Even at this hour, the port swarmed with movement, cargo being unloaded, passengers disembarking, officials checking manifests and papers. Lanterns cast pools of yellow light…

What was apparent in the forests of the Big Smoky Mountains 2 years afterwards, the dematerialization was not aloof remains. It was a deliberate, terrifying,…
Theodore Parker, a prominent minister, sheltered Ellen in his home, keeping a loaded pistol on his desk and vowing that no one would take her…
The apartment belonged to a Christian widow named Sister Miam who had opened her home as a refuge for underground believers and visiting workers like…
I felt the teeth of the saw grinding through my flesh and then through my bone. I I heard the sound of my own arm…
The Supreme Leader who had ruled Iran with an iron fist for nearly four decades was gone. The regime that had tortured me and taken…
For several minutes, blessed silence filled the space between them. Ellen began to breathe again, shallow and controlled. “Perhaps he would read. Perhaps he would…
Ellen descended the gang plank slowly, cane tapping, each step careful and measured. A customs officer waited at the bottom, flanked by two armed men…
She was middle-aged, well-dressed, with the bearing of plantation wealth. Her eyes moved systematically across the platform, examining faces, searching for something or someone. When…
Bounty hunters would be dispatched, and Ellen and William would be dragged back in chains to face consequences designed to break not just bodies, but…

