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The Garage on Fillmore Avenue
Marzena Kowalski poured coffee into a mug with a chipped handle and sat down at the kitchen table, where
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The Last Key to Willow Creek
The call came in at 12:47 a.m., and I answered it standing barefoot on the cold tile of my Austin kitchen
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The Room We Kept
The suitcase wheels caught on the porch step, and Marlene Ostrander nearly went down before I grabbed
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**Twenty-Five Years, One Deed**
The chandeliers at the Marriott downtown were the kind that threw little diamonds of light across white
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The Night the Corn Counted Back
My grandfather Earl used to say the wind out past the tree line had a memory. That it kept score of every
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# The Man Who Left Before Sunrise
I never told Marcus Whitfield about the trust fund. Not because I liked keeping secrets from my husband
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The Landlord Next Door
I manage the building at 214 Larchwood Court in Dayton, Ohio — twenty-six units, mostly young families
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Dana Sells Half of Larkspur Court House to Stranger for One Dollar
Dana Whitfield poured the last of the cold coffee down the kitchen sink and checked her phone one more
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The Wedding Box
The wedding was seven days away when the message came through. I was standing at my kitchen counter in
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# Sunny Condo with a River View
I work as a bookkeeper at a real estate office on Elm Street, and I was the one handling the escrow account