Release Date:
January 15, 2019
Publisher:
Montlake Romance
Inheriting the
Magnolia Inn, a Victorian home nestled in the East Texas pines, is a fantasy
come true for Jolene Broussard. After living with the guilt of failing to
rescue her self-destructive mother, Jolene knows her aunt and uncle’s B&B
is the perfect jump start for a new life and a comforting place to call home.
There’s just one hitch: stubborn and moody carpenter Tucker Malone. He’s got a
half interest in the Magnolia Inn, and he’s planting his dusty cowboy boots
squarely in the middle of her dream.
Ever since his
wife’s death, Tucker’s own guilt and demons have left him as guarded as Jolene.
The last thing he expects is for his new partner to stir something inside him
he thought was gone forever. And as wary as Jolene is, she may have found a
kindred spirit—someone she can help, and someone she can hold on to.
Restoring the
Magnolia Inn is the first step toward restoring their hearts. Will they be able
to let go of the past and trust each other to do it together?
The Magnolia Inn is the latest stand alone offering from this author. It involves Jolene and Tucker as they begin a partnership to restore and open up a bed and breakfast. Tucker is still grieving for his dead wife after a car accident took her two years earlier. Jolene is wary of getting involved with anyone.
This ended up being an OK read for me. It was less about the romance between Tucker and Jolene and more about Tucker's working through his grief. It also focuses on the other characters in the book, Jolene's aunt Sugar and her three friends. While I enjoyed the older women in the story, I would have liked the romance to be less of the slow burn than it was. The majority of the book involves Jake talking to his dead wife and getting over his grief. Once he does at about the 3/4 mark, then the romance goes really fast. I guess, I just ultimately wanted more. Still, it was enjoyable and if you are in the mood for a clean slow burn romance, than this is one to check out.
As an extra treat, I hope you enjoy letter from one of the characters, Dotty, below.
The Magnolia Inn is the latest stand alone offering from this author. It involves Jolene and Tucker as they begin a partnership to restore and open up a bed and breakfast. Tucker is still grieving for his dead wife after a car accident took her two years earlier. Jolene is wary of getting involved with anyone.
This ended up being an OK read for me. It was less about the romance between Tucker and Jolene and more about Tucker's working through his grief. It also focuses on the other characters in the book, Jolene's aunt Sugar and her three friends. While I enjoyed the older women in the story, I would have liked the romance to be less of the slow burn than it was. The majority of the book involves Jake talking to his dead wife and getting over his grief. Once he does at about the 3/4 mark, then the romance goes really fast. I guess, I just ultimately wanted more. Still, it was enjoyable and if you are in the mood for a clean slow burn romance, than this is one to check out.
As an extra treat, I hope you enjoy letter from one of the characters, Dotty, below.
Dotty
Welcomes Readers to The Magnolia Inn
Good morning to
all y’all. Thank you for inviting me to your site today to tell you a little
about The Magnolia Inn. I’m so excited about this book. The
characters became like family to me as I was writing it. Today, I have Dotty
with me. She’s one of the four ladies—Sugar, Dotty, Lucy and Flossie—who’ve
been fast friends since their youth. I’m going to turn this microphone over to
Dotty now, and leave the rest of the post to her.
Hello, folks,
I’m Dotty Beauchamp—half Texan, half Louisianan and all sass. I own the Tipsy
Gater bar that sets right on the Big Cypress Bayou near Jefferson, Texas. When
my good friend, Sugar, told me that she was going to give half of The Magnolia
Inn, the bed and breakfast that her family had owned for generations, to her niece,
Jolene, I thought she was bat crap crazy. When she said that her husband,
Jasper, was giving the other half to his wimpy nephew, Reuben—well, I figured
Reuben would sell his half the minute the ink dried on the papers.
I was right!
The little weasel sold out his part of the inn to Tucker Malone. We—that would
be Lucy and Flossie and me since Sugar was already off in that big ass RV
touring the United States—had heard that he was a tortured soul. And dear
hearts, we damn sure believed the rumor. He was the best of the best when it
came to carpentry work, and from what we heard he only hit the bottle on
weekends, but still we didn’t want our precious Jolene in living in that inn
with him.
I really didn’t
want to hire Jolene when she came to the bar looking for work, but I needed
help and she sure enough needed a job. I figured I’d take some flack for it
from Sugar, Lucy and Flossie, and I did—believe me I did. But Jolene and I both
lived through it.
When we met
Tucker for the first time, we were sure that the rumors had been right. His
wife had died in an automobile accident a few years back. She’d gone to our
church so we all knew her very well, and we’d met Tucker a few times when he
showed up at church with her. When she died, he turned to the bottle and lost
his important job on the police force over in Dallas. It was rumored that he
came to our part of the world to be near her grave site. Poor man, he wore the
guilt like a heavy shroud and just couldn’t seem to get past it.
But I’m
digressing. When we met him we found out that he was also a Prince Charming. He
didn’t have a white horse or a white cowboy hat, or a crown, but he was so
sweet and kind, and he had such a sweet nature, that pretty soon, we fell in
love with him as much as—well, she didn’t know it then, being as how she had
plenty of baggage of her own—but as much as Jolene could it they’d could get
past all the obstacles life kept throwing at them.
I see that my
time is up. So let me thank you again for inviting me sit a spell and visit
with all y’all. And if you’re ever in Jefferson, Texas, come on down to the
Tipsy Gater and I’ll give you a free drink if you tell me that you’ve
read The Magnolia Inn.
Author
Biography
Carolyn Brown
is a New York Times, USA Today, Publishers
Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author and a
RITA finalist with more than ninety published books, which include women’s
fiction and historical, contemporary, and cowboys-and-country-music romance.
She and her husband live in the small town of Davis, Oklahoma, where everyone
knows everyone else and knows what they’re doing and when. And they read the
local newspaper on Wednesday to see who got caught. They have three grown
children and enough grandchildren to keep them young. Visit Carolyn at www.carolynbrownbooks.com.
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