The Deed Beneath the Daisies
Warm
A quiet meadow. A missing deed. A cat who refuses to stay out of the evidence.
Blythe Mercer is a legal aid paralegal in the small town of Briar Glen, where courthouse gossip travels faster than filings and her gray cat, Bernice, considers herself an essential part of every investigation. When Blythe helps rebuild a land rights case from public records, she expects dusty deeds, stubborn officials, and maybe a few paper cuts.
What she finds is far more troubling.
The opposing law firm has destroyed documents it was legally required to keep, and the missing files point to a land fraud buried for more than sixty years. As Blythe follows old tax rolls, sealed court records, historical society archives, and Bernice’s suspiciously accurate instincts, she uncovers a trail leading from a beloved family meadow to some of Briar Glen’s most powerful names.
But someone is still trying to erase the truth.
With a sharp-eyed archivist, a warm-hearted baker, a nervous young lawyer, and one very opinionated cat at her side, Blythe must prove that the past was never as settled as everyone claimed.
Perfect for fans of small-town cozy mysteries, clever amateur sleuths, archival secrets, gentle legal intrigue, and cats who know exactly where the bodies of evidence are buried.
