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I held the locket in my palm for a long time. It was silver, but not shiny anymore. Time had softened

I turned the photograph over again and again, as if the words might change. They did not.

For a long moment, I just stared at the key. It lay on the floor between Lily’s bare feet and

Old, slight, trembling — but her grip was iron. "When your husband gives you a necklace,"

The security guard's hand closed around Daniel Miller's arm at the exact moment Sophie'

For a moment, Grant Ellis looked as though someone had taken the floor from under his polished shoes.

For several seconds, nobody on Madison Avenue moved. The delivery driver kept one hand on the

Daniel could not breathe. The rain had stopped, but water still dripped from the boutique awning

For a moment, Michael could not hear Chicago anymore. Not the buses hissing at the curb.

For a moment, David could not move. The cold sidewalk pressed into his knees. The apples from


