“Please, don’t burn me again. I promise I’ll be good.” The words, thin and desperate, sliced through the afternoon quiet of the upscale…
For six years, the janitor hid her identity as an engineer, until the day she was challenged in front of everyone. Sometimes, life…
Colonel Gabriela Márquez stood by her black, government-issue sedan, the late afternoon sun glinting off the silver eagle on her shoulder. Her voice…
The boardroom on the 48th floor was silent, a sterile glass box overlooking the frantic maze of Manhattan. Javier Mendoza, his face a…
It was a bright, cloudless morning at the San Diego Executive Air Terminal. The sterile quiet of the private hangar was broken only…
The 11:00 PM wind off Lake Michigan was brutal, slashing cold rain against the sidewalks of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Arthur Vance paid the…
The meeting was formal, the air in the high-rise conference room thick with tension. At the head of the polished mahogany table, a…
Master Sergeant Thomas “Tom” Reed, U.S. Army, retired, hadn’t planned on coming home so soon. He’d been enjoying the quiet anonymity of his…
The Sunrise Diner, a typical roadside stop just off I-95, was humming with its usual Tuesday morning rhythm. The air was thick with…
Everyone in the restaurant feared the millionaire… until the new waitress put him in his place. It was 10:45 on a Friday morning,…