Caro Carson’s Reviews > The Bartender's Secret > Status Update

Big news! This opposites-attract, ex-con meets shy professor romance is the winner of the 2021 NERFA Award. The National Excellence in Romance Fiction award is a reader-judged contest, so I love knowing that readers enjoyed the time they spent in an Irish pub in the college town of Masterson, Texas.

There are 9 hours left to enter the Goodreads giveaway for autographed paperback copies of this book. It's Book #1 in the Masterson, Texas, series, and it's won several awards already. But it lost the Stiletto Award to...Book #3 in this series! So why not enter to win the giveaway? It could be your start to an enjoyable 3-book series.

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

Tonight is the night! This opposites-attract, wrong-side-of-the-track romance is up for the 2021 Stiletto Award in Contemporary Romance.

Humble-brag: all 3 books of the Masterson, Texas series are finalists. I've never had anything like that happen before! I'm glad my college-town setting and my heroes and heroines are touching readers right. This is book #1. Might as well start with this one, right? :)

Did you know there is a Goodreads Giveaway going on right now for this book? Autographed paperbacks up for grabs. :) Enter at this link, or click on the book cover and scroll down, and you should see the giveaway right there on the page. Good luck!

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Such exciting news! The finalists for the Contemporary Romance Stiletto Awards were announced, and this book is a finalist. :) This is Book 1 in the "Masterson, Texas" series, but guess what? Books 2 and 3 were ALSO finalists. I'm really humbled and happy to have a three-book series nominated. Each one stands alone, but you could start here, with Book 1. <3

Big News!
This book just won the Carolyn Reader's Choice Award for contemporary romance!

Thank you to the North Texas RWA for hosting a reader's choice contest. <3