Witness Road

Bol

June Mercer came to East Tennessee to settle a land dispute. Instead, she found a road no one will claim, a hollow everyone avoids, and a man who knows exactly why.The county wants the route opened. The locals want it left alone. But when a worker steps onto dry ground and comes back soaked, June realizes this is not a fight over easements and survey lines anymore. Someone is trying to force the wrong crossing into public use before the summer storms hit.If they succeed, a family home falls inside the line, an old boundary breaks, and whatever has waited in the hollow will no longer stay outside the map.The only person who can help her stop it is Cal Vance, a quiet local foreman with a history buried deep in the district and too many reasons not to tell her everything. The closer June gets to the truth, the more dangerous he becomes to want.Because in this county, a road is not the same thing as permission.And once the wrong one opens, it does not close clean.This is the stronger, sharper version if you want it to hit even harder: She came to fix a route. She found a road the county should have left buried.Surveyor June Mercer is sent to a mountain county in East Tennessee to settle a stalled right-of-way dispute. Then a worker walks into dry ground and comes back soaked, locals start talking like the land is listening, and June discovers that the road on paper is not the road the county fears.Now someone is trying to open the wrong crossing before the summer storms arrive.If they do, a home falls into the corridor, a hidden hollow becomes public ground, and the mountain will carry the damage long after the county is done naming it.The only man who knows how bad it can get is Cal Vance, a local foreman with a past tied to the line itself. He may be the reason June survives what is waking in the district.He may also be the reason she does not leave.Because some roads take you somewhere.And some roads were never meant to be opened.

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Pages: 450, Paperback, Independently published