Scattered Light

Among this collection of thirteen short stories from award-winning author Jean Rae Baxter is After Annabelle winner of the 2010 John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award and Devotion which was a semi-finalist. In After Annabelle a woman looks back to the day thirty years ago when, as a ten year old, she found the remains of her murdered cousin, and in Devotion, a man returns to upset his widow's tranquil life fifteen years after faking his death to escape prosecution for operating a Ponzi scheme.