The Daily Novel

Chapter Twenty
Marie went to Times Square, her first day in New York. She wanted the experience of standing in a swirling sea of strange faces and being just as unfamiliar to them as they were to her. She wanted the experience of walking down the street and being a total unknown. She wanted to experience [...]

Chapter Nineteen
The reporters cursed themselves for not being there. Though they were still returning regularly in search of crumbs of information, no one was keeping all-night vigil.  So of course, they all missed being there when the intruder struck. Still, they had a field day with the story. The would-be killer was a member of [...]

Chapter Eighteen
If Cole was, for once, restrained, the attitude wasn’t universal. In the days to come, it seemed everyone had something to say and was determined to find someone to say it to. Finding an interested reporter was easy; it seemed the population of Flamingo Cove had suddenly doubled with the influx of TV crews, [...]

Chapter Fourteen
“Maybe it is a special baby.” Cole had that earnest look on his face. He was trying really hard to convince Marie, but she wasn’t sure he was convinced himself. And he seemed too interested in persuading her—as if it was important to him, not just something he believed, but something he wanted her [...]

Chapter Thirteen
A period of relative calm followed. The press kept it down to a minimum, and Cole kept his temper in check. Marie savored the peacefulness, hoping that things were actually settling down and her life might regain some semblance of normality. Unfortunately, that was just a foolish dream. It was the calm before the [...]

Chapter Twelve
For a time, the media fed off Adam’s press conference and the one with Reverend Argyle that followed. Connor kept muttering in the background about the Antichrist, but nobody seemed to be paying him much mind, and he didn’t even appear to be trying to get publicity. After a while, things kind of died [...]

Chapter Ten
“Are we riding in together?” It wasn’t as if Cole didn’t see enough of his wife, and it wasn’t as if the drive to work was so long that taking two cars was a serious expenditure of gas. Yet any day that Marie took her own car to work was a Major Disappointment in [...]

Chapter Nine
The tension had blown over by the next day.  Marie got up feeling mildly queasy but decided it was merely a nervous reaction to the previous day’s unpleasantness, not morning sickness. And in fact, she easily wolfed down a cup of coffee, four crisp strips of bacon, two fried eggs, and an English muffin [...]

Chapter One
The rainbow’s curve nearly kissed the ceiling. The vibrantly hued arc swooped eagerly up from its starting point, where the baseboards of the converted storefront didn’t quite jibe with the scrubbed but worn floorboards. From there, the painted rainbow aimed gracefully toward heaven, though it stopped at the ceiling. It curved downward again from [...]