In the book Sweet Waters, there’s nothing left for Tara Sweet in Dexton, Missouri. Her fiancé called off their wedding, her sister is moving to Manhattan, and now her mother is marrying a much younger man with plans for an extended honeymoon in Europe. Tara believes a move back to her childhood h...
Still, with several large sponsors pledging their support—including the possibility of a large contribution from the Otter Bay Banking Association—I could smell success on the horizon. It was Friday morning and my other duty called, the one that helped me pay my mortgage. ...
She took a hesitant glance at the property next to hers and noticed the sign of things to come—lot markers. Wooden posts, each with florescent-orange painted tips stuck up through the earth like daggers in the soil, outlining the shape of her heartbreak. Were these the ones that had disappeared? ...