Carolyn Brown Books In Order

Oklahoma Land Rush Books In Publication Order

  1. Emma’s Folly (2001)
  2. Violet’s Wish (2002)
  3. Maggie’s Mistake (2002)
  4. Just Grace (2003)

The Promised Land Books In Publication Order

  1. Willow (2003)
  2. Velvet (2003)
  3. Gypsy (2004)
  4. Garnet (2004)
  5. Augusta (2004)

The Love’s Valley Books In Publication Order

  1. Choices (2005)
  2. Absolution (2005)
  3. Chances (2005)
  4. Redemption (2006)
  5. Promises (2006)

The Drifters & Dreamers Books In Publication Order

  1. Morning Glory (2007)
  2. Sweet Tilly (2007)
  3. Evening Star (2007)

The Broken Roads Books In Publication Order

  1. To Trust (2007)
  2. To Commit (2008)
  3. To Believe (2008)
  4. To Dream (2009)
  5. To Hope (2009)

Luckadeau/Lucky Books In Publication Order

  1. Lucky in Love (2009)
  2. One Lucky Cowboy (2009)
  3. Getting Lucky (2010)

Black Swan Historical Romance Books In Publication Order

  1. Pushin’ Up Daisies (2009)
  2. From Thin Air (2009)
  3. Come High Water (2010)

Honky Tonk Books In Publication Order

  1. I Love This Bar (2010)
  2. Hell, Yeah (2010)
  3. My Give a Damn’s Busted (2010)
  4. Honky Tonk Christmas (2010)
  5. A Slow Dance Holiday (2020)

Angels & Outlaws Books In Publication Order

  1. From Wine to Water (2010)
  2. Walkin’ on Clouds (2011)
  3. A Trick of the Light (2011)

Spikes & Spurs Books In Publication Order

  1. Love Drunk Cowboy (2011)
  2. Red’s Hot Cowboy / The Honeymoon Inn (2011)
  3. Darn Good Cowboy Christmas (2011)
  4. One Hot Cowboy Wedding (2012)
  5. Mistletoe Cowboy / Christmas at Home (2012)
  6. Just a Cowboy and His Baby (2012)
  7. Cowboy Seeks Bride (2013)
  8. Summertime on the Ranch (2021)
  9. Love Struck in Texas (2022)

Three Magic Words Trilogy Books In Publication Order

  1. A Forever Thing (2011)
  2. In Shining Whatever (2012)
  3. Life After Wife (2013)

Cowboys & Brides Books In Publication Order

  1. The Billion Dollar Cowboy (2013)
  2. The Cowboy’s Christmas Baby (2013)
  3. The Cowboy’s Mail Order Bride (2014)
  4. How to Marry a Cowboy (2014)

Cadillac, Texas Books In Publication Order

  1. The Blue-Ribbon Jalapeno Society Jubilee / What Happens in Texas / The Sisters Cafe (2013)
  2. The Red-Hot Chili Cook-Off / A Heap of Texas Trouble / The Shop on Main Street (2014)
  3. The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop (2015)
  4. The Wedding Pearls (2015)

Burnt Boot, Texas Books In Publication Order

  1. Cowboy Boots for Christmas / Holidays on the Ranch (2014)
  2. The Trouble with Texas Cowboys (2015)
  3. One Texas Cowboy Too Many (2016)
  4. A Cowboy Christmas Miracle (2016)

Lucky Penny Ranch Books In Publication Order

  1. Wild Cowboy Ways (2015)
  2. Hot Cowboy Nights (2016)
  3. Merry Cowboy Christmas (2016)
  4. Wicked Cowboy Charm (2017)

Happy, Texas Books In Publication Order

  1. Toughest Cowboy in Texas (2017)
  2. Long, Tall Cowboy Christmas (2017)
  3. Luckiest Cowboy of All / Hometown Cowboy (2018)

Lucky Cowboys Books In Publication Order

  1. Talk Cowboy to Me (2017)

Longhorn Canyon Books In Publication Order

  1. Cowboy Bold (2018)
  2. Cowboy Honor (2018)
  3. Cowboy Brave (2019)
  4. Cowboy Rebel (2019)
  5. Christmas with a Cowboy (2019)
  6. Cowboy Courage (2020)
  7. Cowboy Strong (2020)

The Canyon Books In Publication Order

  1. Long, Hot Texas Summer (2014)
  2. Daisies in the Canyon (2014)
  3. Wildflower Ranch (2020)
  4. Sunrise Ranch (2020)

The Ryan Family Books In Publication Order

  1. Second Chance at Sunflower Ranch (2021)
  2. Texas Homecoming (2022)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Love Is (1999)
  2. A Falling Star (1999)
  3. All the Way from Texas (2000)
  4. The Yard Rose (2000)
  5. The Ivy Tree (2001)
  6. Lily’s White Lace (2001)
  7. That Way Again (2003)
  8. The Wager (2005)
  9. Trouble in Paradise (2005)
  10. The PMS Club (2006)
  11. The Dove (2008)
  12. The Ladies’ Room (2011)
  13. Hidden Secrets (2012)
  14. Bride for a Day (2014)
  15. Honky Tonk Angel (2014)
  16. An Old Love’s Shadow (2014)
  17. Red River Deep (2014)
  18. The Lullaby Sky (2016)
  19. The Barefoot Summer (2017)
  20. The Lilac Bouquet (2017)
  21. The Strawberry Hearts Diner (2017)
  22. The Sometimes Sisters (2018)
  23. Small Town Rumors (2018)
  24. The Magnolia Inn (2019)
  25. The Perfect Dress (2019)
  26. The Empty Nesters (2019)
  27. The Shop on Main Street (2019)
  28. The Sisters Café (2019)
  29. The Family Journal (2019)
  30. The Banty House (2020)
  31. Miss Janie’s Girls (2020)
  32. Christmas at Home (2020)
  33. The Daydream Cabin (2020)
  34. Hummingbird Lane (2021)
  35. The Hope Chest (2021)
  36. Small Town Charm (2021)
  37. Secrets in the Sand (2021)
  38. The Sunshine Club (2021)
  39. The Bluebonnet Battle (2022)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. To Catch a Bouquet (2015)
  2. The Third Wish (2017)
  3. In Bloom (With: Fern Michaels,Lori Foster) (2022)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. A Little Country Christmas (2020)

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Carolyn Brown Books Overview

Emma’s Folly

Emma Maureen Cummins is fleeing from an overbearing father and the prospect of a loveless marriage in Atlanta, Georgia. She’s intrigued by stories of the Oklahoma land rush the previous year, 1889, and buys a train ticket to Oklahoma. After all, that’s where the excitement is. Trouble arises the moment she steps inside the general store in Guthrie, coming face to face with the sheriff, who has received a telegram to be on the lookout for a tall blond from Georgia. Jed Thomas just came to town to buy supplies for his homestead. The sheriff asked a strange lady a question just as she begins mouthing the words, ‘Help me, please,’ in Jed’s direction. In half an hour Jed was married to the woman and wondering just how in the world it had all come about. They’re married on paper only but slowly come to realize through daily living, arguments, and compromises that they’ve fallen in love. However, Jed doesn’t think a blue eyed Southern belle could ever really love a dirt farmer like him. And Emma thinks Jed will always love Anna Marie, the woman with whom he almost had an agreement before he married her.

