







When 7-year-old Tyler scanned a crowded Flagstaff Walmart parking lot with desperate searching eyes and locked onto a leathervested stranger loading groceries onto his…

Chapter 1: The Ghost of Maple Creek The cab driver looked at me in the rearview mirror, his eyes lingering on the Multicam pattern of…

CHAPTER 1 The shock hit me before the cold did. It was a physical blow, heavy and breathtaking, like falling through a sheet of ice…

CHAPTER 1 The asphalt on Interstate 40 was cooking at a hundred and ten degrees. It was the kind of heat that makes the air…
WHEN I FACED MY HUSBAND AND HIS LOVER IN COURT, MY LAWYER SAID: “YOUR HONOR, ONE MORE WITNESS.” THE ROOM WENT DEAD QUIET. MY CHEST…

The gravel crunched beneath Meredith Blackwood’s worn [music] leather boots as she stepped onto her front porch that Tuesday morning. Steam rose from the…

My autistic brother was just a target to the school’s golden boy. He thought he was untouchable until I dropped my tray. 300 students stood…
AT MY PREGNANCY SCAN, THE DOCTOR BEGAN TREMBLING. SHE TOOK ME TO THE SIDE AND SAID: “YOU HAVE TO LEAVE HIM. FILE FOR DIVORCE.” I…

Chapter 1: The Wriggling Darkness You don’t know heat until you’ve worked a patrol shift on the stretch of Route 95 between Vegas and the…

Chapter 1: The Sound of Metal on Bone It was 2:14 PM on a Tuesday. I know the exact time because I was elbow-deep in…