Pushing Griffin away was the last thing she wanted to do, even though she knew she had to. Overwhelmed with sadness, she sat down on the stone steps of the folly. Was she making a mistake? There was no one to ask. A text came through. It won’t work ...
Anna said as she watched me refill my wineglass. “What’s wrong?” We’d closed the shop for l’heure déjeuner as usual at twelve thirty and, since it was the first sunny day in two weeks, brought our lunch out into the garden. The velvety ruby and pink pastel roses were open,...
We entered through the zoo entrance and as soon as we left the traffic and the exhaust of Fifth Avenue, I took a deep breath, inhaling the fresher air. If you live in the suburbs you don’t understand how important a park becomes to city dwellers. Especially in the summer. Most of us know every in...
It was dark in the foyer. Allison didn’t come in until eight and those who scheduled earlier sessions had to fend for themselves. Dark, cavernous spaces never spooked me, but that morning I was already nervous, and I didn’t like being there alone or hearing my footsteps echo on the marble. Flippi...
But today she felt as restless as her little sister, who was playing with the hem of her dress even though their mother had twice pulled the child’s hands away. The site of the church had been a temple to the Egyptian goddess Isis hundreds of years earlier, and that was one of the reasons she loo...
They were all sitting at the round dining room table in Jeremy’s house and trying to make sense of the clues they’d amassed, Meer’s memories and information Sebastian was looking up in books from Jeremy’s library and on the Internet. “You mentioned a staircase in the Society,” Malachai said. “Whe...
He needed to walk, to take in huge gulps of the cool air, to stare up at the sky—at the constant sky—the one thing that would not have changed in the past two millennia. He assumed the gray sedan would follow after him, and if it didn’t, he’d just stick to the main thoroughfares Gabriella had map...