Chapter 1 They left her hanging from a bent cottonwood tree, her arms tied behind her back, ankles dragging in the snow, and a crude wooden sign nailed above her head that read: “Indian lover. Her name was Sylvie Carrick, and the men who left her there hadn’t said a word — just did what…
Chapter 1 In May of 1976, at the Murray McMurray Hatchery on the southern edge of Webster City, Iowa, a thirty-eight-year-old rancher named Mave Yoder paid $560 in cash for eighty Toulouse goslings and five Emden ganders. The goslings were a week old. They sold for $6.25 apiece. The ganders sold for eighteen. Mave Yoder…
Part 1 The moment everything became irreversible happened under chandelier light at the Plaza, with half of Manhattan watching and a society reporter’s camera already raised. One minute Mara Tinsdale was standing outside the powder room in a black dress, still shaking from a confrontation with his ex-fiancée that had been elegant on the surface…
Part 1 The envelope was heavy cream stock — the kind that announced itself before you opened it. I turned it over twice before I understood what I was holding. A wedding invitation. Garrett Hale was getting married. To Sienna — the woman he had left me for three years ago — and he had…
Part 1 “You can scream,” he said. “But the men downstairs will assume I’ve lost my patience, and the police will assume you’re exactly where your fiancé reported you missing from.” I sat on a slate-gray sofa forty floors above Midtown Manhattan in yesterday’s cocktail dress, my shoes gone, my bag gone, my phone gone….
“I came to give my mom’s ring back.” The little girl walked into the mafia billionaire’s tower — And the truth made him burn down the life his family built Manhattan was drowning under cold November rain when the little girl walked into Marchetti Tower carrying the past in her coat pocket. Outside: taxis through…
Part 1 The bedroom door was unlocked. Nora Vale told herself that meant nothing — that it was carelessness, a security lapse, coincidence. She told herself this as she pushed it open. She told herself this as she stepped through it. She stopped telling herself things when she saw that he was already awake. Midnight….
Chapter 1 The fever had taken three warriors already, and now it burned in their chief’s eyes. Emma stumbled into the Lakota camp at sunset, her dress torn and feet bleeding, pursued by nothing but her own desperation and the memory of her husband’s fists. She had been running for two days through the prairie,…
Chapter 1 His name was Callum Rearen. He was thirty-six years old, and in November of 1879, for the first time in eight years, he came down from the Wind River Range six weeks early. He told himself it was the weather. The truth was simpler and considerably more uncomfortable. For the first time in…
Chapter 1 “I’ll give you all my cattle. Just make me a mother. Martha Ellery’s voice broke as she faced the tall Apache standing in the shadow of her barn. Two months had passed since her husband left, declaring to everyone in Cold Harrow that she was barren as the winter hills. Ahiv studied the…
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