The Concrete Setback: A Gritty Texas Tale of Unyielding Lines and Bedrock Justice
CHAPTER 1: THE CRUSHED PERIMETER The sun over Collin County didn’t just shine; it baked the moisture out of the earth until the Bermuda grass turned stiff as wire and the limestone gutters gleamed like bleached bone. Marcus Thorne knelt in the dust at the edge of his property, his fingers tracing the fresh, jagged…