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Driven to find her family of origin after the death of her adoptive mother, thirty-six-year-old architect Chelsea journeys to the New Hampshire town of her birth and finds herself falling in love with local resident Judd Street.

Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her hand, until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.

When sophisticated architect Ria Lavender leaves a Christmas party with mayor-elect Taylor MacKensie, she is stunned when their unexpected night of passion leaves her with child. Although they marry for the sake of the child and to protect their careers, a tragedy "teaches them both a lesson in miracles -- and love."--Jacket.

Reggie, a successful architect who left her hometown and the horrific memories of a long ago summer behind, gets a call revealing that her mother has been found alive--a call that forces Reggie to confront the ghosts of her past and find the serial killer known as Neptune before he kills again.

Los Angeles architect Nicole Lesdaux is hired to create a tree house for hunky producer Johnny Patrick's little girl. Despite Nicky's torrid fantasies about him, she must focus on work--until Johnny's ex-wife takes off to Paris with their daughter. Since Nicky speaks French, Johnny asks her for help. En route, sexual tensions run high.

Maybe opposites don't always attract. If they did, architect Olivia Sullivan would have run away with bad boy Rafe Russo when they were teenagers. Instead, Olivia has spent ten years dreaming up designs for a life that hasn't gone the way she planned. Still reeling from her career's implosion and her father's death, Olivia thanks her lucky stars for the support of her three lifelong friends. But this good girl is through sitting on the sidelines....

"Sage McKnight is an ambitious young architect working at her father's firm who takes on her most challenging client in Mason Tucker. The former pro baseball player is still healing from the physical and emotional scars after a plane crash left him a wheelchair-using single dad, and he's determined not to let anyone breach his emotional defenses. Sage knows her work on Mason's new home in Hope's Crossing is her best work yet, and she won't let her...

"Two young girls plot a murder by witchcraft. Soon afterwards a government clerk dies in mysterious circumstances. His colleague James Marwood is asked to investigate. Meanwhile, architect Cat Hakesby is working for a merchant who lives on Slaughter Street, where the air smells of blood and a captive Barbary lion prowls the stables. Then a prestigious new commission arrives. Cat must design a Poultry House for the woman that the King loves most in...

"A talented architect, heiress Miss Kitty Beckett, who has a penchant for trouble, enters Bellehaven Bay's first-ever architectural design contest and convinces her childhood rival to help her in exchange for tutoring him in the nuances of fashion, flirtation and seduction"--

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...