Crimson Secrets

Gareth's fingers tightened around his fork.

Just then, the waiters arrived, setting dish after fragrant dish between them, the aroma masking—if only briefly—the tension that had begun to coil over the table.

The three of them ate, and between bites, they pieced together the weeks Sloane had spent away on Vancroft Island, trading rumors of everything that had erupted back in Aldenridge. Yet neith