I argue that there aren’t enough British heroines in small-town romances. Often, the heroine of a romance novel belongs there in some way. She grew up in the town, and regardless of whether she has lived there all her life or just come back for a visit, she already knows how everything works. But with my lakeside romance novel, The Cherry Blossom Boathouse, I wanted to show what happens when you drop someone into that world who doesn’t know the rules at all.
