Chapter 13 — The Land

“They want the house,” I said.

It was not a question.

I already knew.

“The land,” Harrison agreed.

“The property your husband left you.” My late husband had left me the house and the acreage it sat on, and it was the one thing of real value I still owned, and a developer had come to Trent the month before with an offer of two million dollars for it.

I had said no.