The Stones of Heart Falls

As I’ve written new books over the years, it’s been an interesting puzzle to deal with the changes in the world. Things like technology—in my first book Robyn and Keil have a special radio to use in the Yukon wilderness. They still exist today, but in far superior forms.

Now everyone has a cellphones, everyone texts—and there’s been an entire generation that’s grown up with eyes on them as we share our lives online.

The theme of the Stones of Heart Falls started as “five siblings saving the ranch”. By the end of book three, though, the financial issues were mostly dealt with, which mean I got to dive into other topics for the final books. The final story for Dustin dealt with the opposite issue of the early books. The truth is, it’s tough when you don’t have enough money, but it’s hard in other ways when you have a lot. Or people think you have a lot. Which is what Dustin had to deal with as social media rumours go wild, and someone from his past steps out to try and hurt him.

A Rancher’s Vow wouldn’t exist as is if I’d written it in 2010.

Would the first book, A Rancher’s Heart? Hard to say, because while the theme of family working together is timeless, the place and setting and the people are of this time and place. I’ll be curious to re-read these book twenty years from now to see what seems old-fashioned.

The only part I know that will stay consistent is that family sticks together, and in the end, that’s the true theme of the series.