Goodreads asked Ashe Barker:

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

Ashe Barker A book which is to be released early in 2015 starts with a chance meeting in the Moroccan desert. A Berber peasant on a donkey passes an engineer doing a geological survey. Worlds apart, they couldn't possibly have anything in common apart from the fact they are in the same place at the same time, each with a perfectly good reason to be there. They nod to each other and go about their business. But not for long. She is not what she seems.
This is based around a true incident which actually took place in Turkey. For some reason I can't now recall I was sitting in an air-conditioned coach in a car park somewhere near Cappadocia. A speck appeared on the road in the distance, which got bigger. it became a head, then two heads. A woman, wrapped in a shawl, on a donkey. She could have been lifted straight from Ben Hur. Nothing about her would have looked out of place two thousand years ago.
She passed me, looked up. I nodded, she did too. She waved, I waved back. Then she carried on her way and I never saw her again.
Where else, I wondered afterward, could two people whose lives were so different meet, neither one be in the least surprised to see the other, exchange a friendly greeting, and continue on their way? The image stuck with me, until twenty years later I wove it into a story.
Look out for Chameleon, due for general release 2.1.15

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