Gone was the high school and college girl who went to heavy metal concerts from Seattle to San Francisco. In her place was a woman who preferred recitals to arena rock and string quartets to electric guitars, a woman who wore a shimmering new engagement ring. She placed her hands over her ears an...
"Zelda does wonders.""I'll say."Zelda Zubiria needed no introduction at their table for four. The owner, operator, and head instructor at the oldest and most prominent dance studio in north Seattle had turned hundreds of dead hoofers into ducky shincrackers. Humbled by his showing at Lake Wildern...
She smiled when she saw him park his green plastic car on an undesirable space and shake his head."Eight thousand?" Rick asked. "Is that all teachers make?""That's all – unless they invest wisely or gamble on the side," Ginny said. She smiled at the boy who would become her great uncle. "You'll g...
Your name really is Sadie Hawkins?"Sadie looked at Kevin with puzzled eyes and nodded."Is there anything wrong with that?"Kevin laughed."No. It's a pretty name. I've just heard it before."Sadie wasn't at all sure that Kevin Johnson wasn't making fun of her, but even if he was she didn't care. He ...
She wanted this discussion just as surely as he did not."Give it a few days. That's all I ask.""Give what a few days, Alistair?" she asked as she caught him by the back door. "You bring a strange woman home with you and you expect me simply to set another plate at the table?""What you really mean...