Letha is a Twister, that is to say a member of the Grand Order of Temporal Knights, a group of beings who use magic to generally keep the universe ticking over, and minimising threats across the galaxy. Letha has been something of a background character of late, an apprentice to Leona Kaizana she has learned her craft and she's now chosen how she's going to best serve within the order. I wanted to utilise her in a different way to both Judy and Hannah and to directly contract Anna, who's gargantuan volume preceded this one. Letha is something of a finder of hidden things, as well as a detective, in that her role is to seek out lost magical artefacts and investigate crimes involving magic that can't easily be solved by others. Letha really likes to commit herself to her duty, taking on deep cover roles as part of her investigations. This helps her to get to know those involved, in order to locate her goal. I also wanted to explore the elven realm a little more, it first featured in The Gods of War: Oh My Goddess!, which featured the Elven Insurrection and Vesta's original and efficient take down of their group, after falling in love with their leader and seducing him to her side. I wanted to explore the realm's backstory a little more, as it's a much wilder place than the prime realm of earth, and as revealed now it used to be under the benevolent rule of Hecate, the goddess of magic. I do want to revisit some of the plot points set up in this book again, and see just what kind of nightmarish horrors are really lurking inside of the locked and hidden Summer Palace. I also had a lot of fun developing the Fiddler, she's a wild and capricious character, a lot cleverer than many think her to be, I hope I can revisit this aspect of the character again, as I think I've written all I need to about the Hermit aspect. I also want to introduce the so-far unnamed third aspect, who remains unnamed because I haven't finalised all the details about this aspect yet. I also wanted to lighten the tone a little and add some comedy moments, again to make this volume as different to the last one as I could, plus the humour also helps to hide the seriousness of events, as it more or less runs parallel to the last one, though I'm releasing it afterwards as I needed to get Anna Sinclair: The Evil Dad all properly sorted and into a publishable shape, and it was easier to do that knowing that the first draft of this book was already written, so I could add mentions of what was in this book while writing that book. I also brought in Rache from my Vengeance Cycle books, as I've totally lost the voluminous notes I made for those stories and I could barely remember anything about how she got out of being framed for murder by one of the gods, so instead I reset her timeline and I'll go back to her being a conventional private detective later on