January Roberts originally wrote the screen play on this love story in 1990, while living in Santa Fe. The screen play was on the market for over ten years, when an agent told her she was really a romance writer not a screen writer, as she was too descriptive hence here we have the book loosely based on truth. What is ironic, twenty years later January owns a gallery in New Mexico and is also a professional photographer! She has been an avid journal writer her entire life.