TO ROBIN’S DISMAY, IT even smelled more like home.
"It even smells more like home" was the first line of the original play that I wrote years before this book. The action started here, with Robin and William walking through the Sherwood. Obviously this novel is *much* longer than the play was, which really only covered Robin's half of the story from this point forward (and with several major plot pieces absent). Turning it into a novel meant I was able to flesh out the other characters, the other half of the conflict, and explore everything that happened in Acre before this point. Written to be performed on a small stage, I had to consider the limitations of scenery ... so scenes in a forest are possible, but a full city siege - not so much.
