All Debts Not Yet Called In

"Someone has been extremely careful here." Simon Alcott writes these words in the margin of a ledger - not knowing he is already being watched, already being known, already the subject of a century-old attention that has been waiting, with extraordinary patience, for exactly the kind of mind that notices.

When the firm of actuaries sends their fourth man to Ashvere House, Simon arrives with one instruction and a professional habit: count everything. He counts the tiles in the entrance hall b...