title: The Carriage House
author:  Carla Neggers 
description: "Neggers delivers a colorful, well-spun story that shines with sincere emotion." <br />-- Publishers Weekly on The Carriage House<br /><br />"With a great plot and excellent character development, Neggers' latest thriller...is a fast-paced, action-packed tale of romantic suspense that will appeal to fans of Lisa Jackson and Lisa Gardner."-Library Journal on Saint's Gate<br /><br />"Carla Neggers is one of the most distinctive, talented writers of our genre." -New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber<br /><br />"This heartwarming tale is full of fascinating secondary characters, and enhanced by plot threads involving the long-term effects of a flooded valley, a search for jewels and long-ago passion."-Booklist starred review of Secrets of the Lost Summer<br /><br />"[Neggers] forces her characters to confront issues of humanity, integrity and the multifaceted aspects of love without slowing the ever-quickening pace." -Publishers Weekly<br /><br />"Only a writer as gifted as Carla Neggers could use so few words to convey so much action and emotional depth." -New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown<br /><br />"No one does romantic suspense better!" -New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich
zlib_text: The Carriage House
  Carla Neggers
  
  Delighted with her purchase of a run-down, nineteenth-century carriage house on Boston 's North Shore, graphic designer
  Tess Haviland stumbles upon a skeleton inside the basement wall, a body that mysteriously vanishes when she brings her
  neighbor, Andrew Thorne, over to see it.
  
  Carla Neggers
   
  The Carriage House
  
  The first book in the Texas Rangers series, 2001
  
  To Robyn Carr
   
  
  One
  On the day Ike Grantham disappeared, he missed an appointment with Tess Haviland, a Boston
  graphic designer and one of the few women who didn't find him irresistible. She liked him, but over a
  year later, she still couldn't explain why. He was blond, handsome, a risk-taker, outgoing to a fault,
  egalitarian and very determined not to fit the stereo-type of the serious, philanthropic-minded heir to a
  New England industrial fortune. He was without guilt or ambition, and there were days Tess thought
  he was without morals, too. Especially where women were concerned.
  Except for