Forty Thousand Dollars and the Deed to Maple Avenue Bakery

pay off the delinquent property taxes,” Diana said. “Once he pays the taxes, he can foreclose on the entire building for the price of the secondary note.”

“He gets the land for forty thousand dollars,” I said.

“And he gets Beatrice’s recipes,” Diana said, her pencil tapping against her knuckles again. “That was the clause in the contract he tried to continue reading …