the Road Missing From Map: A Loughhaven Inheritance Mystery

One road. Two maps. Three homes with four weeks left.When a brass survey tube is discovered beneath a demolished toll house, probate genealogist Anna Harland finds two estate maps drawn by the same surveyor on the same day in 1906.One shows a public lane reaching three cottages above Loughhaven's eastern quarry.The other stops at a stone wall twenty yards before them.Every later plan removes the road entirely.Now Cairnshore Developments owns the land below the cottages and intends to close the track. The registered title records no access, an old will leaves a vanished orchard to "the households served by the road removed from the map", and a Harcourt descendant appears ready to sell a family interest that may never have existed.With records expert Maya Singh, Daniel Harland and solicitor Frances Morrow, Anna follows the missing route through a wall chest, toll ledgers, public-health files, a frozen trust account and a transparent survey overlay. The two maps may not contradict each other at all. Together, they may reveal a carefully divided arrangement: public road to the wall, protected household passage beyond it, and a safer reserve route hidden for more than a century.The evidence can prevent the cottages from being stranded. But resolving the case requires more than proving an old right. Anna must determine who can make decisions for the road now, what became of the orchard intended to maintain it, and whether moving the route can preserve Beatrice Harcourt's purpose without freezing the land in 1906.The Road Missing From the Map is a clean British inheritance mystery about home, access, imperfect records and the difference between preserving an old line and preserving the people it was drawn to serve. It is Book Eleven of The Loughhaven Inheritance Mysteries and resolves its central case completely.