I still remember clearly — about two months ago, my husband Michael started talking about hiring a new secretary. He said he needed…
The Gilded Cage At seventy-two, Eleanor Vance believed her life was settled. A retired literature professor with a sprawling estate overlooking the…
The Days Before Saturday Three Days Juanita, sixty-four, stood amidst the opulent clutter of the grand ballroom. Silk ribbons, white roses, and the…
At sixty-two, Vivian Harrington was defined by two things: the immaculate order of her suburban life and the quiet, unacknowledged wealth accumulated from…
A week before her mother’s fifty-fifth birthday, Judith sat on the parquet floor of her living room, surrounded by a lovely battlefield: ivory-wrapped…
I still remember that evening – the scent of expensive perfume mixed with the scent of red wine and beef with mushroom sauce,…
In the heart of Manhattan, amid the glittering towers and river-like billboards, there is a restaurant called Celeste—a place where getting a table…
The call came at 3:17 a.m.Lieutenant Commander Sarah Whitmore, U.S. Navy, had been awake for hours — maps spread across her bunk, coffee…
The Day My Father Saluted They told me not to call.They didn’t come to my wedding.That should have been the end of it.…
Elena Park could set an IV in a moving ambulance. She could find a vein under bad lighting, reassure a mother in two…