Carolyn Brown

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  • Bibliography:
    144 Books (22 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1999
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Angels & Outlaws

1 - From Wine to Water (Jan-2011)
2 - Walkin' on Clouds (Apr-2011)
3 - A Trick of Light (Aug-2011)

Black Swan

1 - Pushin' Up Daisies (May-2009)
2 - From Thin Air (Nov-2009)
3 - Come High Water (Jun-2010)

A Broken Roads Romance

1 - To Trust (Mar-2008)
2 - To Commit (Jul-2008)
3 - To Believe (Mar-2009)
4 - To Dream (Jul-2009)
5 - To Hope (Sep-2009)

Burnt Boot, Texas

1 - Cowboy Boots for Christmas (Cowboy Not Included) // Holidays on the Ranch (Oct-2014)
2 - The Trouble with Texas Cowboys (Jan-2015)
3 - One Texas Cowboy Too Many (Mar-2016)
4 - A Cowboy Christmas Miracle (Sep-2016)

Cadillac Texas

1 - Blue-Ribbon Jalapeno Society Jubilee // What Happens in Texas // The Sisters Cafe (Mar-2013)
2 - The Red-Hot Chili Cook-Off // A Heap of Texas Trouble // The Shop on Main Street (Apr-2014)
3 - The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop (Jul-2015)

Cowboys & Brides

1 - Billion Dollar Cowboy (Jun-2013)
2 - Cowboy's Christmas Baby (Sep-2013)
3 - The Cowboy's Mail Order Bride (Feb-2014)
4 - How to Marry a Cowboy (Jul-2014)

A Drifters and Dreamers Romance

1 - Morning Glory (Apr-2008)
2 - Sweet Tilly (Nov-2007)
3 - Evening Star (Jan-2008)

Happy, Texas

1 - Toughest Cowboy in Texas (Jun-2017)
2 - Long, Tall Cowboy Christmas (Oct-2017)
3 - The Luckiest Cowboy of All (Jan-2018)

Honky Tonk

1 - I Love This Bar (Jun-2010)
2 - Hell, Yeah (Aug-2010)
3 - My Give a Damn's Busted (Oct-2010)
4 - Honky Tonk Christmas (Oct-2010)
4.5 - A Slow Dance Holiday (Sep-2020)

Longhorn Canyon

1 - Cowboy Bold (May-2018)
2 - Cowboy Honor (Sep-2018)
3 - Cowboy Brave (Jan-2019)
4 - Cowboy Rebel (May-2019)
5 - Christmas with a Cowboy (Sep-2019)
6 - Cowboy Courage (Feb-2020)
7 - Cowboy Strong (Jul-2020)
7.5 - A Perfect Christmas (Oct-2020)

Love's Valley

1 - Choices (Jun-2005)
2 - Absolution (Nov-2005)
3 - Chances (Dec-2005)
4 - Redemption (Apr-2006)
5 - Promises (Jan-2007)

Lucky

1 - Lucky in Love (Sep-2009)
2 - One Lucky Cowboy (Nov-2009)
3 - Getting Lucky (Jan-2010)
4 - Talk Cowboy to Me (Mar-2017)

Lucky Penny Ranch

1 - Wild Cowboy Ways (Dec-2015)
2 - Hot Cowboy Nights (Jun-2016)
3 - Merry Cowboy Christmas (Oct-2016)
4 - Wicked Cowboy Charm (Feb-2017)

Oklahoma Land Rush

1 - Emma's Folly (Feb-2002)
2 - Violet's Wish (Aug-2002)
3 - Maggie's Mistake (Feb-2003)
4 - Just Grace (Jun-2003)

Palo Duro Canyon

1 - Long, Hot Texas Summer (Sep-2014)
2 - Daisies in the Canyon (Dec-2014)
3 - Wildflower Ranch (Feb-2020)
4 - Sunrise Ranch (Jul-2020)

The Paradise

1 - Meet Me in the Orchard (Aug-2025)

The Promised Land

1 - Willow (Oct-2003)
2 - Velvet (Dec-2003)
3 - Gypsy (Apr-2004)
4 - Garnet (Sep-2004)
5 - Augusta (Jan-2005)

Protectors

1 - He Came For Me! (Aug-2011)
2 - He Came For Mine (Oct-2012)

The Ryan Family

1 - Second Chance at Sunflower Ranch (Aug-2021)
2 - Texas Homecoming (Jan-2022)

Sisters in Paradise

1 - Paradise for Christmas (Oct-2023)
2 - Sisters in Paradise (May-2024)
3 - Coming Home to Paradise (Oct-2024)

Spikes & Spurs

1 - Love Drunk Cowboy (May-2011)
2 - Red's Hot Cowboy // The Honeymoon Inn (Aug-2011)
3 - Darn Good Cowboy Christmas (Oct-2011)
4 - One Hot Cowboy Wedding (Apr-2012)
5 - Mistletoe Cowboy (Oct-2012)
6 - Just a Cowboy and His Baby (Dec-2012)
7 - Cowboy Seeks Bride (Aug-2013)
8 - Summertime on the Ranch (May-2021)

A Three Magic Words Romance

1 - A Forever Thing (Dec-2011)
2 - In Shining Whatever (Apr-2012)
3 - Life After Wife (Jan-2013)

Book List in Order: 144 titles

  • Love Is

  • A Falling Star

  • All the Way from Texas

  • The Yard Rose

    Glory Flowers fell in love with Quaid Matthews when she was seven years old. A part of her heart went to Galveston with him just after the second grade when he left southern Oklahoma.

