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Writing from the heart.

We all have them. The stories that we call the one from our heart. For me, Marriage Not Included is one of those heart stories. Not because I wanted to be a defender of the heritage seed movement, but the places and events my heroine experiences are all from my ‘real’ home town.

Kuna, Idaho was a small town surrounded by farm land. I rode the bus an hour to school, winding through the mile long ‘blocks’ which on our street had six houses. My best friend lived a half mile away. And getting together after school with anyone was out of the question, until I passed my driver’s exam.

My graduating class was 60 strong. We would have been 63 but a couple didn’t pass their final exams and one guy moved into the more structured facility on the east side of town, the state penitentiary, before graduating.

But years later and many miles away, I can still hear the cows mooing gently in the pasture, the warm summer nights when we sat outside in the dark, watching for the stars, and the angst I felt as a teenager, wanting to be anywhere but were I was. I dreamed of living in New York, going to school in a small New England college, living a life I could only imagine.

I didn’t move to New York or graduate from an Ivy League college. And I don’t live in the same small town where I grew up. I do imagine my hometown and the joy of a little girl riding her first horse. Or planting her first row in her garden.

Simple lives. Of course, now my ‘small town’ is a bedroom community of the larger Boise. The new high school I graduated from is now the old high school. Time passes. Sometimes for the better.
I like to think the world Lauren and Miles resided in helps to preserve my memories of that simpler time.

What type of setting do you like in your stories? Are you a country girl (or guy) at heart? Or do you yearn for big city adventure like the teenaged me?

Marriage Not Included
Lauren is headed back to school, this time not as a fun loving coed but to achieve her dream of turning the family farm into Idaho’s first Heritage Seed Center. Selling organic produce at the local farmers market, she meets Miles. After an unexpected act of kindness toward her daughter, Lauren agrees to one date.

As a VP and heir apparent to HN Seeds, the family business, Miles unknowingly holds the future of Lauren’s farm in his hands. Lauren’s looking for anything but a romance. She’s got too much on her plate to risk the distraction. But he plays the one card Lauren can’t resist, family. Miles needs Lauren and her daughter to feel at home. And Lauren needs Miles and his large extended family more than she knows. But can she forgive the one betrayal that would ruin all of her plans for the future?

Available at Amazon – http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Not-Included-ebook/dp/B00CXAB1ZI
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BIO – Lynn Cahoon is a contemporary romance author with a love of hot, sexy men, real and imagined. Her alpha heroes range from rogue witch hunters, modern cowboys, or hot doctors, sexy in scrubs. And her heroines all have one thing in common, their strong need for independence. Or at least that’s what they think they want. She blogs at her website www.lynncahoon.wordpress.com