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Mags and Baxter mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
On Jeep Reed's Wings Ranch near Reno, Jeep, her great-niece, former Wall Street banker Magdalene "Mags" Rogers, and their two dogs King and Baxter investigate a pump company employee's disappearance, along with an environmentalist's shooting "suicide" and the identity of a really cold corpse.
2) Ask anyone
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Series
Trinity Harbor volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Waking up to discover an antique carousel horse and an armed guard in his front yard is not what Bobby Spencer needs on a quiet Sunday morning. Once again the Spencers are going to be the talk of Trinity Harbor, Virginia. And Bobby isn't feeling very kindly toward the person responsible. But Jenna Pennington Kennedy is a desperate woman. That carousel horse is her ticket to capturing Bobby's attention and convincing him to offer her the opportunity...
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Series
Lincoln Perry mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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This is the remarkable debut mystery from the award-winning author of the 2003 St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Prize for Best First Private Eye Novel.
Investigator Wayne Weston is found dead of an apparent suicide in his home in an upscale Cleveland suburb, and his wife and six-year-old daughter are missing. Weston's father insists that private investigators Lincoln Perry and Joe Pritchard take the case to exonerate his son
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Sugar Lake novels (K.M. Jackson) volume 2
Language
English
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A designer and a realtor clash over the fate of a historic theater, but find themselves drawn to each other despite their differences --
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Language
English
Description
"When empty nester Mallory Farrell inherits her grandmother's run-down tourist shop in Seaport, Oregon, it seems the only sensible thing to do is to sell it. But when her former secret crush, Grayson Matthews, wants to buy the property in order to complete his plans to redevelop the funky town's business district into a soulless, cookie-cutter outdoor mall, Mallory digs in her heels and decides to renovate the property herself. With a lot of hard...
Author
Series
Goddesses Anonymous volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin/Mira
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Charlotte Hale faces her own mortality, she realizes that her ambition has almost destroyed her chance at happiness and vows to make amends.
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Series
Ms. Right novels volume 1
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When she discovers that romance author Brie, the woman she's fallen in love with online, is responsible for terminating her bookstore's lease, Rosie Taft closes her heart to love until Brie writes her way to a happy ending.
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Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Bridget Pickwick-Buchanan has two goals: coming to terms with being a widow at age thirty-three, and finding an eco-friendly developer to buy her family's large estate. When she meets J.C. Dirk, she feels she has found her white knight, but the things she doesn't know about him could mean the end of everything and could break her heart.
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Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Resort developer Madison Lane is about to lose the one thing she loves most in the world - her job. Dubbed "The Grinch Who Killed Christmas," Madison spoiled a deal that would turn quaint Christmas, Colorado, into a tourist's winter wonderland. Now the citizens want her fired but the company gives her one last chance, sending Madison to the small town to restore the holiday cheer.
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Series
Museum mysteries (Sheila Connolly) volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a construction worker who found a curious metal object while excavating an old privy in the museum's basement is murdered, Nell Pratt, president of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society, must unearth a mystery with ties to the past and the present to stop a killer.
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Kimani Romance
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sapphire Shores is rolling out the red carpet for Sierra Dandridge, aka the Ice Queen. But real estate scion Campbell Monroe finds nothing cold about the worldly beauty. Their sizzling desire culminates in a intimate affair neither wants to end. Until a younger actress's vicious social media campaign threatens Sierra's career, and her life...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Val Navarro's first mistake: going out dancing after a bad breakup when the chef should be focused on her family business. Her second mistake? Thinking the handsome, sensitive stranger she meets could be more than a rebound--until she discovers he's Philip Wagner of Wagner Developments. His father's company could shut down her Puerto Rican restaurant and unravel her tight-knit neighborhood. When Philip takes over negotiations, Val wants to believe...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When her grandfather meddles in the billion-dollar development deal she's closing for the family company, Amara Devereaux-Rodriguez feels betrayed...and rebellious. A chance encounter with Lennox Carlisle is just the kind of trouble she's looking for. But their night together soon becomes a threat to Amara's aspirations because the mayoral contender has the power to quash the Devereaux deal. And now Amara's pregnant with his child. Can she quench...
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Series
Fur Haven Dog Park volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
All Caleb Donovan has to do to redeem his family name is take a rundown Miami Beach apartment building and turn it into luxury condos. Unfortunately, that would also turn the local dog park into a parking lot and the neighbors aren't having it. Caleb is faced with outright revolt, led by smart, beautiful building manager Riley Carson and her poodle, LouLou. Can Riley and her canine sidekick convince Caleb that what's best for business isn't always...
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Publisher
Mariner Books-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. As a wealthy, young real-estate developer in Los Angeles, T. lives an isolated life. He has always kept his distance from people {u2014} from his doting mother to his crass fraternity brothers {u2014} but remains unaware of his loneliness until one night, while driving to Las Vegas, he hits a coyote on the highway. The experience unnerves him and inspires a transformation that leads T. to question his business pursuits for the...
Author
Series
Creek Canyon volume 3
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Grace Hudson is the only female civil engineer in her department. After her last love interest left her traumatized, she is determined to focus on her career. Even so, a little flirting with a handsome stranger over coffee can't hurt, right? Dameon Locke is focused on his newest development project and keeping his company afloat after his biggest investor pulled out. So during the planning huddle with the city board, he's stunned to find the petite...
18) My kind of you
Author
Series
Trillium Bay novels volume 1
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Emily Callaghan is back in her quaint northern Michigan hometown of Trillium Bay: divorced, flat broke, and dragging along her twelve-year-old. The arrangement is that Emily, a house flipper, will renovate one of her grandmother's rental properties in exchange for a much-needed loan. But her dad is more distant than ever; her younger sister is dating a much older man, the cottage remodel grows increasingly daunting... and then there's out-of-towner...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When L.A.-based real estate developer Bella Ross arrives in the sleepy mountain town of Maple Falls, she has one mission: to acquire the local failing Christmas shop, Always Noelle, securing the promotion of her dreams. Nothing can get in her way. Except the shop owner's stubborn grandson, Jesse Harrison. Both refuse to budge, until an unlikely wager is struck: Bella and Jesse will compete in the Maple Falls Holiday Games, an annual tradition of...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Interior Design School? Check. Cute little house to fix up? Also check. Sexy, grumpy neighbor who is going to get in the way of all your plans? Check. Unfortunately. Grace Travis definitely has it all figured out. In between finishing interior design school and working a million odd jobs, she'll get her degree. She'll have her dream job. And most importantly, she'll have a place to belong, something her cold, manipulative mother could never make...
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