Take 7 in Aimee Liu's new fiction serial

As every writer knows, a book is comprised of many moveable parts, and plot is structured through a combination of time and space travel as well as chronological action. One of the toughest decisions when writing a large story is the selection of the opening scene. Get the reader acquainted with the characters first? Or throw the protagonist into trouble? I opted to launch this series of outtakes with scenes to get you acquainted with Thea and Shep and their newly-wedded move to the Andaman Islands. But the scene I�ve selected to open the actual book occurs four years later, well into WWII. That scene is today�s Take 7.