Part 1 The night Sheriff Caleb Brody saw smoke rising from the widow’s chimney while the rest of Providence was freezing, he understood that the whole town had mistaken grief...
Part 1 By the time Christmas Eve settled over the Miller farm, Sarah had already set three empty plates on the table. She had done it from habit, not hope....
Part 1 The morning Arthur Miller died, the wind came down from the Bitterroot Mountains with a sound like somebody whispering bad news through the cracks of the cabin. Clara...
Part 1 They threw Clara Voss out of Redemption Gulch at four o’clock in the afternoon, when the sun was still high enough to make the street shimmer and mean...
Part 1 The winter stores were gone before sunrise, and Ama did not scream. That was what Elias Cord noticed first when he rode down toward the lower bend of...
Part 1 The stagecoach arrived in Stevensville with one wheel cracked, two horses lathered white, and a woman inside who had crossed half the country under a dead woman’s name....
Part 1 Silas Cord saw the woman standing in the trail and knew, before she said a word, that whatever she needed would cost him more than he could afford....
Part 1 Mercy Ashford arrived at the Bridger Ranch in a ruined wedding dress with mud up to her knees, blood drying in one shoe, and no husband behind her....
Part 1 The rope was already around Robert Williams’s neck when Deputy Silas Hale smiled. It was not a wide smile. Hale was not the sort of man who wasted...
Part 1 Elias Mercer came home in the last hard light of October, riding a half-dead bay horse over the ridge with blood dried black beneath his coat and three...