“I was in deep—Texas-size deep.”—EdenEden was supposed to spend Spring Break with her boyfriend in a fabulous resort while sipping Margaritas on the San Pedro beach. “Suppose” being the key word. No matter; she’s still determined to enjoy her Spring Break—despite a disastrous flight, a stolen roo...
Somehow, I was a part of something bigger, something important. Finn and I looked at each other in the blindingly white room of Madame Chantilly’s studio. Neither one of us seemed able to register the enormity of what the fortune-teller was saying. I was the key to squashing the evil holding Emmy...
And then there was what I was doing. I crossed my ankles one way and then the other. I pulled the hem of my skirt so much I could see stress lines in the fabric. I didn’t know how long Alice was going to make me wait in the conference room. The door opened and she walked i...
Jack paced around the suite, anxiously watching me.My feet were propped on pillows. I had barely made it through the double doors of the penthouse. Jack had carried me the rest of the way and deposited me on the couch. He fetched the pillows, a glass of water, and the television remote.“No, stop ...
She rubbed her eyes and sat up. Evan’s jeans were on the floor, along with the rest of their clothes. It wasn’t a dream. She smiled. Fridays were usually studio days, but she had asked Carly if they could take a break today. She needed time with Evan. She took a quick show...
Mary was played by the little girl who lived at the end of the street, and her doting Joseph used to throw spaghetti at me whenever I fixed him dinner.The annual Christmas pageant was always a part of our holiday traditions. It started the first year I was cast as a sheep, and then moved up in th...
I wanted to call my mother and father to share the news. She would immediately start asking about flowers, dresses, and hors d’oeuvres. It was the typical protocol for brides and their mothers, but we’d have to flip through the pages of Brides magazine at another not-so-crucial time. I wanted to ...
Two long, blissful, ravishing, surrendering, intimate days alone and uninterrupted. This hurricane went down as the best-timed storm in her life. The water had halfway receded in the yard, and she and Jay both knew he could drive his Jeep right out in the conditions, but h...
I sniffed every tree, every bush, inspected every footprint in the soil. Case was thorough, but it wasn’t as if Tegan and Abi had vanished. He had them. Somewhere there were clues. I pawed at a broken limb, but it wasn’t a clue. I was reaching. The ...