Jan 6, 2015 | A Day In My Life
“Angel, it’s time to come home. They’ve found your mama.” Gram’s words on my phone kept repeating in my head. I hadn’t even stopped to call her to ask, “Where?” “How?” Her voice had told me what was most important. Mama was dead. I’d thrown a few clothes in my duffle...
Jan 5, 2015 | A Day In My Life
I was telling my grandmother, Miss Amelia, only this morning, that it seems kind of unlucky, the way we keep turning up dead bodies. I don’t even know the count—now that the second book in The Nut House Series is out—Snoop to Nuts. I hear Elizabeth Lee’s already...
Jan 4, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Achilles licked my hand to remind me to get up and take him on our morning run. I sat up before my hyperactive Belgian Malinois could lick my face. “Sorry I overslept, boy. My souvenir of Istanbul kept me awake.” I touched the still-tender bullet wound that marked my...
Jan 3, 2015 | A Day In My Life
My name is Colleen Caruso and since the day I went jogging in the woods near my house and tripped over the body of my daughter’s missing Algebra teacher, my life has been anything but ordinary. First off – I gave up jogging. It’s not like we have a whole lot crime...
Jan 2, 2015 | A Day In My Life
The office was silent. Empty. No clicking keyboards, no constantly beeping fax machine, no rise and fall of heated voices as other agents in the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit argued over a suspect profile. Not even the persistent smell of burnt coffee that usually...
Jan 1, 2015 | A Day In My Life
Hi, my name is Zoe Donovan. I am a 25 year old newly engaged woman who lives in the quaint hamlet of Ashton Falls. Every year I make exactly 5 New Year’s Resolutions. No more, no less. My fiancé Zak thinks my adherence to this rule a bit odd, but more than 5 makes it...