{"product_id":"willow-lane-rae-e-taylor-9798249136925","title":"Willow Lane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003equiet town. A hidden ledger. A single thread that unravels everything.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Maya finds a tin box tucked away in her late mother's belongings, she expects old receipts and memories. Instead she discovers a ledger-neat handwriting, coded notes, envelopes, and a cassette with a voice that ends in an apology. What begins as a private puzzle becomes a public reckoning: payments traced through shell companies, nights that don't add up, and a second, more dangerous ledger that reads like instructions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the evidence moves from drawer to solicitor to press, Willow Lane's polite façades crack. A solicitor who believes the law can shelter the vulnerable; a journalist who refuses to sensationalise; a handyman who records what others would rather forget; a whistleblower who pays a high price for truth-each becomes part of a fragile, stubborn network determined to expose the town's quiet machinery of favors and silence. But the ledger's defenders are powerful, practiced, and willing to retaliate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAtmospheric, morally complex, and unflinchingly human\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e is a slow-burn thriller about the arithmetic of secrecy: how small compromises compound into systems, how courage is often ordinary and costly, and how repair begins with naming. If you like character-driven mysteries with a strong sense of place-rain-slick lanes, a turning mill wheel, and the hush of late-night rooms-this novel will keep you reading until the river carries the last lantern away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead it for the tension. Stay for the people.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rae E. Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798249136925\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d","brand":"Rae E. Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172504543487,"sku":"9798249136925","price":13.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/willow-lane-rae-e-taylor-9798249136925","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}