Violet’s Wish

Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. Violet did. After her husband died, she swore off lackluster men and a dull life. She wished for someone to put a sparkle in her eyes and excitement in her life, like an old love did year ago in Blue Ridge, Texas. Little did she realize that when she made the wish it was already in the process of being granted. Orrin Wilde did. He wished he’d never chose the lure of the gold mines over the love of his life. But his sins are coming back, screaming for payment. Four bandits follow Orrin for days and finally catch up with him outside of Guthrie, in Oklahoma Indian Territory. He tries to outrun them, when they wing him. He rides down Main Street and, unable to find a doctor, he crawls up on the porch of the last house in town. Violet hears the thud when he falls and finds him bleeding and unconscious on her front porch. If Violet had been doing the shooting, Orrin would be graveyard dead. Eight years before, he ruined her reputation; now, he was ruining it again. Orrin still loves Violet, but after the trouble down in Texas she refuses to trust him. Suddenly they wonder why they ever made such crazy wishes after all. Will they ever find forgiveness in their hearts for past mistakes and go on to a love filled future?

Maggie’s Mistake

Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can’t laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and his shotgun is the bridesmaid at the wedding where a union has been made, but there’s certainly no unity. Everett was engaged to Carolina Prescott, a southern lady in Atlanta, Georgia. But that, too, comes to an end when he awakes with nothing but a blanket around him and the cold barrel of a shotgun pressed against his forehead. Maggie, simple minded and fun loving, is as far removed from what he wants and needs in a wife as a hog straight from the wallow. Even though he keeps protesting that nothing happened in that dugout shack, he has no choice but to marry the woman. Somewhere in the middle of undoing the knot that had been tied by mistake, Maggie and Everett find they’ve fallen in love and don’t want to end their marriage. But will either of them ever admit it?

Just Grace

Grace Benjamin Listen was just trying to rescue a poor helpless kitten. She certainly didn’t plan on falling out of the tree and landing on Dodsworth’s newest resident, Dr. Gatlin O’Malley breaking her arm and wounding her pride in the fall. Gatlin only arrived from Atlanta, Georgia, the week before. In Atlanta, he’d barely escaped a bad marriage to a southern belle, but Gatlin had learned from his lesson. The only way he would ever look at another woman was if an angel fell from heaven. He wondered if God listened in on his thoughts that morning when Grace Listen fell out of the skies, knocking him off his horse and into a pile of fresh, warm horse manure. But on second thought he figured if Grace truly fell from Heaven, it was because she’d been kicked out for her sassiness. Every time they look at each other from that day, tempers flare and sparks ignite. She’s just going in to get her broken arm checked when the Bonney Boy’s Gang take her and the new doctor hostage. The two of them wind up on the top of a snow covered mountain in New Mexico Territory for three weeks, together. What can go wrong does. What shouldn’t go wrong does. What is impossible happens. It takes a lot to make them both wake up and realize they were meant for each other and even more to finally say the words written so deeply on their hearts.

Willow

Willow Gail Dulan didn’t like Rafe Pierce when he read her father’s will. She sure didn’t like him when he tried to talk Hank Gibson out of letting her and her four newly found sisters travel to California with the wagon train of mail order brides.

Rafe was totally against the idea of Jake Dulan’s daughters going with the train. He would like nothing better than to leave Willow for the rattlesnakes and Indians. The feeling is mutual.

They lock horns and refuse to budge. Both have a scarred heart from previous experiences, and a temper, so the fireworks explode every time they’re in each other’s presence, which is often since Rafe drew the short straw and has to bring up the rear of the train…
right where the Dulan girls’ wagon is located.

Willow and Rafe both realize that out there, beyond the sunsets they both love, lies the Promised Land. It’s not a place or destination, but a spirit and a journey which draws them into the peace of its bosom to rock away the cares of life. But will they ever admit they need each other to reach that Promised Land?

Velvet

Velvet is about to breathe her last and doesn’t even know it when Patrick O’Leary lays her on the bed in a very strange house. When she does awake from a fever induced coma, she finds herself in a cabin with Dr. Hoyt Baxter, who’s hateful, mean and spiteful and doesn’t care if she lives or dies, so long as she’s out of his house and his life as soon as possible. Which is exactly what Velvet wants, but she has to have the strength to walk out the door before she can actually do it. Hoyt had stopped practicing medicine a year before, vowing he’d never be a doctor again, but when it came right down to the wire, he did bring Velvet Jane Dulan back to life, a choice he would live to regret for many weeks. She interfered with his self imposed hermitship. She shook the rut he’d been living in all the way to the roots. He just wanted her to be gone, but every plan he made to get rid of her backfired, and he found himself stuck with the unwanted woman. Until finally he realized that he did want her to stay. However, it was too late. Or was it?

Gypsy

Gypsy Rose Dulan just knew there was a secret hidden in the stars. She just didn’t expect to fall sleep while searching for that secret. And she sure didn’t expect to be awakened by a rude, overbearing, short Irishman by the name of Tavish O’Leary. That he called her a squaw was contemptible enough, but to have to withstand his barbs for more than a month was more than she figured she could endure.

Meanwhile, Tavish had been waiting for a prophecy from a Gypsy named Paqui to come true. He’d been told that when it was time for him to choose a wife, a pretty young woman with eyes the color of a robin’s egg would come into his life, but the Gypsy had failed to mention that the woman with those eyes would be holding the sharp, hot blade of a knife against his throat the first time they met.

During their harsh, dangerous journey, Tavish and Gypsy discover the secret written in the stars. But can they hear their hearts’ desires when they don’t want to listen?

Garnet

Garnet Diana Dulan swung open the doors of the Silver Dollar Saloon, sucked up a lunch full of cigar smoke, and listened intently to the sounds of men playing poker and the scrape of boots across the wooden floor; she felt right at home. After just minutes inside the doors of the saloon she knew she’d made the right decision to leave her sisters and the wagon train of brides heading to California.

Quickly she negotiates a job with the owner to play piano in the bar for room and board. Garnet is happy with her new arrangement and starts to settle into her new routine, that is until she runs into Sheriff Gabe Walker.

