Goodreads asked Jane Ward:

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

Jane Ward The financial collapse of 2008 brought many stories of hardship and uncertainty into the nation’s consciousness. There was an overwhelming sense that we all would have to remake our lives and our businesses during a recovery period, but for a while no one could imagine what that future would look like.

My stories always begin with a kernel of real-life experience as I attempt to see my way through big questions such as, What will the world look like now and going forward?, and micro questions like, What specifically is happening to Character A, B, C, and so on? This time period gave me the ideal backdrop for answering those questions through a story. And also, enough time had passed that I had some perspective to know how people came through. Or didn’t.

It’s like this with every novel. I create characters and write toward my answer to a question. In this case, I began to imagine a woman caught in the fallout of the recession, and I wanted to know how, after being betrayed and abandoned by someone who loved her, she could possibly get unstuck from those emotions and move on.

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