THE STRANGER IN ROOM 205


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EXTRA! EXTRA! HOT OFF June THE PRESS The Evening Star’s Local Chatter… EDSTOWN, Ark.—Yesterday evening, Serena Schaffer, owner of our town newspaper, found an injured man in a ditch near her home in Edstown. He’d been beaten, robbed and left for dead. Schaffer rushed him to the Edstown hospital, where he’s recovering in room 205. The word around town is that it won’t be long before those two give in to their powerful attraction to each other…. The man in question—Sam Wallace—is a drifter with a vague past. Something tells this reporter that he’s not who he claims to be, but one look into his blue eyes and you’d believe anything he said. Although, when it comes to Schaffer and her irresistible smile, there may not be many words spoken!




HER SISTER'S SECRET SON


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AN ACCIDENTAL BRIDE? Though she’d spent a lifetime in her flamboyant twin’s shadow, Rachel Hale adored selflessly, single-handedly raising her late sister’s son. But with no time for dating, Rachel couldn’t give her beloved nephew the daddy he deserved. Until a granite-eyed man from Maine discovered little Dylan was his…. Strong, honorable and stubborn, Jared Carlisle would stop at nothing to claim his kin. Still, knowing how much a boy needed a mother, he proposed making Rachel his bride. In a twinkling, Rachel was sharing a home and a family with Jared. But would she—or only Dylan and her twin—ever share Jared’s love?




Stranger Room


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"Ramsay skillfully weaves historical fact into his story, all the while blending brisk action with excellent characterization." —Publishers Weekly Elderly Jonathan Lydell III is proud of his lineage. He is related to the Virginia Lees and to the Custis family. For Lydell, family, status, and history are the only realities—that and his antebellum house. Lydell's house has a very colorful history, and Lydell is committed to restoring it to its pre-Civil War configuration, complete with a "stranger room." In the 1800s, many family homes sported these attached rooms with separate entrances and locks that were kept ready for unknown travelers. The intent was to protect the family from unsavory guests. Nearly 150 years ago, an inexplicable murder took place inside the Lydell's locked stranger room. The murderer was never caught. Lydell thinks this brutal history adds to the house's rich character. But when an identical murder is committed in the newly restored stranger room, even Sheriff Ike Schwartz and FBI agent Karl Hedrick can't explain it....




THE BEST MAN'S PLAN


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IN THE NAME OF…LOVE? Dating Bryan Falcon was only supposed to be a decoy, something for the tabloids to latch on to and run with. Still, Grace Pennington never expected to actually have feelings for the hard-core businessman. And although she’d simply promised her twin sister that she’d “date” Bryan until her sister’s nuptials and then say goodbye, Grace sensed an attraction between herself and Bryan that was hard to deny. But were Bryan’s signals for real, or was he doing an excellent job of playing the doting boyfriend? Either way, Grace knew that—if she let him—Bryan Falcon could invade parts of her life she had fiercely protected for years. For that reason alone, they had to part ways, no strings attached—and no broken hearts…. Or so she thought.




The Doctor's Undoing


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When the going gets tough, third-year medical student Ron Gibson walks away. He's learned the hard way to sidestep commitment to avoid heartache. Yet the footloose bachelor seems to forget his cut-and-run philosophy when it comes to his sexy colleague Haley Wright. An optimist with a temper that rivals his own, she gets under his skin…and has a starring role in his fantasies. Ron knows he and Haley are meant to be much more than friends. For the first time, he intends to fight like hell for what he wants: the chance to be the man she deserves. But convincing her to trust him is his toughest challenge yet. And with their friendship at risk, the stakes couldn't be higher….




The Stranger You Know


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Casey Woods and the Forensic Instincts team investigate a serial killer targeting young redheaded victims, each of whom has a unique connection to Casey.




The Stranger in Goldrush


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She'd escaped the lights of Broadway and a bad marriage in New York, to go into business in Goldrush, with her cousin, Jenni. Life was peaceful and simple; that is, until the cast and crew of The Stranger came to town. Soon, Tana is entangled with past scandals, tabloid gossip, and an unwanted attraction to the show's irresistibly handsome leading man, Travis Allen. If that wasn't enough to upend her world, she suddenly finds herself the prime suspect of a bizarre crime committed in their virtually crime free town. Surrounded by dozens of possible suspects and motives, pursued by Travis's attentions, the story-hungry tabloids, a sharp former homicide detective, and her own past, Tana's Rocky Mountain world is shaken to its core. Somehow, for the sake of her home and her very life, she has to find out who really is "The Stranger in Goldrush."




THE GROOM'S STAND-IN


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SHE WAS HIS BEST FRIEND’S BRIDE-TO-BE… All gruff, rugged Donovan Chance had to do was briefly watch over Chloe Pennington, his billionaire boss’s prospective fiancée. Hardly hazardous duty—no matter how much Donovan disapproved of the calculated marriage of convenience. Then again, he never expected a kidnapping to force him into close quarters with the innocently sexy Chloe…. Donovan’s duty was to protect her—not feel his granite resolve crumble under Chloe’s touching vulnerability, her surprising strength and her sweet, romantic dreams of motherhood. Steely Donovan was hardly the marrying kind. So how would he handle desiring the woman his best friend planned to marry…and inconveniencing this marriage arrangement?




The Road to Reunion


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NEVER TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER That had always been Molly Walker’s motto. So when Kyle Reeves refused to come to the Walker Ranch for a celebration, Molly set out to bring Kyle back one way or another…. Bruised and battered, the last thing Kyle needed was a reminder from his past…especially from the redheaded beauty who landed on his doorstep. Kyle knew he wasn’t the man Molly remembered from long ago, nor could he give her what she deserved—love, family and a Texas home. But when faced with a woman who wouldn’t take no for an answer, would Kyle say yes to the passion and love he’d been searching for?




Making Home(s) in Displacement


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Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, one which intrinsically relates to the fabrication of the built environment worldwide. Conceptually the book is divided along four spatial sites, referred to as camp, shelter, city, and house, which are approached with a multitude of perspectives ranging from urban planning and architecture to anthropology, geography, philosophy, gender studies, and urban history, all with a common focus on space and spatiality. By articulating everyday homemaking experiences of migrants and refugees as spatial practices in a variety of geopolitical and historical contexts, this edited volume adds a novel perspective to the existing interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of home and displacement. It equally intends to broaden the canon of architectural histories and theories by including migrants' and refugees' spatial agencies and place-making practices to its annals. By highlighting the political in the spatial, and vice versa, this volume sets out to decentralise and decolonise current definitions of home and displacement, striving for a more pluralistic outlook on the idea of home.