    Twenty years later he returns home for his grandmother...

  • The Ivy Tree

    After his rodeo accident, Truman James was just going home to his grandmother's farmhouse to stay a few weeks while his broken leg healed. He surely didn't expect to be awakened the first morning he was there by a snaggle-toothed kid and his sassy Ir...

  • Lily's White Lace

    Just moments before she heads down the aisle, Lily discovers her husband-to-be, Dylan, has been cheating. Knowing she can't marry a man she can't trust, Lily leaves Dylan at the altar and heads to Oklahoma to clear her head and mend her wounded heart...

  • Emma's Folly

    Oklahoma Land Rush - 1

    Arriving in Guthrie, Oklahoma, from Atlanta at the same time that the local sheriff is asking about a tall blond from Georgia, Emma quickly finds herself married to Jed Thomas, a farmer who answered her pleas for help. Emma Maureen Cummins is flee...

  • Violet's Wish

    Oklahoma Land Rush - 2

    Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. Violet did. After her husband died, she swore off lackluster men and a dull life. She wished for someone to put a sparkle in her eyes and excitement in her life, like an old love did year ago in...

  • Maggie's Mistake

    Oklahoma Land Rush - 3

    Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can't laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Jackson Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and ...



  • Just Grace

    Oklahoma Land Rush - 4

    Grace Benjamin Listen was just trying to rescue a poor helpless kitten. She certainly didn't plan on falling out of the tree and landing on Dodsworth's newest resident, Dr. Gatlin O'Malley - breaking her arm and wounding her pride in the fall. Gatlin...

  • That Way Again

    Kitty Maguire and Preston Fleming fell head over heels in love the first time they saw each other. They were planning a wedding and the rest of their lives together. But Kitty's great-aunt put an end to all that in the course of one phone call, shatt...

  • Willow

    The Promised Land - 1

    Willow Gail Dulan didn't like Rafe Pierce when he read her father's will. She sure didn't like him when he tried to talk Hank Gibson out of letting her and her four newly-found sisters travel to California with the wagon train of mail-order brides. <...

  • Velvet

    The Promised Land - 2

    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 s...

  • Gypsy

    The Promised Land - 3

    Gypsy Rose Dulan just knew there was a secret hidden in the stars. She just didn't expect to fall sleep while searching for that secret. And she sure didn't expect to be awakened by a rude, overbearing, short Irishman by the name of Tavish O'Leary. T...

  • Garnet

    The Promised Land - 4

    Garnet Diana Dulan swung open the doors of the Silver Dollar Saloon, sucked up a lunch full of cigar smoke, and listened intently to the sounds of men playing poker and the scrape of boots across the wooden floor; she felt right at home. After just m...

  • Augusta

    The Promised Land - 5

    Augusta "Gussie" Dulan is the only Dulan sister to make it all the way to California on the wagon train for brides. Each of her four sisters has taken off along the trail to marry up with a man they fell in love with and now Gussie is hoping to find ...

  • The Wager

    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 an...

  • Choices

    Love's Valley - 1

    Douglass Esmeralda Sullivan has just discovered that all men are gutter rats, all except for her six half-Irish, half-Mexican brothers, and sometimes she's not so sure about them. She's sitting in the middle of a dusty road on a hot Texas day, fuming...

  • Absolution

    Love's Valley - 2

    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 st...



  • Chances

    Love's Valley - 3

    Adelida Broussau took a big chance by saying she was Rueben Hamilton's new bride. But even a rat will stand up and fight when it's cornered and she was surely feeling the pinch of being pushed in the corner. Her sister, Maria, was dead. Her sorry, Ya...

  • Trouble in Paradise

    After her divorce, best-selling romance author, Mary Jane Marsh Simmons decided to move all seven of her girls out of the big city and back home to her hometown, Nacona, Texas. So when the last remaining relative of Miz Raven died and the Paradise wa...

  • Redemption

    Love's Valley - 4

    Geneva Garner's mind was fixed on survival, her unborn child, escaping out of Savannah, and getting away from the men in the white robes with hoods over their heads. Covered in dirt and smoke from the cellar where she took refuge when the Klan burned...

  • The PMS Club

    Dixie Nelson arrived in Florida with a mad spell sitting on her shoulders. Her two friends Faith and Jill could flirt with the tanned and gorgeous men on the beaches all they wanted. She wasn't going to do anything but try to get over her anger and e...

  • Promises

    Love's Valley - 5

    Indigo Hamilton was a lovely bride and the day was perfect as she walked down the aisle toward her smiling groom, Thomas Brewster. She was the absolute center of attention and loved being there--until the priest asked if anyone had any objections to ...

  • Sweet Tilly

    A Drifters and Dreamers Romance - 2

    Matilda Jane Anderson drives a brand new 1917 Model T with Sweet Tilly painted on the heavy metal plate covering the radiator. Tilly doesn't care what people say. Well, until she finds herself put behind bars by a new sheriff determined to confiscate...

  • Evening Star

    A Drifters and Dreamers Romance - 3

    Addison Carter was hired by Magnolia Oil to work as their company doctor in Healdton, Oklahoma. In 1917, oil companies didn't hire women to work for them, so that alone was quite a miracle. At least it was until she arrived from eastern Arkansas with...

