The evening began with a brilliance that felt almost artificial, as if the mansion itself were trying to convince the world that joy still lived inside its walls....

A pale curtain of morning light stretched across the Riverton County Courthouse as people filtered in for the day’s hearings. The old marble floors carried every echo. Each...

  On a gray winter afternoon in Chicago, as holiday traffic hummed through the streets, Mason Wilder stepped out of a sleek rental car and pulled his scarf...

The wind swept across the open fields of northern Colorado as Dana Flores stepped out of the pickup truck her mother had rented. Snow drifted across the parking...

The late afternoon sun hung low over the quiet neighborhood of Riverbend Shore as Marina Feldon stepped out of the taxi and smoothed the hem of her coat....

The first hint that something was wrong began on an ordinary autumn morning when sunlight crept across my bedroom floor and nudged me awake. I reached for the...