the Annapolis Papers: She Can Tell a Forgery From Truth. Now Truth is Coming For Her.

Book One of The Claire Whitlock Series.She can tell a forgery from the truth. Now the truth is coming for her.Claire Whitlock examines precious documents for a living. Watermarks, chain lines, the ghost of a torn page inside a binding. She can tell where a book came from before she reads a word of it. People are harder, and her father, a beloved Naval Academy historian, made sure of that.Two years after his death, eleven ship's logbooks arrive at her small Annapolis archive. One has been rebound recently, and badly, and on purpose. Hidden in its board is a forty-year-old list of Annapolis names and a note to her father. They've started again.Then a man with a real insurance license and a false story walks into her lab and tells her the truth sooner than she expects. What he cannot tell her is why a polite collector from Newport wants the one thing her father refused to sell, or why her own name is on a list typed before she was born.A slow-burn romance. A spy who tells the truth early. A town that keeps its secrets in bindings.The Annapolis Papers is the first Claire Whitlock novel: a page-turner for readers who want real suspense, a heroine whose competence is her own, and a love story that earns every step. The series continues with The Norfolk Letter.