Carolyn Brown Literary Series – Featuring Lisa Wingate

We are thrilled to announce that the Carolyn Brown Literary Series will return in 2025, featuring author, Lisa Wingate. Join us on Monday, Feb. 24 at 12 pm, in Elliott Hall. This event is free to the public and we have an optional box lunch available for purchase when you register.

Lisa will also be available to sign books at the event.

Lisa is the NY Times Best Selling and Internationally known author of Before We Were Yours, Book of Lost Friends and Shelterwood. “Each story begins with an inspiration from life, and after that, the writing is a journey of discovery. I never know where the story will go, or how it will end, or who the characters will become, until the last words are written.”  Lisa’s newest novel, Shelterwood, was inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children caught in the storm of Oklahoma land barons hungry for power and oil wealth in the early 1900’s.  William Kent Krueger writes “Lisa Wingate’s riveting new novel is a complex and fascinating tapestry woven with threads of history, mystery and menace.”

More About Shelterwood:
Oklahoma, 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn’t have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Together they begin a perilous journey to the remote Winding Stair Mountains, the notorious territory of outlaws, treasure hunters, and desperate men. Along the way, Ollie and Nessa form an unlikely band with others like themselves, struggling to stay one step ahead of those who seek to exploit them . . . or worse.

Oklahoma, 1990. Law enforcement ranger Valerie Boren-Odell arrives at the newly minted Horsethief Trail National Park seeking a quiet place to balance a career and single parenthood. But no sooner has Valerie reported for duty than she’s faced with local controversy over the park’s opening, a teenage hiker gone missing from one of the trails, and the long-hidden burial site of three children unearthed in a cave. Val’s quest for the truth wins an ally among the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police but soon collides with old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.

Book Signing Sponsored by Logos Bookstore

For more information about Lisa, her novels and their history visit www.lisawingate.com.