Fifteen years ago,
Laurel Handfield was a single woman living in a tiny one bedroom in the
suburbs of Philadelphia. She worked a monotonous nine-to-five handling
copy equipment leases. One day she decided to get back to what she loved
most--writing. She decided to write a novel. But what would it be about?

A month later, she went on vacation to The Bahamas. In true Stella fashion (See Terry McMillian-

How Stella Got Her Groove Back)
she met a Bahamian. The rest is history, as they say... She came back
from vacation, quit her job several months later and moved to Maryland
to live with her sister while she wrote her first novel based loosely on
how she and her husband first met. She has since moved to The Bahamas ...