Claimed by the Cartographer

Surveyor Tess Bao is hired to reestablish a shoreline. The deed she is given says the shoreline never moves. It has moved. Ninety feet, over fifty years, one strip at a time, on plats signed in a hand she would know anywhere. Her father's. Somebody has been redrawing the tide out of treaty waters and into private pockets, and the harbor commissioner helping her with the work is the man who taught her father to survey. Tess can prove all of it with one deed and one tide chart. Proving it will cost her the contract, her father's name, and the island's good opinion of a man she loved. She does it anyway. A Bainbridge Island mystery and an absolutely unputdownable psychological thriller about the lines we inherit and the ones we redraw.