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Goodreads asked Trudee Romanek:

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

Trudee Romanek I'm working on a second novel right now. The original inspiration came from a tour of Boldt Castle in the Thousand Islands that my family took many years ago. I'd always thought it would make a neat setting for a story. But when I sat down to work on it, I suddenly realized that it was the situation of the people living on this river — with Canada on one side, US on the other — that interested me more. I learned some other things about the region and I already had a character in my head. When I put all those influences together, something interesting came out. (I hope!) I think I mention the castle in passing, but the story is about something else entirely. The story comes from the people.

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