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.

Carolyn Brown is living proof that the American dream of being whatever you want to be is still alive and kicking. Writing was her dream—now it is reality. She and her husband Charles, a high school teacher, have three grown children and twelve grandchildren. In addition to writing, she is an avid reader and loves to travel.

The Wager is her seventeenth novel for AVALON.

Avalon Romances by Carolyn Brown:

The Broken Roads Romance Series
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

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