Sleepless In The Neighbor's Bed

Twenty-two years of marriage. Two hundred and forty feet down the road. One husband who forgot to read the fine print. For twenty-four years, licensed land surveyor Roz Fennimore has made her living locating exact boundaries and proving where the line really lies. But when her contractor husband, Bartlett, packs his bags and moves two hundred and forty feet down the street into the bedroom of her younger neighbor, and starts framing a sprawling, unpermitted master suite on her clock, he expects a drama-filled scene. Roz doesn't throw a scene. She pulls the title chain. What Bartlett forgot is that back in 2015, to dodge a massive contractor's lien, he signed a quitclaim deed transferring their entire eleven-acre coastal property into an LLC with Roz as the sole member, and signed a spousal waiver waiving every square foot of interest. Even better? The driveway, well line, and septic field serving his new girlfriend's house rely on a 1974 private easement that Roz has the sole legal authority to terminate with ninety days' certified notice. Armed with her surveyor's transit, a binder of certified courthouse records, and a stack of green certified mail cards, Roz begins a quiet, flawlessly calculated execution. From posting county stop-work orders on his unpermitted framing to staking the exact property line through their driveway, Roz proves that a man can walk away from a marriage, but he can't walk away from the deed. A razor-sharp, satisfying story of Southern grit, legal mastery, and the supreme satisfaction of serving payback by certified mail. This cheating husband wife gets revenge is a standalone humorous story.