Two banks
Old money and an old university on one side. Working streets, studios, shops and homes on the other.
Arden's Reach · Book One
Both Sides
of the River
A river splits one town in two. A university wants the east bank. Nine women find out what a survey date can do to a life.
Ensemble women's fiction
with strong romance elements
A town under notice
The buildings have names because there are people standing in them.
Nine women
Nine lives cross the same expansion plan—and the relationships it complicates, strengthens, or ends.
Six months
A press release arrives with addresses in it. Six months to decide what is worth saving.
Both Sides of the River
“The notice named the buildings. It did not name the people in them.”Read the full description
The town
Welcome to Arden's Reach.
The Sanguine River splits Arden's Reach into two places that share a name. Blackwood Bridge keeps both banks close enough to see exactly what the other side is doing.
Cross the bridge
About the author
Fiction about the paperwork that moves a neighborhood.
R. H. Lorne writes ensemble fiction about places under pressure—the surveys, notices, and filings that decide who gets to stay.
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