RIO AWARD OF EXCELLENCE nominee (“Short Historical“)

“...Second in the Dulan sisters family saga, Brown’s Promised Land romance is a gentle, historical set against the unforgiving backdrop of the Old West, providing a poignant view of the hardships suffered by the pioneers and a humorous description of one woman’s discovery that even a timid mouse can learn to stand up and roar.”
- Booklist, December 1, 2003

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?

Carolyn Brown is delighted to be publishing Velvet, the second book in the Promised Land Romance Series. Writing has been a passion of Carolyn’s for many years. She also enjoys reading and says she’ll read anything from Faulkner to the back of the Cheerios^™ box and enjoy it all. She and her husband, Charles, have three grown children: Lemar, Amy and Ginny, and ten grandchildren.

Velvet is her thirteenth book for AVALON.

Avalon Historical Romances by Carolyn Brown:

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