Part I The candles flickered against the early evening air, their small flames dancing like fireflies battered by wind. One by one, they dimmed, their ...

Part I It had rained the day before they arrived, though the air that lingered along the hedgerows and cottages smelled more of earth than ...

Part I I first noticed something different in Owen when the heat broke and the evenings cooled enough to leave the windows open. There hadn’t ...

Part I We came to the cabin after everything else had fallen apart—not for a vacation, and not because we wanted to live a simpler ...

Part I I was never supposed to lead the Aravik survey. Officially, the initiative belonged to the Oceanographic Institute of Bergen, a multi-year study into ...

Part I Mason Firth watched the rural highway unravel in a slow curve through brittle grass and leafless oaks, the pavement cracking into patches where ...

Part I The gravel cracked beneath the tires of the rented Jeep as it slowed to a halt, dust rising in thick orange plumes that ...

Part I Dr. Neal Farrow stepped down from the rust-scorched cab of the Hilux, his boots sinking slightly into the orange dust as the wind ...

Part I The iron gate at the edge of Charlotte Street let out a brittle screech as Camille Wren pressed it inward with her forearm, ...

Part I There was something in the tape that defied explanation. Claire Morse had watched it more than a dozen times since the envelope first ...

Part I The storm rolled in heavy over the Gulf, carried on winds that scraped shingles off rooftops and bent palm trees at the waist ...

Part I The road narrowed as Kevin drove north, the trees arching overhead like clasped fingers, thick enough in places to blot out the afternoon ...