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Oklahoma Land Rush #2
Violet's Wish
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 Blue Ridge, Texas. Little did she realize that when she made the wish it was already in the process of being granted.
Orrin Wilde did. He wished he’d never chose the lure of the gold mines over the love of his life. But his sins are coming back, screaming for payment. Four bandits follow Orrin for days and finally catch up with him outside of Guthrie, in Oklahoma Indian Territory. He tries to outrun them, when they wing him. He rides down Main Street and, unable to find a doctor, he crawls up on the porch of the last house in town. Violet hears the thud when he falls and finds him bleeding and unconscious on her front porch.
If Violet had been doing the shooting, Orrin would be graveyard-dead. Eight years before, he ruined her reputation; now, he was ruining it again. Orrin still loves Violet, but after the trouble down in Texas she refuses to trust him.
Suddenly they wonder why they ever made such crazy wishes after all. Will they ever find forgiveness in their hearts for past mistakes and go on to a love-filled future?
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 Blue Ridge, Texas. Little did she realize that when she made the wish it was already in the process of being granted.
Orrin Wilde did. He wished he’d never chose the lure of the gold mines over the love of his life. But his sins are coming back, screaming for payment. Four bandits follow Orrin for days and finally catch up with him outside of Guthrie, in Oklahoma Indian Territory. He tries to outrun them, when they wing him. He rides down Main Street and, unable to find a doctor, he crawls up on the porch of the last house in town. Violet hears the thud when he falls and finds him bleeding and unconscious on her front porch.
If Violet had been doing the shooting, Orrin would be graveyard-dead. Eight years before, he ruined her reputation; now, he was ruining it again. Orrin still loves Violet, but after the trouble down in Texas she refuses to trust him.
Suddenly they wonder why they ever made such crazy wishes after all. Will they ever find forgiveness in their hearts for past mistakes and go on to a love-filled future?
195 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 2002
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Carolyn Brown
181 books4,123 followersHi! I'm twenty five years old and movie star gorgeous. The camera added thirty plus years and a few wrinkles. Can't trust those cameras or mirrors either. Along with bathroom scales they are notorious liars! Honestly, I am the mother of three fantastic grown children who've made me laugh and given me more story ideas than I could ever write. My husband, Charles, is my strongest supporter and my best friend. He's even willing to eat fast food and help with the laundry while I finish one more chapter! Life is good and I am blessed!
Reading has been a passion since I was five years old and figured out those were words on book pages. As soon as my chubby little fingers found they could put words on a Big Chief tablet with a fat pencil, I was on my way. Writing joined reading in my list of passions. I will read anything from the back of the Cheerio's box to Faulkner and love every bit of it. In addition to reading I enjoy cooking, my family and the ocean. I love the Florida beaches. Listening to the ocean waves puts my writing brain into high gear.
I love writing romance because it's about emotions and relationships. Human nature hasn't changed a bit since Eve coveted the fruit in the Garden of Eden. Settings change. Plots change. Names change. Times change. But love is love and men and women have been falling in and out of it forever. Romance is about emotions: love, hate, anger, laughter... all of it. If I can make you laugh until your sides ache or grab a tissue then I've touched your emotions and accomplished what every writer sets out to do.
I got serious about writing when my third child was born and had her days and nights mixed up. I had to stay up all night anyway and it was very quiet so I invested in a spiral back notebook and sharpened a few pencils. The story that emerged has never sold but it's brought in enough rejection slips to put the Redwood Forest on the endangered list. In 1997 Kensington bought two books for their Precious Gems line. Two years and six books later the line died with only four of those books seeing publication. But by then Avalon had bought a book and another, and another. Ten years later the list has grown to thirty nine. Last year Sourcebooks bought the Lucky Series which is in the bookstores now. They've also bought The Honky Tonk Series which will debut with I LOVE THIS BAR in June and will be followed by HELL, YEAH, MY GIVE A DAMN'S BUSTED, and HONKY TONK CHRISTMAS.