  • To Trust

    A Broken Roads Romance - 1

    Dee Hooper and Jack Brewer grew up next door to each other in sleepy Buckhorn Corner, Oklahoma. From the time they were less than a year old they'd been best friends, but then Dee eloped with a man from Pennsylvania. Seven years later, she's brought ...

  • Morning Glory

    A Drifters and Dreamers Romance - 1

    Clara Anderson has her routine, and she likes it that way. But oil has brought change to Healdton, Oklahoma, and she doesn't like it one bit. She might not have the means to stop history in the making, but that doesn't mean she has to rent rooms in h...

  • To Commit

    A Broken Roads Romance - 2

    After a divorce from her want-to-be actor husband, Stelle Brannon came home to Sulphur, OK, to run Brannon Inn, a bed, breakfast and supper boarding house established by her late grandmother. She'd thought the Inn would be a white elephant when she i...



  • The Dove

    Katy Lynn Logan had two friends: Andy, her father's best friend through his whole life who'd been her surrogate father/uncle/mother/best friend since the day of her birth. And then there was Joshua Carter, the love of her heart and her soul mate. Or ...

  • To Believe

    A Broken Roads Romance - 3

    Roseanna Cahill didn't believe in happily-ever-after anymore. Not after a marriage that should never have started and which ended after four years. Country hearts like hers didn t mix with city hearts like that of Colin Vance Fields III, better known...

  • Pushin' Up Daisies

    Black Swan - 1

    Catherine O'Shea is the oldest and most responsible of the three O'Shea sisters. She has just buried her mother, one of the last victims of the flu epidemic of 1918. Her father had been one of the first to succumb to the flu and her fiance was killed...

  • To Dream

    A Broken Roads Romance - 4

    Greta Fields had planned to stay one night in Murray County, Oklahoma, to attend her brother's wedding, even though she thought he was making the biggest mistake of his life for the second time. But on her way out of town, she caused a three car pile...

  • Lucky in Love

    Lucky - 1

    BEAU HASN'T GOT A LICK OF SENSE WHEN IT COMES TO WOMEN Everything hunky rancher "Lucky" Beau Luckadeau touches turns to gold -- except relationships. He's gone and lost track of the woman of his dreams, and now he's got himself tied up with a gold-di...

  • To Hope

    A Broken Roads Romance - 5

    A previous winner of the Professional Bull Riders' gold belt buckle, Jodie Cahill plans to ride again. But fate intervenes in the form of a broken wrist, and keeps her from winning another buckle. When the CEO of the PBR offers her a three-month tour...

  • From Thin Air

    Black Swan - 2

    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. Ira had been engaged to her sister Catherine when he'...

  • One Lucky Cowboy

    Lucky - 2

    NO BIG BLONDE COWBOY IS GOING TO INTIMIDATE THIS SPITFIRE... If Slade Luckadeau thinks he can run her off his ranch, he's got cow chips for brains. His grandmother's offer of a job and a place to stay is the first lucky break Jane Day's ...

  • Getting Lucky

    Lucky - 3

    ONE STUBBORN COWBOY WHO'S MORE THAN WILLING TO CROSS HORNS When single dad Griffin Luckadeau thinks his new neighbor is scheming to steal his ranch out from under him to benefit her own daughter, sparks really begin to fly... ONE HOTHEADED SCHOOLTEA...

  • Come High Water

    Black Swan - 3

    Bridget O'Shea had sworn she'd never fall in love again. She had a hotel, The Black Swan, to operate alone, since her sisters--Catherine and Alice--had both married the previous year. And then there was Ella, her lovely baby daughter. The hotel and E...



  • I Love This Bar

    Honky Tonk - 1

    Funny, sexy, and sure to appeal to the huge audience of country music fans, this new trilogy features the Honky Tonk beer joint and its succession of lovelorn owners. Serving two counties, one wet and one dry, the Honky Tonk is the gathering place fo...

  • Hell, Yeah

    Honky Tonk - 2

    She's finally found a place that feels like home... When Cathy O'Dell buys the Honky Tonk, the nights of cowboys and country tunes come together to create the home she's always wanted. Then in walks a ruggedly handsome oil man who tempts her to tr...

  • Honky Tonk Christmas

    Honky Tonk - 4

    SHE MEANS BUSINESS... Sharlene Waverly is determined to have the new and improved Honky Tonk up and running before the holiday. For that, she'll need Holt Jackson, the best darn carpenter in the state. But his warm, whisky-colored eyes make her insi...

  • My Give a Damn's Busted

    Honky Tonk - 3

    HE'S JUST DOING HIS JOB... If Hank Wells thinks he can dig up dirt on the new owner of the Honky Tonk beer joint for his employer, he's got no idea what kind of trouble he's courting... SHE'S NOT GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT... If any dime store cow...

  • From Wine to Water

    Angels & Outlaws - 1

    All Tyrell Fannin and his cousins Isaac and Micah Burnet want is to get out of a Texas jail and go home to Mississippi. Delia Lavalle didn't need three outlaws to escort her and her sisters to Louisiana but she doesn't really have a choice. The...

  • Walkin' on Clouds

    Angels & Outlaws - 2

    Isaac Burnet didn't want to go to Louisiana to deliver the letter from Delia to her sister Fairlee, but he did. He sure didn't want to be party to kidnapping the sassy, spirited lass on the eve of her wedding, or journey two weeks with a woman who di...

