A Love Letter to the Several Movies That Made Me Swoon
Lacy Williams here today. Thanks for having me! I’ve always loved watching romantic movies. I’ve inherited this from my mom, who has always been a movie aficionado. The summers when I was fifteen and sixteen, we went to this movie theater close to our hour sooo many times. It was kinda our special thing.
I’ll never forget watching Titanic for the first time. When Jack looked at Rose and said “I see you,” something hit me hard inside. Here was this girl, trapped in a gilded cage, drowning in expectations—and this boy from steerage saw her. Really saw her. Not her family’s money or her position or the performance she put on for society. Just her.
Years later, on a date night with my newly-minted husband, that same bang! in my chest. When Mr. Darcy confessed in the rain that Elizabeth had “bewitched (him), body and soul,” despite their differences.
And not long after that, my mother-in-law introduced me to Maid in Manhattan. That moment when the senator sees Marisa in a fancy dress she wasn’t supposed to be wearing and the whole plot unravels… So good!
For me, these stories answered a question I think we all ask ourselves: What if someone saw past everything—my mistakes, my circumstances, my ordinariness—and chose me anyway?
That feeling is what I wanted to bring to HEART’S PERILOUS JOURNEY, my November release.
Imagine that same breathless feeling you had watching Jack and Rose, but set in the dust and danger of the Oregon Trail. I wanted to write a hero who would give up everything—his inheritance, his grandfather’s approval, his comfortable life—to follow the woman he loves across a continent. A hero who sees the maid, not the uniform. Who recognizes her worth when even her own brothers can’t.
Alice Spencer has spent her whole life being told she doesn’t matter, that her needs come last. But Rob Braddock? He sees her. And like Darcy pursuing Elizabeth or the Prince searching for Cinderella, he won’t give up—even when she pushes him away, even when her brothers threaten him, even when the trail itself tries to kill him.
This is book eight of nine in my Wagon Train Matches series and it was an adventure to write as I try to wrap up the Oregon Trail journey for all the characters that have a place in my heart. I can’t wait for you to read it.
If you’d like a sneak peek at Alice and Rob’s romance, you can read A TENDER DEVOTION, free at Amazon and on all major retailers. Then in November, come fall in love with Alice and Rob. You can pre-order HEART’S PERILOUS JOURNEY now and get ready to and experience that “I see you” magic all over again.
HEART’S PERILOUS JOURNEY — Keeping secrets is nearly impossible on an Oregon-bound wagon train. But Alice Spencer has kept a whopper from her protective brothers for months: she once fancied herself in love with her wealthy boss’s grandson. Her brothers don’t know *she’s* the reason Rob Braddock came on this westward journey. Only that he’s part of the reason they had to leave their home and friends behind. Her brothers will never forgive Rob—and neither can she.
The company is still weeks away from the Willamette Valley when Rob injures himself saving the youngest Spencer brother’s life. Alice has no choice but to pay back the life-debt. She strikes a deal to help the injured Rob finish his journey to Oregon, at which point, they’ll go their separate ways. All she has to do is keep from falling in love with him. Again.
*second chance romance
*he never stopped loving her
*different stations
*maid/wealthy
I’m so glad to be here to chat with you today.
Leave a comment and let me know what your favorite rags-to-riches movie or book is and be entered to win a paperback copy of A TRAIL SO LONESOME (Book 1) and a $20 Amazon gift card.
With multiple hits on the USA Today and Publishers’ Weekly bestseller lists and more than 1 million copies sold, Lacy Williams has won the hearts of readers worldwide with her heartwarming romances set in the rugged beauty of the American West. A proud Oklahoman, she balances writing with the joyful chaos of raising four children and snuggling her fur babies. Find bonus content athttps://www.lacywilliams.net
