NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Carolyn Brown published her latest novel The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop few days ago. The initial response by the readers was very nice and averaged 4.4 Amazon stars from 20 reviews. “Great read”, “Another hit for Carolyn Brown” and “This is sure to be one of Carolyn Brown’s most memorable books,” are just part of the feedback about it.
We’ve got a great chance to chat with Lady Carolyn right after the premiere of next prominent story. It’s a really interesting interview, one of the best ever at Land of Books!

– Carolyn, what is your new book The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop about?
– Stella’s mama never should’ve put Stella on the church prayer list. With Stella’s twenty-seventh birthday coming up fast, Nancy desperately wants to see her daughter married and giving her grandbabies. Petitioning heaven seems like a surefire way to get it done. But in Cadillac, Texas, where the gossip’s hotter than the city’s famous jalapeño peppers, it isn’t long before all hell breaks loose.
Heather, the bossy leader of the church’s Prayer Angels, thinks a summer ball will get Stella and the town’s other single gals paired off. But nobody can tell redheaded spitfire Stella what to do—not her mama, not Heather, and not even the sexy beau Stella’s been seeing in secret. Together, Stella, her best friends Charlotte and Piper, and the loyal customers of the Yellow Rose Beauty Shop hatch a good old-fashioned scheme to sabotage the ball. But will it wreck Stella’s relationship with her mama forever? And what will the church folk think when Stella reveals the identity of her mystery man?
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