An hour passed in suffocating silence.

Nora had refused to get back into the hospital bed. Instead, she had methodically searched the small wardrobe in the corner of the room, finding a pair of oversized, gray hospital sweatpants and a thin cotton sweatshirt left behind by a previous patient, like

The piece of paper lay on the floor between them, the bold black ink screaming the truth into the suffocating silence of the trauma ward.

Silas stared at Nora, his chest rising and falling in rapid, shallow jerks. He looked like a man who had just stepped off a cliff in the dark, only now realizin

The drive from the city clinic to the Quinn family cabin took two agonizing hours. Every mile carried them further away from the glittering, unforgiving opulence of Thorne Alpine Resorts, deep into a heavy, silent forest. The cabin itself was modest, built of rough-hewn pine and dark stone, sitting