Folks ask me where I get my ideas. Three kids, fifteen grandchildren, two great grandchildren. Note: I was a very young grandmother! Life is a zoo around here when they all come home. In one Sunday afternoon there's enough ideas to keep me writing for years and years. Seriously, ideas pop up at the craziest times. When one sinks its roots into my mind, I have no choice but to write the story. And while I'm writing the characters peek over my shoulder and make sure I'm telling it right and not exaggerating too much. Pesky little devils, they are!
I have a wonderful agent, Erin Niumata, who continues to work magic and sell my work. I'm very lucky to have her and my editors who continue to believe in me.
Happy reading!
Reading has been a passion since I was five years old and figured out those were words on book pages. As soon as my chubby little fingers found they could put words on a Big Chief tablet with a fat pencil, I was on my way. Writing joined reading in my list of passions. I will read anything from the back of the Cheerio's box to Faulkner and love every bit of it. In addition to reading I enjoy cooking, my family and the ocean. I love the Florida beaches. Listening to the ocean waves puts my writing brain into high gear.
I love writing romance because it's about emotions and relationships. Human nature hasn't changed a bit since Eve coveted the fruit in the Garden of Eden. Settings change. Plots change. Names change. Times change. But love is love and men and women have been falling in and out of it forever. Romance is about emotions: love, hate, anger, laughter... all of it. If I can make you laugh until your sides ache or grab a tissue then I've touched your emotions and accomplished what every writer sets out to do.
I got serious about writing when my third child was born and had her days and nights mixed up. I had to stay up all night anyway and it was very quiet so I invested in a spiral back notebook and sharpened a few pencils. The story that emerged has never sold but it's brought in enough rejection slips to put the Redwood Forest on the endangered list. In 1997 Kensington bought two books for their Precious Gems line. Two years and six books later the line died with only four of those books seeing publication. But by then Avalon had bought a book and another, and another. Ten years later the list has grown to thirty nine. Last year Sourcebooks bought the Lucky Series which is in the bookstores now. They've also bought The Honky Tonk Series which will debut with I LOVE THIS BAR in June and will be followed by HELL, YEAH, MY GIVE A DAMN'S BUSTED, and HONKY TONK CHRISTMAS.
Folks ask me where I get my ideas. Three kids, fifteen grandchildren, two great grandchildren. Note: I was a very young grandmother! Life is a zoo around here when they all come home. In one Sunday afternoon there's enough ideas to keep me writing for years and years. Seriously, ideas pop up at the craziest times. When one sinks its roots into my mind, I have no choice but to write the story. And while I'm writing the characters peek over my shoulder and make sure I'm telling it right and not exaggerating too much. Pesky little devils, they are!
I have a wonderful agent, Erin Niumata, who continues to work magic and sell my work. I'm very lucky to have her and my editors who continue to believe in me.
Happy reading!
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April 15, 2019
Another very cute, light read by Carolyn Brown in this entertaining series.
November 16, 2022
The second book in the series about the Oklahoma land rush, right after "Emma's Folly."
Emma isn't the only tall, independent minded woman in the small town of Dodsworth, Oklahoma. Her friend Violet is a bit taller than Emma, sews like a dream, and Emma sews for her, including doing crocheted lace. When we said goodbye to Emma and Jed, Violet's husband was alive, but he caught a cold, went to work on the trains anyway, and died of pneumonia.
