A ballerina with a rebuilt hip drives two thousand miles home to Pine Falls and finds a town, a mother, and a dance studio quietly running out of time.
Against All Odds – Chapter 1: Fateful Encounter
Lila stepped out of the taxi and into the sweltering Las Vegas heat, her long chestnut hair whipping in the desert wind. The glittering lights and raucous sounds of the Strip assaulted her senses as … Against All Odds – Chapter 1: Fateful EncounterRead more
The Last Dance – Epilogue
January, and a storage unit in Everett gets opened in the rain. What comes back to Pine Falls, and what the spring show looks like a year on.
The Last Dance – Chapter 19: The Handover
Snow on the twentieth, nine hundred and forty people in, and four steps Mia Chambers has been walking toward since a Sunday matinee in March.
The Last Dance – Chapter 18: Frost and Fantasia
Two days of silence, four days of failed work, and nine minutes of dance to build in eleven. Mia decides she is going to be on that stage.
The Last Dance – Chapter 17: The Cost
The morning after Thanksgiving, Adam drives to Everett and stands in front of a roller door he has not opened in two years.
The Last Dance – Chapter 16: The Master Class
Derek Raines, two boxes of doughnuts and thirty-three dancers in a room. At thirty-eight minutes something happens that nobody there can undo.
The Last Dance – Chapter 15: The Junior Partner
Adam walks into a glass room with a pitcher of lemon water on the table and finds out precisely what a junior partner is worth.
The Last Dance – Chapter 14: Unsteady Alliances
By lunchtime the partnership is a fact in Pine Falls. Contracts, brownies, a girl who stays behind, and a dinner asked for with his back half turned.
The Last Dance – Chapter 13: The Gala
Crestwood opens with eight hundred seats and a proper floor. Danielle King makes Mia an offer in a room, in front of people, where she cannot refuse quietly.
The Last Dance – Chapter 12: Everybody Comes Home
Doors at eleven, the lights fail, the blinds come down, and a town in Washington State watches its own children dance anyway.
The Last Dance – Chapter 11: Two Children
Two children, one payment plan, and four thousand dollars in the bank. Mia and Adam finally have the argument they have been avoiding since the flood.