I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Every hope of the future...

Who would guess,” he teased, “that I’d ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?”Kit giggled. “Are you saying I’ve turned into a crow?””Not exactly.” His eyes were intensely blue with merriment....

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Have you noticed her name?”Kit leaned sideways to see the letters painted jauntily on the transom. “The WITCH! How did you dare? Does Hannah know?” “Oh, she’s not named after Hannah. I hadn’t gone ten...

After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth…The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed...

Miriam felt astonished at herself. It was a new thing for her to step out so independently. Somehow, in the past month a tough little root of determination had been growing in her. Whether it...

Hannah’s magic cure for every ill,” he teased. “Blueberry cake and a kitten.