Neil Hargrove Novels & Stories

She read the letter a third time, standing very still at the counter, and she began the process of understanding what it meant. The letter was from an attorney representing the estate of Franklin Hargrove. Franklin Hargrove — whom she had spent eleven months dismantling in court, whose stability covenant structure she had argued before a judge and won, whose estate reform precedent had become the foundation of Mitchell & Park's entire reputation and the basis of the Philadelphia expansion — was dead.