The summer he left (Langley series)
Langley stood just inside the doorway, letting his eyes adjust to the dim interior. The house smelled faintly of lavender and something metallic, stale. Time had already begun to settle over the place, as if it were trying to bury what happened here. “Found her in the kitchen,” the sheriff said from behind him. “A…
It’s been awhile
It had been years since Detective Langley had driven down Maple Ridge Road. The town looked smaller than he remembered quiet, worn down by time, and holding onto secrets the way old towns do. He hadn’t planned on coming back. Not after everything. But when the call came in from the county sheriff, there was…
Il Cuore di Claire
Claire never thought she’d be the kind of woman to leave everything behind. For twenty-eight years, her life had been neat and predictable a tidy house in Portland, a teaching job she liked well enough, and a marriage that had felt, in the beginning, like a promise of adventure. Her new husband, Evan, loved to…
Quiet Harbor Writing 