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The Child Counted Nowhere: A Loughhaven Inheritance Mystery
Paperback
Series: The Loughhaven Inheritance Mysteries, Book 9
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 10 2026
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A room marked empty. A child left uncounted. A house waiting for its true history.
When a 1911 census schedule is discovered inside an old school punishment book, probate genealogist Anna Harland finds a child's sentence written beside Gull House's west room:
I was counted here before they counted everyone else.
The official return lists the room as unoccupied. Yet height marks, a locked deed box and lessons for a pupil known only as Number Five prove that a child lived there. Eleanor Ainsley's will left Gull House to the child resident in the west room whose name appears in no census of this family-but no beneficiary was ever found.
Now the house is being sold for redevelopment, and the room holding the last physical evidence is scheduled to disappear.
With records expert Maya Singh, Daniel Harland and solicitor Frances Morrow, Anna follows the missing child through a concealed custody case, a borrowed passage to Canada, several carefully separated names and a family arrangement that was never registered.
The search must establish more than who the child was. It must discover what she chose to do with Gull House after she was finally safe enough to claim it.
The Child Counted Nowhere is a clean British inheritance mystery about identity, protection, imperfect records and the difference between hiding a child and erasing her. It is Book Nine of The Loughhaven Inheritance Mysteries and resolves its central case completely.
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