The Border Surveyor

Pete Anza has spent twenty-five years measuring land across the deserts of West Texas. His work is simple: find what's there, document it precisely, and leave the arguments to someone else. But when a quiet contract in Hudspeth County pulls him into a disputed parcel with no official record, the ground beneath the job begins to shift. An unregistered tract. A vanished paper trail. Old stone monuments that shouldn't exist.
And beneath it all, water - running south through the desert, tied to claims older than the United States itself. As corporate interests, legal maneuvering, and hidden histories converge, Pete finds himself holding something far more valuable than a survey: a record powerful enough to decide the fate of land, water, and millions of dollars. Set against the stark beauty of the Chihuahuan Desert, THE BORDER SURVEYOR is a precise, atmospheric novel about truth, evidence, and the limits of what can be owned.