Scattered Light

Among this collection of thirteen short stories from award-winning author Jean Rae Baxter is After Annabellewinner of the 2010 John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award and Devotionwhich was a semi-finalist. In After Annabellea 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.