When Violet was a girl, she had an admirer in a boy her own age, who finally got the courage to ask to court her when he grew taller than Violet. They were very much in love. Her young man, Orrin Wilde, and she planned to be married - then Orrin's uncle willed him a gold mine in California, which he wanted to work to see if he could get anything out of it. He wanted Violet to go with him - get married and move out West - but she wouldn't go. She thought he was going to marry her and stick around, but he had already left for CA when she arrived at the altar. She wouldn't hear from him again - not even a letter - for 8 years. Small towns are often vicious, as I know from experience, and people can take a few facts and twist them into salacious lies that grow, are embellished, and birth more twisted lies, until the person about whom the lies are spread finds themselves without friends and sometimes, even without family, although it didn't come to that with Violet's family. Still a virgin, since her betrothed left her, she was assumed to be damaged or used goods by those twisting the truth into unrecognizable shapes. A man 10 years her senior proposed to her, saying he'd like a wife, knew the things the gossips were trumpeting were lies, and marrying would restore her good name and give him a wife and life partner - the only problem was, when he got mumps as a boy, they "went down" - affecting his ability to sire a child. (When mumps "goes down," it infects the testicles, damaging the apparatus in the body that creates sperm, and renders the man infertile in severe cases, and lowers sperm counts to some extent in all men who end up with that inflammation. I am old enough that I went through the illnesses of measles (rubella and rubeola), chicken pox - and got shingles in my mid 20s - and mumps. I well remember that every boy who got mumps was watched like a hawk for the first signs of orchiitis, the medical term for inflammation of the testicles by any cause, in this case the cause being mumps). Zeb and she had been married 8 years when he died. He was a stable person, and they had lived in Texas when he decided to join the Oklahoma land rush, and as Violet recalled, it was the only time he seemed happy enough that it took him off his even keel.
Zeb has been gone a year when Orrin Wilde, running from bandits who want his gold, is shot and drops into a dead faint from blood loss and pain, right on Violet's front porch, and right after she had prayed about having a little excitement in her life, a prayer she ends up regretting on and off throughout the book. The shot went across his upper back, from shoulder blade to shoulder blade, and Violet gets him into the door, and had just started to treat him when Jed comes and says Emma is in labor. Violet was supposed to help but as Jed can see, she can't, so he goes for the doctor to help Violet first, then go help Emma. When the doctor is done at Emma's, he comes back and they get Orrin into the downstairs guest room, and he gives Orrin pain medicine. Orrin sold his claim to a man unwilling to put the work into it that he had, and he and his 3 buddies had found and tailed Orrin to rob his gold, which they decided was theirs, and left him for dead, and he wouldn't let go of his saddle bags until the pain medicine relaxed him. Seeing what was in there, the doctor stashed Orrin's gold in a different pair of saddlebags and next day, put it in the bank, bringing the receipt as soon as he came back to check on Orrin. Violet and the doctor put rocks and gravel in Orrin's saddlebags so he would think the gold was still there if he reached for them, which he did.
Once Orrin wakes up and sees who is caring for him, he is excited that maybe he can have another chance. But he is not the only one interested. And the small town of Dodson still has its own vicious, spoiled, immature, insulting town member - Anne Marie, the one who felt that Jed should marry her, not that "big, ugly horse of a woman," Emma. Her opinion of even taller Violet is rhe same, plus she throws in the "loose morals" Violet has if there is a man in the house with her 24/7. Of course, Anne Marie has a very low view of everyone except Anne Marie, and apparently her preacher father either spoiled her or she rebelled, showing that preachers have their own trials at home. But pretty much, anyone who gets to know her ignores her. She has a young son, but at the end of the book about Emma, she was pregnant again and there is no mention of another child, unless I missed something.
Anne Marie isn't Violet's only critic. Violet seems to attract quiet, boring men like Jed, in this case the man who had asked to court her, and whom she'd put off answering, hears about Orrin and gives her an ultimatum just as Anne Marie had: throw Orrin out, let him die, take him to a hotel, save your reputatiom, if he dies, too bad, apparently. She tells them flatly that she is not going to let a man die for now reason, since they habe already spread the word and ruined her reputation.
Because of the bandits, Orrin and Violet go through a lot of grief. There is quite a bit of adventure that will keep you turning pages, including fights with each other and misunderstandings and more. I refer you to the book, and warn you that you might want to clear your schedule before you start, just in case you have trouble putting it down.
I noticied "Violet's Wish" makes more use of colloquialisms in and out of normal conversations quoted in the book, mostly centered around a character's thoughts. It is more that way here than in "Emma's Folly," but I believe that reflects Emma's upbringing in a wealthy household with more attention to teaching and using proper English. It seems apt. Two different protagonists, two different upbringings, this would be a natrural progression of language patterns.
