I was Going to Write You a Long E-mail

An Excerpt from The 25th Hour (Book One in The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer):
Mrs. Cooper sighed. “Your father’s been laid off. There’s no money coming in. We’ll have to live off our savings until we can find jobs. Your brother will be moving back home when the semester ends, unless he can find a way to pay his tuition.”

Brooke was distressed at the idea of her brother returning home. She had been relieved to watch him go off to college for what she had thought would be four years. “Bu...