In a few minutes they would eat Vera’s hamburger soup, along with the sandwiches Jemima had packed in the cooler and the apple bars Abby pulled out of her seemingly bottomless picnic basket. Then James and the Lambrights would return to Cedar Creek. And Jerome would go home. &nb...
How could he apologize again and get Rosemary talking to him if no one picked up? It would be so helpful to hear her voice, to regain the confidence he’d felt in her kiss— A loud knocking on the windowpane startled him out of his thoughts. “This isn’t your private phone, M...
The CLOSED sign would stay in the front window because he wasn’t ready to deal with people, but coming here to work offered his only chance at regaining some peace… some perspective, after all the surprises of the past weekend. Running the Members’ Meeting through his mind ag...
The Lambrights had hosted all of them for Thanksgiving dinner yesterday, and the men had removed the pew benches from the house, so today—at last—she could collapse. James would return to work in his shop and Abby would be packing up her sewing supplies at the mercantile. The newlyweds wouldn’t b...