Everything Must Go

About this book

Dess Marchetti is the best estate liquidator in three states—charming, fast-talking, gone before anyone learns her middle name. Her rules are simple: never stay longer than eleven days, never come back. Then she rolls into Kettle Bend, Ohio, a river town where the cannery closed and half of Main Street is plywood, to close the deal of her career: the estate of Marguerite Aldous, canoe-luthier whose cedar boats are worth a fortune. All Dess needs is the inventory. What she gets is Theo Aldous-Reyes—twenty-three, Marguerite's apprentice, unwilling to let a dead woman's shop become a dead woman's bargain. As their eleven-day standoff stretches into late-night repairs and a harvest festival neither can escape, Dess uncovers a hidden letter that changes everything—and must decide whether the six-figure payout that would buy her freedom is worth more than the first thing she's ever wanted to stay for.