  • Love Drunk Cowboy

    Spikes & Spurs - 1

    SHE'S A SELF-MADE CITY GIRL... High-powered career woman Austin Lanier suddenly finds herself saddled with an inherited watermelon farm deep in the countryside. She's determined to sell the farm, until her new, drop-dead sexy neighbor Rye O'Donnell s...

  • He Came For Me!

    Protectors - 1

    Jazz, lives on the beautiful Sunshine Coast, in Queensland, Australia. She leads a normal teenage life busy with friends, TAFE College, a part time job as a waitress, surfing and searching for a boyfriend! Until one day driving on her way to TAFE she...

  • Red's Hot Cowboy // The Honeymoon Inn

    Spikes & Spurs - 2

    HE WASN'T LOOKING FOR TROUBLE... But when the cops are knocking on your door, trouble's definitely found you. And this is where Wil Marshall finds himself after checking in to the Longhorn Inn. It could all be a big mistake, but Wil's not getting ...

  • A Trick of Light

    Angels & Outlaws - 3

    Angels would have trouble getting along with Micah Burnet, and Tempest Lavalle's halo is twisted plumb out of shape by the time she gets to the plantation where her two married sisters are living. Micah was the handsomest of the three outlaws who esc...



  • Darn Good Cowboy Christmas

    Spikes & Spurs - 3

    Raylen O'Donnell is some smokin' cowboy. He could have any woman he wants, but he's never been able to forget a certain dark-haired girl who disappeared from his life. So when she suddenly returns to the ranch next door, Raylen's not fixing to let ...

  • The Ladies' Room

    Secrets told in the church ladies' room are supposed to stay in the ladies' room. But that doesn't mean that what Trudy overhears there during her great-aunt Gertrude's funeral won't change the rest of her life. Trudy has a daughter in the middle ...

  • A Forever Thing

    A Three Magic Words Romance - 1

    Fancy Lynn Sawyer says that before she'll even think about the M word, a man has to say the three magic words, but 'I love you' isn't enough. He has to promise her a forever thing. She intends to find her forever thing in Florida, her home since she ...

  • In Shining Whatever

    A Three Magic Words Romance - 2

    Hart Ducaine was the love of Kate Miller's life, but he hadn't been interested in a long-term relationship with her fifteen years before. So why should she trust him now? There is no way he will ever be her knight in shining . . . she can't remember ...

  • One Hot Cowboy Wedding

    Spikes & Spurs - 4

    A marriage made in Vegas... Hunky cowboy Ace Riley wasn't planning on settling down, but his family had other plans for him...The only way to save his hide, and his playboy lifestyle, is to discreetly marry his best friend, Jasmine King. Can't ...

  • Mistletoe Cowboy

    Spikes & Spurs - 5

    'Tis the season for... •A matchmaking grandma on a long-disantance mission •Mistletoe temptation in every doorway •A sexy cowboy with a killer smile When Gran Presely agrees to sell Creed Riley the Rockin' C Ranch for a song at Christ...

  • He Came For Mine

    Protectors - 2

    Desperate to save the life of a child he never knew he had, Sebastian returns to Earth to find Jazz in the arms of another man. A man he knows all too well. One who cannot be trusted! Sebastian worries if Jazz’s feelings for him have fleeted in ...

  • Hidden Secrets

    Kim Brewster’s ill-fated marriage was annulled so quickly that she thought she could keep the whole thing a secret…until she found out she was pregnant. But before her confession can blow a hole in the seemingly perfect lives of the Brewster wome...

  • Just a Cowboy and His Baby

    Spikes & Spurs - 6

    She's Got Her Eyes on the Prize... Gemma O'Donnell wasn't the first woman to win the ProRodeo buckle for bronc riding, but she was darn well going to be the second. What she didn't count on was her main competition sweeping her off her feet. He...

  • Life After Wife

    A Three Magic Words Romance - 3

    All’s fair in love and war, and Sophie is determined to win the battle for her aunt Maud’s cattle ranch -- even if it means fighting Elijah, a rude ex-military man. But it seems that even from the grave Aunt Maud is still matchmaking; her will st...

  • That Texas State of Mind

    Welcome to Sinful Delights -- the bake shop where the cupcakes are almost as delicious as the four women who run the place. Like Muff -- she's forty and not a bit interested in settling down with one man...what a waste of good cowboys that would be...

  • Blue-Ribbon Jalapeno Society Jubilee // What Happens in Texas // The Sisters Cafe

    Cadillac Texas - 1

    You Are Cordially Invited...Come early, eat until your buttons pop, and dance until you drop! Miss Clawdy's Café has won the Jubilee blue ribbon every year since the dawn of time. This year, town matron Violet Prescott is going after that ribbon ...

  • Billion Dollar Cowboy

    Cowboys & Brides - 1

    A Billionaire Can Buy Anything... Colton Nelson was twenty-eight years old when he won the Texas Lottery and went from ranch hand to ranch owner overnight. Now he's desperate to keep the gold diggers away. It shouldn't be too hard to find a pretty...

  • Cowboy Seeks Bride

    Spikes & Spurs - 7

    He's Tough as Nails and Ready to Ride... Rancher Dewar O'Donnell is just an old-fashioned cowboy at heart, and he can't wait to reenact the historic Chisholm Trail ride with his buddies. The trial-run cattle drive for a reality TV show sounds like...

