Series: When a weary 58-year-old caretaker mother uncovers her son-in-law's plot to push her pregnant daughter off a $250,000 mountain cliff overlook in 1968 Virginia, a rescue Belgian Malinois forces open...

I awoke in the sterile white of a hospital room, the scent of antiseptic stinging my nostrils. My back was a solid block of pain, [more…]

Two weeks later, the world outside the hospital room felt muted, distant. Fall had given way to the biting chill of late October. I sat [more…]