I looked at magazines while Mason called Lem to get detailed directions to his place. It was easy for us to get lost in the city. I couldn’t make up my mind to look at Playboy or Western Horseman, so I looked at both. While I was reading about studs and halters and hindquarters in one magazine, p...
She was sitting next to him in the truck as they bounced their way down the dirt roads towards Shifter Grove for the first time. He’d managed to hide her away at his place for several days, but his lack of planning had caught up with him. There wasn’t enough food and he only had one towel at the ...
Three hundred thousand dollars! Who would have imagined that? And nothing for her husband, after all he had done for his brother? They had always seemed so close. She was sure that Zoë hadn’t known she was revealing her family’s secret when she mentioned the money to her grandmother. But you neve...
The bile rose in Gabe’s throat, a reaction born of both fear and of spying the man he loathed more than any other on earth. During the few months that followed laying his son to rest, he’d become consumed with making Jacob’s death count for some higher cause. And it had ...
I guessed he was in the workshop with Dale and, noting the time, also guessed we’d have a guest for lunch. Accordingly, I made three grilled-cheese sandwiches, set out a jar of pickles, and filled a large bowl with potato chips. Dale and Gabe came in right on time, and I a...
Fear threatened to overtake her. She’d accidentally seen him transform from a hawk to a man, then watched him brutally kill three men. What was their crime? She wondered while traipsing along behind him. He still had not uttered a word in his defense. He worked quickly to build a fire in the pit ...
I was about to drive away, but she came over to the car and leaned in the window. “I just passed my ex-husband’s pregnant wife on her way into the store,” she said. Claire’s such a private person, and we’re not close. I’ve rarely seen her, except from a distance, since that night a couple of year...
Two stories of patrons looked down on Sean as he neared the end of his set, his shirt long gone, sweat covering his muscled chest and shining in the lights. Behind him, Kell kept an eye on the crowd, constantly scanning for any signs of trouble. Off to his right side, their dancers performed a hi...
“Enough.” She reached out and flipped over the thingie-ma-bob on the board. “You do believe us now, don’t you, Leslie?” Aunt Gladys’ eyes went wide. “I tell you the Ouija is real.” “It’s late.” Lexie stood. “Time for everyone...
The kitchen was spotless, with the buttery light making it look soft and homely in the early hours of the night. The only workspace that was dirty was the countertop I was using. Lashan liked his home clean and tidy. I worked hard to keep it that way. &nb...
The desert, vast and barren, stretched for untold miles. A windstorm had picked up, pushing a blanket of sand in all directions. Amid the rolling headwinds sat a hideout obscured by night and covered by a tan canopy that concealed the clay-and-stone building even in brightness of day. Such covert...
The driveway was so overgrown she almost missed the turnoff. A quarter of a mile in, it opened to a charming glade in the middle of which stood a barely civilized, rough-hewn log house. Last summer, he’d shown her artwork for her to sell in her gallery, but they’d been in ...
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She could not understand why—when it was hot and sticky and the weight of even a cotton T-shirt felt like heavy armor—anyone would want to join throngs of other hot, sticky people, bumping against each other, breathing in the scents of sweat and suntan lotion and hot dogs. And even if you carved ...
Getting flipped: Experiencing a shift in mindset to a more counterintuitive approach that reflects the hard reality of the business landscape as it is today, and not as it used to be Business today requires new perspectives on strategy, operations, customers and staff. Most of all it requires a l...