When a waterfront preservation file collides with a redevelopment agenda in Port Mercer, June Sloane gets pulled into a dispute over a missing deed and the future of a neighborhood block. At the records annex above the ferry terminal, she teams up with Eli Navarro, the harbor authority's ledgers clerk, to sort through harbor logs, tax receipts, and title abstracts before the city signs off on a deal that could push tenants out. What they uncover is not a simple clerical error, but a long-buried chain of payments, informal arrangements, and private promises shaped by illness, grief, and silence. As June and Eli follow the trail from the annex to the radio station and the abandoned cannery sheds, they realize the only way to protect the neighborhood is to make the full history public, even if it costs them more than they expected.
When a waterfront preservation file collides with a redevelopment agenda in Port Mercer, June Sloane gets pulled into a dispute over a missing deed and the future of a neighborhood block. At the records annex above the ferry terminal, she teams up with Eli Navarro, the harbor authority's ledgers ...