FICTION · ROMANCE
Carolyn Brown
I might have been alone in a painted landscape.
— from The Ivy Tree
Most acclaimed
One lucky cowboy
Jane Day is on the run from the paid assassin who had been her fiancé. In Wichita Falls, Texas, she meets Nellie Luckadeau, a spitfire of an old lady who desperately needs someone to work on her ranch. But Nellie's drop-dead gorgeous grandson "Lucky Slade" is sure he can spot a con artist a mile away. He's determined not to let some upstart like Jane fleece his granny. When his signature intimidation methods don't convince Jane to leave, he pours on the charm to make her spill what she's up to. She's happy to play along, but she's not going to let this hot, hostile cowboy run her off his land when all she needs is a lucky break…
The Ivy Tree
A TRICK OF COLORING... HER WALK... THE WAY SHE SMILED... An English June in the Roman Wall countryside; the ruin of a beautiful old house standing cheek-by-jowl with the solid, sunlit prosperity of the manor farm - a lovely place, and a rich inheritance for one of the two remaining Winslow heirs. There had been a third, but Annabel Winslow had died four years ago - so when a young woman calling herself Annabel Winslow comes 'home' to Whitescar, Con Winslow and his half-sister Lisa must find out whether she really is who she says she is. Mary Grey has nothing to look forward to except a future as colorless as her name. So if she looks, walks, and smiles so much like the glamorous missing heiress Annabel Winslow, why not be her for a little while? To the lonely young woman--living in a dreary furnished room, faced with an uncertain future--the impersonation offered intriguing possibilities. If Mary looked so much like the missing heiress, why should she not be an heiress? And so plain Mary became the glamorous Annabel. But she did not live happily ever after. In fact, she almost did not live at all. Because someone wanted Annabel Winslow missing ... permanently.
A Falling Star
Sir Alexander St Barbe is the black sheep of the St Barbe family… The only son of the late Nathaniel St Barbe, he has spent the last several years in exile in Holland, living a dissolute and debauched life far from his well-respected family in England. Now, however, he has returned to Somerset to claim Wintercombe as his inheritance — but his arrival is greeted with trepidation and foreboding. Bitter quarrels break out on his first night home and soon, the old fires of family passions and religious contention are raging. Even Alex’s aunt Silence Hellier, herself once mistress of Wintercombe, cannot smooth over the ensuing rifts. Although Silence sees trouble in the instant spark that ignites between Alex and his younger, fiery half-French cousin Louise, there is little she can do to dampen the flames that draw them closer together. Louise, who has escaped scandal in France to come to England in search of a husband, knows she should stay away from her attractive, fascinating cousin. But she finds herself unable to resist his allure. But the turmoil at Wintercombe is only a drop in the troubled seas in which England finds herself. The Duke of Monmouth’s uprising brings disaster and tragedy to Somerset — and to the St Barbe family. To everyone’s surprise, the greatest danger to Wintercombe, lies deep in the heart of a man whose jealousy and resentment drive him to betrayal of the worst possible kind…