The day has arrived when the third novella in the Fey Quartet is released into the world, so I’m very excited.

I started writing the Fey Quartet while I was working at Glade House in Fiordland National Park, a stunningly beautiful and remote part of New Zealand. When I needed a name for the forest where my characters’ adventures take place, I looked at the rain forest surrounding Glade House . . . and Glade Forest was born. Two very different forests, but both magical in their own ways.

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Of the four novellas in the Fey Quartet, Ivy’s Choice was the most challenging to write—because of the hero’s actions in one scene. (Poor Hugh spends much of this book trapped in the shape of an animal, and when he is human he sometimes struggles to control his behavior.)

When I sent the novella to my editor, I said to her, “Does this scene make my hero irredeemable?” and she said, “Uh, yeah.” So we brainstormed a way for Hugh and Ivy to react that was true to their characters and the situation, but that allowed Hugh to remain heroic.

Rewriting ensued, and I’m very happy with the end result. Of course, the most important opinion isn’t mine, but yours.

Is Hugh heroic . . . or not? If you read the novella, drop me a note to let me know what you think!