Forty Thousand Dollars and the Deed to Maple Avenue Bakery

it is not mentioned anywhere in your application.”

I stared at him, the heat rising to my face. “A secondary mortgage? That is impossible. Beatrice would have told me.”

“Without a signature of release from that lender, the bank cannot approve this loan,” Arthur said gently. “The application is officially blocked.”

By two o’clock, I was sitting in the continue reading …