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About the author

R. H. Lorne

R. H. Lorne writes ensemble fiction about places under pressure—the surveys, notices, and filings that decide who gets to stay, and the people standing in the buildings when the paperwork arrives.

Both Sides of the River is the first book of the Arden's Reach series, followed by When the River Rises.

The work

Small towns with long memories. Paperwork with consequences.

Arden's Reach begins where institutional language becomes personal: an expansion plan, a list of parcels, a deadline, an address someone recognizes as home.

The series follows an ensemble rather than a single hero, making room for the relationships, businesses, loyalties and compromises that hold a town together—or pull it apart.

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Contact

Write to R. H. Lorne.

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