The Wilderness Bride is Now Available (and Joel Larson is here to introduce it)
If you want to skip the long-winded post below, you can click directly here for the book info. (Description and links are included there as well as at the bottom of this post.)
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Joel Larson (hero in Shotgun Groom) enters post: Hi, everyone! It’s been a long time since I’ve been on this blog.
ID 14776353 © Jason Stitt | Dreamstime.comSome of you may not even know who I am, but at one time, I was pretty famous among the people who read Ruth’s books. In fact, some people preferred me to Dave Larson, if you can believe that. But for those who have no idea who I am, I am one of the Larson brothers in the Nebraska Series, and I was the hero in Shotgun Groom.
Anyway, since this is a historical western romance in a brand new series, Ruth thought it would be fitting that I introduce it. She would have done it herself, but let’s face it, the characters an author writes is far more interesting than the author herself. It’s no fault of Ruth. It’s just that she leads a very boring life. Who wants to hear about her day of cooking, doing laundry, picking up after the people in her house, grocery shopping–
Ruth enters post: I think they get the point, Joel. We’re here to introduce a new book, not to give details about my personal life, boring as it may be. So let’s return to the book, okay?
Joel: Okay, okay. So I’m here to announce a book set along the West Coast in a small Oregon town. You have a hero who’s pretty much a loner living in the hillside. I, myself, envisioned my life going that way before Ruth forced me to marry. Except, of course, I was going to be a doctor. Hunting animals for food and chopping wood was never my interest.
Ruth: This isn’t about you, Joel. It’s about Ashley and Lisa who are main characters in The Wilderness Bride. Now I have to work on the next book which is The Hero Least Likely. I’m close to the end and don’t need to lose momentum. I’ll trust you can handle it from here.
Joel: I can handle it from here. This isn’t the first time I’ve been involved in enough books to know how to introduce them.
*Ruth leaves*
Joel: Alright, alright. The hero is named Ashely. He’s a loner who lives in the hillside in a one-room cabin. He’s living a life to be envied by men everywhere when Ruth interrupts his life by throwing an unconscious woman in his path.
Tom Larson (hero in A Bride for Tom) enters the post:
ID 7420165 © Imagery Majestic | Dreamstime.comTom: I can’t read to this anymore. Joel doesn’t have a romantic bone in his body. It’s a good thing Joel’s wife isn’t here for this. She would string him up by the boots and let him hang upside down all night for this nonsense. Let me introduce this book. So there’s this guy named Ashley who is miserable because he’s all alone. He might not realize he’s miserable, but he is because I was single once, and I remember how lonely I was before Jessica came into my life. This poor man needs a good woman to come into his life and make that one-room cabin he lives in a home.
Joel: I’m not saying that Ashley won’t eventually be happy with the marriage a preacher is going to force him into. This is a romance, after all. But as things are at the beginning of the book, he is content with being alone. I think there’s nothing wrong with that.
Tom: You should just leave. You are offering nothing of substance to this post. All you’re going to do is dissuade people from reading the book.
Joel: How so?
Tom: Who’s going to read a book about a man who isn’t looking to get married so he has to be forced into it?
Joel: *points to himself* That’s what happened in my book, and people read that one.
Dave Larson (hero of Eye of the Beholder, To Have and To Hold, and Forever Yours) enters the post:
ID 43983249 © Wally Stemberger | Dreamstime.comDave: Why didn’t anyone ask me to come here to introduce this book? I can sum it up the best. This is a story where Lisa, the heroine, believes she has no reason to live until the hero shows her otherwise through his care and love for her. It’s the kind of story that I can give my seal of approval on.
Tom: Ruth asked Joel to introduce this book. No one knows why. He has no connection with it. If anyone has a connection to this book, it’s me. When my third daughter, Erin, got married in Suitable for Marriage, Ruth wrote into the story that there was a young woman who had been forced to give up her baby for adoption. We all wondered why that woman had been forced into that situation and what happened to her. Jessica speculated about that one for months. It’s about time Ruth satisfied our curiosity. Plus, we always thought it would be nice if the poor young woman could get a happy ending. I know I would want that if she was my daughter.
Dave: We all want this woman to have a happy ending. This woman has a name. It’s Lisa.
Tom: Did you get a chance to read this book?
Dave: I might have sorted through Ruth’s files and found it while I had some free time.
Tom: I can’t believe you did that. You aren’t supposed to go around snooping in her computer.
Joel: Yeah, I think there’s some sort of code we characters have to follow when it comes to books pre-publication.
Dave: But if we don’t read it, how can we tell people why they should read it?
*Joel and Tom grow silent for a long moment*
Tom: I suppose Dave has a point.
Dave: Of course, I have a point, and it’s a good one. If people liked our books, they’ll like this one, too. I think we’ve said enough about it. While I read it, I don’t want to spoil it.
Joel: At long last, we come to the cover and the links on where you can find the book:
