Chapter 39 The Spark
The match landed in the tea.
It hissed once and went dark.
For one second nobody breathed. A thin curl of smoke rose from the puddle, and the whole kitchen smelled of gas and wet sulfur.
Then the pilot light on the stove clicked.
Megan heard it before she understood it. A small, bright tick,...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 My Heart Aches So Much
2. Chapter 2 Let's Call Off the Engagement
3. Chapter 3 Get Ready for a Good Show
4. Chapter 4 Marrying a Cripple
5. Chapter 5 Ex-Boyfriend, Please Have Some Self-Respect
6. Chapter 6 Mr. Holt, Let Me Help You Take a Bath
7. Chapter 7 What Are You Doing?
8. Chapter 8 The Intruder
9. Chapter 9 In The Study
10. Chapter 10 Someone Waiting
11. Chapter 11 A Voice From the Dark
12. Chapter 12 The Partner That Vanished
13. Chapter 13 At The Gates
14. Chapter 14 The Name She Buried
15. Chapter 15 The Storage Unit
16. Chapter 16 Nora's POV
17. Chapter 17 The Three Wives
18. Chapter 18 Surrounded
19. Chapter 19 Marcus Webb's Confession
20. Chapter 20 What Diane really Wants
21. Chapter 21 Face to Face
22. Chapter 22 Sealed
23. Chapter 23 The Bluff
24. Chapter 24 The Footsteps
25. Chapter 25 The Cottage
26. Chapter 26 The Word
27. Chapter 27 Eight O'Clock
28. Chapter 28 The Lake
29. Chapter 29 The Man on the West Shore
30. Chapter 30 Received in Full
31. Chapter 31 The Key Fob
32. Chapter 32 Tag 0417
33. Chapter 33 The Cole Eighteen
34. Chapter 34 Sister's Voice
35. Chapter 35 The Third Step
36. Chapter 36 The Linen Closet
37. Chapter 37 What Her Mother Wrote
38. Chapter 38 The Match
39. Chapter 39 The Spark
40. Chapter 40 Read Into the Minutes
41. Chapter 41 Ten Minutes
42. Chapter 42 Eleven Minutes
43. Chapter 43 The Last Page
44. Chapter 44 The Shot
45. Chapter 45 The Man at the Back of Every Photograph
46. Chapter 46 Five Minutes at a Time
47. Chapter 47 The Warm Keypad
48. Chapter 48 Her Mother's Date
49. Chapter 49 Five Minutes and a Gavel
50. Chapter 50 Signal From Inside
51. Chapter 51 Helen in the Front Seat
52. Chapter 52 The Third Child
53. Chapter 53 Brothers
54. Chapter 54 The Woman Who Set the Table
55. Chapter 55 Twelve Chairs
56. Chapter 56 The Empty Chair
57. Chapter 57 The Hand at Her Throat
58. Chapter 58 What Was Buried in the Roses
59. Chapter 59 Property of Calloway
60. Chapter 60 The Folder
61. Chapter 61 Steam From the Cup
62. Chapter 62 The Bride Before
63. Chapter 63 Nineteen Days
64. Chapter 64 The Key Around His Neck
65. Chapter 65 The Second Dunmore
66. Chapter 66 The Red Lining
67. Chapter 67 The Third Brother
68. Chapter 68 The Midwife
69. Chapter 69 The Floor Drops
70. Chapter 70 The Man in the White Coat
71. Chapter 71 The Open Door
72. Chapter 72 The Face on the Stairs
73. Chapter 73 The Rope
74. Chapter 74 The Boat in the Reeds
75. Chapter 75 Half a Measure
76. Chapter 76 Thirty Seconds
77. Chapter 77 The Woman With the Folder
78. Chapter 78 What Walter Carried
79. Chapter 79 The Woman Who Gave the Tea
80. Chapter 80 The Cup on the Stones
81. Chapter 81 The Actress
82. Chapter 82 The Second Seal
83. Chapter 83 The Torn Name
84. Chapter 84 Swabs at One in the Morning
85. Chapter 85 The Visitor on the Stairs
86. Chapter 86 The Wrong Grandmother
87. Chapter 87 The Garden Room
88. Chapter 88 The Third Rose Bush
89. Chapter 89 The Voice on the Pillow
90. Chapter 90 The Third Flagstone
91. Chapter 91 The Bolt
92. Chapter 92 The Tune With No Words
93. Chapter 93 Side B
94. Chapter 94 Third from the Wall
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