She took a chair across from him and noted the title— Old Yeller. Annie had cried when she’d read the novel at his age and when she’d seen the movie as an adult. “Hey, Mom.” “Are you enjoying that story now as much as you did when you were younger?” His class’s English assignment had been to pick...
When Spence couldn’t contain what was inside him, he threw himself into his work. But Cole Porter Matheson was different. He turned to his music, as his dad had taught him to do.He’d phoned Joey on the way home from the lake and Joe answered his cell from his home. Kara had sprained her ankle exe...
Nick grumbled as he dragged the ladder he found on the side lawn and propped it up against the back of the house. “I’ll get arrested as a peeping tom, I won’t be able to work with kids and I’ll lose my pension.”“Poor baby,” Brie said. “Why don’t you let me do it? This was my idea after all.”After...
Twilight peeked in through the kitchen window as Kurt faced his older brother and willed himself not to shrink from Mitch’s icy green gaze. They’d had several volatile discussions over the past eleven months, three days and several hours. Their disagreements had rivaled those they’d had when Mitc...
Dana might be home.” Ruth’s words, though hushed, made their way from the foyer back to the exercise room, where Dana was lifting hand weights. It was nighttime, and Jeremy had picked Ruth up earlier that evening, so she wouldn’t have seen Dana’s car in the garage.“I don’t care if she is home. Sh...