Shadow of Kin

🤱🏽 Shadows of Kin The autumn rain fell in relentless sheets over Willow Creek, a forgotten hollow in upstate New York where the maples bled crimson and gold into the swollen river below. Jennifer Hayes stood at the kitchen window of her childhood home, her fingers tracing the cool edge of a chipped porcelain mug, steam from the chamomile tea curling like ghosts around her knuckles. At twenty-four, she was a woman caught between worlds: the girl who fled this house at eighteen, vowing