title: Hotel Life: The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen
author: Caroline Field Levander
description: A clever take on hotel life ... the book presents hotels as powerful social institutions, not unlike universities, hospitals and even prisons, that embrace all walks of life and offer insights into who and what we are."<br />--<i>Overnight New York</i><br /><br /><br /><br />Provides a good counterpoint to standard works examining hotels from historical or operational viewpoints.--<i>CHOICE</i><br /><br /><br /><br />Authors Caroline Field levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl do a great job entertaining their readers with gossipy tidbits, jaw dropping information, and little-known insider facts.--<i>The Bookworm Sez</i><br /><br />
zlib_text: The historic Chesterfield Hotel once offered visitors the graceful charm of its
  sumptuous rooms and the healing waters of its nearby hot springs. In the present
  day, as five people unearth the hotel's century-old hope chest, each will be
  transported to a bygone age— and transformed by the power of true love.
   
  A HOME IN HIS ARMS
  Corrinne Webb is like a duck out of water. A Texas flower stuck in a snowstorm is
  more like it. Fortunately, the talented Lone Star chef has found shelter in an
  abandoned hotel, where she discovers a sheriff's badge at the bottom of an old hope
  chest. She has no idea that touching it will send her careening back in time to the
  elegant Chesterfield Hotel of 1886—or that she'd meet the man of her dreams in
  Police Chief Jess Garrett. Now, the rugged lawman is helping Corrinne finance her
  own restaurant and, together, they're sharing a taste of the most glorious, smoldering
  passion. But when a dark figure from Jess's past threatens to tear them apart, they
  both mus