Sheriff Walker is convinced that this unusual, blue eyed beauty is not the kind of woman he needs taking up residence in his clean town, and he won’t rest until he runs her back to where she came from. But Garnet is a sassy Southern woman who speaks her mind and won’t listen to a word he says. In fact, Gabe is certain that he can see lightening streak across her blue eyes in brilliant, jagged lines when she’s angry.

The two lock horns on more than one occasion, but when her life is threatened and she is wrongfully accused of murder and robbery, it is Gabe who saves her from lynching. Considering all the damage already between them, it will take a miracle for either of these two to put aside their stubbornness and admit their love.

Augusta

Augusta ‘Gussie’ Dulan is the only Dulan sister to make it all the way to California on the wagon train for brides. Each of her four sisters has taken off along the trail to marry up with a man they fell in love with and now Gussie is hoping to find a man to love here at the end of the trail.

Dressing in her fabulous red satin dancing dress, complete with black lace and feathered headdress, Gussie lines up with the other potential brides to see whom it is that they will marry.

Gideon Jefferson, the town preacher, takes one look at Gussie and is horrified at her saloon girl outfit, but things turn even worse when his number is called and he ‘wins’ Gussie’s hand in marriage. Gussie is less that pleased to be stuck with this wretched, assuming man. Neither wants to be married, so they make a pact that she will be on the first wagon train out after the winter. In the meantime, Gussie will come home with him and tend to his four young daughters and run his unruly house. It seems like a good arrangement.

But Gussie is much more than Gideon could have imagined. She not only keeps the house immaculate, the table filled with delicious food, the girls clean and happy, she has the women of the town following her example and turning Gideon’s and the rest of the men’s lives upside down.

Neither Gussie nor Gideon will admit they actually have feelings for one another. It takes a lot of courage, four little girls, and a whole town to bring them both to their senses.

Choices

Douglass Esmeralda Sullivan has just discovered that all men are gutter rats, all except for her six half Irish, half Mexican brothers, and sometimes she’s not so sure about them. She’s sitting in the middle of a dusty road on a hot Texas day, fuming because she’s made a horrible mistake concerning Raymond Pierce, a despicable Yankee, one who has led her down the daisy path to destruction. She has no doubts her folks and her brothers would put her in a convent for the rest of her life for her rash misjudgment, but dang it all, it was her choice to show him who was boss. Little did she know that the choice would determine her destiny. Monroe Hamilton is on his way home from a year in Galveston, Texas where he’s been assigned to help with the reconstruction of Texas after the Civil War. He’s been to the big circus called war and had seen the big elephant called life. His heart is so hardened and scarred, it is impossible for him to foresee a love in his future. He has made up his mind that he will be a bachelor for the rest of his life and that Love’s Valley, Pennsylvania will be his love. Then, out of nowhere, he sees an exotic looking, beautiful woman sitting right in the middle of the road. It’s his choice to play a knight in shining armor and rescue the helpless, pretty lady. Little does he know that this choice would determine his destiny. The war might have split the country in two, but it didn’t make rascals of all its men. Guided by his conscience, Monroe chooses to escort the lady to the nearest town. Guided by a desire to avoid a life of prayers and meditation, Douglass chooses to lie.

Absolution

The Irish are hardheaded so Elspeth Hamilton doesn’t like them. The Mexicans are hotheaded so likewise, she doesn’t think much of them either. Since Rebels burned her family home, killing both her parents in the Chambersburg, Pennsylvania fire, it stands to reason she surely doesn’t waste affection on Rebels. Colum Sullivan is all three: Irish, Mexican and Rebel. It would take an utter absence of sanity and total Absolution of all the past to fall in love with Colum. The English are a stiff necked lot so Colum doesn’t like Ellie. The Yankees are a cold blooded bunch so likewise he doesn’t like her. All he’s going to do is rescue her and then light a shuck back to Texas. But an early blizzard in the mountains of Southern Pennsylvania turns his plans around abruptly. Colum admires the lady but that’s as far as it’s going because it’s absolutely the wrong time in the century for the likes of a lady like Ellie Hamilton and a man like Colum Sullivan to get together. Those kinds of miracles only happen once in a lifetime, and his sister Douglass and her new husband Monroe have already captured that miracle.

Chances

Adelida Broussau took a big chance by saying she was Rueben Hamilton’s new bride. But even a rat will stand up and fight when it’s cornered and she was surely feeling the pinch of being pushed in the corner. Her sister, Maria, was dead. Her sorry, Yankee loving brother in law, Victor, had issued her an ultimatum to be out of New Orleans by night, or else; then stole the rest of her money so she couldn’t leave. Then there was Rueben, hit on the head for attempting to thwart a bank robbery, his memory gone and leavingtown that very day. All she had to do was say she was truly his wife. Everyone in the chaos after the robbery already thought they were newlyweds. So she took a big chance andlet them go right on believing she was. Rueben Hamilton went to New Orleans from southern Pennsylvania at the request of the President of the United States to help with the reconstruction of Louisiana after the Civil War. He’d gone into the bank to finish his business before boarding The Queen for the first leg of his journey home. He didn’t remember the bank robbery. All he remembered was awakingwith a headache, no memory, and a wife fresh from the Acadian bayou country. None of it made a bit of sense. It was supposed to take a month for them to reach Love’s Valley, an obscure little valley near Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania. That was if everything went according to plan and Rueben’s memory didn’t return; if he didn’t toss Adelida off at the next port of call to fend for herself, or worse,throw her overboard. But fate played her hand and dealt the two of them some unforeseen cards that turned their world upside down. Their hearts didn’t care that there’d been a war and it was the worst possible time for a Yankee soldier and a Louisiana bayou woman to fall in love. But listening to the stirrings of hearts bound for love isn’t an easy thing to do.

Redemption

Geneva Garner’s mind was fixed on survival, her unborn child, escaping out of Savannah, and getting away from the men in the white robes with hoods over their heads. Covered in dirt and smoke from the cellar where she took refuge when the Klan burned her plantation home, she fled on the first stagecoach headed north. She vowed never to trust a man again as long as there was breath in her body. They were all scoundrels and the past would haunt her forever. Harry Reed Hamilton was on his way home from Savannah to Love’s Valley, Pennsylvania. The Civil War had been over for two years and his term of enlistment was finally over. The only thing marring his happiness was the fact that he was riding with a dirty, heavy woman in the stagecoach. After consoling himself that it was only for a day, he was surprised to find himself and the large woman tossed out on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere after a stage heist. Trapped together by fate, they travel by any means possible heading to Lynchburg, VA, where she hopes to find relatives. A friendship buds amidst the difficulties they face. A love is born from the friendship but neither of them are willing to admit that the past can truly be forgotten and a sweet future can lie ahead.

