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The Promised Land #4
Garnet
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 minutes inside the doors of the saloon she knew she’d made the right decision to leave her sisters and the wagon train of brides heading to California.
Quickly she negotiates a job with the owner to play piano in the bar for room and board. Garnet is happy with her new arrangement and starts to settle into her new routine, that is until she runs into Sheriff Gabe Walker.
Sheriff Walker is convinced that this unusual, blue-eyed beauty is not the kind of woman he needs taking up residence in his clean town, and he won’t rest until he runs her back to where she came from. But Garnet is a sassy Southern woman who speaks her mind and won’t listen to a word he says. In fact, Gabe is certain that he can see lightening streak across her blue eyes in brilliant, jagged lines when she’s angry.
The two lock horns on more than one occasion, but when her life is threatened and she is wrongfully accused of murder and robbery, it is Gabe who saves her from lynching. Considering all the damage already between them, it will take a miracle for either of these two to put aside their stubbornness and admit their love.
Quickly she negotiates a job with the owner to play piano in the bar for room and board. Garnet is happy with her new arrangement and starts to settle into her new routine, that is until she runs into Sheriff Gabe Walker.
Sheriff Walker is convinced that this unusual, blue-eyed beauty is not the kind of woman he needs taking up residence in his clean town, and he won’t rest until he runs her back to where she came from. But Garnet is a sassy Southern woman who speaks her mind and won’t listen to a word he says. In fact, Gabe is certain that he can see lightening streak across her blue eyes in brilliant, jagged lines when she’s angry.
The two lock horns on more than one occasion, but when her life is threatened and she is wrongfully accused of murder and robbery, it is Gabe who saves her from lynching. Considering all the damage already between them, it will take a miracle for either of these two to put aside their stubbornness and admit their love.
201 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 2004
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About the author
Carolyn Brown
181 books4,125 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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January 27, 2015
Eh. I wanted to be on board with this one, but the male lead was a jerk and I spent most of the book wanting to kick him. And the thought of Garnet being scarred for life and unable to speak normally again, ultimately because of him annoyed me, too. Anyway, we're pausing in a town in Nevada for this book, because Garnet has gotten off the wagon train (she just doesn't believe in love, you see). And then she gets tangled right up in all sorts of shenanigans and eventually ends up having to admit that love might just actually happen. A fun, light read in the context of the series. But yeah, the guy is a jerk and that spoiled it for me.
August 1, 2020
Loved it! Such a fun read.
October 21, 2017
Garnett was very forgiving
I kept thinking. That looking in the mirror and seeing the scar around her neck should have kept Garnett from ever falling in love with the sheriff. His egotistical reaction to her and assuming that she was guilty,his refusal to ride out and talk to.the wagon train to see if her story was true was inexcusable. His being unwilling to wait until morning, and arresting her and putting her in jail without even letting her put on shoes. His actions would have been unforgivable to me
I kept thinking. That looking in the mirror and seeing the scar around her neck should have kept Garnett from ever falling in love with the sheriff. His egotistical reaction to her and assuming that she was guilty,his refusal to ride out and talk to.the wagon train to see if her story was true was inexcusable. His being unwilling to wait until morning, and arresting her and putting her in jail without even letting her put on shoes. His actions would have been unforgivable to me
August 9, 2022
I would never have finished this book if it hadn't been part of a series. I despised the "hero" of this pair, and decided the "heroine" was spineless when she forgave him for I could forgive the piss-poor attempt at historical accuracy with anachronistic language and so on, but not that. People don't change because of love, if you're an a$$hat before you fall in love, you'll be one after. This book is trash.
July 15, 2023
Great love story
Never disappointed in a book by Carolyn Brow. Garnet Dulan leaves a wagon train of mail order brides because she won't marry a man she doesn't love. One of the first people she meets in the tiny town is Sheriff Gabe Walker. Sparks fly between them and they both fight it. Gabe wants her out of town but Garner wants to stay...on her own terms. She finds a way to earn a living and a place to stay. a series of events keeps bringing Gabe and Garner back together....a great love story!
Never disappointed in a book by Carolyn Brow. Garnet Dulan leaves a wagon train of mail order brides because she won't marry a man she doesn't love. One of the first people she meets in the tiny town is Sheriff Gabe Walker. Sparks fly between them and they both fight it. Gabe wants her out of town but Garner wants to stay...on her own terms. She finds a way to earn a living and a place to stay. a series of events keeps bringing Gabe and Garner back together....a great love story!
January 3, 2020
Fourth of the five sisters headed to California on a wagon train to become mail order brides. Garnet never intended to go make the entire trip and marry a unknown man. She worked in a saloon in Arkansas playing the piano. She plans to do that again. What she finds in Nevada is not what she ever planned on!
June 25, 2020
The fourth book in the Series
The story of Garnet was a great story, but hard to get started at first. But like all of Carolyn Browns books I fell in love with the characters and soon lost myself in the book and loved some of the characters best, you might also. Can’t wait for the final one.
The story of Garnet was a great story, but hard to get started at first. But like all of Carolyn Browns books I fell in love with the characters and soon lost myself in the book and loved some of the characters best, you might also. Can’t wait for the final one.
July 28, 2017
Woo-Hoo!
Garnet &Gabe could have set the entire town on fire with the thunder in his eyes & the lightening in hers! He wanted her out of town, & she wasn't going for love nor money. Then the Temperance women and the Church women got into the fray, and she & Gabe suddenly seemed to be on the same side! Now what?! Thanks, Mrs. Brown, for a whiz bang story!
