Sometimes there were seconds, even minutes, in which the awful weight of Sarah's situation wouldn't cross her mind, but then the knowledge would come flooding back like a tsunami that overwhelmed all.

Sometimes Sean hoped karma was real, other times he prayed it wasn't.

Aaron had come to believe we were nothing more than clusters of the bad choices we'd made in our lives.

No one was better at ruining her life than herself.

The sadness only deepened over time.

The terror came not from without but from within.

He made a career out of making people uncomfortable.