Bride for a Day: Lighthearted Southern Romantic Women's Fiction

Bride for a Day: Lighthearted Southern Romantic Women's Fiction

In a modern love story between two strangers, New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown brings small town Texas to life with inimitable sass: A young woman with a talent for trouble - An unplanned elopement leads to forever love - Irresistible attraction and sizzling chemistry - Characters that jump off the page - Hurting hearts are healed - Authentic Southern voice and setting Cassie O'Malley is on the run. In a few months her inheritance will kick in. Until then, she just needs a job and a place to stay under the radar. But when Cassie gets off the bus in north Texas and runs smack into the town sheriff, she quickly does the first thing she can think of―approach the handsome stranger in the café and pretend to be a couple. Luckily, the sheriff believes it and the man surprisingly plays along―all the way up to the courthouse, where the officer insists on escorting them to get married. Wondering how she got herself into this mess, Cassie can't believe her plan got so far out of hand. Her new husband Ted assures her that his Uncle Ash, a lawyer, will get the whole thing straightened out with no problem. Cassie will only be a bride for a day, and then she can go on her way. But as his family welcomes her with full hearts, she begins to wonder if she'll be able to say goodbye to Ted, or to the first loving family she's known in her life. Praise for Carolyn Brown: "Loved it, loved it, loved it!"―Joanne Kennedy for One Lucky Cowboy "A delightful journey of hope and healing."― Woman's World for The Empty Nesters "Filled with quirky characters and a healthy dose of humor."― Publishers Weekly for One Texas Cowboy Too Many "Brown’s characters easily inspire readers to care what happens to them." ― Publishers Weekly Carolyn Brown is a New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and #1 Amazon and #1 Washington Post bestselling author. She is the author of more than one hundred novels and several novellas. She’s a recipient of the Bookseller’s Best Award and the Montlake Romance’s prestigious Montlake Diamond Award, a three-time recipient of the National Reader’s Choice Award and a three-time winner of the Central Regional Oklahoma Writer’s award. Brown has been published for more than twenty-five years. Her books have been translated into twenty-one languages. When she’s not writing, she likes to take road trips with her family, and she plots out new stories as they travel.