Lot Seven — A Birchwater Novel

By Erik Bilicki. Publishing October 6, 2026 from Remer Press. ISBN 979-8-9976966-0-3.

Dana isn't being haunted. She's being negotiated with.

Dana Kowalczyk prices the dead for a living. The Brandt estate should have been the job that saved her — a dead man's farmhouse at the end of four miles of frozen gravel, no heirs, and the largest commission she has ever written. Then she measures the back hall and the arithmetic comes up four feet short.

Behind the pantry wall there is a room. Tin-lined. Salted. Six objects on six shelves, tagged in a careful hand, not touching.

She sells five of them in a single morning. What comes back is not a haunting. It is courteous. It does not lie. It pays what it owes and it waits to be invited, because the oldest law it keeps is that what is taken fights its keeping, and what consents keeps itself.

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