Goodreads asked Deborah Taylor-French:

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

Deborah Taylor-French When my daughter was eight and nine years old she began reading a series called, "Girls to the Rescue." One of the true stories recounted how a young girl saved the life of an infant she had been babysitting. The baby lived. But the girl became blind from toxics in the smoke. That story started me with "what if a girl followed her dog to a fire, but couldn't leave because she couldn't let the cats in the barn die.

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