The characters are realistic and memorable, and the story flows easily. You will enjoy this book, I believe, and I rec9mmend both this and, if you have not read it yet, I recommend you read "Emma's Folly" first as there are quite a few references to events in that book that are mentioned in "Violet's Wish."
Emma isn't the only tall, independent minded woman in the small town of Dodsworth, Oklahoma. Her friend Violet is a bit taller than Emma, sews like a dream, and Emma sews for her, including doing crocheted lace. When we said goodbye to Emma and Jed, Violet's husband was alive, but he caught a cold, went to work on the trains anyway, and died of pneumonia.
When Violet was a girl, she had an admirer in a boy her own age, who finally got the courage to ask to court her when he grew taller than Violet. They were very much in love. Her young man, Orrin Wilde, and she planned to be married - then Orrin's uncle willed him a gold mine in California, which he wanted to work to see if he could get anything out of it. He wanted Violet to go with him - get married and move out West - but she wouldn't go. She thought he was going to marry her and stick around, but he had already left for CA when she arrived at the altar. She wouldn't hear from him again - not even a letter - for 8 years. Small towns are often vicious, as I know from experience, and people can take a few facts and twist them into salacious lies that grow, are embellished, and birth more twisted lies, until the person about whom the lies are spread finds themselves without friends and sometimes, even without family, although it didn't come to that with Violet's family. Still a virgin, since her betrothed left her, she was assumed to be damaged or used goods by those twisting the truth into unrecognizable shapes. A man 10 years her senior proposed to her, saying he'd like a wife, knew the things the gossips were trumpeting were lies, and marrying would restore her good name and give him a wife and life partner - the only problem was, when he got mumps as a boy, they "went down" - affecting his ability to sire a child. (When mumps "goes down," it infects the testicles, damaging the apparatus in the body that creates sperm, and renders the man infertile in severe cases, and lowers sperm counts to some extent in all men who end up with that inflammation. I am old enough that I went through the illnesses of measles (rubella and rubeola), chicken pox - and got shingles in my mid 20s - and mumps. I well remember that every boy who got mumps was watched like a hawk for the first signs of orchiitis, the medical term for inflammation of the testicles by any cause, in this case the cause being mumps). Zeb and she had been married 8 years when he died. He was a stable person, and they had lived in Texas when he decided to join the Oklahoma land rush, and as Violet recalled, it was the only time he seemed happy enough that it took him off his even keel.
Zeb has been gone a year when Orrin Wilde, running from bandits who want his gold, is shot and drops into a dead faint from blood loss and pain, right on Violet's front porch, and right after she had prayed about having a little excitement in her life, a prayer she ends up regretting on and off throughout the book. The shot went across his upper back, from shoulder blade to shoulder blade, and Violet gets him into the door, and had just started to treat him when Jed comes and says Emma is in labor. Violet was supposed to help but as Jed can see, she can't, so he goes for the doctor to help Violet first, then go help Emma. When the doctor is done at Emma's, he comes back and they get Orrin into the downstairs guest room, and he gives Orrin pain medicine. Orrin sold his claim to a man unwilling to put the work into it that he had, and he and his 3 buddies had found and tailed Orrin to rob his gold, which they decided was theirs, and left him for dead, and he wouldn't let go of his saddle bags until the pain medicine relaxed him. Seeing what was in there, the doctor stashed Orrin's gold in a different pair of saddlebags and next day, put it in the bank, bringing the receipt as soon as he came back to check on Orrin. Violet and the doctor put rocks and gravel in Orrin's saddlebags so he would think the gold was still there if he reached for them, which he did.
