I have just learned Michelle is safe. She is in the home of her aunt a good eight hours away from the man who took her to Guatemala. She is not pregnant. Her aunt, a first cousin and another family member traveled across Guatemala over the weekend and presented themselves en masse on the doorstep…

Grace Chesterfield lay curled up on the overstuffed couch in her father’s office on Wall Street reading under the light of the green and red stained-glass dragonfly lamp. She snuggled under a cashmere throw, reading Wuthering Heights and dreaming of Heathcliff. The comforting clicking of the stock ticker on its handsome mahogany stand kept lulling…