The Clerk of Havenwood
He has a plan for her town. She has the minutes from every meeting since 1824.
For thirty-five years, Harriet Ainsworth has been the meticulous, unseen engine of Havenwood, Vermont. As Deputy Town Clerk, she knows every bylaw, every budget line, every secret handshake that keeps her small town running. When the Town Manager job she's earned is given to a slick outsider with a clipboard and a condescending smile, she prepares for a quiet, dignified retirement.
Read moreRead less
But the new manager, Marcus Thorne, sees Havenwood not as a home, but as an asset to be liquidated. His first target is the beloved Historical Society, housed in a building that sits on the town's oldest piece of land. He calls it 'optimization'; Harriet calls it by its real name: a land grab.
Armed with a century of town records and an unshakeable sense of duty, Harriet discovers that the fight for a single building is a battle for the town's soul. She's not a detective or a lawyer, just a clerk. But in a war of paper and precedent, the woman who knows where everything is filed is the most dangerous person in the room.
All chapters8
- 1The Outgoing Tray5 min
- 2Let's See What This Liability5 min
- 3It Reads Clean5 min
- 4For the Public Good6 min
- 5Measure Twice, Cut Once5 min
- 6As Per the Record6 min
- 7The Trick Deed5 min
- 8Five Business Days5 min
