A Desirable Residence

Women's New Adult & College Fiction

Author: Madeleine Wickham

Liz and Jonathan Chambers were in trouble. Mortgage trouble. They’d stretched themselves to busting with their new exciting project – well, Liz thought it exciting – buying and managing the Silchester Tutorial College, and now couldn’t sell their old house. Here they were, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn’t wanted to mov….Read More

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