The Secret Keeper

by Kate Morton

All actresses have favorite words, and gloaming was one of Laurel’s. It was a pleasure to articulate, the sense of falling gloom and helpless encompassment inherent within the word’s sound, and yet it was so close to glowing that some of the latter’s shine rubbed off on it, too.

Perhaps all children were held captive, in some part, by their parents’ pasts.