She'd been hounded by reporters from Atlanta, as well as the local papers. The Macon Telegraph had treated the case as local news, since Florence was only thirty miles away. Someone in the police station when her attacker had been taken in, had run with the story. Sunday papers plastered his pict...
Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. ISBN 10: {Number Here} ISBN 13: {Number Here} The Claiming of Zoe: S...
“Doesn’t look like it’ll rain,” one of the men offered. “No, I don’t think so either,” Steve agreed. “Silo filling’s up for this week,” another added. Steve nodded, taking his place at the end of the line. The murmur of the conversation rose and fell around him. Other men came down the line to sh...
Thank God for the cocaine Freud was on daily. It made him quite chatty, and he constantly expounded to anyone who would listen on all he found. Fortunately, he seldom left his house. Others may have stolen these ideas if it wasn’t for Freud’s clever nephew, little Eddie Bernays listening to Freud...
Despite, or perhaps because of, his irritation with Oscar’s early arrival and at a loss as to what to do with him, Mr Willis had reluctantly agreed to allow Oscar access to the Wren Library, a privilege usually granted only to members of the College. Every morning after breakfast, Oscar gathered ...
Richard asked, stumbling again behind me. “What’s wrong? Can I do anything?” I stopped and turned. “I’m being sought. By my family. One of their—one of the folks they sent to find me has been here.” “The gray fox?” he asked. I’d forgotten that he, too, had been scenting as a wolf. I nodded. “Let’...
I always knew. Other little girls played school or house with their dolls. I played Mindwalker. I’d set Nutter or Freddy Frog on a stool and have conversations with them about their traumatic pasts, then put a plastic teacup on their heads and pretend it was a Gate. At age ten, I would sit at the...
His cock was hard, pushing against his jeans, begging for release. When he reached the bed, Chase was already there, his arms open, ready to take their woman. He knew that they needed to spend some time with her, touching her and calming her down before they could take her together. Already, in s...
I was put into a cell with Chump Charlie, Big Loony, and a tall, skinny, dried-up Mississippi red neck called Pappy Calhoun. It wasn’t as tough in the cells as it had been before because in some miraculous manner, during our stay in 2-6, we had changed from “agitators” into legitimate cripples. H...
The refrigerator door opened and shut. Soon she was staring at me from the doorway. A purple Popsicle dripped down her arm and stained her mouth. "You can't make Sissy go away," Emma said. "She'll be my friend forever, no matter what." Her face was closed off and hostile. Grumpy and out of sorts ...
Jason stroked my hair as we watched a movie. “I want to be with you, Cora,” the handsome male lead said, followed by a shot of Julia, who was playing an everyday hotel cashier who fell in love with a movie star staying in her hotel. “But what about your life - your career?” “We can work around th...
The names of the girls were sent to Vasquez and she was working double-time to find any identifying markers that would match closely enough to whom they knew to be Arlen Tucker. It would still take time if one of the names was a match to track down this person, but it would get them a step closer...
With perverse irony, the pounding of her chest carried her to childhood, and a memory. She had been no more than a wee thing when she found a frantic little sparrow trapped within the stillroom, a dank dark place. How the bird managed to find its way inside the room heavy with the scent of ma...
Well — my parents’ kitchen, but he’s here for me. He’s making me breakfast and I just — let him. Confessing my feelings should go easier than I thought. I hear drawers open and close from inside the kitchen. I hope he doesn’t ask me where anything is; I don’t know my way around this house. I shou...
Gadi answered on the first ring and began reporting without wasting time. “While you were having a good time with Liah over the weekend, I was working. One of O’Hara’s employees went to the TDO offices during the weekend impersonating a detective, you know, false IDs and everything, only to hear ...