Promises

Indigo Hamilton was a lovely bride and the day was perfect as she walked down the aisle toward her smiling groom, Thomas Brewster. She was the absolute center of attention and loved being there until the priest asked if anyone had any objections to the marriage. Then the doors of the church swung open and Indigo’s world fell apart. Flannon Sullivan chose to sit at the back of the church. Thank goodness Indigo would be out of Love’s Valley and living in Shirleysburg for the next several months. Flannon had promised his sister, Douglass, and his brother, Colum, he’d stay until spring to help with the new horses and the new homes being built in Love’s Valley but only because Indigo would be married and gone. When the world came crashing down around Indigo’s white wedding dress, he sure enough wished he could break that promise. Indigo hated all things Southern, especially the swaggering, handsome Flannon Sullivan. Flannon could have forgiven Indigo for being a Yankee but he sure hated that well honed sharp tongue she used too often. Each of them made a silent vow that disastrous day they’d stay out of each other’s way all winter. But fate had different plans.

Morning Glory

Clara Anderson has her routine, and she likes it that way. But oil has brought change to Healdton, Oklahoma, and she doesn’t like it one bit. She might not have the means to stop history in the making, but that doesn’t mean she has to rent rooms in her boarding house to oil well riff raff. Needless to say, her temper flares when she discovers that while she was out shopping, her help rented a room to Briar Nelson, a roustabout for Rose Oil.

Briar just wants a place to sleep and eat and if the lovely, crazy woman has a problem with that, she can take it up with a lawyer. He signed the contract for three months and paid the rent in advance and nothing is going to make him leave. Besides, he already has two women in his life and doesn’t need another.

Can a woman who was jilted ten years ago fight the past and fall in love with the very kind of man she vowed to have nothing to do with? Changes more personal than the discovery of oil take place in the Morning Glory Inn as Clara and Briar fight the past and fear the future.

Sweet Tilly

Matilda Jane Anderson drives a brand new 1917 Model T with Sweet Tilly painted on the heavy metal plate covering the radiator. Tilly doesn’t care what people say. Well, until she finds herself put behind bars by a new sheriff determined to confiscate her automobile and her property. Sheriff Rayford Sloan cleans up boom towns. He drifts in and works at getting rid of moonshiners, putting brothels out of business, generally making a place where men folks can bring their families. He drifts out when his job is done. Tilly Anderson gets under his skin from the beginning. He can’t prove she’s a moonshiner, but his gut feeling keeps telling him she most certainly is. He promises he’ll shadow her every move and he’ll own that moonshiner’s car before he leaves town. That’s if he ever leaves.

Evening Star

Addison Carter was hired by Magnolia Oil to work as their company doctor in Healdton, Oklahoma. In 1917, oil companies didn’t hire women to work for them, so that alone was quite a miracle. At least it was until she arrived from eastern Arkansas with an ego the size of Texas and dreams twice as large, only to have them all shredded to pieces in ten minutes when the directors of the oil company informed her they thought she was a male with a name like Addison. She was sitting on the bench outside the drugstore waiting for her ride to take her back to Ardmore to catch the train back to Arkansas when Tilly Anderson sat down beside her. In less than an hour, Addison found herself at the Evening Star ranch setting Tucker Anderson’s, Tilly’s cantankerous cousin, broken leg and suturing the gash in his hand. Just as suddenly, she was offered the job of caring for him until he healed. Anything beat going back to Arkansas with her deflated ego and shattered dreams so she took on the job. Tucker had his ideas about women. They should live to serve and obey the male species and, rather than endure a lifetime with one like either of his girl cousins, Tilly and Clara, he’d be a bachelor until he reached the Pearly Gates of Heaven. Then he broke his leg and the two cousins hired a female doctor to take care of him. He figured he’d died and gone straight to hell.

To Trust

Dee Hooper and Jack Brewer grew up next door to each other in sleepy Buckhorn Corner, Oklahoma. From the time they were less than a year old they’d been best friends, but then Dee eloped with a man from Pennsylvania. Seven years later, she’s brought a broken heart back home to her dysfunctional family: Roxie, the grandmother, who runs the family with an attitude of steel; Mimosa, the mother, who’s been married so many times she’s forgotten half of them; Tally, the sister who’s in the county jail for writing hot checks; Bodine, Tally’s daughter, who’s been raised by Rosie just like Dee and Tally were; and Jack, the boy next door who’s always loved Dee. Jack was the computer geek in high school, and he’s turned that knowledge into a lucrative business one that allows him to continue to run the convenience store in town, which he loves. He’s content, selling picnic supplies and bait to the fishermen and campers. But there’s a hole in his heart, and the only person who can fill it is Dee Hooper. Then one hot summer day she appears, and he’s determined not to let her hurt him or get away again. With Dee and Jack battling past hurts and fears, they try to reclaim their lifelong friendship and trust again, each secretly hoping they’ll be more than just friends this time around.

To Commit

After a divorce from her want to be actor husband, Stelle Brannon came home to Sulphur, OK, to run Brannon Inn, a bed, breakfast and supper boarding house established by her late grandmother. She’d thought the Inn would be a white elephant when she inherited it a few months before her divorce, but she fell easily into the job of taking care of the place. At least until the day she literally backed into Rance Harper, a man who looked entirely too much like her ex husband and stepped on every raw nerve she had left. Rance had made reservations for himself and several of his friends to stay at the Inn while they hunted deer that fall. Stella was a beautiful lady, but she was a tall blonde. He’d sworn off that kind of woman and had vowed to never make a lifetime commitment again.

To Believe

Greta Fields had planned to stay one night in Murray County, Oklahoma, to attend her brother’s wedding, even though she thought he was making the biggest mistake of his life for the second time. But on her way out of town, she caused a three car pileup when she dropped her cell phone and tried to retrieve it while traveling ninety miles an hour. For her crime, she was forced to serve four months of community service in Sulphur, Oklahoma, with none other than that policeman she’d had words with at the reception acting as her escort to and from work. She almost opted for six months in jail rather than have to deal with him every day. Kyle Parsons, a rancher and policeman in Sulphur, had looked across the outdoor wedding reception and figured he was staring at an angel straight from heaven. It didn’t take him long to realize his first impression was dead wrong when it came to Greta Fields. His truck and trailer were part of the three vehicle pileup the morning after the wedding, and he lost a prize Angus bull that he hadn’t had time to insure. To add insult to injury, the judge put him in charge of taking Greta to and from her community service job. He would have rather dealt with a hungry rattlesnake than that spoiled brat of a woman. Greta can’t wait to get back to her city life, and Kyle can’t wait for her to go. Somehow their hearts didn’t get the message.

