Everyone in town had a memory of the house on the hill, and by the time the Hollisters came along, most of those memories were sad ones. A hundred and…

The man at the feed store wasn’t trying to be unkind. He was just telling her the truth as everyone in the valley knew it. “You know that’s just rock,…

The land had been for sale a long time, and it wasn’t hard to understand why. When the realtor drove Emily and Josh out to see it, she didn’t oversell…

Everybody who grew up on that block grew up afraid of the building on the corner. It had been abandoned and boarded up for twenty years — longer than most…

Everybody on the block knew the corner lot, and nobody had a good word for it. Fifteen years earlier, the house that used to stand there had burned down one…

The house had belonged to their family for more than a hundred years, and now the city wanted to tear it down. Maggie and Ruth had grown up spending every…

The farmhouse came to Daniel the way these things usually do — through a lawyer’s letter, a set of keys in an envelope, and a quiet obligation he hadn’t asked…

For nine years, the Bluebird sat dark off the old highway, and everyone who drove past it felt a little pang. It had been the kind of place a town…

For eleven years, the old Merchants Building was the thing everybody on Main Street tried not to look at. It sat right in the middle of the block — two…