The Timber Covenant
After being publicly barred from her late mother's historic forestry estate, Clara Vance invokes a decades-old land conservation easement to halt a predatory development scheme.
Fictional story. Contains themes of family conflict, inheritance disputes, and corporate ethics.Chapter 1: The Groundbreaking at Oakhaven
I arrived at the edge of the Oakhaven timber grove ten minutes after the speeches had begun.
I did not come dressed for a confrontation.