To Dream

Greta Fields had planned to stay one night in Murray County, Oklahoma, to attend her brother’s wedding, even though she thought he was making the biggest mistake of his life for the second time. But on her way out of town, she caused a three car pileup when she dropped her cell phone and tried to retrieve it while traveling ninety miles an hour. For her crime, she was forced to serve four months of community service in Sulphur, Oklahoma, with none other than that policeman she’d had words with at the reception acting as her escort to and from work. She almost opted for six months in jail rather than have to deal with him every day. Kyle Parsons, a rancher and policeman in Sulphur, had looked across the outdoor wedding reception and figured he was staring at an angel straight from heaven. It didn’t take him long to realize his first impression was dead wrong when it came to Greta Fields. His truck and trailer were part of the three vehicle pileup the morning after the wedding, and he lost a prize Angus bull that he hadn’t had time to insure. To add insult to injury, the judge put him in charge of taking Greta to and from her community service job. He would have rather dealt with a hungry rattlesnake than that spoiled brat of a woman. Greta can’t wait to get back to her city life, and Kyle can’t wait for her to go. Somehow their hearts didn’t get the message.

To Hope

A previous winner of the Professional Bull Riders’ gold belt buckle, Jodie Cahill plans to ride again. But fate intervenes in the form of a broken wrist, and keeps her from winning another buckle. When the CEO of the PBR offers her a three month tour on the circuit working as a judge and traveling with a combination newspaper/magazine reporter/novelist, she takes the job. James Moses Crowe jumps at the chance to travel with Jodie Cahill. For years he’s been trying to get her off his mind and out of his heart. Now he has the opportunity to do both. It doesn’t work. In the course of the trip, they both have to face their own feelings and wonder if, in the end, they will bless or curse the broken road that caused them to run smack into each other.

Lucky in Love

When hunky rancher ‘Lucky Beau’ Luckadeau accuses spitfire Milli Torres of stealing his prize bull, she promptly shoots at him, triggering a feud that only gets resolved when they discover they share a steamy hot memory from a night long ago It was a night of passion that has always haunted Lucky. The mysterious beauty he seduced at a cousin’s wedding disappeared. He’s always been lucky at cards, lucky with cattle, and lucky with land, but he’s never been Lucky in Love. Now Milli Torres has come to southern Oklahoma to help out on her grandfather’s ranch. A cut fence and a big, mean Angus bull in the pasture are bad enough, but then she looks up and sees Beau Luckadeau. Great God Almighty, how did he get from Louisiana to Ardmore, Oklahoma, and what in the hell is she going to do if he recognizes her? PRAISE FOR CAROLYN BROWN: ‘Carolyn Brown will keep you reading until the very last page.’ Romantic Times ‘Chalk up another great story by Carolyn Brown! I was immersed right from the very first page.’ Roundtable Reviews ‘Carolyn Brown has a fast, easy prose style that lets you absorb the story with no distractions engaging characters, interesting, often humorous situations, and a bumpy romance and she will keep you reading until the very last page.’ Romantic Times ‘Brown skillfully incorporates a wealth of interesting historical detail into each vivid adventure.’ Booklist ‘Full of good humored banter and exciting moments.’ Booklist

One Lucky Cowboy

Jane Day is on the run from the paid assassin who had been her fianc . In Wichita Falls, Texas, she meets Nellie Luckadeau, a spitfire of an old lady who desperately needs someone to work on her ranch. But Nellie’s drop dead gorgeous grandson ‘Lucky Slade’ is sure he can spot a con artist a mile away. He’s determined not to let some upstart like Jane fleece his granny. When his signature intimidation methods don’t convince Jane to leave, he pours on the charm to make her spill what she’s up to. She’s happy to play along, but she’s not going to let this hot, hostile cowboy run her off his land when all she needs is a lucky break PRAISE FOR CAROLYN BROWN: ‘Carolyn Brown will keep you reading until the very last page.’ Romantic Times ‘Chalk up another great story by Carolyn Brown! I was immersed right from the very first page.’ Roundtable Reviews ‘Carolyn Brown has a fast, easy prose style that lets you absorb the story with no distractions engaging characters, interesting, often humorous situations, and a bumpy romance and she will keep you reading until the very last page.’ Romantic Times ‘Brown skillfully incorporates a wealth of interesting historical detail into each vivid adventure.’ Booklist ‘Full of good humored banter and exciting moments.’ Booklist 20090901

Getting Lucky

Single mom Julie Donavan is looking for a place to start over. What she finds after buying a small house on five acres is nothing short of a nightmare.

Single dad ‘Lucky Griffin’ Luckadeau has been crossing horns with his elderly neighbor for years. But when his daughter, Annie, decides she wants the new little girl who lives on the feuding property to be her friend, or better yet her sister, the sparks fly.

These two stubborn hotheads, who irritate each other beyond endurance, refuse to admit that it’s fate that brought them together. And running from the inevitable is only going to bring a double dose of misery

PRAISE FOR CAROLYN BROWN:

‘Carolyn Brown will keep you reading until the very last page.’
Romantic Times

‘Chalk up another great story by Carolyn Brown! I was immersed right from the very first page.’
Roundtable Reviews

‘Carolyn Brown has a fast, easy prose style that lets you absorb the story with no distractions engaging characters, interesting, often humorous situations, and a bumpy romance and she will keep you reading until the very last page.’
Romantic Times

‘Brown skillfully incorporates a wealth of interesting historical detail into each vivid
adventure.’
Booklist

‘Full of good humored banter and exciting moments.’
Booklist

Pushin’ Up Daisies

Catherine O’Shea is the oldest and most responsible of the three O’Shea sisters. She has just buried her mother, one of the last victims of the flu epidemic of 1918. Her father had been one of the first to succumb to the flu and her fiance was killed in the war. And now there is a detective living at her hotel, the Black Swan, looking into the disappearance of her abusive brother in law. He is entirely the wrong person and it is absolutely the wrong time for her to be giving Detective Massey a second look, much less a third and fourth. She’ll simply have to control the sparks that fly every time they are together. Quincy Massey just wants to get the little job of finding Ralph Contiello done and go back home to Little Rock, Arkansas. The small town of Huttig is friendly enough but it sure isn’t his type of town. And Catherine O’Shea with her smart remarks and red hair is getting under his skin entirely too much. Quincy’s unstoppable quest for the truth and Catherine’s unflappable determination to keep it hidden immediately sets the two of them at odds. In order to look towards a future with its offer of unconditional love they’ll first have to bury the past.

