The Reluctant Landlord Sara Seale Stephen Spencer wasnt at all keen on having to sublet part of his picturesque

country cottage, but for financial reasons it had to be done and when he met his new tenant, Amanda Page, with red hair and a temper to match it, he knew he had been right to be apprehensive! Amanda, for her part, was quite happy with the situation. If her landlord was so reluctant, she reasoned, he could keep to his side of the house while she kept to hers. But somehow it proved rather difficult to remain detached, in every sense, when sharing a house that threatened to collapse on its inmates at any moment! CHAPTER ONE My minds made up, Amanda said with the familiar little tilt to her head which made the thick red pony-tail bob aggressively against her neck in moments of displeasure. Its not the slightest good arguing Charless own displeasure was reflected in a frown as he observed her critically; Amanda could become impossible in this mood, he thought, and he hd always considered that pony-tail both absurd and unsuitable. Im bound to argue when you go off at these sudden tangents, he retorted in this most deliberately superior accents. Whats so outrageous in wanting to rent a cottage? she demanded. Nothing in normal circumstances, but to contemplate living in the other half of a cottage already occupied by a perfectly strange man is more than outrageous its almost imporoper. Oh really, Charles, dont be so ridiculous! The dividing half will be walled up when the new building is finished, and the landlord is probably a respectable od gentlmand whose wife has died and left him with too many empty rooms.