Squatter's Rights is the first book in the Eastern Shore Mystery series. As a final gift to her dying mother, Washington attorney Grace Reagan buys an old family estate on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She's going to restore the delapidated mansion, sell it and get on with her life, but her plans go awry when a sinkhole turns out to be a grave. Who's buried behind the grandest house in town? The answer will change Grace's life forever.From SQUATTER'S RIGHTS:AUGUST 1960 Ford Delaney leaned heavily on the shovel and tried to slow his breathing. It would be ironic if he keeled over into the grave he’d just dug. He looked up through the leaf canopy of the small patch of woods and the normalcy of the stars in the moonless sky calmed him a little. “It’s a dog,” he whispered, as if saying the words made it so. “Just a damned dog.” The body in the pit didn’t look like a dog, though, and Ford knew it. What was he going to tell Emma? The thought of his wife made his heart race. Her image stayed with him as he began to shovel dirt back into the hole, moving faster and faster as the grave filled. Get moving! Get the job done! Ford’s personal motto, spouted in boardrooms, Rotary meetings and into the faces of under-performing subordinates, raced around his head. Stick with the plan and get the job done! Ford tormented himself with a running monolog of his own trite slogans as he shoveled, his self-loathing driving him into a frenzy. The shovel hit hard ground. Startled from his mental self-flagellation, Ford stared at the slight mound of loose soil that covered his secret. A bit of tidying up and it wasn’t a grave anymore, only a disturbed area in the woods behind his house. Maybe it would be all right. A sharp pain lanced through his left shoulder. Not now, he whispered as he grabbed a sturdy pine tree and struggled to stay upright. Another pain shot down his arm. No! Not here. Let me finish. Please.Chapter OneSeptember 2016 The bathtub in the parlor was a bad sign. The old claw-foot model lay upside down under a ragged hole in the ceiling as if belly-up in defeat. Strips of broken lathing, plaster chunks and a liberal icing of grayish mud covered the room. “I don’t know how this happened,” Cyrus Mosley said. His immediate denial told Grace all she needed to know about the wizened lawyer. An attorney herself, Grace didn’t hold many illusions about the legal profession. She’d pegged Mosley for a fool from the get-go. Reality broke through her irritation and her stomach went queasy with nerves. This was her house. Her tub. Her broken water pipe that was still dripping.“Well, you should know,” she snapped.
✔ Author(s): Cheril Thomas
✔ Title: Squatter's Rights: An Eastern Shore Mystery (The Eastern Shore Mysteries)
✔ Rating : 4.5 out of 5 base on (771 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1733412107
✔ ISBN-13: 9781733412100
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
Readers' opinions about Squatter's Rights by Cheril Thomas
Melody Blake
What an intellectual journey! The themes explored in this book challenged my perceptions and sparked introspection. It's refreshing to read a book that provokes such thought.
Iris Watts
The plot was incredibly well-crafted, with twists and turns that kept me hooked until the very last page. It was impossible to predict what would happen next.
Tasha Cobbett
The themes of resilience and hope resonated deeply with me. This book taught me valuable life lessons that I'll carry with me for years to come.
