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Flipped: A Jillian McElroy Flipping Mystery - Book One
Every house has secrets, some are deadlier than others.
When Jillian McElroy finds herself laid off, recently bereft of her mother, and richer by a hefty inheritance she decides to take her mother’s posthumous advice and follow her dream of renovating and selling houses. But this old house may bring her more than she can handle.
Learning a home’s secrets is always interesting but this one seems determined to keep them at any cost and trouble starts before Jillian puts the key in the door. Just after purchasing the house she’s nearly run over by an old man that turns out to be the nefarious next door neighbor and a freak accident causes her contractor to quit. “If these walls could talk, they’d tell you to run,” he said.
Which is exactly what her head tells her when she is forced to hire the only contractor in town available on short notice, notorious womanizer and former would-be flame Nathan Strong. But her heart may have other ideas. The last thing Nathan wants is to be tied down, but Jillian is the one that got away. Could he work out a second shot?
When her sister is kidnapped with a ransom that curiously matches the price she paid for the house, Jillian and Nathan soon find themselves in over their heads and head over heels as they race to find her sister, keep an obsessed old man from destroying her investment, and figure out what makes this particular property such a killer deal.
When Jillian McElroy finds herself laid off, recently bereft of her mother, and richer by a hefty inheritance she decides to take her mother’s posthumous advice and follow her dream of renovating and selling houses. But this old house may bring her more than she can handle.
Learning a home’s secrets is always interesting but this one seems determined to keep them at any cost and trouble starts before Jillian puts the key in the door. Just after purchasing the house she’s nearly run over by an old man that turns out to be the nefarious next door neighbor and a freak accident causes her contractor to quit. “If these walls could talk, they’d tell you to run,” he said.
Which is exactly what her head tells her when she is forced to hire the only contractor in town available on short notice, notorious womanizer and former would-be flame Nathan Strong. But her heart may have other ideas. The last thing Nathan wants is to be tied down, but Jillian is the one that got away. Could he work out a second shot?
When her sister is kidnapped with a ransom that curiously matches the price she paid for the house, Jillian and Nathan soon find themselves in over their heads and head over heels as they race to find her sister, keep an obsessed old man from destroying her investment, and figure out what makes this particular property such a killer deal.
223 pages, Paperback
Published January 12, 2022
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September 9, 2022
Here we have Kate Beckett and Richard Castle as high school sweethearts reunited in small town Colorado. But that's not the plot. Jillian takes her inheritance, mom's advice, and copious amounts of off time to flip a house. But maybe she bought one that's haunted or cursed because her first contractor bolts during the inspection and now she has to ask her old high school flame for help.
OK, that's all I'm gonna give ya about the story.
It's the perfect who dun it and who's gonna do it read for a rainy day.
OK, that's all I'm gonna give ya about the story.
It's the perfect who dun it and who's gonna do it read for a rainy day.
April 4, 2023
Between the many punctuation mistakes and the "school age" writing, I thought the book was written by a teenager, not a grown woman.
I also feel have an issue with the remarks about "people killers" in the book. If you are anti-gun that is your right to be but you should not insinuate that all guns/bullets/people that shoot are people killers.
Would not read again, nor would I read any of the intended sequels.
I also feel have an issue with the remarks about "people killers" in the book. If you are anti-gun that is your right to be but you should not insinuate that all guns/bullets/people that shoot are people killers.
Would not read again, nor would I read any of the intended sequels.
January 16, 2024
Like the house Jillian was flipping in the book, this story has good bones. A spunky heroine, a quirky sister, and a dark and dreamy hero -- with high stakes drama and adventure.
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