Home from Ever True Cemetery with Troy and Elle, rain-spattered and muddy, Laura had found Maggie meditating in the living room, and Laura had basked in the light of her peace. Until Laura had followed Troy upstairs and discovered her daughter missing, the evidence trail as troubling as her absen...
Third try in a row, Abby set her index finger at the beginning of her newly acquired desk toy, a two-sided sand labyrinth she’d casually admired at Lily Beth’s shop, Heart Stone, and then purchased on a whim. She pushed her finger through the grit of sand along a winding path that thus far had fa...
played in Katherine’s head, The Mamas and the Papas crooning about the lack of guarantees. She hadn’t thought of the tune in years. Now it arrived uninvited, clear as the daybreak that was yet to dawn, every word enunciated, on key, and emotionally true. Come nightfall, would Celeste and Zach rem...