Women Construction

DON’T GET MAD – GET FLIPPING MAD! Worn out and lonely after eight years, Allison McKinley decides to hang up her project manager hat and returns home. While her family and friends are thrilled to have her back, they slowly reveal their many idiosyncrasies. She gets reacquainted with her eternally-optimistic father, her outspoken and strongly-opinionated grandmother, and her mud-slinging girlfriends who are wildly jealous of each other. Everyone takes turns raising the drama up a notch with their outrageous behavior. In the middle of all this chaos, Allison meets Tim Mueller, a hunky ...

Carmen I’ve taken care of myself my whole life. I’ve got a new job and college classes coming up, and I’m so busy that I never thought I’d have any time for love. I didn’t think I could ever change, not until I meet Derek, the handsome alpha who instantly falls for me during a chance encounter when my car breaks down. Little do I know, this sexy obsessive man is actually my new boss. I never thought I’d open my heart to anyone, but now that Derek seeks to claim me, I think I’ve found the love that has always alluded me… Derek My work is my life. For the longest time, I’ve ...

Dina Ever since I had my heart broken, I’ve been afraid of change. I’ve been afraid of opening my heart again. Then I meet Blake Powers, the billionaire corporate raider who is about to buy out my company. He’s huge, he’s tattooed, and he’s ruthless…but Blake Powers becomes instantly obsessed with me. Now that I’ve found Blake, I think I might be ready to open my heart again, though the shadows of my old heartbreak continue to linger over me… Blake Whether it was in business, the military, or my former marriage, I’ve seen the worst the world has to offer. It’s made me a ...

Robin For years, I’ve been content to be the shy, curvy chick. The one who never gets the guy, the one who has never even been kissed. Instead, I focus on my successful poetry career, writing poems about love that I’ve never felt. That changes when the ruthless billionaire owner of a talent agency offers me a job. What starts as a career prospect soon turns into a whirlwind romance when he turns his possessive, protective, and fiercely jealous sights on me. I think I might be getting in over my head… Tyler For the longest time, I’ve only cared about dominating the competition in my ...

"Small town contemporary romance at its finest." - NYT Bestselling author Kristi Cook Twenty-five years was a long time to be stuck in the Friend Zone. For the last dozen of those years, Jayne has lived half way across the country, and even though she and Nick have stayed in contact, she hasn’t actually seen him since he kicked her out of his wife’s funeral almost four years ago. Does she still have feelings for Nick? Possibly. . .maybe. . .okay, yes, but the Jayne who left town all those years ago is not the same Jayne who’s moving back. This Jayne is smarter, more experienced, and ...

Born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Mandy Rennehan began her business career at the age of ten by catching bait and selling it to local fishermen. She was so good at her job, she knew she wanted to be her own boss one day. At the age of seventeen, Rennehan decided to strike out on her own, so she packed a hockey bag full of her belongings and fled to Halifax, where she began cold calling construction companies, volunteering to work for free, so she could learn more about contracting and the trades.

After she’s left at the altar, a woman falls for her ex-fiancé’s adopted brother and must decide whether to take another leap at love. ZORA… Had her doubts about marrying Ethan, especially when it meant shelving her dreams to be an architect, but never expected him to jilt her on their wedding day. Leaving her alone to face their battling mothers, as well the as the gossip and back-handed well wishes of their small community. Yet the biggest surprise is Ethan’s adopted brother, Gabe, whom she meets when he draws the short straw to tell her that she’s been abandoned to figure out ...

A heartwarming Christmas story filled with the magic and miracles of the holiday season by USA Today Bestselling author, Nancy Naigle. Growing up, Liz Westmoreland dreamed of taking over her grandparents inn located in the small mountain town of Antler Creek only for it to be sold before she...

The second novel in Janet Evanovich's Elsie Hawkins series. 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...

