There were snow flurries drifting down as Andrew got to Iris’s shop the next afternoon. He wasn’t working today, but even after seeing her last night, he’d been concerned. He’d managed to wait until after lunchtime before giving in and coming back. At least he’d given her some time to sleep if he was being […]

Despite telling Iris he’d see her in the morning, Andrew was still concerned. She claimed she was fine, and it was something she’d done before. But she was also a hotheaded, arrogant mess when she felt like it. And he’d never heard her sound so bad before. So here he was, ten minutes later, pacing […]

The fact that she’d dreamed about Rosalind Alderidge was enough to convince Iris that it was time to contact the woman. Rosalind was dead, she’d clearly been dead for decades, but she was a real person. And these dreams Iris was having, they weren’t ordinary dreams. She was just on the other side of a […]

(Author Note 6/9/2022: Hi all! I’m going to be switching to releasing 3 episodes on Thursdays/Saturdays, rather than 2. Just to make sure that the whole season gets out in a timely manner. That change starts today, so you’ll have 3 episodes in your inbox. Thanks!) “Hey, is Noah home?” It was a few days […]

Andrew didn’t want to do this. He wanted to be at home, where he knew Olivia was cooking steak. Steak. But here he was, on his way into the New Winslow Historical Society, because Iris had begged him to. He wasn’t even quite sure what he was looking for, so he knew that he was […]

Olivia woke up the next morning with nothing on her schedule. Normally at this time, she’d be getting up and getting dressed. Then she’d apply her makeup, and brace herself for another day at Keegan’s. But that wasn’t going to happen. She was never going back to Keegan’s again. But that didn’t stop her from […]

Two extra people were probably too much for her mother. Cleo knew that. But if Noah and Olivia were going to be helping her out some until the insurance coverage kicked in, they needed to come over to the house first. So she’d finally gotten her mom to agree to a visit. Andrew was working, […]

Aidan had a cookie in his mouth with maybe half of it actually getting eaten. The rest was falling in chewy chunks down his puffy red baby jacket and onto the wooden bench where he was pressed up against Roman in order to stay balanced. Roman had his own heavy coat on as he put […]

A few hours later, Cleo was sitting on the recliner in Olivia’s living room, watching with rapt attention as Olivia told the story of how she’d quit Keegan’s that day. She seemed to have shaken off the anxiety that had been evident when Cleo got there and Cleo suspected that the second glass of wine […]

Cleo was sitting at the kitchen table with her mother in her mom’s tiny single-wide mobile home, trying to stay patient as she explained, for the fifth time at least, what her visit schedule for the week was going to be. “I’m working tomorrow night, so I won’t be here,” she said yet again. “But […]