In Desert City, Arizona former cop Mitch Valetti finds a silver urn containing ashes on the side of a remote country road that heads to his ranch. Obviously someone somehow lost a cherished memory. Mitch feels renewed for the first time since almost losing his life in the line of duty. He vows to...
Aware, too, of muffled sobs. Her fingernails bit into her palms. This had nothing to do with Corbett. It was a different time, a different place. Anyway, no one in the arena that day believed she could’ve saved Corbett. But she could save Dustin Spencer. She had her phone and she had her wits. An...
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Andee knelt and said, “I brought you a piece of chicken. Sorry, I didn’t get a hamburger.” The dog scarfed down the meat and licked his chops. He nudged Andee’s hand for more and lapped at her fingers. “Hey, mooch.” Flynn pulled him aside. “You’ll g...
They were nice guys who made Seth feel welcome. He soon learned this wasn’t their first rodeo when it came to roofing barns. They gossiped and razzed one another throughout, but the project got done quicker than Seth and Zeke had thought. At noon the men’s wives showed up with a potluck. Seth fou...
Zoey Bannerman flopped down on her best friend Brandy Evers’s couch and accepted a bowl of potato chips. “Thanks. The Open House at the junior high was the worst! Did you hear that snarky Heather Reed say I dress like a cowboy? She said Jay Lowery and all his friends call me a loser.” ...
Seated on the floor, Sylvie was busy stitching a final row of seed pearls around the hem of an ivory satin wedding dress. The commotion outside, unusual to say the least, enticed her to abandon her project. Her rustic log cabin, nestled into the base of the Great Smoky Mountains, didn’t exactly s...
Was Sherry aware of the talk? he wondered. He’d lashed out at Nolan in a knee-jerk reaction, but Garrett knew how conservative college administrators could be—and how they reacted to news of divorce or hanky-panky involving staff. They got nervous. Very nervous. And that didn’t even address his p...
Starr gave him money to pay the delivery man and on impulse mentioned Barclay McLeod. “To what do we owe the visit from Mr. Barclay McLeod?” The portly gentleman smiled. “Such a nice young fellow. So polite. Mrs. Blevins is still in a swoon.” He winked. “Just joshing. Actually it was good to disc...
It was true; there was no sign of Joel’s sun-streaked hair breaking the water. Whitaker Lake wasn’t very deep. But Sylvie knew it originated from an icy stream that ran through her woods, and that the stream was fed by mountain snows. Not only that, the lake was murky. You...