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The Mason's Ledger
Paperback
Publisher Price: $24.99
ISBN13: 9781952806704
Publisher: Christ in All Nations, Inc
Published: Sep 25 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He has spent his life believing that every debt must be paid. But what if the greatest debt of all was never his to begin with?
Derbyshire, England, 1849.
Twenty-two-year-old mason Elias Ward arrives at the great Ashcombe estate carrying his tools, his father's plumb bob, and a private calculation.
His mother is dead. His father's identity has never been spoken aloud. And somewhere inside Ashcombe may lie the truth he has been denied all his life.
Elias wants charity from no one. He refuses even wages he has not yet earned.
Instead, he begins a ledger.
Every hour. Every stone. Every sacrifice. Every debt.
He will work until everything he has given equals what he believes a son is worth. Then he will walk to the front door, present the account, learn the truth-and leave owing no one anything.
But Ashcombe has been keeping an account of its own.
Across twenty-nine years of stonework, buried letters, changing fortunes, friendship, grief, family secrets, and unexpected mercy, Elias discovers that some things cannot be entered in any column: a meal freely given, a place kept waiting, a father's love, a home.
And the harder he tries to earn what was never meant to be purchased, the more his ledger becomes the prison from which he must finally be freed.
The Mason's Ledger is an atmospheric literary historical novel about fathers and sons, hidden inheritance, working-class dignity, belonging, forgiveness, and the terrible freedom of receiving what cannot be earned.
For readers drawn to immersive historical fiction, English country estates, morally complex characters, family secrets, and novels whose deepest meanings continue unfolding after the final page.
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