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

The Pine Ridge Diner was a dilapidated, neon-lit establishment located twenty miles outside the jurisdiction of Thorne Alpine Resorts. It smelled of stale grease, burnt coffee, and cheap bleach. For Nora, it was perfect. No one from Silas’s pristine, high-society circle would ever be caught dead sit