Novel

First thing Friday morning, Carron was off to The Silver Turtle for some meetings with some of her suppliers and she hoped another day of brisk sales.  She loved her life and what she did and never tired of her hectic schedule.  As she and Michelle closed up for the day, Michelle assured her things […]

2                     Carron’s store, The Silver Turtle, was located in a former three-story brick department store along the Magnificent Mile of Chicago.  Carron estimated the store had been built sometime in the late nineteen forties or early nineteen fifties.  Somehow, through the years, it had been able to avoid the wrecking ball.  When she

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER “A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.” ~ Alfred Adler 1           It was well after 7:30 p.m. when twenty-nine-year-old Carron Maitland finally walked through the door of her condo.  With mail in hand, she threw her keys onto the long narrow antique marble-topped table in

By Christina Siwik This book is dedicated to my late mother who instilled a love of reading and writing in me at a very young age.  She was always my inspiration. The following story is a work of fiction.  Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously.  Any