Carolyn Brown. Forever, $7.99 mass market (448p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4874-9
Brown’s dry fifth Longhorn Canyon series (after Cowboy Rebel) lacks passion. When Irishwoman Bridget O’Malley arrives at her temporary job in Texas two weeks before Christmas, she is baffled to learn that her unforgettable one-night stand, Maverick...
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Carolyn Brown. Forever, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-1-4555-9747-5
After Army Capt. Nash Lamont falls while rescuing a kitten and suffers concussion-induced amnesia, he believes that Kasey McKay, his new neighbor from the ranch next door, is his wife. Because he has post-traumatic stress disorder, his doctors...
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Carolyn Brown. Forever, $7.99 mass market (688p) ISBN 978-1-4555-9750-5
Despite the hackneyed secret-child premise, this third and final Happy, Texas contemporary (after Long, Tall Cowboy Christmas) has wonderfully charming characters. When Carlene Varner left Happy, Tex., a week after graduating high school, she took...
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Carolyn Brown. Forever, $7.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4486-4
Brown’s wispy series launch unites a Dallas banker and a cowboy through shared work on a Texas ranch. Former Dallas businesswoman Retta Palmer takes a summer job as a camp counselor at Longhorn Canyon Ranch, which is run by sexy Cade Maguire. Every...
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Carolyn Brown. Forever, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4488-8
Brown’s sweet second Longhorn Canyon contemporary (after Cowboy Bold) pairs an independent businesswoman with a warmhearted cowboy. After wrecking her car during a Texas snowstorm, professional quilter Claire Mason finds shelter for herself and her...
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Carolyn Brown. Forever, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4493-2
Sparks fly when an activities director at a retirement center falls for a sweet-talking cowboy in Brown’s fun third Longhorn Canyon contemporary (after Cowboy Honor). Emily Baker, senior activities director at the Oakview Retirement Center in Bowie,
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Carolyn Brown. Montlake Romance, $12.95 trade paper (286p) ISBN 978-1-5039-0439-2
Brown (The Lilac Bouquet) tugs hard at the heartstrings with an emotional contemporary about a grieving widower and a vulnerable bartender. Jolene Broussard may serve alcohol, but she doesn’t drink—especially since she lost her mother to an overdose
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Carolyn Brown. Montlake Romance, $12.95 trade paper (344p) ISBN 978-1-5039-0527-6
Fans of Brown (The Magnolia Inn) will swoon for this sweet contemporary, which skillfully pairs a shy small-town bridal shop owner and a soft-hearted car dealership owner. Graham Harrison has just returned to the tiny Texas town of Celeste, hoping...
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Carolyn Brown. Forever, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4871-8
Brown’s capable fourth Longhorn Canyon contemporary western romance (after Cowboy Brave) suggests that love can make even the baddest of bad boy cowboys want to settle down. In Longhorn Canyon, Tex., Tag Baker is starting up a ranch with his twin...
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Carolyn Brown. Montlake Romance, $12.95 trade paper (324p) ISBN 978-1-5420-1881-4
Brown (The Family Journal) throws together a colorful cast of characters to excellent effect and maximum charm in this small-town contemporary romance. The elderly Carson sisters—Kate, Connie, and Betsy—have turned the Rooster, Tex., brothel they...
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Carolyn Brown. Montlake, $12.95 trade paper (338p) ISBN 978-1-54-202304-7
After years away, two women return to Birthright, Tex., to celebrate the life of their foster mom in this sentimental outing from Brown (The Banty House). Sarah Jane “Miss Janie” Jackson is dying, and she asks her great-grandnephew, Noah, to bring...
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Carolyn Brown. Forever, $7.99 mass market (400) ISBN 978-1-5387-4878-7
The solid seventh cowboy romance of bestseller Brown’s Longhorn Canyon series (after Cowboy Courage) is a fake relationship romance done up in Western trappings and given a sentimental twist. At 29, Alana Carey is a capable cowhand in her own right,
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Carolyn Brown. Forever, $8.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-1-5387-3561-9
Bestseller Brown (Summertime on the Ranch) combines secret baby and second-chance romance tropes to charming effect in this small-town love story. Nurse Addison Hall and her 19-year-old daughter, Mia, live on Sunflower Ranch so that Addison can...
