Goodreads asked Sarah Beth Martin:

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

Sarah Beth Martin It all began with the place—Norumbega Park in Newton, Massachusetts, which inspired my fictional town. When my father told me about the park, and that a glorious ballroom once existed where a hotel stood along the Charles River, I was hooked. He also told me his chilling account about finding a body while canoeing the river, and my novel was born. It grew into my own story, but the setting was inspired by this familiar landscape from my childhood.

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