Goodreads asked Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger In 2000, I was visiting a friend in Austria with whom I'd traveled in Canada. We took a trip to northern Italy to see Verdi's "Nabucco" on Reschen Lake, just south of the pass. When I saw that church tower sticking up out of the water, I was immediately struck by its eeriness. In 2005, I had just published my first book, DEEP WELLS, BURNING FORESTS, and was taking a break with friends in South Tyrol. As I passed the Reschensee once again, I stopped to take a walk. At that time, there was no story, nothing that could tell me what happened, but as I sat on that shore, thinking about the villages submerged beneath, an entire series rose out of the lake and before me. It took me another five years before my German was good enough to understand the research I was undertaking. From there, it never let me go.

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