"I've always thought I had books in me," Audrey Shrive reflected.

Shrive, a Security-Widefield resident since 1991, always assumed that if she wrote a book, it would be something historical about her family's history.

"I've been writing and telling stories all of my life. I come from a family of writers and storytellers. My great-grandmother wrote and had published stories of their family pioneering in South Dakota. My sister is a published author from South Dakota, and my Dad wrote and published a book during the pandemic. He's 95 years young. Writing is in my blood. It is my hope and...