  • Cowboy's Christmas Baby

    Cowboys & Brides - 2

    'Tis the season for... A pistol-totin' woman who's no angel A tough rancher who doesn't believe in miracles Love that warms the coldest nights After a year in Kuwait, Lucas Allen can't wait to get back to his ranch for Christmas and meet hi...

  • The Cowboy's Mail Order Bride

    Cowboys & Brides - 3

    She's Got Sass... Emily Cooper promised her dying grandfather that she'd deliver a long-lost letter to a woman he once planned to wed. Little does adventurous Emily know that this simple task will propel her to places she never could have imagined...

  • The Red-Hot Chili Cook-Off // A Heap of Texas Trouble // The Shop on Main Street

    Cadillac Texas - 2

    More Than the Chili's Heating Up Cadillac, Texas Carlene Lovelle, co-owner of Bless My Bloomers lingerie shop, found a pair of fancy red-silk panties in her husband's briefcase, and all hell is breaking loose. She custom-made those fancy bloomers ...

  • How to Marry a Cowboy

    Cowboys & Brides - 4

    She's running from her past Mason Harper's daughters want a new mama in the worst way, and when a beautiful woman in a tattered wedding dress appears on their doorstep, the two little girls adopt her -- no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Mason isn't ...

  • Long, Hot Texas Summer

    Palo Duro Canyon - 1

    A sassy redhead with an axe to grind… After catching her husband kissing another woman in the barn, Loretta Sullivan Bailey left Lonesome Canyon Ranch and swore she’d never come back. But when her daughter threatens to drop out of college to bec...

  • Cowboy Boots for Christmas (Cowboy Not Included) // Holidays on the Ranch

    Burnt Boot, Texas - 1

    'Tis the season for... Feasting Frolicking And...Feuding? All he wants for Christmas is peace and quiet... After two tours in Afghanistan, retired Army sniper Finn O'Donnell believes his new ranch outside the sleepy little town of Burnt Boot, ...

  • Daisies in the Canyon

    Palo Duro Canyon - 2

    She’s here to claim her birthright… Ex-army sergeant Abby Malloy feels no loss after the father she never knew passes away. Still, part of Ezra Malloy’s ranch belongs to her, and if the stubborn blonde has to live there for a year with two h...

  • The Trouble with Texas Cowboys

    Burnt Boot, Texas - 2

    Can a girl ever have too many cowboys? No sooner does pint-sized spitfire Jill Cleary set foot on Fiddle Creek Ranch than she finds herself in the middle of a hundred-year-old feud. Quaid Brennan and Tyrell Gallagher are both tall, handsome, and r...

  • The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop

    Cadillac Texas - 3

    Stella’s mama never should’ve put Stella on the church prayer list. With Stella’s twenty-seventh birthday coming up fast, Nancy desperately wants to see her daughter married and giving her grandbabies. Petitioning heaven seems like a surefire w...

  • To Catch a Bouquet

    A straight-talking redhead, a tried-and-true cowboy, and a magical week on the high seas.

    Annie Grace Thomas would rather be hauling hay than spending a week on a cruise ship, no matter how spectacular it happens to be…at least until she m...

  • The Wedding Pearls

    Tessa Wilson’s life is all over the map. She may be clumsy, but this time she’s stumbled into a pickle by choice, not by accident. She’s agreed to take a month-long trip around Texas jammed into a ’59 Cadillac with a drama-loving teenager, tw...

  • Wild Cowboy Ways

    Lucky Penny Ranch - 1

    SOMETIMES ALL LOVE NEEDS IS A LITTLE LUCK Allie Logan isn't the type to land a hot hunk of cowboy. Truth is, she's given up on dating since shedding her no-good ex. But the new owner of the most ramshackle ranch in Texas might just change her mind...

  • One Texas Cowboy Too Many

    Burnt Boot, Texas - 3

    She’s Got Too Many Cowboys On Her Hands Leah Brennan has always been the good girl of the Brennan family, groomed to become the matriarch of the clan. When a dark-eyed, tattooed, ponytailed bad boy saunters into her life, Leah knows he’s off-l...

  • Hot Cowboy Nights

    Lucky Penny Ranch - 2

    Let’s give ’em something to talk about… If gossip is the lifeblood of a small town, then Lizzy Logan has been its beating heart. After being dumped by her fiancé for another woman, she could have decided to crawl under a rock. But no, she...

  • The Lullaby Sky

    After seven years of misery and abuse, it’s all over -- Hannah O’Malley is officially divorced. Hallelujah. It’s like every Christmas in her life all rolled up into one glorious day. Not only does Hannah get to keep her grandmother’s spacious...

  • A Cowboy Christmas Miracle

    Burnt Boot, Texas - 4

    It will take a miracle bigger than the state of Texas for these two feuding families to survive the holidays Opposites might attract... The Brennans and the Gallaghers put aside their one-hundred-year feud every Tuesday for their weekly poker gam...

  • Merry Cowboy Christmas

    Lucky Penny Ranch - 3

    THIS CHRISTMAS, SANTA'S WEARING A STETSON 'Tis the night before Christmas and all through the house is the presence of one wickedly hot cowboy who's come to stay for the holiday. Fiona Logan is downright shocked to return to her childhood home and...

  • The Barefoot Summer

    New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown returns with a heartbreakingly hilarious novel about three women who had nothing in common, except their husband. Leaving one widow behind is unfortunate. Leaving three widows behind is just plain de...

