looking for ways of putting them together.
I can do some sharebroking from here, easily, with only the occasional trip to New York. But I need a secretary.
Susie can garden here to her heart’s content, but she needs people to enjoy her garden and eat her vegetables.
The castle is aging and maintenance is screaming to be done. The conservatory alone needs someone to care for it-someone who loves wood.
The castle needs people.
So we’ve decided to open our Castle By The Sea. It will be styled as a Cottage By The Sea, which is a famous holiday camp for children in need. Disadvantaged kids will come to us for the holiday of a lifetime. They’ll come in times of family crisis, they’ll spend two weeks here, on the beach, learning to garden, learning to farm in the experimental farm Susie’s planning. They’ll take time out from whatever crisis is in their lives. We’ve talked to the authorities. We have enthusiasm!
But we need someone with experience with disadvantaged kids. They’ll come with their carers, but we’d plan their experience. And-you see, Jodie, I do pay attention-I remember you telling me that Nick is a social worker. That he worked with disadvantaged kids and he loved it. We wondered whether he’d like to dip his toe in the water again.
Jodie, we’re not offering Nick a full-time job as a social worker or a woodworker, or you a full-time job as a secretary. Susie and I don’t intend to be full-time gardeners or sharebrokers either. But we are offering full-time commitment.
What we’d like is for you guys to have a house in the castle grounds-maybe helping build it could be Nick’s first job-and for you both to be Share-Castlers. Like share farmers, only different. This castle needs two families. We’re inviting you to be our partners.
You don’t need to answer at once. Terms need to be negotiated. There’s no way I’ll let you do this as a temp. What about it, Jodie? Will you share our happy ever after?
Think about it and let us know. With love from:
Hamish and Susie and Rose and Taffy and Ernst and Eric
We’re on our way. P.S. Who are Ernst and Eric?
Marion Lennox
Marion Lennox was born on an Australian dairy farm. She moved on-mostly because the cows weren’t interested in her stories! Marion writes for the Medical Romance™ and Harlequin Romance® lines. In her non-writing life, Marion cares (haphazardly) for her husband, kids, dogs, cats, chickens and anyone else who lines up at her dinner table. She fights her rampant garden (she’s losing) and her house dust (she’s lost!). She also travels, which she finds seriously addictive. As a teenager Marion was told she’d never get anywhere reading romance. Now romance is the basis of her stories and her stories allow her to travel. If ever there was one advertisement for following your dream, she’d be it! You can contact Marion at www.marionlennox.com