Once Orrin wakes up and sees who is caring for him, he is excited that maybe he can have another chance. But he is not the only one interested. And the small town of Dodson still has its own vicious, spoiled, immature, insulting town member - Anne Marie, the one who felt that Jed should marry her, not that "big, ugly horse of a woman," Emma. Her opinion of even taller Violet is rhe same, plus she throws in the "loose morals" Violet has if there is a man in the house with her 24/7. Of course, Anne Marie has a very low view of everyone except Anne Marie, and apparently her preacher father either spoiled her or she rebelled, showing that preachers have their own trials at home. But pretty much, anyone who gets to know her ignores her. She has a young son, but at the end of the book about Emma, she was pregnant again and there is no mention of another child, unless I missed something.
Anne Marie isn't Violet's only critic. Violet seems to attract quiet, boring men like Jed, in this case the man who had asked to court her, and whom she'd put off answering, hears about Orrin and gives her an ultimatum just as Anne Marie had: throw Orrin out, let him die, take him to a hotel, save your reputatiom, if he dies, too bad, apparently. She tells them flatly that she is not going to let a man die for now reason, since they habe already spread the word and ruined her reputation.
Because of the bandits, Orrin and Violet go through a lot of grief. There is quite a bit of adventure that will keep you turning pages, including fights with each other and misunderstandings and more. I refer you to the book, and warn you that you might want to clear your schedule before you start, just in case you have trouble putting it down.
I noticied "Violet's Wish" makes more use of colloquialisms in and out of normal conversations quoted in the book, mostly centered around a character's thoughts. It is more that way here than in "Emma's Folly," but I believe that reflects Emma's upbringing in a wealthy household with more attention to teaching and using proper English. It seems apt. Two different protagonists, two different upbringings, this would be a natrural progression of language patterns.
The characters are realistic and memorable, and the story flows easily. You will enjoy this book, I believe, and I rec9mmend both this and, if you have not read it yet, I recommend you read "Emma's Folly" first as there are quite a few references to events in that book that are mentioned in "Violet's Wish."
October 28, 2018
Cute stuff - greatly lacking in historical accuracy.
September 24, 2021
I finished reading this series with this one, which starts the series. Not recommended! Start here.
The whole series makes for great romances. This was my introduction to western romances, since I couldn't quite squeeze Romance and Louis L'Amour together. Stupid me. The early settlers populated the west. From that one can reach reasonable conclusions.
I have two issues with this one, however. First, building a southern mansion on the Oklahoma plains struck me as being in less than good taste. Also improbable, though I really have no idea about the value of the amount of gold one can carry in one's saddlebags. I'm skipping the second issue, because there's no way to raise it without spoilers.
The whole series makes for great romances. This was my introduction to western romances, since I couldn't quite squeeze Romance and Louis L'Amour together. Stupid me. The early settlers populated the west. From that one can reach reasonable conclusions.
I have two issues with this one, however. First, building a southern mansion on the Oklahoma plains struck me as being in less than good taste. Also improbable, though I really have no idea about the value of the amount of gold one can carry in one's saddlebags. I'm skipping the second issue, because there's no way to raise it without spoilers.
January 12, 2018
Carolyn brown has the magic touch
No matter which one of her books you read, you are in for a treat!! Each time I read one of her books, I am transferred back in time. The people, the places and the stories never get old. Even though I read then out of sequence, I love each one. Read then and fall in love again.
No matter which one of her books you read, you are in for a treat!! Each time I read one of her books, I am transferred back in time. The people, the places and the stories never get old. Even though I read then out of sequence, I love each one. Read then and fall in love again.
July 29, 2019
Sweet second chance
Violet is a widow and finds a man, shot, lying on her porch. Low a behold, he turns out to be her childhood love, Orrin, who left her at the alter eight years ago. Fireworks, bad and good ensue. The robbers who had shot Orrin come back and threaten their love and lives. Will Violet get her second chance?
Violet is a widow and finds a man, shot, lying on her porch. Low a behold, he turns out to be her childhood love, Orrin, who left her at the alter eight years ago. Fireworks, bad and good ensue. The robbers who had shot Orrin come back and threaten their love and lives. Will Violet get her second chance?
