Genna's Line
OngoingGenna Busterson measures things. Fields, fords, boundary marks, and the exact distance between her own name and her father's, which is the only line in fourteen counties she has never managed to close.
She wants a map. A proper one, engraved, hanging in a county hall, with a line across country nobody believed could be run, and in small italic type: GENNA'S LINE. Not Busterson's. Hers.
Then the ground moves under Marrowell, and Genna does something in the hour after that no witness will swear to and no instrument will corroborate. The county gets its wall back. The road gets a song about a spirit. The state gets a file.
Three novellas in the world of Venicia, about surveying, paperwork, fathers, and the difference between being believed and being let go.
Book 1
Onner's BridgeThe bridge in Onner's Bridge crosses four feet of nothing, over a streambed dry since before her father was born, and Genna Busterson is the only person in town who has ever found that strange. She has her first solo commission. Her name on it, nobody else's signature required. Nine days of road between her and the eastern parishes, where no Busterson chain has ever been run, and a father who is a legend in fourteen counties for a pass he opened and an ale road he made cheap, and who has not paid for a drink since before she could walk. Then the county seat comes apart around her. What she does next mends a wall and saves a town. It also produces no witness, no reading, and no explanation. The verse that reaches Onner's Bridge before she does gives the credit to a spirit, and the story is better that way, and everyone she loves sings it over her head. The state, being less romantic, opens a file.