  • Wicked Cowboy Charm

    Lucky Penny Ranch - 4

    ONE BLIZZARD, ONE BUNKHOUSE, AND A WHOLE LOTTA TROUBLE . . . Josie Dawson is new in town, but it doesn't take a local to know that Deke Sullivan is trouble--in a smokin' hot package. He's sweet, sexy, and has charmed just about every woman in Dry ...

  • Talk Cowboy to Me

    Lucky - 4

    One cowboy. One cowgirl. One ranch. Who will win the Double Deuce by the Fourth of July? Adele O'Donnell knew that Double Deuce Ranch had to be hers the second she walked onto the property. Freshly divorced, she sees it as the perfect spot for he...

  • The Lilac Bouquet

    Come hell or high water, Emmy Jo Massey will have a wedding. After three generations of Massey women with children out of wedlock, she wants the whole town of Hickory, Texas, to witness the legitimacy of her union with Logan Grady. But dream weddings...

  • Toughest Cowboy in Texas

    Happy, Texas - 1

    A feel-good second-chance romance filled with heart and hope from USA Today bestselling author Carolyn Brown. The last time Lila Harris was in Happy, Texas, she was actively earning her reputation as the resident wild child. Now, a little older an...

  • The Strawberry Hearts Diner

    From New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown comes a sweet romance about finding a place to truly call home. Being broke, unemployed, and stranded back in the tiny town of Pick, Texas, was not part of Jancy Wilson’s plan. Yet here she is...

  • Pennies, Pictures, and Pancakes

    Losing a loved one is difficult for anyone to deal with. For a child, death can be especially challenging. Matthew was very close to his Pa when cancer took him away. Pennies, Pictures, and Pancakes is a short story sharing some of the special memori...

  • Long, Tall Cowboy Christmas

    Happy, Texas - 2

    "This goes down like a cup of hot cocoa--warm and sweet." --Entertainment Weekly A heartwarming holiday read from USA Today bestselling author Carolyn Brown Nash Lamont is a man about as solitary as they come. That's exactly why ranch life in m...

  • The Luckiest Cowboy of All

    Happy, Texas - 3

    A secret baby brings a second chance for love. Carlene Varner's homecoming isn't exactly going according to plan. She thought she'd have some time to adjust before introducing her daughter to Jace Dawson, the father her little girl has never known...

  • The Sometimes Sisters

    A bittersweet inheritance reunites three estranged sisters in a novel of family, trust, and forgiveness. When they were growing up, Dana, Harper, and Tawny thought of themselves as “sometimes sisters.” They connected only during the summer mon...

  • Cowboy Bold

    Longhorn Canyon - 1

    With her sassy humor and sexy cowboys, USA Today bestseller Carolyn Brown launches her new Longhorn Canyon series. Every summer Cade Maguire looks forward to opening his Longhorn Canyon Ranch to underprivileged city kids. But this year, he's havin...

  • Small Town Rumors

    A funny heartache of a novel about overcoming the past, confronting the future, and defying all expectations. Everyone is talking about Jennie Sue Baker and the mess she made of her life in New York. The former high school queen bee -- and wealthy...

  • Cowboy Honor

    Longhorn Canyon - 2

    New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown delivers a sweet cowboy romance with a heart bigger than Texas itself. This knight in shining armor wears cowboy boots... Patience was never one of her virtues. After her SUV runs off the road in ...

  • Cowboy Brave

    Longhorn Canyon - 3

    TWO BOOKS IN ONE! AN ALL-NEW CAROLYN BROWN BOOK, PLUS SECOND CHANCE COWBOY BY A.J. PINE. This city girl's about to get a dose of cowboy charm... Emily Baker doesn't rough it - anymore. Born and raised on a farm, she's worked hard to distance hers...

  • The Magnolia Inn

    New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown brings together two wounded hearts in a Texas romance of second chances and twice-in-a-lifetime true love. Inheriting the Magnolia Inn, a Victorian home nestled in the East Texas pines, is a fantasy ...

  • The Perfect Dress

    A plus-size Texas gal has designs on an old crush in New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown’s exuberant, bighearted romance. In the small town of Celeste, Texas, Mitzi Taylor has never quite fit inside the lines. Nearly six feet tall, f...

  • Cowboy Rebel

    Longhorn Canyon - 4

    A wild Texas cowboy is about to meet his match in an ER nurse in this heartwarming romance from a USA Today bestseller, which includes a bonus novella from Annie Rains. Ever since losing his best friend in a motorcycle accident, Taggart Baker want...

  • The Empty Nesters

    The worst of times calls for the best of friends in this sassy novel about starting over, from New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown. Dear friends and army wives Diana, Carmen, and Joanie have been through war, rumors of war, marital pro...

  • Christmas with a Cowboy

    Longhorn Canyon - 5

    A rugged Texas cowboy gets into the Christmas spirit to prove himself to the woman he loves in this heartwarming novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Family Journal. Maverick Callahan lives up to his reputation as a freewheeling cowb...

  • The Family Journal

    Join the millions who have fallen in love with New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown in her landmark hundredth novel. At the end of her rope, single mom Lily Anderson is determined to move her rebellious children in the right direction. ...

  • Cowboy Courage

    Longhorn Canyon - 6

    Childhood sweethearts get a second chance for love in this heartwarming USA Today bestseller from the queen of cowboy romance. After spending years traveling the world with the military, Rose O'Malley is ready for a change. Heading back to Tex...

