Behind the scenes

“Mark, Mom and Dad invited us upstate for New Year’s.” Julia leaned into the doorway of her husband’s

Noah had exactly thirteen days before rent was due when Sofia Alvarez called and offered him a private

When my sister-in-law Melissa arrived early for my fiftieth birthday dinner in Dallas, she behaved like

  “You disappear for half the day, and I’m stuck here doing everything! What kind of anniversary is this?

  When Claire Bennett married Mark, she never imagined that the greatest threat to her marriage

My mother had been nervous about my wedding from the moment she received the invitation. Not because

For nearly a month after Anna died, Michael slept with the television on. Not because he watched it.

Nathan Cole’s thirty-fifth birthday began with a frozen pizza and an argument about adulthood.

The scream came through the balcony door just after eight in the morning. “CREW! GET MOVING!

Carol and Denise had been inseparable since they were little girls in a North Carolina mill town.