Chapter One
"Eliza! I've found it! But you've got to come out here and look
at it right away. It isn't going to last."
Eliza Blake listened to Louise Kendall's breathless voice and felt
her own heart beat faster. She glanced at her watch as she swiveled
around in her high-backed leather chair and looked out the windowed
wall of her office down to the studio on the floor below. She
could see the stagehands readying the set for the news segment she
was scheduled to pretape for this evening's broadcast.
"God, Louise," Eliza pleaded. "There's no way I can leave now."
"You have] to." Louise was adamant. "This is your house, Eliza. I'm
sure of it. My office just signed the listing agreement and it's going
into multiple tomorrow. Everyone and his cousin will be looking at
it in the morning and, I swear to you, Eliza, in this crazy market, the
house will be gone by this time tomorrow."
If the house were as special as Louise promised it was, Eliza knew
the Realtor was probably right. During the few short weeks Eliza had
begun her house-hunting in earnest, she had been stunned by the ... read full excerpt from Close to You ebook
