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Morning Glory (A Drifters and Dreamers Romance) Kindle Edition

by Carolyn Brown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Clara Anderson has her routine, and she likes it that way. But oil has brought change to Healdton, Oklahoma, and she doesn’t like it one bit. She might not have the means to stop history in the making, but that doesn’t mean she has to rent rooms in her boarding house to oil well riff-raff. Needless to say, her temper flares when she discovers that while she was out shopping, her staff rented a room to Briar Nelson, a roustabout for Rose Oil.

Briar just wants a place to sleep and eat and if the lovely, crazy woman has a problem with that, she can take it up with a lawyer. He signed the contract for three months and paid the rent in advance and nothing is going to make him leave. Besides, he already has two women in his life and doesn’t need another.

Can a woman who was jilted ten years ago fight the past and fall in love with the very kind of man she vowed to have nothing to do with? Changes more personal than the discovery of oil take place in the Morning Glory Inn as Clara and Briar fight the past and fear the future.

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    A Drifters and Dreamers Romance
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    253 pages
  3. Language
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  5. Publisher
    Montlake Romance
  6. Publication date
    November 20, 2012
  7. File size
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Editorial Reviews

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Brown's 25th book is the inaugural installment in the Drifters and Dreamers series, a warm-hearted historical romance set in 1917 Healdton, Okla. Boarding-house owner Clara Anderson, jilted by a preacher 10 years ago, has been waiting for her long lost beau to return-with a derringer in her purse. Her hatred of preachers is only matched by her hatred of oilmen, whom she thinks are ruining the area's simple way of life. So clearly there's no way she would ever risk losing her heart to Briar Nelson, head of the Rose Oil Company. He's nursing his own misfortunes in love, but once Clara's cook, Dulcie, rents one of the boarding-house's rooms to him, neither Briar nor Clara can long deny the attraction. This is a fresh-baked muffin of a novel: not too ambitious, but wholesome, direct and charming without being cloying.
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From Booklist

Jilted a decade ago, Clara Anderson buried her broken heart and bruised pride under a cloak of rigid adherence to routine and vehement opposition to change. But oil has been discovered under the cotton fields and cow pastures of sleepy little Healdton, Oklahoma, and when lanky, soft-spoken roustabout Briar Nelson rents a room in Clara's boardinghouse, the Morning Glory, both experience an unwilling mutual attraction. Continued proximity results in Clara's gradual progression from adolescent denial to a more mature attitude of acceptance with a concomitant sweetening of her disposition. Brown's new Drifters & Dreamers series, set in 1917, introduces three cousins, the moonshine industry, and a new canvas for her folksy explorations of life and love at pivotal times in America. Welch, Lynne

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00A33BB70
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Montlake Romance (November 20, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 20, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 655 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 253 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1477811222
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 5,818 ratings

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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 Award, and also a three-time recipient of the National Reader’s Choice Award. Brown has been published for more than 20 years, and her books have been translated 21 foreign languages.

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.

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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5,818 global ratings

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BUNNIE SAYLOR
5.0 out of 5 stars Morning glory
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2024
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Was a good story line and it ended good. I love your stories and keep making theses books. So nice to read clean books
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Gema
4.0 out of 5 stars Morning Glory by Carolyn Brown
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2024
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A delightfully light tale set in the Southwest. Easy reading of a nice story with colorful background descriptions. Thanks... Gema
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2024
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This was a cute read. Some of the story brought memories forth of my great aunts and the music also Delta Dawn. Our heroine , Clara meets her match in a handsome oil man. Is it love at first sight or not?
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NormaJean
5.0 out of 5 stars Southern comfort in a book
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2023
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Clara runs Morning Glory Inn, a boarding house in the small town of Healdton, Oklahoma. She wants nothing to do with men, having been jilted by a traveling preacher 10 years ago. She doesn’t like oil companies or the people who work for them. She thinks that oil is ruining the town that she loves.

Briar is a roustabout with a few secrets. Not suspecting that he is an oilman, Dulcie, the cook for the Morning Glory, rents a room to Briar while Clara is out. This sets the stage for some interesting interaction and sparring between Clara and Briar.

Carolyn Brown writes with humor and sass. Every story is a big dose of southern comfort. I love that a lot of expressions used in her stories are things Granny used to say. Reading one of her books is like going home again.

I enjoyed Morning Glory and I have already purchased the next book in the series.
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WendyMath
3.0 out of 5 stars Very slow
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2019
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Endearing characters but the book moves at a snails pace. There were a few funny parts. The supporting characters could have been utilized better and a few other plot lines introduced.
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AwDrat
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2023
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I enjoyed this series of Drifters & Dreamers. I just wish I would have known which sequence to read them in. For those planning on reading these, Morning Glory is first, Sweet Tilly 2nd, and Evening Star is last. While reading I could actually envision the people and the scenery. These books brought back memories of stories my grandparents told of days long ago.
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libby
5.0 out of 5 stars spirited and lovely
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2023
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This story was good for all ages of readers. It includes history,family values and kinship. I loved that it included hope for those that consider themselves too different to be liked and have a future to look forward to.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this series
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2023
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Even though I read it backwards, I read the last book first and the first book last, I really enjoyed it. The three Anderson cousins were an interesting bunch living life to the fullest while ignoring social protocols. I love the freedom in their way of thinking and of living. I do wish more details of Carolyn Brown’s books were available on Kindle because I would have enjoyed it more if I had read the series books in order.
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moomin
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous Read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2022
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Another brilliant book from Carolyn Brown. Her characters are always portrayed so well, come the end of the story you feel as if you know these characters so well and that you have been on their journey alongside them. Well written and another unique storyline.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Easy read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2016
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This is the first in a three book series. I enjoyed the setting for the story. The three Anderson cousins are all interesting. I liked the Briar and Clara and the supporting characters. Looking forward to the next book Sweet Tilly.
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