An ambitious smalltown girl, unlucky in love, is called back home from New York City upon inheriting her eccentric aunt's estate, but the will is fraught with off-the-wall clauses involving work, family, and having to find a husband by next year.
Lock, Stock, and Over a Barrel (A Dear Daphne Novel)
β Scribed by Melody Carlson
- Book ID
- 100304933
- Publisher
- B&H Publishing Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 253 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781433679254
- ASIN
- B07MR3JQDB
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
With high hopes, Daphne Ballinger lands her dream job at The New York Times. But it's not long until writing about weddings becomes a painful reminder of her own failed romance, and her love of the city slowly sours as well. Is it time to give up the Big Apple for her small hometown of Appleton?
When her eccentric Aunt Dee passes away and leaves a sizeable estate to Daphne, going back home is an easy choice. What isnβt easy is coming to terms with the downright odd clauses written into the will.
Daphne only stands to inherit the estate if she agrees to her aunt's very specific posthumous terms -- personal and professional. And if she fails to comply, the sprawling old Victorian house shall be bequeathed to . . . Aunt Deeβs cats.
And if Daphne thinks thatβs odd, wait until she finds out an array of secrets about Aunt Dee's life, and how imperfect circumstances can sometimes lead to God's perfect timing.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Daphne Ballinger has learned to accept her deceased, eccentric auntβs strange request that she marry in order to inherit her estate, along with taking over her auntβs hometown paperβs advice column. But knowing and accepting that Godβs will be done becomes harder when a new neighbor, a divorced