The Homestead Claim

When Jasper Cole's wagon wheel breaks beside a forgotten North Florida spring, he only means to fix it and move on. But Seraphine Voss sees more than a delay. She sees clean water, old claim fragments, signs of a displaced family, and a place that might become home.With Mensa's iron rule over the cook pot, Grandpaps' dangerous inventions, two children who believe every creature deserves consideration, and Hackney's fish tales growing larger by the hour, Broken Wheel Spring becomes a roadside stop for food, repairs, clean water, and second chances.But Mayor Bellrusk wants the spring for his own purposes. Through false fees, vague notices, planted disorder, missing history, and public pressure, he tries to make the family look unlawful and unsafe. Seraphine's records, Jasper's work, Sheriff Riddle's caution, and the testimony of ordinary people turn a broken wheel into a claim that will not move easily.

Pagina's: 648, Paperback, Shane P Miller