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Carolyn Brown. Forever, $8.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-1-5387-3563-3
Brown delivers plenty of small-town Texan charm in her second Ryan Family romance (after Second Chance at Sunflower Ranch). After traveling the world with Doctors Without Borders, Cody Ryan returns to his family’s ranch in Honey Grove, Tex., to care
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Carolyn Brown. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $8.99 mass market (312p) ISBN 978-1-72824-580-5
Brown (The Sunshine Club) reworks her 1997 romance Love Is the Answer, published as Abby Gray, into a sweet if contrived contemporary. Twenty-year-old orphan Cassie Stewart flees Lindsey, Tex., after Cecil Gorman, her evil guardian, sells her to a...
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Carolyn Brown. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4022-8052-8
In Brown’s third Cowboys and Brides romance (after The Cowboy’s Christmas Baby), Emily Cooper’s dying grandfather instructs her to deliver a box of 60-year-old letters to his old flame, Clarice Adams, and take a month to consider whether to take on...
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Carolyn Brown, Author . Sourcebooks Casablanca $6.99 (315p) ISBN 978-1-4022-2435-5
In this first book of a new cowboy trilogy, prolific author Brown (To Trust
) makes plenty of amateur mistakes. Milli Torres returns to her grandfather’s Texas ranch only to find that the next door neighbor is the man who fathered her child...
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Carolyn Brown, Avalon, $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8034-7706-3
In the first of the Angels & Outlaws historical romance series, Tyrell Fannin and his two cousins leave 1836 Mississippi on the trail of a bandit who killed Tyrell's uncle. They get to San Antonio to find that the bandit has been killed in a bank...
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Carolyn Brown, Sourcebooks/Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-1-4022-5358-4
In the first of the Spikes & Spurs romance series, Brown (the Honky Tonk romances) sets up immediate physical attraction between stiletto-wearing career-minded Austin Lanier, who's come to tiny Terral, Okla., to scatter her grandma's ashes, and Rye...
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Carolyn Brown. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4022-6157-2
Brown’s enthusiasm for her characters and their romance elevates the carelessly plotted third Spikes & Spurs contemporary Western, set on the Oklahoma–Texas border. Every Christmas for years, Lizelle Hanson has wished for stability and a handsome...
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Carolyn Brown. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4022-5364-5
In the fourth Spikes & Spurs contemporary western (after Darn Good Cowboy Christmas), bestseller Brown twists the scenario of a will-fulfilling marriage by having sassy Jasmine King wed cowboy Ace Riley so Ace can save his inherited Texas ranch from
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Carolyn Brown. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4022-7015-4
Brown (Lucky in Love) delivers a frothy, mostly sweet contemporary western romance with her latest. Artist Sage Presley fights her way through a blinding snowstorm to get to her grandmother’s Texas ranch, only to encounter quite the surprise: cowboy
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Carolyn Brown. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4022-7018-5
Brown’s sixth Spikes & Spurs erotic western romance (after Mistletoe Cowboy) sets up immediate physical attraction between bronc riders Gemma O’Donnell and Trace Coleman. Both plan to win the national buckle in Las Vegas come December. He needs the...
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Carolyn Brown. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4022-8046-7
Brown (Just a Cowboy and His Baby) kicks off her Cowboys and Brides series with this sizzling contemporary. Laura Baker has spent her life bailing out her sister Janet, a gambling addict. When Janet runs up a $10,000 debt to loan sharks, distant...
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Carolyn Brown. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4022-8049-8
Brown’s latest Cowboys & Brides romance immediately immerses readers in the regional spirit of the season. Texas soldier Drew Camp introduces his best friend, school basketball coach Natalie Clark, to his Desert Storm buddy Lucas Allen. While...
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Carolyn Brown, Author . Knopf $35 (645p) ISBN 978-0-394-40191-1
Brown, a founding member of Merce Cunningham's dance company, began working on her memoir shortly after leaving the troupe in 1972, but it's proved worth the 30-year wait. Of course, the behind-the-scenes perspective on Cunningham's...