From Thin Air

Catherine O’Shea is the oldest and most responsible of the three O’Shea sisters. She has just buried her mother, one of the last victims of the flu epidemic of 1918. Her father had been one of the first to succumb to the flu and her fiance was killed in the war. And now there is a detective living at her hotel, the Black Swan, looking into the disappearance of her abusive brother in law. He is entirely the wrong person and it is absolutely the wrong time for her to be giving Detective Massey a second look, much less a third and fourth. She’ll simply have to control the sparks that fly every time they are together. Quincy Massey just wants to get the little job of finding Ralph Contiello done and go back home to Little Rock, Arkansas. The small town of Huttig is friendly enough but it sure isn’t his type of town. And Catherine O’Shea with her smart remarks and red hair is getting under his skin entirely too much. Quincy’s unstoppable quest for the truth and Catherine’s unflappable determination to keep it hidden immediately sets the two of them at odds. In order to look towards a future with its offer of unconditional love they’ll first have to bury the past.

Come High Water

Bridget O’Shea had sworn she’d never fall in love again. She had a hotel, The Black Swan, to operate alone, since her sisters Catherine and Alice had both married the previous year. And then there was Ella, her lovely baby daughter. The hotel and Ella took up all her time and energy. Wyatt Ferguson had planned on staying in Huttig, Arkansas, just long enough to wait for the next train going south. But a red haired lady who thought he was another out of work soldier just home from the war insisted on hiring him to kill a rat for her. The Black Swan seemed a good place to stay for a while. After all it was only for six weeks and what could happen in that time?

I Love This Bar

‘Carolyn brown has done a wonderful job of kicking up a sexy new series that will leave you boot scootin’ to the store to get your hands on it!’ My Overstuffed Bookshelf He’s just doing his job…
If Hank Wells thinks he can dig up dirt on the new owner of the Honky Tonk beer joint for his employer, he’s got no idea what kind of trouble he’s courting…
She’s not going down without a fight…
If any dime store cowboy think’s he’s going to get the best of Larissa Morley or her Honky Tonk then he’s got another think coming…
As secrets emerge, and passion vies with ulterior motives, it’s winner takes all at the Honky Tonk…
Praise for I Love This Bar: ‘Funny, witty, heartfelt and sexy…
a great start to what is sure to be a sizzling series!!!!’ Book Junkie ‘I love this book! I brings feelings similar to riding down dirt roads, windows down and singing along with your favorite songs. I was so sad to find myself on the last page.’ The Romance Studio ‘Sometimes humorous, sometimes touching, and Brown’s fans will be pleased to reconnect with her trademark cast of quirky characters.’ Booklist starred review ‘I just can’t get enough of Carolyn Brown’s books. This book will make you kick up your heels and holler for more!’ Cheryl’s Book Nook Praise for Hell, Yeah ‘Fun, Sassy and fast paced romance…
‘ Romantic Times, 4 Stars 20100630

Hell, Yeah

‘Carolyn brown has done a wonderful job of kicking up a sexy new series that will leave you boot scootin’ to the store to get your hands on it!’ My Overstuffed Bookshelf He’s just doing his job…
If Hank Wells thinks he can dig up dirt on the new owner of the Honky Tonk beer joint for his employer, he’s got no idea what kind of trouble he’s courting…
She’s not going down without a fight…
If any dime store cowboy think’s he’s going to get the best of Larissa Morley or her Honky Tonk then he’s got another think coming…
As secrets emerge, and passion vies with ulterior motives, it’s winner takes all at the Honky Tonk…
Praise for I Love This Bar: ‘Funny, witty, heartfelt and sexy…
a great start to what is sure to be a sizzling series!!!!’ Book Junkie ‘I love this book! I brings feelings similar to riding down dirt roads, windows down and singing along with your favorite songs. I was so sad to find myself on the last page.’ The Romance Studio ‘Sometimes humorous, sometimes touching, and Brown’s fans will be pleased to reconnect with her trademark cast of quirky characters.’ Booklist starred review ‘I just can’t get enough of Carolyn Brown’s books. This book will make you kick up your heels and holler for more!’ Cheryl’s Book Nook Praise for Hell, Yeah ‘Fun, Sassy and fast paced romance…
‘ Romantic Times, 4 Stars 20100630

My Give a Damn’s Busted

‘Carolyn brown has done a wonderful job of kicking up a sexy new series that will leave you boot scootin’ to the store to get your hands on it!’ My Overstuffed Bookshelf He’s just doing his job…
If Hank Wells thinks he can dig up dirt on the new owner of the Honky Tonk beer joint for his employer, he’s got no idea what kind of trouble he’s courting…
She’s not going down without a fight…
If any dime store cowboy think’s he’s going to get the best of Larissa Morley or her Honky Tonk then he’s got another think coming…
As secrets emerge, and passion vies with ulterior motives, it’s winner takes all at the Honky Tonk…
Praise for I Love This Bar: ‘Funny, witty, heartfelt and sexy…
a great start to what is sure to be a sizzling series!!!!’ Book Junkie ‘I love this book! I brings feelings similar to riding down dirt roads, windows down and singing along with your favorite songs. I was so sad to find myself on the last page.’ The Romance Studio ‘Sometimes humorous, sometimes touching, and Brown’s fans will be pleased to reconnect with her trademark cast of quirky characters.’ Booklist starred review ‘I just can’t get enough of Carolyn Brown’s books. This book will make you kick up your heels and holler for more!’ Cheryl’s Book Nook Praise for Hell, Yeah ‘Fun, Sassy and fast paced romance…
‘ Romantic Times, 4 Stars 20100630

Honky Tonk Christmas

One cowboy, one bar, one hell of a holiday! Praise for Carolyn Brown’s country music romances: ‘You won’t want to miss this boot scootin’ contemporary full of sexy cowboys and sassy women.’ The Romance Studio My Give a Damn’s Busted She Means business…
Sharlene Waverly is determined to have the ‘new and improved’ Honky Tonk up and running before the holiday. For that, she’ll need Holt Jackson, the best darn carpenter in the state. But his warm, whisky colored eyes make her insides melt, and before she knows it, she’s sharing her darkest secrets and talking about the nightmares…
He’s determined to keep things professional…
Holt Jackson needs the job at the Honky Tonk, but is completely unprepared to handle the beautiful new bar owner he’s working for. Sharlene and Holt try like crazy to deny the sparks flying between them, but their love may just be the best Christmas present either one of them ever got. Praise for I Love This Bar: ‘Heart…
sass…
a lot of sparks and romance…
country music. What more can I say? I really had fun with this book.’ Red Headed Book Child ‘Guaranteed to leave you countrified and satisfied!’ Love Romance Passion 20100818

From Wine to Water

All Tyrell Fannin and his cousins Isaac and Micah Burnet want is to get out of a Texas jail and go home to Mississippi. Delia Lavalle didn’t need three outlaws to escort her and her sisters to Louisiana but she doesn’t really have a choice. The outlaws aren’t happy about escorting nuns, but figure they might bring them luck, because not even Santa Anna would harm a holy woman. A week into the trip, however, the outlaws find that the nuns are sisters but not of the cloth and that their tempers would make an angel’s wings shrivel up and fall off. Tyrell is determined to finish his job and forget all about Delia’s piercing blue eyes, that tumble of black hair, and her hot temper. Delia can’t wait to be away from Tyrell’s constant judgment, but along the way she finds herself drawn to him. Will they get what they want safe travels home or will fate intervene and bring them something altogether different?