September 4, 2019
Wishes Can Come True
I love the down-home characters in Carolyn Brown’s book, real salt of the earth people. Clearly the angels were overseeing the trials and tribulations that Violet had to endure for her wish to become a realty. Violet was a strong female lead, as are most of Ms. Brown’s heroines.
I love the down-home characters in Carolyn Brown’s book, real salt of the earth people. Clearly the angels were overseeing the trials and tribulations that Violet had to endure for her wish to become a realty. Violet was a strong female lead, as are most of Ms. Brown’s heroines.
March 2, 2020
Good old fashion land rush western romance. Lots of twists and turns to keep the reader interested. Violet is a widow in a small Oklahoma town when trouble blows in. Trouble being a ex-boyfriend who ruined her reputation in Texas when he chased his golden dream and went to California. Now he is shot and bleeding on her porch. What to do?
March 13, 2021
Very sweet love story.
Violet contemplated her life in Oklahoma and the not so inspirational possibilities for romance as she thought of her life as a widow. Low and behold what falls on her porch is the man from Blue Ridge who stole her heart and left her at the altar eights years prior. With a few pitfalls romance blooms again.
Violet contemplated her life in Oklahoma and the not so inspirational possibilities for romance as she thought of her life as a widow. Low and behold what falls on her porch is the man from Blue Ridge who stole her heart and left her at the altar eights years prior. With a few pitfalls romance blooms again.
March 19, 2017
Good read
I enjoyed Violets Wish a lot. I have not been reading as much as I use to, now I realize how much I have missed it. I gave it 5 stars because I stayed interested in the story line.
I enjoyed Violets Wish a lot. I have not been reading as much as I use to, now I realize how much I have missed it. I gave it 5 stars because I stayed interested in the story line.
March 27, 2017
Long loss love
The thing Violet went through, love and lost . Orrin I just didn't know what to say, he was in love with Violet he should have written to her I like this book would recommend
The thing Violet went through, love and lost . Orrin I just didn't know what to say, he was in love with Violet he should have written to her I like this book would recommend
March 9, 2018
Carolyn does it again.
I just love how rich and complex the characters are in this book. Carolyn always does a wonderful job in her descriptions and I sometimes feel like i can reach out and touch them. The storyline is sweet and yet mesmerizing. Very good book.
I just love how rich and complex the characters are in this book. Carolyn always does a wonderful job in her descriptions and I sometimes feel like i can reach out and touch them. The storyline is sweet and yet mesmerizing. Very good book.
October 13, 2018
I love to read
Well I do believe this book is part of a series and I am reading it out of order. I'm going to have to find the books that go with this one and read the rest of them to put them all together. I love Carolyn Brown. She is an awesome author.
Well I do believe this book is part of a series and I am reading it out of order. I'm going to have to find the books that go with this one and read the rest of them to put them all together. I love Carolyn Brown. She is an awesome author.
December 3, 2018
Beautiful
Wow this was a full action love story. Will they ever get courage to tell one another they still loved the other took an age but it was so worth waiting for. With so much going on in between. Love these two thankyou Carolyn hugs xx
Wow this was a full action love story. Will they ever get courage to tell one another they still loved the other took an age but it was so worth waiting for. With so much going on in between. Love these two thankyou Carolyn hugs xx
January 31, 2019
Great book.
I love Carolyn Brown's books.When you read them you feel like you are in the story. ( watching )Her characters are believable.They are all down to earth.Clean wholesome story's.Everyone must read.
I love Carolyn Brown's books.When you read them you feel like you are in the story. ( watching )Her characters are believable.They are all down to earth.Clean wholesome story's.Everyone must read.
March 10, 2019
5 stars
I loved Violet and Orrin's story. Second chance stories are so complicated sometimes and this one had more problems than most! Romance, suspense thats real scary and a definite page turner make this book so good!!!!
I loved Violet and Orrin's story. Second chance stories are so complicated sometimes and this one had more problems than most! Romance, suspense thats real scary and a definite page turner make this book so good!!!!
