REMEMBER ME - Tracie Peterson - One Free Book

Bio: Tracie Peterson is the award-winning author of over 100 novels, both historical and contemporary. Her avid research resonates in her many bestselling series. Tracie and her family make their home in Montana.

Award–winning novelist Tracie Peterson has received high praise for her captivating and thought-provoking storylines. Now she offers a series starter that is reminiscent of Francine River’s renowned work Redeeming Love. Set in Seattle, Washington, during the early 1900s, Peterson’s newest work, Remember Me, book one in the Pictures of the Heart series, offers a tender tale where forgiveness, faith, and love conquers all.

About the story: Addie Bryant grew up in the heart of Northwestern Canada in the Yukon territory. It is here that she met and fell in love with Isaac Hanson. When Isaac left the territory, they vowed to love each other and to find each other one day. But life does not always turn out as planned. When Addie’s father dies, she is sold to a brothel owner. Although Addie manages to escape, she realizes that the future she always dreamed of will never be hers. She has vowed to keep her past forever hidden, but the past has a way of catching up to the present.

Years later, Addie has found peace and significance in her new life as a photographer, training Camera Girls to operate the Kodak Brownie camera. While attending the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Expo in Seattle, her past resurfaces as she is reunited with her former beau.

Addie must decide whether to run or to stay. Can she face her wounds in order to embrace her life, her future, and her hope in God? 

Welcome back to my blog, Tracie. Remember Me is the first book in your Pictures of the Heart series. What inspired the idea for this series? In reading histories of the Pacific Northwest, I came across the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition that was held in Seattle in 1909. I also kept seeing information that talked about cameras becoming affordable for the average person thanks to the Kodak Brownie camera. I thought it would be great fun to set a series at the Expo and the idea of creating Camera Girls came to mind.

What is the connecting element for all the books in the Pictures of the Heart series and what do readers have to look forward to in the rest of this series?  This is a series that builds on book one, however, a person can read them out of order and not really suffer the individual story. The common thread is the Exposition. This fair was the event of the year and people came from all over the world to see it. The series will cover the months that the Expo was active, June through October, and each story will cover a Camera Girl’s characters and their romances.

How were your protagonists, Addie Bryant and Isaac Hanson, acquainted and what led to their separation? Addie and Isaac met during the Yukon goldrush. They fell in love and pledged to marry. However, Isaac needed to leave to attend college. He promised to return for Addie.

Your female protagonist, Addie Bryant, faces some very difficult circumstances in her early life. Can you provide some background information on Addie? Addie’s mother dies and Addie is raised by her thieving father and battling brothers. They are very abusive and when their father dies, her brothers sell Addie to a brothel owner. At first just to cook for the place, but then she becomes the owner’s mistress and eventually wife and widow.  Even though she’s free to remarry, Addie feels she will never ever be good enough for Isaac.

One of the underlying themes within Remember Me is forgiveness. Can you expound upon how this theme plays out in your novel? Forgiveness is always a key theme in my stories because it’s so vital in the life of a Christian. God tells us in the Bible that if we won’t forgive, we won’t be forgiven. With my characters they have to learn to let the past go and realize they are forgiven in God’s love and that He will give them a future of love.

Are there any other lessons that you hope readers can gain from reading Remember Me? That holding on to the past and letting it dictate who you are is never a beneficial thing. God is all about looking forward.

Remember Me begins in Northwestern Canada in the Yukon territory and eventually ends up in Seattle, Washington. Why did you choose these locations for the setting of your book? I chose the Seattle setting because of its tie to the Yukon goldrush in 1898 and to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909.

Both Addie Bryant and Isaac Hanson reunite at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Expo in Seattle. Can you tell us more about this event and how Addie was involved in this Expo? The Expo was a World Fair that focused on the areas of the Pacific Northwest as well as Pacific islands and the Yukon. Addie is working for a photography company and when they decide to get involved with the expo as a vendor, Addie comes up with the idea of Camera Girls. These girls will walk around the Expo and offer to take souvenir photos for the attendees. The new Kodak Brownie camera is all the rage and so they promote this as well. Addie trains the Camera Girls and acts as one herself. She also gets involved in lecturing on the Yukon goldrush since she actually participated and knew a lot about it.

What are you working on next? I’m currently writing book three in the Pictures of the Heart series. There will be three books in the series and the stories will cover the entire time that the Expo was running. There were a lot of interesting tidbits about the Expo that I wanted to include in the series.  After this series is complete, I plan to start a series on Cheyenne, Wyoming.

How can readers connect with you? 

Readers can get in touch with me through my website www.traciepetersonbooks.com and on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorTraciePeterson

Thank you, Tracie for sharing this story with us. I always love your books, and I really like Alaska as the setting.

Readers, here’s a link to the book.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=remember+me+tracie+peterson&i=stripbooks&crid=HYRX1DRBEEL1&sprefix=Remember+Me+Tracie+%2Cstripbooks%2C109&ref=nb_sb_ss_fb_1_19

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