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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
A Lease on Four Legs

A Lease on Four Legs

Lewis, Rita

Paperback

HumorGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798183037814
Publisher: Rita Lewis
Published: Nov 2 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Kevin Tran has built his life around keeping his head down. A careful auditor and an exemplary tenant at Skyline Vista Tower, he believes that paying his bills, following every rule, and avoiding attention will keep trouble outside his apartment door. That fragile peace ends when his younger sister Linh leaves a four-month-old fainting goat named Barnaby in his care for what is supposed to be a brief emergency stay. Barnaby has other plans. He chews through notices, damages the apartment, and makes enough noise to attract the attention of Damien Dung, the tower's ruthless property manager.With a building-wide inspection approaching, Kevin faces fines, eviction, and the possible removal of the little animal he has come to protect. His attempts to hide Barnaby lead to an absurd struggle involving suspicious neighbors, security staff, and petty regulations. Yet the goat's arrival also brings Kevin into contact with residents he has spent years avoiding. Eleanor Hanh, whose complaints once seemed to make her an enemy, knows more about the building than she lets on. Vincent Kowalski, the exhausted head of security, has his own reasons to question management, while the residents' council may hold the key to challenging Dung's authority.As Kevin investigates the rules being used against him, he discovers that the tower's celebrated pet restrictions were never properly approved. The paperwork points toward years of unauthorized fines and a much more serious cover-up: a corroded water riser hidden behind the walls, threatening the safety of the residents. With evidence in hand and Barnaby at his side, Kevin must decide whether to retreat into the quiet compliance that has defined his life or stand up for an entire building of tenants.The conflict comes to a head in a public confrontation where management's carefully maintained image begins to collapse. Kevin and his unlikely allies expose the false bylaws, challenge the people profiting from them, and push the residents toward a fairer system of self-governance. Barnaby's appetite for paperwork proves unexpectedly useful, but it is the tenants' willingness to stand together that changes the building.Warm and full of comic mishaps, A Lease on Four Legs follows an anxious man, a disruptive little goat, and a community discovering that a home is more than a lease. Sometimes the smallest troublemaker inspires people to defend what matters.

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