“You always make everything look so simple and organized.”

I set the gravy boat down in the middle of the table, right between the salt cellar and the dish of fresh butter.

Nate reached under the small side table behind his chair and picked up three things.

He set the first one in the middle of the table, right next to the gravy boat where everyone could see it.

It was a dark oak frame holding the official recorded county tax deed from April 14, stamped with the county clerk’s red embossed seal.