When the Bostonian heroine of Here Comes the Bride arrives in Porter Creek, Montana, she knows she's come home.
That, says novelist Laura Drewry, is how people feel when they come to Squamish.
Drewry's newest novel captures the feeling of community that she experienced growing up in Squamish. Drewry left 樱桃视频in 1998 when her husband Ron was transferred to Nelson. They now live in Yellowknife with their three boys, but the couple still considers 樱桃视频their home away from home.
"It's knowing that people care, that they would look out for us and help us if ever the need arose," she said.Set in Montana Territory in the 1880s, Here Comes the Bride is the story of a "hard-headed overly stubborn rancher who believes women are far too frail to live out west and a rich city girl who's never done a minute's worth of work in her life."
Not surprisingly, the two are destined for love, and as the book's title suggests, the story has a happy ending.
"I wanted to write romances because I want the characters and the worlds I create to have happy endings," said Drewry. "I want people to believe in true love and happily ever after again. Sounds sappy, but it's true."
Drewry found a niche with Zebra Historical Romances. Here Comes the Bride is Drewry's third novel, but the first to be published.
The road to being a successful novelist has required sacrifices, she said. But it's worth it to achieve what she's long dreamed of.
"I've always marveled at the way an author could take a few hundred pages pf text and transport me to a whole different world."
Here Comes the Bride is scheduled for official release May 1 and Drewry is confident that Mostly Books will stock her novel since her mother-in-law, Kay, works there.
"They know I'll haunt them for the rest of their days if they don't give it some shelf space."
And Drewry says she's very excited about a book signing scheduled for July at Armchair Books in Whistler.
