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Goodreads asked Kathleen Flanagan Rollins:

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

Kathleen Flanagan Rollins The plot of the third book in the Misfits and Heroes series, A Meeting of Clans, flowed from the first two. At the end of the first book, Misfits and Heroes: West from Africa, a group from West Africa has established a village on the Gulf coast of southern Mexico, and Naaba, one of the main characters, has carved a sign into a rock face behind a waterfall in the interior as a way of recording the event.

At the end of the second book, Past the Last Island, about a group of explorers from the South Pacific, a visionary dwarf is driven to find the image that's been haunting his dreams. After a long search, he finds it - the sign Naaba carved.

The third book, A Meeting of Clans, picks up with Nulo's news of the discovery of the sign. Suddenly the explorers from the South Pacific realize they're not alone in the New World. While some welcome the news, others don't. Their world becomes considerably more complicated when they meet the strangers.

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