Manor for Sale, Baron Included by Esther Hatch EPUB & PDF

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• Author: Esther Hatch
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• Genre: Victorian Historical Romance
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JONATHAN’S SOLICITOR was a horrible human being.
He was also one of his best friends, so he couldn’t exactly tell him that.
“I thought I made myself clear, I don’t want to sell Greenwood Manor.
What do you mean you have a buyer?”
Oliver pushed his spectacles lower on his nose so he could look above
them. He didn’t need the blasted things. He wore them so clients would take
him seriously. When they were practically hanging off his nose it didn’t
make him look serious. It made him look ridiculous. Oliver sniffed—
another annoying habit he had formed since becoming a solicitor. “It is your
only property that isn’t entailed.”

Jonathan leaned across the desk and ripped the spectacles off of Oliver’s
nose, exposing his friend’s fresh-faced good looks. Oliver didn’t need to
pretend with him. “That’s because it was my mother’s.”
The office grew quiet. Outside a carriage rolled past. Of all the people
in London, Oliver knew better than any of them the hole that had been torn
in Jonathan’s heart when his mother had passed away. The manor was the
one place he had ever felt at home and now his friend wanted to rip it from
him. Oliver blinked a few times, shuffled a stack of paper on his desk, and
then returned the spectacles to his face. “I know. I know.

But after our last
conversation, I had an idea. It was highly improbable, but I let my
colleagues know that I had a client looking to sell a manor house, and a
manor house only. No land. The estate is one of the few you have that is
still profitable and no one has used the house for years. I didn’t think I
would find anyone interested, for the house is expensive to maintain
without the land to support it…”

Jonathan didn’t need Oliver telling him how expensive his homes were
to maintain. His barony had come with three of them in addition to
Greenwood Manor. The past year had been filled with sheets of numbers
cataloguing every expense and every penny coming in. The numbers had
never added up in his favor. Britain’s estates were still reeling from the
repeal of the Corn Laws and the subsequent lowered price on grain, and his
were no exception. While Jonathan hadn’t opposed the change in theory or
in vote, in action it had nearly bankrupted him. But his tenants at
Greenwood Manor had sheep, not farmland. Unlike the rest of his estates,
the lower price of grain had actually been a benefit to them.

“But Greenwood Manor? Oliver, how can I?”
Oliver slammed his fist on the desk and Jonathan jumped. “Some
people don’t have the luxury of holding on to items worth tens of thousands
of pounds. And I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Jonathan, you
are now one of them.”

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