Marygene Brown by Kate Young

The wedding party seemed to be lining up for pictures, and the guests were starting to corral near the tent. When I got inside, my crew was nowhere to be seen. I could see Paul through the window on the opposite side of the tent. I searched for my staff and nodded...

Ella Shane by Kathleen Marple Kalb

I’d like to say I look forward to premieres the way children do Christmas. . .but the fact is that they’re rarely as wonderful as expected. Still, I hoped The Princes in the Tower might just be the exception that proves the rule. After all, not only was I opposite my...

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...