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Chapters
Chapter 1: The Lily on The Mantle
Chapter 2: The Man in The Café
Chapter 3: Roots and Ghosts
Chapter 4: Beneath The Roots
Chapter 5: Roots of Truth
Chapter 6: The Deepest Roots
Chapter 7: A Town That Remembers
Chapter 8: When The Roots Split
Chapter 9: Beneath The Last Lily
Chapter 10: Ashes and Echoes
Chapter 11: Secrets Beneath The Ash
Chapter 12: Ghost in the Ledger
Chapter 13: The Digging Hour
Chapter 14: The Watcher in the Rows
Chapter 15: Fire at the Fence Line
Chapter 16: The Gathering Storm
Chapter 17: Lilies in the Rain
Chapter 18: Under the Mother Tree
Chapter 19: The Ledger’s Price
Chapter 20: The Orchard’s Reckoning
Chapter 21:
Chapter 22: Rooted Voices
Chapter 23: Into the Hollow Again
Chapter 24: The Thorns Aware
Chapter 25: The Thaw Deepens
Chapter 26: The Last Stand
Chapter 27: Paper Roots
Chapter 28: The Orchard’s Promise
Epilogue: When Lilies Bloom
Author’s Note
Part Two: Prologue
Chapter 29: Beneath the Lilies
Chapter 30: Paper Secrets
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Chapter 12: Ghost in the Ledger
By dawn, Isla’s kitchen table looked like a crime scene from half a century ago. Old deeds, Ruth’s brittle letters, yellowed property maps — all spread out like puzzle pieces that refused to fit. A half-empty coffee mug went cold by her elbow while she traced lines on a map with her fingertip for th...