to the south lived the...