New Orleans, 1895. A deckhand drops a crate of firecrackers on the levee. The explosion panics horses two blocks away. In Jackson Square, a stevedore foreman named Thomas Granger is struck. His knee may never work the levee again.
Louisiana Civil Code Article 2315 is plain: every act whatever of man that causes damage to another obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it. Adelaide Granger believes the words mean what they say. Her husband's injury. The crate. The chain between them. All of it documented. All of it real.
The court will decide how far the obligation runs.
Callum Reach is twenty-three years old, newly arrived from Boston, reading law in a city that runs on two legal systems at once. He went in at the fourth corner of a chess board in Jackson Square because the corner was open. Five months later he is still there, watching Adelaide stand on a floor the law is about to move her off.
The Wake is the third novella in the Avery Cross Series — legal fiction for readers who want to know what the law costs.
Genre: Historical
Louisiana Civil Code Article 2315 is plain: every act whatever of man that causes damage to another obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it. Adelaide Granger believes the words mean what they say. Her husband's injury. The crate. The chain between them. All of it documented. All of it real.
The court will decide how far the obligation runs.
Callum Reach is twenty-three years old, newly arrived from Boston, reading law in a city that runs on two legal systems at once. He went in at the fourth corner of a chess board in Jackson Square because the corner was open. Five months later he is still there, watching Adelaide stand on a floor the law is about to move her off.
The Wake is the third novella in the Avery Cross Series — legal fiction for readers who want to know what the law costs.
Genre: Historical
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