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...

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...