Clara Langford Bonus Content

By Clara Langford. A free reader bonus.

A Door That Doesn't Latch

A Cedar Falls Story

The storm door swung wide before Nell had the key out of the lock, and the wind took it the rest of the way.

She caught it on the backswing. The aluminum was cold enough to bite. She held it against her hip and worked the deadbolt with her free hand, and she thought what she had thought at eleven, and at nineteen, and at forty-three.

Somebody ought to fix that door.

Nobody ever had. Her father had meant to. Her...

By Clara Langford. A free reader bonus.

Bonus Scene: The Visit in May

A Mercy General Series bonus scene, Colin POV. Set several months after The Reckoning at Mercy General.

Theo's car was a rental, a compact something in a shade of gray that made it nearly invisible against the parking lot behind Colin's office, and he was fifteen minutes early, which Colin noted the way he noted most things now: not as a fact to be filed, just as a fact.

"You found it," Colin said, coming out onto the sidewalk...

By Clara Langford. A free reader bonus.

Bonus Scene — The Walleye Supper

Common Ground at Mercy General · Clara Langford · Mercy General Series, Book 4 A newsletter reader-magnet bonus scene. Takes place a few weeks after the close of the book. Linda POV. ~1,500 words.

The place on Third did not have a name, or it had one and nobody used it, because Helen Wahlund’s niece had painted GOOD FOOD on the window in the same blue as the bakery down the block and the town had decided that was answer...

Bonus Scene — The Starter

A free scene from New Beginnings at Mercy General (Mercy General, Book 2), told from Helen Wahlund’s side of the counter. This is the morning Olivia first walked into the bakery before the bread was out. You read it from Olivia’s chair in Chapter Six. Here is the other chair.

— Clara Langford

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Helen Wahlund had been awake since four, which was not early for her and had not been early for her in thirty-one years. The ovens came up slow in the old building. A person...