Bøker av Nicole Gardner

She already died once. This time, she's determined to live.Willa Monroe is happy in Rosemary Mountain, a safe landing place where nobody seems to look too closely at her. She's content with a quiet life alone, until she meets the gorgeous, broody Cole and starts to hope for more.Cole Hawkins is running from his past, trying to figure out who he is after leaving behind a life of military service. But the past collides with his future the moment he sees Willa, the woman he failed to save. She doesn't remember him, but he could never forget her haunted eyes-or her husband's rage the night she supposedly died.It's a second chance for them both, but only if Willa's secret stays safe. If anyone else discovers who she is, the past will come for them both, and even Cole's special forces training may not be enough to save them.

She wants Paris. He wants her. But someone else wants to rule Rosemary Mountain, and will stop at nothing to take it...All Janet Sullivan has to do is get through her daughter's wedding without falling apart. Then she can break the news that she's moving overseas-permanently-for a fresh start of her own. But when someone threatens them all, Janet is forced to spend the week with the one person she wants most to avoid-Greg Morrison, the only man who could tempt her to change her plans. Sheriff Greg Morrison has a town to protect, and the last thing he needs is to babysit a woman who already let him know her future plans would never include him. But when the threats turn deadly, he'll make it his mission to protect her-and try to convince her to stay at the same time.

Scaling the Smart City engages with the smart city as a problem of scale. It disentangles the smart city from its corporate and technocratic stronghold by presenting an accessible design framework that productively aligns philosophical thinking on technology with foundational technical understandings of urban technology and smart system design. The knowledge and know-how to design and create urban technologies and smart cities are steadily moving from a niche field to a core industry competency. This book outlines a cross-scalar design framework, developed to teach smart city design to designers and engineers. It unpacks smart city initiatives and demystifies physical computing system design concepts, while complementing and mediating between critical social theory perspectives of the smart city and technically comprehensive case studies. The book’s analysis of real-world case examples and design prototypes demonstrates how design thinking and practice can better engage with the ethical implications of creating urban technologies and smart systems for society. It uses a clear, accessible, and instructive style of writing that synthesizes relevant scholarship and concepts to develop the reader’s foundational understanding of the contemporary smart city paradigm. This book is an invaluable resource for readers in the established fields and professions of design, architecture, urban design, and city planning, as well as the emerging fields of urban technology and urban interaction design.

Some secrets just won't stay buried. Daphne Sullivan wants justice for her mother's murder, falsely ruled suicide over twenty years ago. The case is ice cold until Daphne finds her mother's hidden journal and discovers the truth about what happened in Eileen's last days. One thing is clear-finding Eileen's killer will mean uncovering a web of corruption going back decades, and threatening the powers that rule this mountain town.Daphne's boyfriend, Emerson Jones, is determined to protect the woman he loves-if she'll let him. But this is Daphne's fight, and she would rather walk into the darkness alone than risk him getting hurt again. She'll push him away before putting him in danger, even if it means losing her chance at happily ever after.She won't stop digging until she takes down her mother's murderer. But the killer she seeks is closer, and more deadly, than she can possibly imagine.

Broken hearts, a deadly curse, and a search for Kid Curry's buried treasure...Daphne Sullivan is flat broke and brokenhearted. Her business is in shambles, half the town hates her, and the man she was falling for left town without explanation. All she wants is to lie low, rebuild her business, and find her place again in Rosemary Mountain.But when a treasure hunter is found murdered with Daphne's address in his pocket, she's involved in another investigation-and town scandal-whether she likes it or not.And with Emerson Jones suddenly back on the mountain, Daphne has even more to worry about than money problems, town gossip, and a killer on the loose. Emerson may be protecting her life, but she'll have to protect her heart...

All she wants is the truth. Someone else just wants revenge. Daphne Sullivan wants the truth, about the mother she never knew and the visions she was told were dangerous-visions that make her suspect her mother was murdered. After her father's death, Daphne moves to her mother's old cottage, determined to find the answers he never gave her. In beautiful Rosemary Mountain, she finds the love and community she's always wanted. Her elderly neighbor Fiona, a feisty herbalist who knew her mother, introduces her to the family gift of second sight. And Emerson, the attractive man on the lane with pain of his own, makes her feel like she might be exactly where she belongs. But this town is full of secrets, and someone here is looking for revenge. When strange things start happening at the cottage, Daphne doesn't know who she can trust-including herself. And if she can't uncover the truth, she might end up facing the same fate as her mother.

A cutting edge discourse on the theory and practice of a groundbreaking and emerging technology. Includes case studies by leading researchers in the fields of BIM modelling, digital fabrication, smart cities, responsive enviroments, and gaming.