"Dragon's Curve Bay?"
Ruby Jordan stared at Jack Brooks, her mouth dropping open. A second later, her face twisted into a comical expression of outrage. She balled up her small fist and punched him playfully on the shoulder.
"Brother-in-law! You are so biased!" Ruby complained, rolling her eyes so hard they almost disappeared. "Claire Lynch gets a whole pharmaceutical company to run, and you want me to manage that broken piece of wasteland?"
She crossed her arms, huffing. "Are you trying to make me a farmer? That place is a swamp! The roads are mud tracks, and the mosquitoes are the size of birds! I'm not going there to catch malaria! I refuse!"
In the minds of everyone in Northriver, the land Bailey Pharma had mortgaged was a joke. It was a desolate patch of wilderness used for growin
