Goodreads asked Janet Racciato:

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

Janet Racciato I starting thinking about the story line for Jade when a friend of mine was killed in Afghanistan seven years ago. Jade was a way for me to deal with my feelings of grief and frustration. I thought about the story for years before I started writing. I had never written before and it was a daunting idea to try to put into words the characters that I had dreamed about for so long.

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