Jul 27, 2026 · 26 min · 11 segments
Tori Eldridge is the author of Kaua‘i Storm, the Lily Wong mysteries, Dance Among the Flames, and numerous short stories. Born in Honolulu—of Hawaiian, Chinese, and Norwegian descent—Tori graduated…
Tori EldridgeGuest
Terrence McCauleyHost
And this is all, this story is all centered around the Hiapo family, and they trace their roots back.
They went back even further because that's where the Mexican vaqueros came from.
And that and it's interesting that, you know, you can tell a modern story, but it's directly tied to far older sensibilities and facts, because this isn't something you had to invent.
This is something that you understood from your your native land, your native state.
So I began with research, and through my research, That's where my characters emerged and my storyline emerged.
It all came out of the research and the origin place, which was the North Kohala area of Hawaii Island, which incidentally is also where I trace my own ancestry back to 1783 is in the North Kohala area.
And so that was like, you know, an extra boon, you know, why I wanted to research that area and this topic.
It's interesting, isn't it, that once you we had the original idea to tell a certain kind of story.
But those of us who do research into the past, we find a lot more inspiration than we ever thought was there, don't we?
And this is all, this story is all centered around the Hiapo family, and they trace their roots back.
They went back even further because that's where the Mexican vaqueros came from.
And that and it's interesting that, you know, you can tell a modern story, but it's directly tied to far older sensibilities and facts, because this isn't something you had to invent.
This is something that you understood from your your native land, your native state.
So I began with research, and through my research, That's where my characters emerged and my storyline emerged.
It all came out of the research and the origin place, which was the North Kohala area of Hawaii Island, which incidentally is also where I trace my own ancestry back to 1783 is in the North Kohala area.
And so that was like, you know, an extra boon, you know, why I wanted to research that area and this topic.
It's interesting, isn't it, that once you we had the original idea to tell a certain kind of story.
But those of us who do research into the past, we find a lot more inspiration than we ever thought was there, don't we?
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