Restoring Madison, TX

Verde County's 1923 courthouse has needed restoration for decades. The Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program can fund it — if the county can just get through the process. Bat colonies. Archaeological surveys. Records management compliance. Infrastructure crises that nobody saw coming and everybody should have.

Restoring Madison, TX follows the women at the heart of each new complication: a B&B owner documenting her grandfather's erased labor history, a county clerk whose family built this office from nothing, a coffee shop owner watching her walls crack open while engineers argue about clay soil. 
Each book stands alone. Each one peels back another layer of a community that's been here a long time and plans to stay.Women's fiction with deep roots in Texas public sector culture, multicultural community life, and the slow, satisfying work of preserving something worth keeping. 

The drama is real. The red tape is unfortunately also real.