Patricia Johns: Little Mountain Towns

Growing up, my father was a minister and we moved around a lot. I’ve found that it’s a lot like having a parent in the military. I was always in a new school, living in a new setting. For my high school years, our family moved to a little mountain town called Salmon Arm in British Columbia, Canada.
Shuswap Lake
It’s a gorgeous little town fuelled by tourism. It’s located right by the Shuswap Lake. I have so many great memories from those three years in Salmon Arm! Friends, rights of passage… We hung out at the beach, drove around, and I worked at the local McDonald’s where all the other kids worked, too. It was a really great place to graduate high school.
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This is a recent picture of the house we lived in back then.  (Snapped by a friend who went home to visit her parents.) That living room window has a view of the lake–just gorgeous!
Salmon Arm has stuck in my heart. There’s something about the way the seasons change in the mountains–like how you can know when winter is almost there because the snow line has moved down the mountains.
So when I wrote HER LAWMAN PROTECTOR, I decided to set it in the fictional mountain town of Eagle’s Rest. I gave her a bookstore… and I set it in the fall with the leaves all changing and the snow line moving steadily down those mountains… ❤
Sigh! I love this book! I really think you’ll like it, too!
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4.278504.512.9781335633828Their relationship isn’t real…
But his feelings for her are!
Detective Jack Talbott has devoted his life to ending police corruption. His latest target is Liv Hylton, the ex-wife of a dirty cop. She’s also the woman he’s secretly loved for years. To get close to her, Jack’s going undercover as her boyfriend. But when the evidence points to Liv’s innocence and a threat to her safety, he’ll do anything to protect her. Even risk his career…

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  1. What a wonderful town to be in high school. I loved Eagle's Rest. Jack and Liv were so good together.

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  2. Beautiful setting for sure. And it's great the house is still standing and lived in. You made it a good place in your story.

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    1. Thank you, Roz! It was a pretty place to live, for sure!

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  3. You made me want to go to that town right now. It's great to have such warm memories about place and then get to have fun with it in a story. Congratulations!

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    1. Thank you, Virginia! It really does have a warm place in my heart. :)

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  4. What a beautiful place. Sometimes in writing I think I'm trying to recapture a place remembered, sometimes to create a place that should have been.

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    1. That's such a great way of putting it, Callie. I couldn't have said it better.

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  5. I love your setting. What a great place to set a book!

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