Before the Silence

Ten days before Remembrance Day, registrar Lorna Beckett finds one wrong page in a borrowed hero's file, and a medal in her case that does not match its own history. The insurer sends Isaac Tourigny to verify it quietly. Quiet is his whole profession. But the intake photographs do not lie, the old ledger does not lie, and the woman who keeps the record is done being managed. Someone trusted by everyone in town has been selling originals and displaying replicas, and he needs her signature to finish it. She intends to give him a public verification instead. A steamy romantic suspense novelette set in Trenton, Ontario, with a fair play provenance mystery and a guaranteed HEA.