  • Wildflower Ranch

    Palo Duro Canyon - 3

    The bonds of sisterhood are about to be tested by the cowboy next door in this delightful story of family and forgiveness by the New York Times bestselling author of Daisies in the Canyon. Growing up, Shiloh Walker could only imagine what it would ha...

  • The Banty House

    A homeless young woman finds an unexpected family in beloved New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown’s novel of healing hearts and new beginnings in a small Texas town. In the fading town of Rooster, Texas, all that’s really left is a ...

  • Cowboy Strong

    Longhorn Canyon - 7

    A rugged Texas cowboy and the girl next door find a fake engagement feeling all too real in this heartwarming romance from a USA Today bestseller. Alana Carey can out-rope, out-ride, and challenge even the best Texas cowboy. Working on her father&...

  • Sunrise Ranch

    Palo Duro Canyon - 4

    Three sisters face their biggest challenge yet in this heartwarming story of family and forgiveness by the New York Times bestselling author of Daisies in the Canyon.Bonnie Malloy never really knew the meaning of home. She and her mom moved around so...

  • Miss Janie's Girls

    A bittersweet reunion becomes a time for looking back and starting over in a heartwarming new novel from New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown. Miss Janie is at the end of a long and full life, but she has no intention of crossing that f...

  • A Slow Dance Holiday

    Honky Tonk - 4.5

    Opposites attract just in time for the holidays in this brand new novella from beloved, bestselling author Carolyn Brown.From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Carolyn Brown comes a brand new, sexy holiday romance. Legend has it the Hon...

  • Christmas at Home

    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Carolyn Brown brings her 100% unique and authentic voice to this heartwarming tale of the magic of Christmas. Sage Presley's Western paintings are in big demand. She should be at her gallery'...

  • A Perfect Christmas

    Longhorn Canyon - 7.5

    Rugged cowboy Landon Griffin can't help being smitten by single mom Dixie Boudreaux and her baby girl. To help win their hearts, he wants to give them both the perfect holiday at Longhorn Ranch -- baking cookies, trimming the tree, building snowm...

  • The Wedding Gift

    From New York Times best-selling author Carolyn Brown comes a heartwarming short story about how the most precious gifts come in unexpected packages. A week before your wedding is no time for your ex to ride back into town, stirring up trouble. B...

  • The Daydream Cabin

    A headstrong woman discovers it's never too late for change in New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown's spirited novel about lost hope and second chances. Substitute counselor for wayward teens isn't how public-school teacher ...

  • Hummingbird Lane

    The healing powers of art and friendship work together in this inspiring and heartwarming novel by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown. Ever since childhood, Emma Merrill and Sophia Mason were bound by a passion for painting. Like all ...

  • Summertime on the Ranch

    Spikes & Spurs - 8

    City meets country in this brand-new novella from beloved, bestselling author Carolyn Brown.This city girl is about to learn a thing or two about bad-boy cowboys.Becca McKay has been in Nashville doing everything she can to land a country music contr...

  • The Hope Chest

    A grandmother’s loving bequest changes three lives forever in a heartwarming novel about finding love, hope, and family by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown. An inheritance has reunited three estranged cousins. Their grandmother Lu...

  • Small Town Charm

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Small Town Rumors comes a sweet Southern story of family, forgiveness, and true love. Growing up, Cricket Lawson was never one of the popular girls. And that was just fine with her. If the Belles cou...

  • Secrets in the Sand

    New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown's Texas twang and inimitable sass shine through in this contemporary romance about winning a second chance with a long-lost love. He left her alone in the sand that night And has regretted it ev...

  • Second Chance at Sunflower Ranch

    The Ryan Family - 1

    From the bestselling author of Queen of Cowboy: regrets and old heartbreaks are unearthed in this sweeping love story as hometown sweethearts get a second chance at love -- and being a family. Retired combat medic Jesse Ryan hasn’t been home muc...

  • A Chance Inheritance

    Three women return home in search of second chances in this heartwarming short story from New York Times best-selling author Carolyn Brown. What do a runaway bride, a free spirit, and a corporate exec have in common? Besides all being down on thei...

  • The Sunshine Club

    Sisters of the heart play Cupid in New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown’s funny and heartwarming novel about friendship, family, and finding love. Gussie, Ina Mae, and Blanche have been best friends for more than sixty years. From the...

  • Red River Deep

    New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown's Southern twang and inimitable sass shine through in this romantic second-chance story. Their differences drove them apart...but fate is giving them one more chance. Six years ago, one fight end...

  • Texas Homecoming

    The Ryan Family - 2

    The bestselling Queen of Cowboy Romance delivers a heartwarming novel where a doctor and veterinarian get a second chance at true love when a storm traps them together. After traveling the world, Dr. Cody Ryan has finally come home to his foster f...

  • Love Struck Cafe

    This brand-new novella from beloved New York Times and USA Today bestseller Carolyn Brown has all the sassy fun and Southern charm you love!•Authentic small town Texas and a lively cast of characters•A resilient heroine determined to keep her dre...

  • The Bluebonnet Battle

    In Bonnet, Texas, Liddy Latham, the queen of funeral dinners, keeps a southern comfort-food tradition alive -- until fancy-schmancy Matilda Monroe moves back to town. She wants room at the table for her own style of consolation and closure: healthy, ...

