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One October in Salem

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Then my eyes caught on a name.

Major Whitlock.

I stayed bent over the case while the two words worked their way through recognition, because Whitlock was not an unusual enough surname to mean anything by itself and Major certainly wasn’t, but together they opened a door in my memory so quickly that the rest of the room seemed to soften at the edges.
I leaned closer to the glass and tried to decipher the lines around the name. Something about a horse. Something about Thomas. Then a sentence beginning The Major insists, after which Abigail’s handwriting shrank toward the binding and the angle of the page defeated me.
I was still trying when a man’s voice came from somewhere behind me.
“That entry’s worse than the others.”
Recognition came before reason did. My body knew the voice before my mind agreed to the possibility.
An entire country lay between the place I had last seen him and the room I was standing in.

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The Heartbeat He Thought Was Gone

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Bella Swan had finally learned that being loved and being allowed to choose were not always the same thing.
In New Orleans, behind the walls of an old house that had become both sanctuary and fortress, Bella was building a life she had never expected with Jasper Whitlock. There was a baby coming, a family forming around them, and for the first time in longer than she could remember, Bella could say she was happy and mean every word.

But across the street, the Cullens were waiting.
Alice had seen a monster. Carlisle believed Bella was dying. Edward was certain she needed to be saved, whether she wanted saving or not. Night after night they stood beyond a threshold they could not cross, waiting for one mistake.

Inside, Jasper, Bella, and the family who had chosen them prepared to hold the line.
Because this time, Bella would decide her own future.

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The Heartbeat He Thought Was Gone

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Coming Soon!!! Bella Swan came home from Phoenix with a broken leg, cracked ribs, a scar along her hairline, and a story everyone seemed willing to believe. She had fallen down the stairs. She had gone through a window. Edward had saved her.It was a good story.There was only one problem.Bella was beginning to remember. Her father had already sensed something was wrong, although Charlie Swan was not a man who pushed where he wasn’t invited. Instead, he built a ramp over the porch steps, moved her bedroom downstairs, bought a ridiculous little brass bell in case she needed him … Continue reading →

What You Took

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After returning from Italy, Bella discovers that Edward has already planned the rest of her life without asking what she wants, so she buys a converted little red school bus, leaves Forks and begins a yearlong adventure of roadside attractions, mechanical disasters and questionable navigation. Before leaving, however, she gives Jasper Whitlock a poem, a riddle and an invitation to meet her at Lake McDonald six months later, where the heart he unknowingly stole may finally lead them both home.

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Welcome, August: A Season for Stories

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Welcome, August: A Season for Stories There is something about writing in the summer that feels different. Perhaps it is the way the early morning light reaches across the porch, or how a cup of coffee tastes better when the day is still quiet, and the rest of the world has not quite begun moving. Summer invites us to slow down, even when life refuses to cooperate, and for a writer, those peaceful moments can become the beginning of an entirely new world. Some stories arrive gently, growing from a single character, a beautiful setting, or a question that refuses … Continue reading →

How Am I Suppose to Live Without You

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Bella Swan is four hours from marrying Edward Cullen when Jasper Whitlock comes through her window at half past four in the morning and tells her the truth: she was never Edward’s mate. She was his.
What follows isn’t a rescue. It’s a runaway bride, a thousand miles of open road, and a girl who spent a year being told what she felt finally learning to say it out loud.
How Am I Supposed to Live Without You is a story about the difference between the person everyone chooses for you and the one you’d run toward in the dark.

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You Are the Reason

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Once upon a time, a girl was left in the woods because she wasn’t enough.
She was wrong about almost everything that night, that girl, and so was he—but she got one thing right without knowing it: the woods were the place where the truth about her worth would be settled. It just took the right witnesses. It took a family that gathers, and a key cut on purpose, and a sound made for exactly one person, and twenty years of a man saying her name like the answer to a question he’d been asked his whole existence.

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Locker Letters

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She opened the locker and knew immediately.
It hadn’t been there before.
The paper sat folded, deliberate, like it had been placed by someone who understood exactly how long she would take to notice.

Bella didn’t reach for it right away.
She just stood there, aware she wasn’t alone.

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