January 21, 2020
Oh Carolyn Brown you never disappoint! Such drama and in this case a renewal of friendship that never seemed to be able to happen, but..... of course it did! Caring for one that is truly the love of your life took many curves in the road until it finally made sense!
July 4, 2020
What a great book!
This book included a lot of the familiar characters of a few other books of Carolyn Browns that I have read and included wonderful characters and was full of excitement.
This book included a lot of the familiar characters of a few other books of Carolyn Browns that I have read and included wonderful characters and was full of excitement.
September 27, 2020
I cannot fathom how this has over 4* on Goodreads. It’s not great. The writing is meh and the plot is all over the place and the whole thing just felt very flat. I wasn’t expecting a hugely developed story in under 200 pages, but I was expecting a bit more than what I got.
August 7, 2021
Good story!
I love this author, she keeps one engaged by creating situations for the characters that you just don't see coming. Violet truly got her wish for a man to love her and be her partner in life.
I love this author, she keeps one engaged by creating situations for the characters that you just don't see coming. Violet truly got her wish for a man to love her and be her partner in life.
December 16, 2021
I DO!
This is one of my favorite Carolyn Brown books! Orrin and Violet seem to have to go through Hades before they can be together, but you know they are going to make it, although it takes a shooting, a fire and a kidnapping to get there! Great read!
This is one of my favorite Carolyn Brown books! Orrin and Violet seem to have to go through Hades before they can be together, but you know they are going to make it, although it takes a shooting, a fire and a kidnapping to get there! Great read!
April 20, 2022
A real love story!
I loved every bit of bc this book, even Violets temper!
I recommend this book to everyone to read, and to remember that love carries each person to find and know their beloved partner in life!
I loved every bit of bc this book, even Violets temper!
I recommend this book to everyone to read, and to remember that love carries each person to find and know their beloved partner in life!
December 30, 2022
All that is Oklahoma
That includes bad guys from south of the border. I like how this story ran because it points out that unconventional can be lots of fun too. Plenty of adventure and tying up loose ends for the author.
That includes bad guys from south of the border. I like how this story ran because it points out that unconventional can be lots of fun too. Plenty of adventure and tying up loose ends for the author.
June 11, 2023
Violet’s Wish
A delightful love story about two people destined to be together but not without many obstacles in their path. Can a young widow with a strong will forgive the man who left her standing at the altar years ago?
A delightful love story about two people destined to be together but not without many obstacles in their path. Can a young widow with a strong will forgive the man who left her standing at the altar years ago?
May 12, 2017
Wishes to come true!
Carolyn has such a way with words that the reader feels the atmosphere and even breaths the dust of the setting. Great read and much enjoyment.
Carolyn has such a way with words that the reader feels the atmosphere and even breaths the dust of the setting. Great read and much enjoyment.
June 22, 2017
GREAT!!
This is a really good western story. Different than some I have read but it really was amusing and romantic.
This is a really good western story. Different than some I have read but it really was amusing and romantic.
August 20, 2018
Another good one!
Every story that I've read so far from this author is just wonderful! Plenty of romance, great characters and storyline.
Every story that I've read so far from this author is just wonderful! Plenty of romance, great characters and storyline.
November 24, 2018
Wish Granted
Pretty good story. Lots of speed bumps for Orrin and Violet to overcome which helped build tension for the big payoff; however, there was almost one too many.
Pretty good story. Lots of speed bumps for Orrin and Violet to overcome which helped build tension for the big payoff; however, there was almost one too many.
February 8, 2019
outstading
!I've Violets story. First a set of bandits try to kill a long list love, then they try to burn her along with her house, and then they kidnap her. What a book.
!I've Violets story. First a set of bandits try to kill a long list love, then they try to burn her along with her house, and then they kidnap her. What a book.
October 2, 2019
Vkolet
This book was wonderful! It was very entertaining and worth reading. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes romance
This book was wonderful! It was very entertaining and worth reading. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes romance
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