Chapter Four
December
It took three young woman to run The Wild Rose B&B: Hallie to manage and keep the books, Sara Braithwaite to cook, and Deanna Cameron to keep the place clean. Of course they all helped out wherever they were needed. It took some convincing to get Deanna to go along with the plan. After graduation from high school, she’d planned to go to school in Chicago the way her friends had, but she was nonetheless lured by the prospect of sharing something with her two best friends, something that Chicago simply couldn’t give her. To think, the three brats from Finnegan Acres could pull off a ‘stunt’ that would stand out as one of the crowning accomplishments in the history of this sleepy hamlet. No mention was made, of course, regarding Hallie’s ulterior motive for the v
