The sixteenth nanny lasted exactly forty-five minutes. Julian Bennett watched from the floor-to-ceiling window of his office as the woman sprinted toward…
In the last six months, 15 nannies had been sent to urgent care due to bites from a baby barely 18 months old.…
Vincent Thorne had spent years living as a ghost in his own estate. A sprawling mansion in the Hamptons, surrounded by high walls…
The wind howled. It wasn’t a breeze. It was a frigid roar licking the glass sixty stories above the Manhattan streets. Sarah Miller,…
The crying pierced the silence of the early morning like a jagged blade. Maya climbed the marble staircase with her heart pounding,…
The silence of the estate was usually the first thing that greeted Ethan Sterling. It was a heavy, expensive silence—the kind that…
I. The Gilded Cage Austin, Texas. The late afternoon sun poured its gold over the limestone hills as if it had forgotten…
Part I: The Discordant Note The Santa Ana winds were howling through the concrete canyons of Downtown Los Angeles, the kind of dry,…
I. The Whisper The doctor had barely closed the heavy door to Exam Room 4 when he leaned toward me. I felt…
I. The Deadline The windshield wipers on Mason Reid’s aging Honda Civic beat an urgent, squeaking rhythm against a curtain of October…