title: The Deed (The Surrogate Series) (Volume 2)
author:  Haley Rhoades 
description: Haley Rhoades inaugural year of writing is another bucket-list item coming to fruition, just like meeting Stephen Tyler and skydiving. As she continues to write romance and young adult books, she plans to complete her remaining bucket-list items, including ghost-hunting, storm-chasing, andbungeejumping. She is a Netflix-binging, Converse-wearing,avidly-reading, traveling geek. A team player, Haley thrived as her spouses career moved the family of four eight times to three states. One move occurred eleven days after a C-section. Now with two adult sons, Haley copes with her newly emptied nest by writing and spoiling Nala, her Pomsky. A fly on the wall might laugh as she talks aloud to her fur-baby all day long. Haleys under five-foot, fun-size stature houses a full-size attitude. Her uber-competitiveness in all things entertains, frustrates, and challenges family and friends. Not one to shy away from a dare, she faces the consequences of a lost bet no matter the humiliation. Her fierce loyalty extends from family, to friends, to sports teams. Haleys guilty pleasures are Lifetime and Hallmark movies. Her other loves include all things peanut butter,Star Wars, mathematics, and travel. Past day jobs vary tremendously from an elementary special-education para-professional, toaYMCA sports director, toaretail store accounting department, and finally a high school mathematics teacher. Haley resides with her husband and fur-baby in the Kansas City area. This Missouri-born girl enjoys the diversity the Midwestoffers. Reach out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or her websiteshe would love to connect with her readers.
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  # [Dedication](part0002.html#nde1)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To Diane and to my family. The rest of this doesn’t matter so much, you know?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Cover](kindle:embed:0002?mime=image/jpg)
  
  
  * [Title Page](part0000.html#title-page)
  
  
  * [Dedication](part0001.html#de1)
  
  
  * [Contents](part0002.html#1T140-3f51713353c24b42b80620cfd5d9cfc4)
  
  
  * [Dramatis Personae](part0003_split_000.html#dr2)
  
  
  * [Map](part0004.html#to3)
  
  
  * [Map](part0005.html#to4)
  
  
  * [Prologue](part0006.html#pr5)
  
  
  * [Part 1: Echoes of the Past](part0007.html#pa6)
  
  
  * [Chapter 1: The Matron’s Web](part0008.html#ch7)
  
  
  * [Chapter 2: The Too-Quiet Charge of House Tr’arach](part0009.html#ch8)
  
  
  * [Chapter 3: No Winners](part0010.html#ch9)
  
  
  * [Chapter 4: Tying Up the Web](part0011.html#ch10)
  
  
  * [Chapter 5: Bartering with Bartered Goods](part0012.html#ch11)
  
  
  * [Chapter 6: Careful Cultivation](part0013.htm