She knew Yuma was behind her. She could hear his footsteps, but she wouldn’t look back, couldn’t look back and see the sympathy on his face. Even though she wasn’t leaving today, the cord had been cut from all she’d known. Pain would come, but not now. Not when everything for which she’d been bor...
The windshield wipers swiped aimlessly at the downpour as he took the curves on two wheels, coming dangerously close more than once to running off the road. He was frustrated with himself for paying any heed to Prince and going to Meg Lewis’s house. He’d known it would be a disaster, and yet he’d...
Immobile, he contemplated the bright light of day through the slits in his eyelids and the fact that there was nothing between his head and the hard packed earth but his hat. He’d passed out in the alley, which meant he hadn’t made it to his room, after all. He knew where he was because he recogn...
He paused just long enough to see the color squirting out of the bottle onto Patty June’s head and then he was gone. After that, he finished his route, delivering the morning’s mail with a little dose of gossip.The regular delivery boy for Pots and Posies was laid up at home with a broken arm, le...
When she saw it was Brendan, she smiled.She’d never been in love like this before. The simple act of watching him walk into a room made her weak in the knees.“Hi, Brendan, is everything okay?”“It is now. Are you two all right?”“We’re fine. Your mother is a sweetheart. She’s been asleep almost eve...
They had a shipment ready to go out tomorrow to a wholesale flower market in Louisville, and that driver was always on time.But the whole time he was working, he was thinking of his cash crop. Keeping thieves out of the marijuana patches was an ongoing problem. Someone was still helping themselve...
He knew the minute he started toward the house that had once been his home it was going to be an ugly confrontation, but the whole thing was ugly and way past due, so what the hell. The light was still on in the living room, which was a sign his dad was still up. He skidde...