Her entire Indian Wars collection was published in 2003 as Here's to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army. She was the second woman to earn two Spurs from WWA (which, as everyone knows, is all you need to ride a horse).

Two of her stories, A Season for Heroes and Kathleen Flaherty's Long Winter, earned her Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America. (Or as she would be the first to admit, as serious as it gets.)Ĭarla wrote a series of what she now refers to as the 'Fort Laramie stories,' which are tales of the men, women and children of the Indian Wars era in Western history. Although she had sold some of her work before, it was not until Carla began work in the National Park Service as a ranger/historian at Fort Laramie National Historic Site did she get serious about her writing career. The best healing doesn’t always take place inside the doctor’s office in this brand-new regency romance from master storyteller Carla Kelly.Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Īlthough Carla Kelly is well known among her readers as a writer of Regency romance, her main interest (and first writing success) is Western American fiction-more specifically, writing about America's Indian Wars. Little does he know that it’s his heart that needs the most loving care-and that Edgar (and Olive) are the perfect remedy. Promising to stay for only a few days until the boy is better, Douglas learns that Edgar has more problems than solutions. There he meets Olive Grant, she of the Scottish fiery temperament who has long ago given up on romance and marriage. But upon seeing a seriously injured boy in Edgar, Douglas rushes to help and finds himself in a Scottish fishing village right next to the sea. When war-weary Surgeon Douglas Bowden, recently retired from the Royal Navy, decides to set up a country practice, he wants to be far away from the ocean. He couldn’t think of a time he had seen such kindness, which made her nearly beautiful. How on earth could anyone go through a lifetime of war and not have a bad dream or two?” She released his hand and just looked at him, her face so pleasant.

With no hesitation, she took his hand in hers. Douglas felt his face grow warm when Olive sat across from him.

Reforming Lord Ragsdale by Carla Kelly