Carol Darley Dow
Author • Storyteller
Summer 2025
Of all the websites in all the universe, you chose mine! Thank you!
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To celebrate the release of my new book, Belonging, this site has been updated to reflect a new season of my writing. The plan is to have ever-changing information and stories here, with the hope of connecting with you and hearing your thoughts.
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Pondering
Often I am asked why I write 'gentle fiction.' First, it is the style that comes naturally to me, and one I enjoy reading. Second, I've found world events of the past years have left many of us feeling unsettled and anxious, as national and international tragedies have rocked our lives. It's my hope that the stories I write offer a moment of relief from life's difficulties and sadness, and brings a bit of optimism and hope, along with a dose of kindness to your days.
Be well, my friends!
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is the sequel to the popular WINDOW FRIENDS novel, returning readers to the breathtaking landscape of the Scottish Borders, with intrigue, romance and adventure. Friendships grow stronger, and hearts are challenged as life is filled with mysteries and miracles, twists and turns.
Written in the tradition of Jan Karon, James Herriot and Jeanne M. Dams, you will feel delightfully at home in the picturesque Scotland countryside, as you are drawn into the lives of the beloved characters from WINDOW FRIENDS.
Belonging...
newly released sequeL
Available July 28
A Charming Story...
of a lonely American girl who moves to Great Britain and is befriended by an unlikely young Scotsman. Their relationship plays out in the beguiling city of Edinburgh through an exchange of letters until tragedy and life separate them. Fate, and perhaps the hand of God, reunites them as they meet for the first time face to face as adults- forever changed, yet forever the same.
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