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Carolyn Brown. Amazon/Montlake Romance, $12.95 trade paper (264p) ISBN 978-1-4778-2389-7
Reliable western romance author Brown (the Spikes and Spurs series) gives her new series a strong start with this sweet contemporary story. Sparks fly when Loretta Bailey is in the same room with her ex-husband, Jackson, even 17 years after she...
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Carolyn Brown. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4022-9605-5
Brown starts the Burnt Boot series with a sketched-out story populated by too many characters. Finn O’Donnell, the new owner of Salt Draw Ranch, thinks he wants peace and quiet. But his intentions are turned upside down by the arrival of Callie...
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Carolyn Brown. Grand Central/Forever, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4555-3487-6
Brown’s first Lucky Penny Ranch novel combines the themes of historical western romance with a contemporary setting, but her characters are too old-fashioned for the 21st century. The two Dawson brothers and their cousin have purchased a “bad luck”...
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Carolyn Brown. Sourcebooks/Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4022-9611-6
Brown revisits the small town of Burnt Boot, Tex., for the third installment in her Burnt Boot series (after The Trouble with Texas Cowboys). School teacher Leah Brennan is immediately attracted to Rhett O’Donnell when he rides into town on his...
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Carolyn Brown. Forever, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-1-4555-3494-4
Brown’s latest Lucky Penny Ranch novel (after Hot Cowboy Nights) shows that love can be found in the most unexpected places. When Fiona Logan returns to her hometown of Dry Creek, Tex., for a family Christmas, she’s surprised to discover that...
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Carolyn Brown. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4022-9614-7
In the final romance of her Burnt Boot, Texas series, bestseller Brown (One Texas Cowboy Too Many) borrows from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to pair up a couple from families caught in a matriarch-driven 100-year-old feud. Declan Brennan looses a...
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Carolyn Brown. Montlake Romance, $12.95 trade paper (297p) ISBN 978-1-5039-4128-1
Kate Steele, the likable heroine of this Texas-set contemporary, wears red to her husband’s funeral because black would have been a sign of respect, and that slam is before she learns he had two other wives. Conrad, murdered while buying flowers for
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Carolyn Brown. Montlake Romance, $12.99 trade paper (299p) ISBN 978-1-5039-4355-1
Brown (the Broken Road series) meanders a bit, in an appealing way, in this contemporary tale of a tiny town with long-held secrets. When Emmy Jo Massey accepts a summer job as a personal assistant to cantankerous, elderly Seth Thomas, everyone in...
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Carolyn Brown, Author . Avalon $21.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-8034-9744-3
A head cheerleader and a star quarterback find love two decades after high school in Brown's latest romantic confection. Successful romance novelist Mary Jane Marsh Simmons, the divorced mother of seven daughters under age 14, has just bought...
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Carolyn Brown, Author . Avalon $21.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-8034-9857-0
In 1920s Healdron, Okla., Tilly Anderson is an anomaly: she doesn't want a husband but she would like to have a baby. Tilly is also a third-generation moonshiner with a steady income, thanks to Prohibition. Rayford Sloan is the new sheriff,...
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Carolyn Brown, Author . Avalon $21.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-8034-9866-2
In this third novel of a series (Sweet Tilly
; Morning Glory
) about the Anderson cousins of Healdton, Okla., the newcomer is Addison Carter, a physician hired sight unseen by Magnolia Oil and fired for being a woman as soon as she reports to work....
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Carolyn Brown, Author . Avalon $21.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-8034-9874-7
Brown stays on familiar turf—rural Oklahoma—for this contemporary chaste romance, the first of the Broken Roads series. After Dee Hooper's marriage to an upper-crust Pennsylvanian is annulled, she returns to Buckhorn Corner and the...
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Carolyn Brown, Author . Avalon $23.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-8034-9946-1
Quincy Massey, the detective star of Brown’s bland latest, rolls into Huttig, Ark., intending to find out what happened to the missing Ralph Contiello. Quincy’s instantly taken with Ralph’s sister-in-law, Catherine, and while he...
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Carolyn Brown, Author Avalon Books $0 (246p) ISBN 978-0-8034-9846-4
Brown's 25th book is the inaugural installment in the Drifters and Dreamers series, a warm-hearted historical romance set in 1917 Healdton, Okla. Boarding-house owner Clara Anderson, jilted by a preacher 10 years ago, has been waiting for her long...
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