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Annalise Miller The morning light came in through the tall windows of the Oak & Ivy Salon. Crystal glasses caught the light, champagne flutes already half-full even though it was barely ten. This was their little ritual—the “Harvest Breakfast” for the ladies of the viticulture circle. Pretentious
Dahlia My mother’s hands were shaking. I could see them trembling on the table. “They’ve never met us. In three years of marriage they never once invited us to dinner or acknowledged that their son had in-laws.” “They meant well—” “They meant nothing.” My mother’s voice was ice. “They wanted you
Dahlia I wasn’t expecting them to still be awake. It was past eleven when I finally pulled into the driveway, my truck making that god-awful rattling noise it always made when I pushed it past sixty on the back roads. I’d lost track of time at Morning Dew again, hunched over vendor contracts unt
Annelise felt like she’d been punched. “Oh I heard she’s already working very closely with Weston Thayer,” Patricia’s voice dropped to that conspiratorial tone that meant the really nasty part was coming. “Planning his wedding to that Bennington girl. Very…cozy arrangement from what my Alcott tells
Annelise Miller Annelise Miller did not attend Rosewood Country Club luncheons unless she absolutely had to. She found them boring at best, insufferable at worst. A parade of suburban women who’d relocated from the city and still couldn’t let go of that metropolitan superiority. There was someth







