Archive for January 3rd, 2011

		Fine Things: Excerpt Chapter One It was almost impossible to get to Lexington and Sixty-third Street. The wind was howling, and the snow drifts had devoured all but the largest cars. The buses had given up somewhere around Twenty-third Street, where they sat huddled like frozen dinosaurs, as one left the flock only very rarely to venture uptown, […] Read more
		Zoya: Excerpt Chapter One Zoya closed her eyes again as the troika flew across the icy ground, the soft mist of snow leaving tiny damp kisses on her cheeks, and turning her eyelashes to lace as she listened to the horses’ bells dancing in her ears like music. They were the sounds she had loved since childhood. […] Read more
		Season of Passion: Excerpt Chapter One The alarm went off just after six. She stirred, reached an arm out from under the covers, and turned it off. She could still pretend that she hadn’t heard it. She could go back to sleep. She didn’t gave to go… it wasn’t as if… and the phone rang. “Damn.” Kaitlin Harper sat […] Read more
		The Promise: Excerpt Chapter One The early morning sun streamed across their backs as they unhooked their bicycles in front of Eliot House on the Harvard campus. They stopped for a moment to smile at each other. It was May and they were very young. Her short hair shone in the sunshine, and her eyes found his as […] Read more
		Love: Poems: Excerpt Fear Not—Farewell Fear not, sweet love, the hands of time, for poems do not always rhyme, fate runs its course and plays its tricks, and in the last and final mix, one wins it all and loses naught, if love was good and battles fought to their very final end, good-bye sweet love, farewell, my […] Read more
		Kaleidoscope: Excerpt Chapter One The rains were torrential northeast of Naples on the twenty-fourth of December 1943, and Sam Walker huddled in his foxhole with his rain gear pulled tightly around him. He was twenty-one years old and he had never been in Europe before the war. It was a hell of a way to see the […] Read more
		Family Album: Excerpt Chapter One The sun was so brilliant nearly everyone was squinting, though it was only eleven o’clock in the morning. The tiniest of breezes ruffled the women’s hair. The day was so beautiful there was a kind of agony to it, an amazing silence, and all one could hear in the silences were birds, a […] Read more
		Changes: Excerpt Chapter One “Dr. Hallam…Dr. Peter Hallam…Dr. Hallam…Cardiac Intensive, Dr. Hallam…” The voice droned on mechanically as Peter Hallam sped through the lobby of Center City Hospital, never stopping to answer the page since the team already knew he was on his way. He furrowed his brow as he pressed six, his mind already totally engaged […] Read more
		Star: Excerpt Chapter One The birds were already calling to each other in the early morning stillness of the Alexander Valley as the sun rose slowly over the hills, stretching golden fingers into a sky that within moments was almost purple. The leaves on the trees rustled gently in the barest breeze as Crystal stood silent in […] Read more
		Daddy: Excerpt Chapter One The snowflakes fell in big white clusters, clinging together like a drawing in a fairy tale, just like in the books Sarah used to read to the children. She sat at the typewriter, looking out the window, watching snow cover the lawn, hanging from the trees like lace, and she completely forgot the […] Read more