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The Wager (Avalon Romance) [Hardcover]

Carolyn Brown (Author)
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Avalon Romance April 30, 2005
Ivy Cameo Johnson, an oil baroness from Houston, has wealth that draws men like flies to honey, yet she also possesses intelligence and an awkwardness that runs them off.

John William Dalhart, a Texas oil baron himself, out to prove his father and new business partner both wrong, was also born into wealth. There's been no

Neither has met nor knows about the other. Until fate, and their meddling fathers, intervenes. Ivy makes a bet with her friend that she most certainly can work in a menial, minimum wage job for a month. Meanwhile, Will picks up the challenge thrown out by his father and Red Marshall daring him to live in a small town and get a woman to say she'd marry him while knowing nothing about his wealth.

Both wind up in Murray County, Oklahoma---Cameo as the manager of the Strawberry Moon, a small burger joint on Highway 77; Will, a chief cook and dish washer. She thinks he's in the witness protection program. He thinks she's a poor country girl from the boonies. But they've agreed there'll be no past or future...only today while they're working at the Moon.

When the month is over they'll both go their separate ways and never look back at what they shared. What they don't realize is that their future is together, in work, and in love.


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About the Author

Carolyn Brown is living proof that the American dream of being whatever you want to be is still alive and kicking. Writing was her dream---now it is reality. She and her husband Charles, a high school teacher, have three grown children and twelve grandchildren. In addition to writing, she is an avid reader and loves to travel.

The Wager is her seventeenth novel for AVALON.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Avalon (April 30, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0803497024
  • ISBN-13: 978-0803497023
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,679,515 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Carolyn Brown is a NEW York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author of more than fifty books.
Brown's books have been translated into nine foreign languages and fourteen have been reprinted in large print format. Her books have been reviewed in Library Journal, Booklist, Romantic Times, Romance Reviews Today, Publisher's Weekly, Cataromance, USA Today and Romance Reader At Heart. Two of her romances have been published as Japanese Manga books.
Brown writes cowboy romance for Sourcebooks: The Lucky Trilogy, the Honky Tonk Series and now the Spikes & Spurs Series.
She has also written more than forty sweet romances for Avalon; several historical series as well as contemporary stand alone romance novels.
Sourcebooks will publish her debut women's fiction novel in August, 2012.
Check out her website at carolynlbrown.com

 

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2.0 out of 5 stars It was a nice, fun story. I enjoyed it until the end, where a couple of things bothered me., February 9, 2009
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This review is from: The Wager (Avalon Romance) (Hardcover)
STORY BRIEF:
Two oil companies are merging. The two owners of the companies are Red and John. They each have one adult child, Ivy and Will who are in their 30s. Red and John want to retire and have Ivy and Will work together to run the combined company and if possible get married. Ivy and Will are not interested in meeting each other in advance. Red makes a wager with Ivy, betting her she cannot run a hamburger joint for 30 days, living on minimum wage in a trailer in a small town. He offers her a Cadillac and vacation time. She takes the bet. She must use a false name. At the same time, John makes a similar bet with his son Will. Will must go to the town Ivy is in, find a minimum wage job for a month and also use a false name. Will takes the bet. Ivy hires Will as a cook for the month. He pays part of his salary to rent a bedroom in the trailer she's living in. They work and live together for a month, not knowing the true identity of each other.

REVIEWER'S OPINION:
My feelings at the end of the book were lovely, sweet and pleasant story, but I was annoyed with two things described in spoilers below. The good guys steal and laugh about it, and the author used a weak excuse for conflict.

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Story length: 185 pages. Since there is no sexual content, this book might be appropriate for teenagers. Setting: current day Texas and Oklahoma. Copyright: 2004. Genre: contemporary romance.


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I don't like main character good guys stealing without remorse. In the interest of telling a good story, I'm ok with the good guy stealing from an enemy, or stealing food or medicine to survive, or even stealing a girl he's in love with, but not this. This is stealing property for convenience and entertainment. Joyce is getting married. She forgot to order rose petals, and the local florist is out of roses. So, her sister April picks all the roses from a neighbor's yard, planning to tell the neighbor that the grasshoppers did it. Joyce, April and Ivy laugh about it. After reading the book, I thought more about that than I thought about the story. It bothered me. I wouldn't have minded it as much if they had left a note with compensation for the roses.

The two fathers required that Will and Ivy use false names and not tell anyone who they were. Later, when they discover each others' true identity, they are angry with each other because each feels the other lied about who they were. This anger continues for days. The anger should have been directed at the fathers who required the lies, not each other. This was a weak excuse for conflict. I wish the author would have come up with something different.
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