Detective Roman Aguilar by Amy Rivers

It’s funny how two decades roll by—you work, you make a name for yourself, you’ve got your foot squarely in the present—and then one thing throws you forcibly into the past. Kids run away from home. It happens all the time, but as soon as we started investigating...

Amelia Eden Holt by Kathleen Bridge

I am so excited that tomorrow is the first day of the Amelia Eden Holt School of Acting. I’ve cued up a few scenes on the big screen for the teenaged girls in my class to watch from when I had a recurring role playing a Collinwood maid in TV’s old soap opera Dark...

Kellan Ayrwick by James J. Cudney

A real-life curse on Braxton campus? I’ve dealt with a haunted house and a people coming back from the dead. . . those things are simply part of my regular life now. But a 350-year-old African curse on a scary doll that keeps disappearing? I think it’s...

Sarah McCaskill Carter by Alicia Beckman

Do you want to know about a day now, or a day before everything changed? Because honestly, I’m not sure what a day looks like anymore. Before, I knew who I was. Sarah Carter, wife of Jeremy, mother of Noah and Abigail. Seattleite, with a beautiful home overlooking...

Johanna Hudson by R. Franklin James

Hello, I’m Johanna Hudson. I own Legacy Consultants along with my partner Ava Lowell. It’s a genealogy research enterprise and we find ourselves entwined in the lives of our clients’ as well as their ancestors. Just yesterday, I found a note left behind by a Trinidad...

Lisa Jamison by Lori Duffy Foster

I slip through the newsroom, hoping to reach my desk unnoticed, but I know my editor will be looking for me. I am on deadline for a story about a guy who hid a woman’s body for years in his basement freezer. He wouldn’t talk to the cops after his arrest, and he...