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Nora Roberts · 324 pages
A NEW DREAM She'd turned her back on glamour and fame and Kate Stanislaski Kimball had come home to begin a new life. The only thing more perfect than the beautiful -- dilapidated -- building she'd bought for her new dance school was Brody O'Connell, the frustrating, surprisingly fascinating contractor she'd hired for the renovation. A man didn't often come across a woman as gorgeous, sens
Gone South
Meg Moseley · 344 pages
Leaving frosty Michigan for the Deep South was never a blip in the simple plans Tish McComb imagined for her life, dreams of marriage and family that were dashed five years earlier in a tragic accident. Now an opportunity to buy her great-great-great-grandparents' Civil War era home beckons Tish to Noble, Alabama, a Southern town in every sense of the word. She wonders if God has given her a new d
Night Music
Jojo Moyes · 416 pages
The Spanish House is a hotch-potch of designs, Georgian, Gothic and Moorish, as if whoever started it had simply got bored. It has long been known as an architectural folly to locals, and is now nearly derelict to boot. When its reclusive owner dies intestate the Spanish House is left to his city-dwelling niece.
Tidewater Inn
Colleen Coble · 312 pages
Libby inherits an old hotel from a father she'd never met. Although she wants to restore it, she can't afford the upkeep and things just keep getting worse. Her newfound brother and sister are convinced she's going to steal their birthright and when her business partner is kidnapped, Libby is suspected of the crime. She must prove her innocence or lose everything.
Finders Keepers
Catherine Palmer · 422 pages
Blue-eyed, fiery-tempered Elizabeth Hayes is working hard to preserve Chalmers house, the Victorian mansion next to her growing antique business. But Zachary Chalmers, heir to the mansion, has very different plans for the site. And Elizabeth's eight-year-old son, adopted from Romania three years earlier, has plans of his own: He wants a daddy--and this tall, handsome man is the perfect candidate.
The House
Danielle Steel · 385 pages
The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for DanielleSteel's sixty-sixth bestselling novel.A young woman's dream, an old man's gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door. . .The house on the hill outside San Francisco was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. When Sarah, a perfectly sensible lawyer, walks through i
Christmas in Lucky Harbor
Jill Shalvis · 687 pages
Maddie comes to the town of Lucky Harbor, Washington, to get her newly inherited inn up and running, and falls for contractor Jax, while her sister Tara, who comes to help her, unexpectedly finds herself torn between two men.
Mortar and Murder
Jennie Bentley, Jenna Bennett · 309 pages
Avery Baker was once a New York textile designer, but inheriting her aunt's old Maine cottage has led her down a new career path-home renovation. Finding a property's hidden potential has rewards and challenges-especially when a mystery surfaces from behind the walls of a centuries-old house on an island that has more than its share of deadly secrets.
Hold On My Heart
Tracy Brogan · 213 pages
"Chicago event planner Libby Hamilton can turn any bland setting into a dramatic venue-- but when she abruptly loses her job, and her fair-weather boyfriend moves to another state, Libby suddenly finds herself back in the tiny town she grew up in. Worse than that, her father wants help transforming an old schoolhouse into a vintage ice cream parlor and Libby must trade in her power suits for power
The Fixer Upper
Mary Kay Andrews · 422 pages
The delightful New York Times bestselling author returns with a hilarious novel about one woman's quest to redo an old house . . . and her life.After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left almost broke, unemployed, and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help r
The Coppersmith Farmhouse
Devney Perry · 377 pages
One old farmhouse brought them together. It could also tear them apart. Gigi has just uprooted her whole world to start a new life. The unexpected gift of a farmhouse in small-town Montana is just what she and her daughter need to escape big-city loneliness. The last thing she needs is attitude from the town’s sheriff, the most perfectly attractive and ruggedly handsome man she’s ever laid eyes
Smitten
Janet Evanovich · 256 pages
Single mom Lizabeth Kane isn't exactly carpenter material -- she's never picked up a hammer in her life. But she desperately needs the construction job that builder Matt Hallahan is offering. And even though he knows trouble is ahead, Matt can't refuse Lizbeth's irresistible smile. Matt Hallahan isn't exactly relationship material -- he has always been too busy working on other people's houses to
Echo Lake
Carla Neggers · 342 pages
While restoring a stately country home, Heather Sloan encounters a man from her past, Diplomatic Security Service agent Brody Hancock, who has taken a sudden interest in her, causing her to suspect that he is up to something.
Crowned and Moldering
Kate Carlisle · 328 pages
Shannon is happy to help her beau, Mac Sullivan, renovate his historic lighthouse mansion but work grinds to a halt when the reamains of a missing young woman are found.
Crawlspace
Sarah Graves · 278 pages
Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree abandoned Wall Street to its bankruptcies and bailouts for a far more rewarding life fixing up an 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. But Jake discovers that no matter what your address, the most terrifying crimes always hit closest to home--Publisher's website.
Cutting Loose
Susan Andersen · 379 pages
Jane thinks nothing can make her lose her coolBut the princess of propriety blows a gasket the night she meets the contractor restoring the Wolcott mansion. Devlin Kavanagh's rugged sex appeal may buckle her knees, but the man is out of control! Jane had to deal with theatrics growing up--she won't tolerate them in someone hired to work on the house she and her two best friends have just inherited
Every Little Thing About You
Lori Wick · 364 pages
The first meeting between Slater Rawlings and Liberty Drake could hardly be called ideal. As acting deputy of Shotgun, Texas, Liberty is simply enforcing town laws. But Slater, a former Texas Ranger with a restless spirit, is surprised to find himself on the wrong side of the law-and even more shocked that it's a *she* that's arresting him! Yet despite his rocky start in Shotgun, Slater finds