THE DEED

A hip and hilarious debut novel about a twentysomething guy searching for love, for meaning...and for a long-lost deed that could make him heir to the island of Manhattan Meet Jason Hansvoort, a single New Yorker with a curious knack for surviving near-death experiences. Wistful about college, apprehensive about the future, hes currently flailing around in post-college limbo as low man on the totem pole at one of Madison Avenues Big Five ad agencies, impatiently waiting for the Next Thing to happen. And then one day hes approached by Amanda, an attractive young law student and one of the last members of the Manahata, the Native American tribe who sold Manhattan Island to the Dutch almost four hundred years ago. Shes spent years on the trail of a lost document that supposedly gave ownership of Manhattan to a seventeenth-century benefactor and all his descendants. She believes Jasons the last of this line...and therefore heir to the island of Manhattan and everything on it. If they can find the deed, that is. Jasons skeptical...but enchanted enough to play along. If Jason and Amanda can indeed locate the deed, the consequences will be tremendous and far reaching