by Carolyn BrownPublish: Jul 03, 2018Contemporary RomanceWomen's Fiction
Book Overview
From New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown comes 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 darling of Bloom, Texas—h... as returned home after all these years, riding on a common bus and bearing two bounced alimony checks. In a town that thrives on gossip, Jennie’s fall from grace has shamed her mother, set the town buzzing, and caused old, jealous enemies to whisper in delight. They say she’s taken a job as a housekeeper, gotten a garage apartment, and might be crushing on Rick Lawson, a simple farmer with modest dreams.As romance starts to bud, Jennie relishes what it means to follow her heart, find real new friends, and finally be herself—regardless of all the lying town chatter. But fate has another twist in store. Rumor has it that Jennie now stands to lose what matters most…unless she can convince Rick of one true thing—and that’s love.read more
BIOGRAPHY Carolyn Brown is a New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher’s
Weekly and #1 Amazon and #1 Washington Post bestselling author. She is the author of
more than 100 novels and several novellas. She’s a recipient of the Bookseller’s Best
Award, Montlake Romance’s prestigious Montlake Diamond A... ward, and also a three-
time recipient of the National Reader’s Choice Award. Brown has been published for
more than 25 years, and her books have been translated 21 foreign languages, and have
sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.
When she’s not writing, she likes to plot new stories in her backyard with her tom cat,
Boots Randolph Terminator Outlaw, who protects the yard from all kinds of wicked
varmints like crickets, locusts, and spiders. Visit her at www.carolynbrownbooks.com.read more