title: Word Gets Around (Daily, Texas, Book 2)
author:  Lisa Wingate 
description: Evangelical Christian novelist Wingate introduced readers to the delightfully homespun what-you-see-is-what-you-get town of Daily, Tex., in <I>Talk of the Town</I>. In this sequel about the city's happenings and residents, Wingate expands upon the story line and offers readers more lovingly presented Texas talk, charm and romance. Wounded by the death of her husband, Lauren Eldridge is summoned back to Daily by her daddy, who's gotten himself into a financial pickle. Trying to pay an old debt by risking the ranch, Lauren's father asks his daughter to come home and tame a wild horse before the movie he's invested in starts shooting in Daily. Lauren's first instinct is to run anywhere but home. Still, she braves the emotional journey to help her father, remembering how he supported her after the accident that killed her spouse. What Lauren discovers back home amid familiar faces and places is forgiveness, love and a big, Texas-sized romance. Wingate's text is funny, to be sure, but a predictable story line detracts from what could have been a more poignant tale. <I>(Feb.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: WITHIN REASON
  MILL BROOK TRILOGY, BOOK 2
  CARLA NEGGERS
  
  CONTENTS
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Excerpt: That Stubborn Yankee
  Books by Carla Neggers
  About the Author
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Carla Neggers
  2nd Edition
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  CHAPTER ONE
  “ONLY YOU, CHAR.”
  Adam Stiles could hear the lack of affection—not to mention patience—in his voice as he sat
  behind the wheel of his rented car. It was early autumn in Nashville, the weather hot and steamy. He
  had switched off the air-conditioning and rolled down the window to get a better look at the Belle
  Meade Mansion. He’d parked in the visitors’ lot and left the engine running, a sign, he supposed, of
  just how much 