Act I The coins hit the floor before Clara Bennett looked down. One bounced under the white tablecloth. Another spun in a bright silver circle beside her black shoes. The rest scattered across…

Act I The officer told the girl to stay away before she even reached the booth. “Stay back, kid,” he said, raising one hand. “He can bite.” Rain streaked the diner windows behind…

Act I The first thing Olivia Crane did when she recognized Marcus Vale was laugh. Not a surprised laugh. Not the soft laugh people give when an old memory walks into a room…

Act I The chalk dust made Ethan Mercer look like a ghost. It clung to his hair, his eyelashes, the folds of his beige hoodie. It floated beneath the fluorescent lights in the…

Act I Mia Laurent was curled on the marble floor beneath ten thousand dollars’ worth of handbags when the boutique manager decided the problem was not the lights, the noise, or the frightened…

Act I Julian Vale stopped so suddenly at the hospital door that Celeste nearly ran into his back. The room beyond him was too white. White curtains. White bed. White blanket. White light…

Act I The first thing Elena Hart saw when she came home was her black dress lying in the grass. Not folded. Not packed. Thrown. It lay across the front lawn like trash,…

Act I The dog was digging like the dirt had a heartbeat. Travis Holt crawled through the dark crawl space on his elbows, flashlight shaking in one hand, mud and dust grinding into…

Act I The German Shepherd came out of nowhere. One second, Claire Bennett was walking toward the hospital entrance with one hand under her pregnant belly and the other gripping her medical folder….