Chapter One: The Stolen Blueprint

He called three minutes later. “Did getting fired make you insane? That house could bury you.” “The northwest beam is decayed, but the joint ends are sound. Sister it with two LVL beams. You won’t need to rebuild the roof.” Silence. “How could you possibly know that?” Lena watched faint gold shimmer in the dark. “Because it’s my house,” she said. “And it’s the first blueprint of my comeback.”