Thirty-one photographs, and I sent them to my own email from her kitchen so there would be two copies.

Rachel, my sister-in-law, was already on the park bench at five, her tablet propped on her knees and a silver pen cap turning between two fingers.

“I pulled the recorder’s index on my lunch break,” she said.

“You were right to call me.”

“Tell me the part I’m not going to like.”

She turned the tablet around.

A preliminary lien notice, recorded on the second of July, against parcel 44-019-B.

The claimant was listed as a private lender with a post office box in Columbus.