“I’ll file the preliminary notice, but we need hard evidence before the recording deadline.”

“How much time have we got?”

“The county registrar will finalize the transfer index in under two weeks,” Evelyn said.

“If that deed makes it through the index cycle, Frank becomes the legal owner of record.”

At two in the afternoon I went through the double doors of the First Federal Bank branch downtown.

The high marble lobby was hushed, and the click of my low heels echoed clearly across the floor.

The teller at window three was named Martha.