The bottle was not what he imagined. James had pictured endless options: a sleek, blue-and-gold bottle, modernized for countertop display; another made from thick brown glass with burnished curves, sensuous…

They had come to the unoccupied Miller house together, wanting to ride the wave of their adrenaline—having already stolen two pumpkins from the church garden and smashing them on the…

  Deep inside a cloak cut from midnight, emblazoned with all the burning stars of the welkin, the knight shivered and stared down at the body that lay before him.…

“Imagine if someone takes one bite of you and throws the rest out,” Shauna said, dipping a carefully made french fry into carefully made ketchup. “Literally one bite, and that’s…