The Unfaithful Guardian

Thirty-eight deaths. No complaints. One judge who wants to check the paperwork. Kit Averill is the most respected court-appointed guardian in the county. She has managed forty-one elderly wards and she has never once been disciplined. Now a new judge has ordered an audit, and the first thing the auditor finds is a woman who should have been off Kit's file six months ago — alive, in a bungalow outside town, and certain that Kit has been to the house three times since. Kit has never been there. She has the mileage logs and the sign-in sheets to prove it. Each sheet is signed in Kit's handwriting. Each date is a day Kit was in court, on camera, an hour away. Someone inside her own office knows exactly how Kit signs her name. Someone has been using Kit's signature for two years. And once Kit finds out who, she has to decide what a quiet retirement is worth when twenty-eight families never got an answer. A slick, procedural psychological thriller about the paperwork we trust and the people who fill it in.