Welcome to Carson Springs: Introducing the Delarosa Family

A Hollywood film crew upends an idyllic village—and a woman's marriage—in this prequel to the New York Times–bestselling author's Carson Springs series.

In the late 1950s, filmmakers descended on Carson Springs to shoot the movie that made this sleepy Spanish mission town famous. A plaque commemorates the filming of Stranger in Paradise, but nowhere does it mention Cora Delarosa, whose life changed forever when Hollywood arrived. Barely thirty, but married for over a decade, she does not re...