Beneath the Meridian
Hollow Vance is running on fumes, his gauge dipped below E, his headlights carving a pale tunnel through fog so thick it pools in the ravines like spilled milk. The switchbacks of
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Contemporary Fiction books
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Contemporary Fiction on the shelf
What the Letters Remembered
Eliza Thorne returns to Heron Cove on a bitter October wind to claim the crumbling estate of her grandmother, Vivian Thorne, and finds more than grief waiting among the salt-rotted
The Gravel Beneath Her Wheels
A blowout on Rooster Lane strands Maren Ashcroft on the shoulder of a road no one uses anymore, and the delay costs her something far heavier than the ruined tire. By the time the
Rust on the Chrome
The sodium lights at Caldwell Motorplex flicker on at 4:47 a.m., three minutes before the timer should kill the overnight circuit. Maren Holloway sees it from the access road and f
The Cartographer of Forgotten Margins
Mara Quinn never expected to inherit anything from the reclusive Jonah Blackwood, a cartographer she met exactly once, at a dusty academic conference where he pressed a brass key i
We Build Our Own Weather
Marcus Webb counts the bags before he allows himself to feel anything. Two. Only two. That's everything a twelve-year-old boy owns in the world when he steps onto the cracked porch
The Silent Framework
On a bright Northridge morning, Cassandra Voss steps onto the gravel of Miller's Lane and surveys the rebuild rising from a cleared foundation, a project she is determined to finis
The Hour Between Crowds
Mara Velling expected to find old office furniture when she claimed Unit 117 on Briarmoor Lane. Instead she finds a locked filing cabinet, a logbook in her dead uncle Hollis's hand
Brake Lights in the Rain
When Maren Castillo's battered minivan coughs and dies on a rain-slicked highway, she assumes the worst is a transmission repair, until Drew Castellanos, the mechanic her brother T
The Last Detour
Marisol Vega expects her final shift at the Reno yard to end with nothing more dramatic than the buzz of fluorescent lights and the small finality of a time clock. Instead, a phone
The Cartography of Forgotten Things
The last box arrived three days after Eleanor Vance vanished, and nobody at the Cedar Falls Municipal Archive opened it. Now the archive itself is fading, a squat brick building we