Jeannie Ralston
Like Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love, Ralston documents her journey of life, love, and finding a place to call home in The Unlikely Lavender Queen. Ralston begins her story as a successful, 20-something journalist enjoying life in Manhattan, when she meets the man of her dreams, Robb, a photographer for National Geographic. She breaks off her engagement and reluctantly agrees to move to the rural hill country in Texas with Robb, who dislikes big-city life. There, Ralston struggles with living such a remote life while overseeing construction on a new home, raising a family, and starting a lavender farm.