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Series
Hope Harbor volume 2
Language
English
Description
"After a devastating layoff, attorney Eric Nash returns to his childhood home in Hope Harbor--only to discover that it is being transformed into a bed & breakfast. Instead of plotting his next career move in peace, he's constantly distracted by noise, chaos--and the attractive but prickly blonde in charge of the renovation"--
2) The build up
Author
Publisher
Carina Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rumpled and ragged was not how architect Ari James envisioned kicking off her first day at a new firm. And few things can top the horror of her new--and extremely hot--colleague walking in on her at the worst moment ever. Learning that she'll be working with him on the project that's supposed to get her career back on top makes it harder than ever to focus on her big comeback. With a partnership at his firm on the line, nothing is going to stand...
4) Make me stay
Author
Series
Hope novels (Jaci Burton) volume 5
Language
English
Description
Reid McCormack has come home to renovate a historic building. But once the job is finished, he'll be headed back to Boston, no matter how much he's drawn to beautiful florist Samantha Reasor.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Sarina Mahler has finally settled into life. She has a successful career as an architect, a perfect, loving boyfriend, and a close group of friends. But when an old crush moves to town - Eamon, a former Olympic swimmer and the only man she never truly got over - everything flips upside down. Haunted by the death of her mother, Sarina uses her passion for design, inherited from her beloved step-father, to escape from emotional entanglements. With...
Author
Series
Once upon a time in Texas volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Travis Blake, who returned to Big Verde, Texas, to care for his nephew and fix up the run-down family ranch so he can sell it, finds himself falling for Maggie Mackey, his landscaping competition, after an anonymous night with her.
Author
Series
Rages trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity -- plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanity's survival reliant on a privileged few. If not for their abilities, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below. Charismatic and powerful, Iravan is one such architect. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his archeologist...
10) My one and only
Author
Language
English
Description
"Divorce attorney Harper James can't catch a break. Bad enough that she runs into her ex-hubby, Nick, at her sister's destination wedding, but now, by a cruel twist of fate, she's being forced to make a cross-country road trip with him. And her almost-fiancé back at home is not likely to be sympathetic. Harper can't help that Nick has come blazing back into her life in all of his frustratingly appealing, gorgeous architect glory. But in Nick's eyes,...
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Series
Joplin chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Olive Kentworth takes on an architect project with her male cousin posing as the builder and uses her job as a nanny to hide her involvement. Little does she know that her charges' father is famous architect and competitor Maxfield Scott. As the architectural one-upmanship heats up, will Olive and Maxfield miss out on building something for their future?"--
Author
Series
Hickory Ridge romances volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Ethan and Sophie long to share a future together. But the secrets they're not sharing could tear them apart. Sophie Caldwell has returned to Hickory Ridge, Tennessee after years away. Despite the heartaches of her childhood, Sophie is determined to make a home, and a name, for herself in the growing town. A gifted writer, she plans to resurrect the local newspaper that so enchanted her as a girl. Ethan Heyward's idyllic childhood was shattered by...
14) Hearts of oak
Author
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The buildings grow, and the city expands. And the people of the land are starting to behave abnormally, or perhaps they've always behaved that way, and it's normality that's at fault. Our hero, close to retirement, finds that the world she has always knwon is nothing like she always believed it to be. There are dark forces... wait, not dark. There are uncanny forces... no, not uncanny either. There are forces, anyway - mostly slightly odd ones - and...
15) Decider
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Inheriting a small share in a successful racetrack means trouble for architect Lee Morris, especially when he finds himself in the middle of a family feud - and the target of a ruthless killer ..."--Back cover.
16) Bed of roses
Author
Series
Bride quartet (Nora Roberts) volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The four founders of Vows, Connecticut's premier wedding planning company, were childhood friends. Join in this colorful tangle of family ties, old friends, and newfound passion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Arriving in New York City to realize her dream of becoming an architect, Lady Eva Hyde discovers that her new boss is the man with whom she had a passionate shipboard encounter, and struggles to make him take her seriously as danger threatens.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From the New York Timesbestseller of The Paris Architect Someone has to take the blame. When the Britannia Theatre's balcony collapses, killing over a dozen people, the fingers point at the architect. He should have known better, should have made it safer, should have done something. Douglas Layton knows the flaw wasn't in his design, but he can't fight a guilty verdict. When he is finally released from prison, he has nothing: no job, no family, nowhere...
19) Afloat
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Residents of apartments designed to float in the peaceful cove of a winding river become divided on how best to survive when a sinkhole gives way and torrential rains flood the cove, cutting them off from the rest of the world.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Annie Sharpe's spark for life has fizzled out. Her kids are grown up, her restaurant is doing just fine on its own, and her twenty-six-year marriage has come to an unceremonious end. Untethered for the first time in her adult life, she finds a winter guardian position in a historic seaside home and decides to leave her city life behind for a brand-new beginning. When she arrives in Willow Bay, Annie is enamored by the charming house, the invigorating...
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