Amazing Worlds

The first thing Elias Boone heard when he stepped onto the Miller Ranch was a scream so desperate that even the horses stopped moving. “I […]

The sound of Silas Varelli’s hand striking his wife was so sharp that the twelve people seated around the Christmas table seemed to stop breathing […]

At 11:42 p.m., the automatic doors of St. Jude’s Medical Center opened against a hard Chicago rain. Norah Sullivan stumbled across the entrance mat with […]

The courtroom monitor showed me eight months pregnant, swaying beside our unfinished crib while my husband demanded that I admit our baby was unsafe with […]

PART 1 — THE OLD MAN WHO WOULDN’T FALL Silver Creek, Arizona Territory, 1870s. It was the kind of town where a man could disappear […]

Part 1 — The Man Who Should Have Been Dead 006 “DON’T TOUCH MY DRESS!”—SHE PULLED A KNIFE ON THE COWBOY WHO TRIED TO HELP […]

Chapter 1: The Price of Humiliation The grand ballroom of the Bellevue Estate was a sanctuary built for ostentatious wealth, lit by three-tiered Venetian crystal […]

CHAPTER 1: THE MAN WITH HIS HANDS ON MY WIFE The first thing I noticed was his smile. Not the way his hands rested against […]

At the birthday party, I let a stranger pull me into the spotlight, and when he leaned down to kiss me in front of everyone, […]

“Let me sleep beside you tonight, Jacob. I know you don’t trust me, but someone is coming.”Jacob Blackwood stared at the young woman standing in […]