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The rain was drumming a rhythmic, annoying beat against the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Emerald Club.

For two nights, the little girl had slept beneath the big clock in the train station. No one asked her name.

By the time the snow started falling, the little girl had already stopped hoping anyone would notice her.

By the time the streetlights came on, the little girl was still sitting on the bench outside the closed

The rain had just stopped, but the sidewalk still shone like glass. Near the corner of an old neighborhood

The chapel was full of important people. Bankers. Judges. Old family friends who had never been friends at all.

Jonathan Blackwood never looked at street performers. Not because he hated music. Because he had trained

The private waiting room at Kingsbridge Station had been closed to the public for nearly twenty years.

Nobody noticed the boy at first. That was the strangest part. He slipped through the side entrance of

By the time the first glass broke, everyone in the ballroom already knew the wedding was dying.