Excerpts Have Won at Writer's Advice & Earned Praise from Editors at Leopold Bloom, Iron Horse, and Gulf Coast
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Excerpts Have Won at Writer's Advice & Earned Praise from Editors at Leopold Bloom, Iron Horse, and Gulf Coast 〰️
Staging a Mystery
Bram Forrester excels at observation.
From his penthouse overlooking Lakeline’s Cobalt Lake, Bram Forrester studies other people’s lives with exacting precision.
His is a controlled world; after everything he’s lost, control is the only thing that matters.
Then . . . Vivienne Vaughan appears in his windowpanes, and Bram sees the future.
So he does what he does best . . .
He begins to arrange things.
Introductions. Opportunities. Coincidences that don’t quite feel like coincidence.
As Bram draws closer to Vivienne — and deeper into the lives surrounding them — his carefully constructed realities start shifting.
Because some narratives resist control.
And some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved . . .