I owed him that after my efforts to find Betsy without him. I knew it always upset him when I struck out on my own. Sometimes, I just couldn’t help it. It was going to mean getting another lecture, but I was going to have to suck it up. No matter what, he was a good friend of the family and a goo...
There was only one, two-lane road that ran the whole length of the Outer Banks. It connected the hospital in Kill Devil Hills to our home in Duck. “It’s a wreck,” Gramps warned before he got there. “I’m sure you can imagine what it’s like.” I couldn...
In the immortal words of Charles Dickens: “There can be no doubt about that.”She was also blue—deep blue, a dark shade, not a nice sky blue—from the tips of her toes to the top of her flaming red hair. I had something to do with the blue part, which was why I was at her cottage in Renaissance Fai...