Women Construction

Avery has had enough. Two years into the rehabilitation of the historic Taylor Building—a project plagued by delays and cost overruns—she’d like nothing more than to see the back of the site trailer, and pesky Project Manager Kent Armstrong. Avery is a no-frills team player who knows her way around a mortar shack and is determined to chip her way through the patriarchal barriers of heritage stone masonry. Kent is a buttoned-up budget boy with a stony facade. Impossible to please, he’s a cost, scope, and schedule junkie who thinks he knows best and never seems to listen to his expert mason.

"A raw and compelling exploration of grief and rebuilding, Gracie Harris left me full of hope and with a renewed faith in second chances."—Annabel Monaghan, nationally bestselling author of Summer Romance In this resplendent debut novel, a beautiful love story unfolds for tenderhearted Gracie...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey! Georgette Castle’s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven’t taken her seriously since. Frankly, she’s over it. Georgie loves planning...

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 ...

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.

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...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women—a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain—and the powerful mystery that ties them together. England, 1967. Odelle Bastien...

The long-awaited craft book from Steve Almond, based on three decades of writing, failing, and trying again. In Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow, Steve Almond shares the insights gleaned from three decades as a beloved teacher and mentor, and a considerably less-beloved literary rabble...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinker brings the heat in this rom-com about two enemies who team up to flip a house because their chemistry will either burn the place down or ignite a passion that neither can ignore... Hair, makeup...

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?

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.

A woman’s peaceful life is turned upside down when a bad-boy TV star comes to town in Sarah Smith’s new laugh-out-loud romantic comedy She needs a break Fed up with the long hours at her prestigious San Francisco architecture firm, Harper Ellorza has traded the overcrowded city for the...

“No one working in the crime genre is better.” —Baltimore Sun L.A.P.D. Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back on a case in Hangman—an electrifying new novel of suspense from Faye Kellerman, New York Times bestselling author of Blindman’s Bluff, The...

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 ...