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.
Second Chance Romance
Two people who knew each other once, meeting again with more history than they had the first time.
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 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 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 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.
The Last Dance – Chapter 8: The Morning After
Adam is pleasant for eleven days and does not say one true thing. Then he finds a green notebook in a supply closet, and does not open it.
The Last Dance – Chapter 7: The Afternoon She Was Keeping
The Harvest Fest fills a building that smells of damp plaster, and Mia spends an afternoon she had been saving for something else entirely.
Against All Odds – Chapter 12: Dinner on a Tuesday
Previously – Chapter 11: No, Thank You The ice machine on the second-floor landing let go of a load at ten past eight, a sound like a small wall coming down two doors away, and … Against All Odds – Chapter 12: Dinner on a TuesdayRead more
Against All Odds – Chapter 11: No, Thank You
Previously – Chapter 10: Twelve Envelopes Charles had offered to take the last one by wire. Jake said he’d bring it. The envelope held one thousand nine hundred dollars, and he did not count it, … Against All Odds – Chapter 11: No, Thank YouRead more