It sure isn’t, Maureen thought as Dave climbed off her, tossing one leg to her side of the bed. But he had never commented on it before. “I’m sorry. What?” Maureen pushed her sweaty hair out of her eyes. Not her sweat, she thought with a little grimace. She never got around to working up a sweat ...
Hope had twins, a boy and a girl, who were just starting high school this year, and last year’s school pictures stared back at Lindsey. Before coming to this job, Lindsey had been concerned that her age would be a problem for Hope and Evan. She was younger than both of them, and even though she h...
The motion-sensitive light her dad had installed was on the fritz again, but the moon and the snow were bright enough that she could see that all dogs were present and accounted for. They were all sort of freaking out in the snow—it didn’t happen very often—and Diablo kept jumping up and snapping...
She stood there dumbly, not quite taking in what was going on. Katie kept yelling, “Horse loose,” and, sure, there was a part in the back of Mal’s mind that understood that she had left the gate open and that, because of her, a horse was running toward the road and freedom, but that part of her m...
He also didn’t like not knowing why. They were more than just colleagues. They were friends. They shared things. But he also didn’t like that he didn’t like that Helen didn’t share everything with him. That was her prerogative, and he needed to respect it. He just hated to see her upset. And mayb...