I searched for a parking spot near the Sandruzzis’ house…
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Fifteen
Growl had been in business for about a year now,…
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Sixteen
The Magic Sun Chinese Buffet had the best egg rolls…
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Seventeen
The chimes sang as I pulled open the TBS door,…
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Eighteen
I’d been told not to go anywhere by the baby-faced… 158
Nineteen
By four-fifteen I was in a seriously bad mood.
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Twenty
“You can stop saying sorry,” Riley said, climbing into my…
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Twenty-One
Tuesday morning I sat at my desk, trying to massage… 183
Twenty-Two
Dale didn’t look happy to see me. I didn’t take…
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Twenty-Three
By Wednesday afternoon I hadn’t heard from Tam. I’d left…
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Twenty-Four
It was one of those hot muggy July days that… 212
Twenty-Five
I looked up from the hummingbird garden plans on my…
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Twenty-Six
I drove around until I finally found myself parked in…
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Take Your Garden by Surprise
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Other Romances
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher
One
Not an easy commandment, to say the least, since I really couldn’t tell who was reliable and who wasn’t until they started working for me.
I frowned. Talk about a Catch-22.
The trick was weeding out the good from the bad. As I looked around my office conference room, I realized I’d certainly found a few good ones in Kit Pipe, Deanna Parks, Marty Johnson, and Coby Fowler. And of course Tam Oliver, who sat in her throne chair in the reception area pretending she wasn’t eavesdropping.
My business, Taken by Surprise, Garden Designs, had thrived over the last few years because of their hard
