What isn't a sign this morning? Though there was no rain since yesterday's early morning, the ground was damp and the blades of grass glistened…

I have feared the traps of my own design since the beginning. Or at least since the beginning that I recall at this quarter to…

I don’t know whether I’d call it lucky or not, but I have been endowed with a sense of the frangible, temporary quality of life…

Nemesis Rassov’s life felt like a dream: a dream of dancing bullets, and elegant bloodletting, resulting in useful beauty; a dream in which she was…

Agatha looked in the mirror it was not the face of a child. It was not the face of the girl who crossed the ocean…

“From you I wanted more than I ever asked.” He stared at her, eyes unflinching for almost the count of thirty, letting those words sink…

Mack stood in the repair bay, staring at what used to be his ship. Whole chunks were missing. Chunks that, an hour ago, he would…

is the easiest and hardest simply because your face is with you forever and if you happen to be a woman this face will be…

In San Gabriel Valley, there was a businesswoman so wealthy and powerful that when her spa attendants had a pay dispute with their employer, she…

Her slender, muscular body tensed against the freezing rain, and as usual, her supple black leather "hunting ensemble" protected her from head to toe, against…

Bob's Lake is north of the Thousand Islands which are in the St. Lawrence Seaway. Somehow we drove from Rochester, New York to Bob's Lake.…

One day, in my late twenties, I seem to have misplaced something. I didn’t notice it at first But when I did I went looking…