Garnet &Gabe could have set the entire town on fire with the thunder in his eyes & the lightening in hers! He wanted her out of town, & she wasn't going for love nor money. Then the Temperance women and the Church women got into the fray, and she & Gabe suddenly seemed to be on the same side! Now what?! Thanks, Mrs. Brown, for a whiz bang story!
April 5, 2020
Great story and a wonderful job of wriiting.
This book keeps your interest through out the story. Great job on all the characters and how they can make the story come to life.
This book keeps your interest through out the story. Great job on all the characters and how they can make the story come to life.
September 18, 2021
Love at first sight
Interesting, fun ,exciting, the best part, humorous! This book was well written. The characters jumped off the page. The story line was good and there were no words repeating the same thing over and over.I am impressed.
Interesting, fun ,exciting, the best part, humorous! This book was well written. The characters jumped off the page. The story line was good and there were no words repeating the same thing over and over.I am impressed.
October 17, 2022
very good book
Carolyn you’ve out done your self! Historical Romance is great for you! I’ve read everything I find that you’ve written and you never fail to let me enjoy the journey! Thank you Dear Woman.
Carolyn you’ve out done your self! Historical Romance is great for you! I’ve read everything I find that you’ve written and you never fail to let me enjoy the journey! Thank you Dear Woman.
October 20, 2024
I knew it was the sheriff!
And PS that is the second sister that scared the Indians. Wonderful story filled with adventures and flamboyant characters. At least the preacher and his wife were decent enough to give Garnet the benefit of doubt.
And PS that is the second sister that scared the Indians. Wonderful story filled with adventures and flamboyant characters. At least the preacher and his wife were decent enough to give Garnet the benefit of doubt.
July 3, 2018
What fun to read!
Carolyn's books are a joy to read. They are short, fast moving, delightful, and they leave nothing for your imagination to do.
Carolyn's books are a joy to read. They are short, fast moving, delightful, and they leave nothing for your imagination to do.
November 15, 2018
Great Story
Held my attention though to the end . All together was the whole series was great. Opps i still need to read #4 will
Held my attention though to the end . All together was the whole series was great. Opps i still need to read #4 will
September 12, 2019
Book 4 of the Dulan Sisters
Garnet did not disappoint the readers. She fought her battles and won. Now we can look for ward to what the fifth sister Gussie shows us.
Garnet did not disappoint the readers. She fought her battles and won. Now we can look for ward to what the fifth sister Gussie shows us.
March 21, 2020
I laughed and cried!
I really did! I'm in love with this first book in a series that know will have me doing all again. Thank you Carolyn Brown. A new fan!
I really did! I'm in love with this first book in a series that know will have me doing all again. Thank you Carolyn Brown. A new fan!
January 19, 2021
Enjoyed the series
March 16, 2021
The West at it's best
Honking talk piano player and sheriff meet and fire is started. Before the end of the book marriage is achieved.
Honking talk piano player and sheriff meet and fire is started. Before the end of the book marriage is achieved.
September 7, 2021
predictable
Yes, but entertaining. Interestingly strong woman and the men who love them. Good read, I can’t wait to read the next in the series.
Yes, but entertaining. Interestingly strong woman and the men who love them. Good read, I can’t wait to read the next in the series.
March 20, 2023
Very good series
October 30, 2023
Good Christian
Loved that it was a good Christian book with Godly principles.
The good ol west! Loved the little girls spirit
Loved that it was a good Christian book with Godly principles.
The good ol west! Loved the little girls spirit
January 26, 2024
Garnet
What a great and interesting story. Garner could do a lot and showed the people in the small town just who she was and what she could do.
What a great and interesting story. Garner could do a lot and showed the people in the small town just who she was and what she could do.
January 13, 2025
Who would have guessed... Well honestly, I did. But it was a great read. I really enjoyed the confession in the church.
January 14, 2020
Oh my Garnet left the wagon train to end up in a huge mess! It took quite a while but there was a promised land ending for her! Thrown in prison, kidnapped from prison, hung by her neck, becoming the church organist, falsely accused of an affair with the sheriff to protect two young girls, stolen by the Indians along with a dear sweet girl, rescued again......
August 2, 2023
I like the premise. I liked the town. I HATED the sheriff/love interest. He never really showed remorse and was a total jerk.
March 4, 2008
I love how there is always some type of adventure that Brown ties into her (historical) romances. For instance this woman, in one night gets accused of murder (falsley), thrown in jail, dragged out by the real suspect and hung...and survives! I couldn't put this book down!
February 20, 2013
It was a fast read & I enjoyed the book. I was drawn by the title because "Garnet" is my sisters birthstone, and she means so much to me. I liked the story behind the cover of the book it really made it special, and every book with interesting recipes is always great.
January 21, 2009
Great book and new plot. Wished I had know was part of a series. Seem to be doing that alot. However, the book stands alone well, but gives endings to books that I haven't read yet.
May 21, 2016
This story just fell flat for me. Gabe never apologized for his horrid behavior, and the author failed to make me even like him.
November 1, 2017
Garnet:
This was a great read. Garnett was one strong lady. She was a good example for the girls growing up in those days.
This was a great read. Garnett was one strong lady. She was a good example for the girls growing up in those days.
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