Will the Felon Find a Second Chance Love Seven Years Later? In Cleveland, a former felon fights to reconnect with his long-lost love, reunited after 7 years apart. Meet Jamal, fresh out of prison after a foolish mistake, and Tasha, his childhood sweetheart now engaged to another man. Though the odds are stacked against them, the embers of their passion reignite when Tasha sees the man Jamal has become. As Tasha is torn between her stable fiancé and risking her heart again on Jamal, a dramatic trial ensues. Tasha’s world is turned upside down. At a crossroads, she must choose between a ...

In The Silver Women, Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the Panama Canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and the racial calculus that separated pay in silver for Black workers and gold for white Americans.

This audiobook takes you on a journey as to what it is like to be a female electrician in a male-dominated construction industry. In this first volume, I take you along on my quest as an apprentice to become a journeywoman. I have a unique story to tell and many interesting coworkers you will meet with me along the way.

Nardi Point, Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media 2012 Blue Ribbon award published novel, for Women's Contemporary Fiction. Stylish Laurinda Elliot manages a software product development team. She is the type of accomplished business woman glossy magazines feature on their covers. Her drive and savvy delivers all the perks: upscale townhouse, Porsche Boxter convertible, and designer clothing. Yet she yearns emotionally for a different success—one that brings her surprising first time experience with vulnerability. Partner, brilliant technology geek Dan Riser, cannot buy into the new direction...

An unexpected overnight stay with three young women in a remote house. One flirts, one sleepwalks, and the other takes pictures. It's going to be an interesting visit! The situation looks bleak when Brett's pickup breaks down in the middle of nowhere. But Daisy, a cute mechanic with a very short skirt, says she can fix him up if he stays a night or two at her house nearby. She has a couple of roomies – sexy Sarah, who's doing some topless construction work, and frumpy Annie, who has a very interesting hobby as a professional nude photographer. All three have their quirks, and Brett feels ...

When Vince’s coworker, Derek, accidentally gets a peek at the lacy underwear Vince is wearing, Vince fears the worst – that Derek will tell the others in their crew and Vince will be ridiculed. He certainly isn’t expecting Derek to divulge a secret of his own instead. This sweet and steamy MM short story features two heavily muscled construction workers, a couple of secrets exposed, and some lacy goodness.

Sean loves Lauren. Chad loves Sean. Lauren loves Sean and Chad. Sean is happy working at the family pub and sharing a house with the woman of his dreams. He and Lauren are equals in every way, including in bed, where they burn the sheets. Life is good. Even if he must hide a couple of secrets to keep it that way. Lauren is madly in love with Sean. They share everything—almost. She can’t deny sensing…something. A certain feeling when she, Sean, and their best friend Chad are all together. But she doesn’t press. How can she when she’s not being completely forthright herself? Chad is...

Sexy secretary Kaia thinks she's too good for anyone. But a group of rough construction workers will put her in her place. When Kaia's boss sends her to a construction site, she has no idea she's about to be passed around. Used, shared, and humiliated, can Kaia handle being stretched to her limit? Or will the humiliation and dark pleasure be too much?

An honest, funny, beautifully written memoir that explores the author’s "growing up" into middle age while rediscovering love, home, gardening, and art. At a time in her life when she once thought a person should have been well settled in for the long haul, Sandor and her new beloved set out to begin a new life together. They buy an old house on the border between the large university, which employs them both, and a small urban/student "wilderness". Sandor’s young daughter, Hannah, divides her time between her father and her mother’s new home.

I’m a simple working class man. I don’t need much to get by, and I’m content with my life. Until I see her. One look is all it takes for me to become completely and irrevocably obsessed. I’m convinced she’s an angel sent down straight from heaven, but my little angel looks so sad, and I’m on a mission to find out why. She might not know me—yet—but I’m going to scoop her up and take care of her. I’ll put all her broken pieces back together. After all, I’m a builder, and building something together with the girl I know is meant to be mine will be my life’s greatest ...