Walkin’ on Clouds

Isaac Burnet didn’t want to go to Louisiana to deliver the letter from Delia to her sister Fairlee, but he did. He sure didn’t want to be party to kidnapping the sassy, spirited lass on the eve of her wedding, or journey two weeks with a woman who didn’t like him, but he did.
Fairlee Lavalle was determined to marry Matthew Cheval no matter what her sisters, aunt, or uncle thought. She had all the adventure she wanted the spring before when her father hired three outlaws to bring her and her two sisters, Delia and Tempest, home from Texas. She would marry Matthew and they would be happy.
She continued to believe that he would love her right up until she was drugged and kidnapped by one of those outlaws who’d escorted them home. And to think it was with her sister’s help.
During the two-week journey, their hearts begin to see qualities they both like in the other. Will they ever admit it or will their stubbornness keep them apart forever?

A Trick of the Light

Angels would have trouble getting along with Micah Burnet, and Tempest Lavalle’s halo is twisted plumb out of shape by the time she gets to the plantation where her two married sisters are living. Micah was the handsomest of the three outlaws who escorted her and her sisters from San Antonio to Louisiana but he also has the biggest ego. Add that to Tempie’s fiery temper, and the two could burn down the whole western half of Mississippi. Micah isn’t happy about Tempie coming to the plantation, but it’s a big place and he can stay out of her way…
right? Wrong! He and Tempie are drawn together the minute he shares a deathbed confession with her. He knows that little apparition appearing over her head when she’s being nice is darn sure not a halo but just A Trick of the Light, so why does fate keep throwing them together?

Love Drunk Cowboy

Praise for Carolyn Brown’s Honky Tonk series ‘Fun, sassy, and fast paced romance.’ RT Book Reviews, 4 stars ‘Sometimes humorous, sometimes touching, and Brown’s fans will be pleased to reconnect with her trademark cast of quirky characters.’ Booklist starred review ‘Funny, witty, heartfelt, and sexy…
a sizzling series!!!!’ Book Junkie She’s a self made city girl…
High powered career woman Austin Lanier suddenly finds herself saddled with an inherited watermelon farm deep in the countryside. She’s determined to sell the farm, until her new, drop dead sexy neighbor Rye O’Donnell shows up…
He’s as intoxicating as can be…
Rancher Rye O’Donnell thinks he’s going to get a good deal on his dream property until he meets the fiery new owner. Rye is knocked sideways when he realizes that not only is Granny Lanier’s city slicker granddaughter a savvy businesswoman, she’s also sexy as hell…
Suddenly Rye is a whole lot less interested in real estate and a whole lot more focused on getting Austin to set aside her stiletto heels…

Red’s Hot Cowboy / The Honeymoon Inn

Praise for Love Drunk Cowboy: ‘Charming…
full of sassy fun.’ BookPage He wasn’t looking for trouble…
But when the cops are knocking on your door, trouble’s definitely found you. And this is where Wil Marshall finds himself after checking in to the Longhorn Inn. It could all be a big mistake, but Wil’s not getting much sleep. Then the motel owner who is drop dead gorgeous and feisty to boot saves him from an even worse night behind bars. Now he owes her one, big time…
But Trouble comes in all shapes and sizes…
Pearl never wanted that run down motel, but her aunt didn’t leave her much choice. And then this steaming hot cowboy shows up looking for a place to rest. Next thing she knows, she wants to offer him more than just room service. But if he calls her Red one more time, he won’t be the only one accused of murder…
Sparks are definitely flying and before long, the Do Not Disturb sign might be swinging from the door…
Praise for Love Drunk Cowboy: ‘Brown revitalizes the Western romance with this fresh, funny, and sexy tale filled with likable, down to earth characters.’ Booklist ‘Tender and passionate love scenes…
endearing and quirky characters…
What an absolutely adorable story.’ The Romance Studio

Darn Good Cowboy Christmas

He’s One Hot Cowboy…
Raylen O’Donnell is one smokin’ cowboy. He could have any woman he wants, but he’s never been able to forget a certain dark haired girl who disappeared from his life. So when she suddenly returns to the ranch next door, Raylen’s not fixing to let her get away again…
And She’s Out For a Sizzlin’ ChristmasRaised in a traveling carnival, Lizelle Hanson thought all she wanted was a house that didn’t have wheels and a sexy cowboy for her very own. But when settling down’s going to take some getting used to, and catching Raylen, the hotter than hell cowboy next door, might just take a little holiday magic…
Praise for Honky Tonk Christmas:’Sassy contemporary romance…
with all the local color and humorous repartee her fans adore.’ Booklist’This book makes me believe in Christmas miracles and long slow kisses under the mistletoe.’ The Romance Studio’Anything but predictable. The most difficult thing about reading a Brown book is putting it down.’ Fresh Fiction

A Forever Thing

Fancy Lynn Sawyer says that before she’ll even think about the M word, a man has to say the three magic words, but ‘I love you’ isn’t enough. He has to promise her A Forever Thing. She intends to find her forever thing in Florida, her home since she was fifteen, so she wasn’t even looking for it when she comes to Texas to help her grandmother. With a job at the elementary school lined up, Fancy Lynn moves but she intends to stay only until her grandmother regains her health. Theron Warren has absolutely no intention of falling in love again. His one failed marriage was painful enough. As an elementary school principal, part time cop, and full time ranch owner, he doesn’t have time for the sassy woman who suddenly appears in his life: first in the jailhouse, then at his school and soon everywhere he turns. Fate is trying to tell Fancy Lynn and Theron that they are soul mates, but is having a tough time convincing them.

Love Is

Love Is is Carolyn’s first novel for AVALON

A Falling Star

When she was young, pilot and airplane owner Retta King made a promise never to get involved with any of the migratory song birds who flew into Nashville to chase stardom. Then she met Denison Adams, a tall, handsome rancher from Oklahoma, who was trying to break into the song-writing world. Denison was attracted to the sassy Retta from the first, but he had no intentions of getting involved with any woman who didn’t accept him for what he was.

