A Black Swan Historical Romance

Ira McNewell was supposed to be dead. The government had sent a telegram saying he had been killed in action, yet there he was, sprawled out beneath Alice on the floor of the Black Swan Hotel. For a minute, she thought she’d died when she fell off the ladder and he’d come to escort her to heaven, but surely God wouldn’t make a mistake like that. Ira had been engaged to her sister Catherine when he’d gone off to the war, not Alice. Now it was up to her to give him the horrible news that the flu had wiped out his whole family, and his fiancée had married another man. To soften the blow, she hired him to work for her at the hotel.

Poor Ira didn’t know if he was doing the right thing or not. Alice had been tagged the village idiot when she was just a child. Having her for a boss wasn’t the best-case scenario, but like thousands of other soldiers coming home from the war, he was broke and hungry. Working at the Black Swan was at least a job, and jobs were hard to come by.

Alice had never minded that the folks in the little southern Arkansas town of Huttig thought she was dim-witted. At least not until Ira came home. She’d been in love with him since she was a girl, but she wasn’t stupid enough to think that he could ever love her back...or could he?

Award-winning author Carolyn Brown has written over thirty books. She and her husband, Charles, live in southern Oklahoma. In addition to writing she enjoys reading, travel and her family, which is a never-ending source of ideas.

From Thin Air is her thirty-fifth book for AVALON and the second in the Black Swan Historical Romance series.

Avalon Historical Romances by Carolyn Brown:

The Black Swan Historical Romance Series
COME HIGH WATER
FROM THIN AIR
PUSHIN' UP DAISIES

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 HOPE
TO DREAM
TO BELIEVE
TO COMMIT
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