He’d dropped Savannah off at the entrance so she wouldn’t have far to walk and his mother must have seen her come in. Now she waited. The stance was one he’d seen a time or two before. He was in trouble. “Eleanor, you look very nice,” Jack said dutifully, leaning down to k...
Back when we went through nursing school she seemed super-smart, super-hilarious, and best of all, kind. So, so kind. But now, when I need her the most, I find that she’s not kind at all. My stomach is churning like a Cat 5 hurricane and my so-called friend is timing my ginger ale sips. &nb...
Rain fell, a steady drumbeat on the rooftop and windowpane. He turned back to his bed where Esme lay sleeping. Around her slender neck, she wore the pearls he remembered to give her some time before dawn. Her hair lay cast across the pillow, one tendril over her pale shoulder. The sight of her st...
A lush Hawaiian sunset spread across the horizon, hues of pink and red. Theo waited at a pavilion at the water’s edge. Dressed in a tux, he stood beside his father and a half-dozen friends. Most of them, even his father, were fellow ex-Marines. The Honorable Judge Luke Cal...
They sold their bungalow a couple of years ago when I bought them the beach house on Padre Island. The town is full of retirees. George can catch his limit every day if he wants and Emily is able to grow every type of rose known to man. They stay really busy. Every night they have dinner at some ...