Goodreads asked Rhonda Riley:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Rhonda Riley Other than the same mystery Evelyn faced about her mother and biological father--yes, that came directly from my own family, the world's oldest and most common family secret/mystery. Aside from that, there have been a couple of novel-worthy mysteries I have encountered. Both involve South Africa apartheid. I volunteered at free medical clinic in California once where there were some pretty radical people working there. I dated one of them and he had some connections to South Africa that he was very secretive about and a few times he thought someone was following us. Later I befriended someone who had just escaped apartheid. He disappeared suddenly, then after a couple years, he called to say he was not doing well, but before he could tell me why, the phone went dead. I never heard from him again. My brother was a mystery to me, too. Ten years older than me, he was a Viet Nam vet. I have lots of questions about what happened to him and how it all affected him.

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