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The Golden Ledger: Vol.6 - A Town Called Tomorrow
by BillMax
Language: English
Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Historical
Content Rating: All Ages
It starts with a grandmother’s cold. A private hospital in Sandstone decides the Walkers are rich enough to be frightened into paying for a cancer she doesn’t have, and Caleb learns how far a small town’s powerful men will go to protect their own. The trip home ends in grief, and in a promise to do better by the people he leaves behind.
Back in Bay City he tries something no tycoon would dream of. He runs a cheap chophouse in the workers’ quarter with his daughters waiting tables, moves the family into a middle-class flat on a strict budget, and slips into a college lecture hall as a visiting professor nobody recognizes. Every disguise shows him something new: honest people carrying burdens he’d forgotten, and old friends inside his own company who have quietly turned his name into a way of taking advantage of others.
And while he rebuilds his family’s values from the ground up, a whole town is rising on the hills outside the city: homes his workers can actually afford, and the first real test of whether a fortune can build something that lasts.