Forty Thousand Dollars and the Deed to Maple Avenue Bakery

in rows of tiny, typed dates and legal descriptions.

“But then I checked the local registry of deeds and saw a name that has not appeared in Oakhaven since nineteen ninety-eight,” Harold said.

I looked down at the paper, but the legal terms blurred together under the bright fluorescent lights of the hallway.

“Richard Vance,” Harold said, pronouncing the continue reading …