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If up and coming realtor Holly Grant can buy Turnaround Farm for her client, her business will boom. Who says you have to have a man in your life to complete you? She’s fine as she is thank you very much. Her first problem is that Jeb Wakefield doesn’t want to sell his farm, and her second problem is Jeb’s grandson Dan, the finest looking man Holly’s ever seen.
Excerpt: Chapter One
Last week
“You’ve lost your mind,” Loretta Patterson moaned as she doggedly trudged down the rough, graveled road behind Holly. “It’s twenty degrees out here and getting colder by the minute. We have no business coming out in weather like this.”
“The roads are icy, and our car slid into a ditch too,”her employer Holly Grant said with a grin. She bent her head against the bitter driving wind that almost took her breath away. “It isn’t like you to forget something like that, Loretta.”
“As if I could,” Loretta retorted, teeth chattering. “Why couldn’t you have waited for the weather to improve to see the Wakefields?”
Holly glanced at the forbidding gray landscape. The clouds looked low enough to touch and thick enough to choke you.
“The roads are icy, and our car slid into a ditch too,”her employer Holly Grant said with a grin. She bent her head against the bitter driving wind that almost took her breath away. “It isn’t like you to forget something like that, Loretta.”
“As if I could,” Loretta retorted, teeth chattering. “Why couldn’t you have waited for the weather to improve to see the Wakefields?”
Holly glanced at the forbidding gray landscape. The clouds looked low enough to touch and thick enough to choke you.
This Week: Holly speaks first.
“Loretta, I’ve told you a million times. If youwant to be a success in the real estate business, you have to work at it. Stop worrying so much. This is important toGrant Realty.”
“The Wakefields refuse to even discuss selling their property. Why do you think they’ve changed their minds?”
Holly grinned. “I did a little research. They’re broke,and Turnaround Farm is nothing but a white elephant. They work like dogs, but they never get ahead.
Holly grinned. “I did a little research. They’re broke,and Turnaround Farm is nothing but a white elephant. They work like dogs, but they never get ahead.
Always a winner, Elaine. I'm eager to read the next chapter.
ReplyDeleteShe's certainly tenacious but I think she's heading for a rude awakening. Nice set up, Elaine.
ReplyDeleteInteresting background information, enjoyed the snippet!
ReplyDeleteShe is very tenacious, but I have a feeling her hoped-for sellers are as well!
ReplyDeleteI hope her struggle with the freezing weather will be worth it - but I have a feeling it#s not going to be that easy for her.
ReplyDeleteAt least she's done her research. Still, she needs to remember that people don't always do the logical thing!
ReplyDeleteI know for a fact that sometimes what you interpret from 'reading' details does not factor in the human emotion/sentimentality of things. I guess we'll see if that's true, won't we?
ReplyDeleteI hope her research pays off. I guess we'll soon find out.
ReplyDeleteWill they be practical and sell? Or tenacious and hold on? Questions she needs the answer to but won't know until they arrive. Good job slipping in the backstory.
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