Guest Post:

Hello everyone. Thank you for having me on your blog site again to let everyone know that Getting Lucky, the final installment of the Lucky trilogy, has been put on the book store shelves. I’m sure a copy is waiting for the readers who want to know what happened to Griffin, the only Luckadeau cousin with black hair instead of blond. Well, Julie Donavan came into his life like a tornado headed for a tar paper shanty and set his little perfect world on its hind end one bright sunny Texas morning.

She didn’t mean to cause trouble in St. Jo, Texas. She was looking for a place to raise her own dark haired daughter with a white forelock in a town where no one knew them. It didn’t take long before she realized she’d moved to the worst possible place in the whole state of Texas, maybe in the universe.

Folks tell me that they like to read a little excerpt of a book so I’ve decided to give you all a taste of Getting Lucky. It’s like getting a little bite of a good chocolate candy bar. I’m hoping you like the taste so much that you want the whole candy bar.

Excerpt from Getting Lucky:

Julie Donavan, the new kindergarten teacher, was on her knees consoling a little boy named Chuck on the first day of school when she noticed movement coming in the door. She gasped when she looked up. Her eyes widened and high color filled her cheeks. The most striking cowboy she’d ever laid eyes on just walked through the door. Well, she had laid eyes upon him one time before but that time they’d been two point five sheets to the wind. One less drink that night and they’d have stopped before they got to the motel. Two more and neither would have remembered a damn thing. But the combination had been just right and he was there in her kindergarten classroom in Saint Jo, Texas.
Her first thought was “Damn, he even looks better with hair.”
Her second was “What in the hell is he doing in Saint Jo, Texas?”
Her third was, “Oh, shit, what do I do now?”
The man stopped in front of her and looked down. “Hello, we are the Luckadeaus. This is my daughter, Lizzy, who will be in your class this year.”
And I’m the woman you met in Dallas six years ago? She wanted to shout at him. Remember me? I’m Red.
Griffin waited for her to finish with the little boy, his pulse racing and his heart thumping. God Almighty, he’d never been attracted to a red head before. That was his brother’s choice of women. No one told him the new kindergarten teacher was knock-down-gorgeous or that she had eyes that could see straight into his soul. Desire shot through his body or was it plain old lust? Either one was something he hadn’t allowed in a very long time and he determined he would get control of it before he spoke again.
Julie’s daughter, Annie, came running from across the room, her jet black dog ears bouncing on her shoulders, the white poliosis streak in her hair parted so that the majority of it was on the left side. She stopped dead in front of the little girl.
They eyed each other for several minutes, mirror images of each other, doubles in almost every sense of the word. Jet black hair with a white streak from the forehead back several inches, crystal clear blue eyes, a slight dent in their chins.
Finally Annie grabbed Lizzy’s hand and said, “Come sit by me. My momma is the teacher, she won’t care.”
Lizzy let go of her father’s hand and ran off with Annie, her jet black pony tail waving from one side to the other, the white streak in her hair slicked straight back.
Both parents couldn’t peel their eyes away from the two little girls giggling together. Julie felt the world tilt backwards on its axis and the concrete floor St. Jo, Texas elementary school tremor as if Texas was having a rare earthquake.
“Who are you?” Griffin whispered. Desire took a back seat to shock. That little girl had to be a Luckadeau. His blue eyes narrowed into slits. Who was the red head and where had that child come from?
“I’m going to be your child’s teacher but we knew each other a long time ago. You don’t remember?”
He shook his head. “I’ve never met you before in my life but I’d know that little girl anywhere. She could be my Lizzy’s sister with that white forelock.”

© Carolyn Brown, Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2010

Tell me, after reading that, would you like to read more? What’s happened six years before to make her thinks she’d met him before. He swears he hasn’t ever laid eyes on her and yet those two little girls are carbon copies of each other. Find the answers in Getting Lucky!

Happy Reading,
Carolyn Brown

GETTING LUCKY BY CAROLYN BROWN—IN STORES JANUARY 2010
Book 3 in The Lucky Trilogy
Single mom Julie Donavan is looking for a place to start over. What she finds after buying a small house on five acres is nothing short of a nightmare.

Single dad “Lucky Griffin” Luckadeau has been crossing horns with his elderly neighbor for years. But when his daughter, Annie, decides she wants the new little girl who lives on the feuding property to be her friend, or better yet her sister, the sparks fly.

These two stubborn hotheads, who irritate each other beyond endurance, refuse to admit that it’s fate that brought them together. And running from the inevitable is only going to bring a double dose of misery…

About the Author
Carolyn Brown, an award-winning author who has published 36 romance novels for the library market, credits her eclectic family for her humor and writing ideas. She was born in Texas but grew up in southern Oklahoma where she and her husband, Charles, a retired English teacher, now make their home in the town of Davis, Oklahoma. They have three grown children and enough grandchildren to keep them young. For more information, please visit http://carolynlbrown.com/. Be on the lookout for Carolyn’s new series, The Honky Tonk Series, in 2010!

The Giveaway:

Thanks to Danielle of Sourcebooks, Inc for this giveaway.
1 full set of the Lucky Trilogy (Lucky in Love, One Lucky Cowboy, Getting Lucky) to 1 winner on January 22.
US and Canada only, no PO Box address, please.

How to win?
Leave a comment, at least 4 sentences long.
Start with: I read because….
If you listen to audio book, answer this: In what ways can a reader make or break a book?

The Winner is….

Added January 25 (drawn Jan 23 at random.org)
Winner: Leean Wilson

Tags: Carolyn Brown, Danielle Jackson, The Lucky Trilogy