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...

Lucie Montgomery by Ellen Crosby

What would you do if you found out your grandfather had an affair with the most iconic, glamorous woman in the world—and never breathed a word about it? And that woman was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. I’ll tell you what you’d do: you’d want to know what happened. Just...

Holly Miller by Krista Davis

I never expected to be part owner of The Sugar Maple Inn. Sure, I spent summers here with my grandmother, whom I call Oma, but I never dreamed I would be back here running the place. Initially I expected to miss life in the greater Washington, DC area. There was...

Celia Davies by Nancy Herriman

My name is Celia Davies, and I’m honored to have been invited to return in order to tell you all something about my life. Much has changed since I was last here, and much has not. But for those of you who are unfamiliar with me, I will attempt to acquaint you. In...

Pixie Saves the Day, Again by Gin Jones

For a human, Mabel Skinner isn’t so bad. She understands that nights are much more interesting than days, she takes her time warming up to people, and she likes to know in advance before visitors show up on the farm. Humans have such pitifully inadequate senses,...