“Brown tackles the concepts of forgiveness and absolution in this story of former enemies trying to rebuild shattered lives...Brown’s use of a down-home, folksy style...will surely charm...”
— Lynne Welch, Booklist, October 15, 2005

A Love’s Valley Romance

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.

Carolyn Brown and her husband live in southern Oklahoma. In addition to writing, Carolyn enjoys reading and traveling.

Absolution is Carolyn’s nineteenth novel for AVALON.

Avalon Historical Romances by Carolyn Brown:
THE DOVE

The Drifters and Dreamers Romance Series
EVENING STAR
SWEET TILLY
MORNING GLORY

The Love’s Valley Romance Series
PROMISES
REDEMPTION
CHANCES
ABSOLUTION
CHOICES

The Promised Land Romance Series
AUGUSTA
GARNET
GYPSY
VELVET
WILLOW

The Oklahoma Land Rush Romance Series
JUST GRACE
MAGGIE'S MISTAKE
VIOLET'S WISH
EMMA'S FOLLY

Avalon Romances by Carolyn Brown:

The Broken Roads Romance Series
TO TRUST

THE PMS CLUB
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
THE WAGER
THAT WAY AGAIN
LILY'S WHITE LACE
THE IVY TREE
THE YARD ROSE
ALL THE WAY FROM TEXAS
LOVE IS
A FALLING STAR