I called, letting the screen door slam behind me. “You were lucky. The person who borrowed it only returned the book an hour before I got there.” “We’re in the kitchen baking cakes.” Ken’s voice was followed by a muffled giggle from Mum. As I poked my head through the kitchen doorway I rolled my ...
I accept that. However, what Ben forgot to mention was what I was supposed to look for while behind closed doors. Size ten boots with half my garden attached to them? First things first, though. Question one would be had Mick seen Erin? Question two, like Little Red Riding Hood, did Mick really v...
Operating on auto pilot, I walked inside, lit the fire, dragged a rug from my bed and curled up on the couch. Now that Simon’s arms were no longer around me, the enormity of a killer leaving poisoned bread on my doorstep hit me with a punch to the stomach. Who wanted me dead? And why? Okay, let’s...
Even if the branch didn’t break and dump me under the bull’s stamping feet—I’d probably lose my balance and fall and end up as mashed potato. What a fantastic adventure. Not. I couldn’t wait to tell Noah what I thought of his sucky double-dare. My throat felt full of rocks. When I opened my mouth...
Here one minute—poof—gone the next. Had she merely bumped into a new group of protesters and marched off into the sunset, all primed to right another wrong? Or was there something more sinister to her second disappearance after talking to Bob Germaine? As we drove from the hospital to Kenny Gilbe...