Virgin River by Robyn Carr
A contemporary romance set in Humboldt County, CA in the fictional town of Virgin River. Although not all of the details are correct, especially the geography since there are towns closer than Eureka to Highway 36 (the location of Virgin River based off of descriptions), it is a well written if slightly Rancher flavored novel that helped me get over a brutal case of homesickness.
Humboldt is internationally known for its marijuana exports (some of it is actually legal within the state, although not federally) less known by outsiders is that the social and political climate is split between (to make things simple I'll stereotype) the very liberal pot smoking community and the very conservative rancher/timber community (the meth addicts are generally too tweeked out to have a political voice). This split causes a fair amount of tension and drama which Robyn Carr does a decent job of showing.
The plot of the novel is pretty straightforward (woman moves to new town, falls in love with a local, climactic drama, marriage, and baby) but having the marijuana aspect adds some twists (however there is a significant difference between potheads and tweekers that the author fails to notice fully). Despite the skewed depiction of the social and political climate, the descriptions of Virgin River, both the town and the river (the Van Duzen), and the rest of the countryside are accurate which made reading this book worthwhile for me.
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