  • Bride for a Day

    In a modern love story between two strangers, New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown brings small town Texas to life with inimitable sass: • A young woman with a talent for trouble • An unplanned elopement leads to forever love • ...

  • The Mother's Day Crown

    in In Bloom

    Monica Allen still hasn’t forgiven Tyler Magee for breaking her heart when they were teenagers. Ten years on, they’re back in Luella, Texas, visiting their respective grandmothers. and there’s just a white picket fence and a whole lot of awkwar...

  • Riverbend Reunion

    Riverbend, Texas, doesn’t look like the crossroads of anywhere. But for four high school besties reuniting after twenty years, it’s a place to unpack a lot of baggage. Risa’s headed for divorce, Mary Nell’s been kicked to the curb by her l...

  • Just in Time for Christmas

    It's beginning to look like Christmas in a rollicking holiday romance by beloved author Carolyn Brown.Footloose Liz Hanson has finally come home to Ringgold, Texas, with a hankering to settle down. All she wants for Christmas is a house of her own --...

  • The Sandcastle Hurricane

    Family, wounded hearts, and a Texas bed-and-breakfast are in need of repair in New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown’s inviting novel about down-home comfort and second chances. Cousins Tabby and Ellie Mae are due for a change. Running...

  • Home of the Heart

    A heartwarming novel of complicated families, new neighbors, and fresh hope from a New York Times bestselling author who writes "Southern comfort in a book." —Sheila Roberts    Allie Logan has her hands full with a...

  • The Matchmakers

    Three mischievous matchmakers. Two lonely hearts. And one last chance at a happily ever after. Don't miss this heartwarming short story from New York Times best-selling author Carolyn Brown. Meet Minnie, Dotty, and Stella—all retired and year-r...

  • The Third Wish

    The things you wish for sometimes need a little push.When she was eight years old, Jessica Graham made three wishes: that she wouldn't always be the tallest kid in the class, that she would find a big conch shell on the beach, and that she would fina...

  • The Devine Doughnut Shop

    Three women are torn between traditions of the past and unexpected new beginnings in a warmhearted novel by Carolyn Brown about family, romance, and the best pastries in Texas. For Grace Dalton, her sister, Sarah, and her cousin Macy, the Devine D...

  • Buttercup Farms

    One horse trainer finds his heart opening up to new possibilities -- and a second chance at love -- in this heartwarming story from the New York Times bestselling author of Small Town Charm.   Mama Pearl always told Lucas that home is where the ...

  • The Lucky Shamrock

    New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown’s bighearted novel about family, secrets, small-town Texas romance, and -- with a little bit of luck -- starting over. Family doesn’t mean everyone has to like each other. That’s the case when ...

  • Paradise for Christmas

    Sisters in Paradise - 1

    Southern sass and spirit make every Christmas bright!The oldest of seven sisters, Ursula Simmons has followed in her mother’s footsteps as a novelist. With a bad case of writer’s block, she brings her notebooks and computer home to the old brothe...

  • On the Way to Us

    He’s a tempting heap of Texas trouble…Mercy Spenser promised her friend and roommate she’d spend her vacation in west Texas for a charitable mission -- she didn’t agree to the oppressive heat, massive spiders, or the rowdy cantina next door d...

  • Meadow Falls

    An emotional novel about a small-town Texas family, forgiveness, and coming to terms with the past by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown.Angela Marie has spent all of her thirty-five years on Meadow Falls, the farm that’s been in h...

  • Sisters in Paradise

    Sisters in Paradise - 2

    Sometimes the only way to find true happiness is to go back home.Ophelia Simmons is back home at the Paradise -- the former brothel where her mom raised her and six sisters -- contemplating her next career move and dodging Great Aunt Bernie's matchma...

  • The Sawmill Book Club

    A restless woman discovers the comforts of small-town Texas—and more—in a bighearted novel about the next chapters in life by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown.Unsure of the future but ready for risks, Libby O’Dell tra...

  • Coming Home to Paradise

    Sisters in Paradise - 3

    All seven sisters are finally home for Christmas, but can the last two find love like the others?As Endora Simmons plans her Christmas wedding, she's delighted to have her last two sisters, Rae and Bo, finally back in Spanish Fort, Texas. Endora figu...

  • The Party Line

    A niece’s inheritance comes with family secrets, new romance, and sweet Texas strawberries in a refreshing and warmhearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown. Returning home to Ditto, Texas, is bittersweet for Lila Matthews...

  • The Paradise Petition

    In nineteenth-century Texas, two tough-minded women dare to challenge the status quo in a warm, witty, and adventurous historical romance by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown.Daisy Lindberg and Lily Boyle traded a colorful past for a fr...

  • Meet Me in the Orchard

    The Paradise - 1

    Fans of beloved Southern films will flip for this charming small-town tale. —Woman's World for The Sisters CaféSmall town enemies to lovers romance between two headstrong farmers determined to one-up each other, from the queen of Texas twa...

  • Poetry of Life

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    I was inspired to write this book of Poetry of Life because I looked back at my life and saw all the things that Lord has brought me through. I realized that I could have, maybe helped someone to overcome what they are going through, only with the he...

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Carolyn Brown has published 144 books.

The next book by Carolyn Brown, Meet Me in the Orchard, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Carolyn Brown, Love Is, was published in June 1999.

Yes. Carolyn Brown has 22 series.
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