The Ivy Tree

After his rodeo accident, Truman James was just going home to his grandmother’s farmhouse to stay a few weeks while his broken leg healed. He surely didn’t expect to be awakened the first morning he was there by a snaggle toothed kid and his sassy Irish mother, who’d moved right into the house with him. Allie McCleary wouldn’t have ever consented to move to Dougherty, Oklahoma, if she’d known Truman had the freedom to use the house, too. And she sure didn’t expect Truman James to be the magic she’d been searching for since her husband was killed five years before. The rest is what happens when you cross a handsome beyond words bull rider with a mostly Irish lass with a temper to match her rich chestnut brown hair and mossy green eyes. It’s the story of an old ivy covered elm tree in the corner of the yard, sitting in dormancy like Allie’s heart and rooted deep in the rich ranch soil, like Truman’s soul. Will they realize that the real fight lies within their hearts? Although they’re as mismatched as oil and water, they have fallen in love. Can either of them admit it?

Lily’s White Lace

Just moments before she heads down the aisle, Lily discovers her husband to be, Dylan, has been cheating. Knowing she can’t marry a man she can’t trust, Lily leaves Dylan at the altar and heads to Oklahoma to clear her head and mend her wounded heart. She resolves never to trust a man again. Not even Jesse, her best friend Marcy’s brother. Especially since Jesse knows just how to infuriate her, bait her, make her laugh and even bring the glitter back into her eyes. And he’s a farmer, the very type of man with whom she vowed she’d never fall in love with. As the daughter of a farmer she knows that she doesn’t want that kind of life. That’s just fine with Jesse because he’s going to marry a tall blond angel who loves farming as much as he does. And Lily is too short, her hair is too curly, her eyes are too light and she never smiles. She doesn’t have one appealing quality except her cooking, which is spectacular…
and she can plow a field better than anyone he’s ever known. But that wasn’t enough to build a relationship on. Maybe a friendship if she’d thaw out a little. But that’s definitely as far as it can go. Or is it?

That Way Again

Kitty Maguire and Preston Fleming fell head over heels in love the first time they saw each other. They were planning a wedding and the rest of their lives together. But Kitty’s great aunt put an end to all that in the course of one phone call, shattering both of their hearts and ruining their lives. Neither Kitty nor Preston would have thought her capable of telling one lie, much less two. Then when she died suddenly a week later, they never found out. Five years later, Kitty comes back to Caddo, Oklahoma to sell Aunt Bertha’s house and to finally put closure on the fiasco that broke her heart in a million pieces when she found out Preston had found another woman. As luck would have it, every time she turns around he’s right there. The tingle is still there as well as the love, but he’s married…
or at least Kitty thinks he is.

The Wager

Ivy Cameo Johnson, an oil baroness from Houston, has wealth that draws men like flies to honey, yet she also possesses intelligence and an awkwardness that runs them off. John William Dalhart, a Texas oil baron himself, out to prove his father and new business partner both wrong, was also born into wealth. There’s been no Neither has met nor knows about the other. Until fate, and their meddling fathers, intervenes. Ivy makes a bet with her friend that she most certainly can work in a menial, minimum wage job for a month. Meanwhile, Will picks up the challenge thrown out by his father and Red Marshall daring him to live in a small town and get a woman to say she’d marry him while knowing nothing about his wealth. Both wind up in Murray County, Oklahoma Cameo as the manager of the Strawberry Moon, a small burger joint on Highway 77; Will, a chief cook and dish washer. She thinks he’s in the witness protection program. He thinks she’s a poor country girl from the boonies. But they’ve agreed there’ll be no past or future…
only today while they’re working at the Moon. When the month is over they’ll both go their separate ways and never look back at what they shared. What they don’t realize is that their future is together, in work, and in love.

Trouble in Paradise

After her divorce, best selling romance author, Mary Jane Marsh Simmons decided to move all seven of her girls out of the big city and back home to her hometown, Nacona, Texas. So when the last remaining relative of Miz Raven died and the Paradise was put on the market, she bought it, an old house that had been a brothel during the cattle trial days in Spanish Fort, Texas. Joe Clay Carter had just retired from twenty years in the Marines, Special Forces. He’d lived through wars and rumors of wars and decided to go home to Nacona to do nothing but play poker, draw his retirement check and enjoy life. Two weeks later he was bored stiff, his motel room closing in on him, and he was seriously thinking of reenlisting until high old high school crush, Mary Jane, came to his door asking him to remodel her new house. As teenagers Mary Jane never gave Joe Clay a second glance, so he was surprised by her offer. Immediately they shook on the deal and he moved into her house to get started. Much to his surprise, the house came filled to the roof with little girls, good food, and crazy conversation, all wrapped up in a house that needed a minor miracle to fix by Christmas. He wasn’t sure if he could get it done in time but he was willing to try. If only Mary Jane was willing to give him a chance too.

The PMS Club

Dixie Nelson arrived in Florida with a mad spell sitting on her shoulders. Her two friends Faith and Jill could flirt with the tanned and gorgeous men on the beaches all they wanted. She wasn’t going to do anything but try to get over her anger and enjoy a perfect summer…
one with no men allowed in her heart. Not even the good looking T shirt painter who employed her right after he accused her of shop lifting. Boone Callahan spent all his summers in Florida, painting and selling T shirts to the tourists. How was he supposed to know the woman running out of his shop with three tee shirts tucked under her arm wasn’t trying to steal them? Or that when he hired her as part time help she would wind up stealing his heart? Dixie and her friends, all school teachers from Arkansas, have endured wars and rumors of wars, true PMS, men problems, school problems, and shared the joys and sorrows of life for five years. Nothing could possibly destroy their friendship. But during the wonderfully hot summer, the very roots of the Sisterhood are shaken. Will it survive? Can Dixie and Boone find a future together? Is ‘happily ever after’ a myth or does it really happen?

The Dove

Katy Lynn Logan had two friends: Andy, her father’s best friend through his whole life who’d been her surrogate father/uncle/mother/best friend since the day of her birth. And then there was Joshua Carter, the love of her heart and her soul mate. Or so she thought until that day when she buried her father; the same day Joshua broke her heart and tore her soul apart. Seven years later Joshua returns to find his preacher father had been right. Katy Lynn Logan had turned out exactly like her immoral mother and drunk father. She ran a saloon on the banks of the Red River called The Soiled Dove. He can scarcely believe the beautiful piano player is his Katy, but then, seven years changes everyone. Katy can’t believe her eyes when she finds Joshua sitting on a bar stool in The Dove, but the real shock comes a few days later when she finds him preaching in her church in Spanish Fort, Texas. Joshua’s attraction to Katy did not die when his father sent him away from Spanish Fort. Katy had not buried her attraction to Joshua when she built a saloon or buried herself in hard work. Neither of them tried to deny it, but they both determined they’d sure get over it. Or would they?

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