Goodreads asked Phyllis H. Moore:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Phyllis H. Moore I checked my Facebook yesterday and discovered some messages on messenger I didn't know were there. I'm not very up on technology. However, there was a message there from September, 2016 from someone saying they thought my husband's grandmother had been married to her grandfather. This was serendipitous because just last week, I published a book about my husband's grandmother and her only daughter, And the Day Came. We messaged back and forth and shared information and from the details, it is true. Myrtle "Heart" Johnson was married for a brief time to this woman's grandfather. She died in childbirth with his child in 1931. The child, a daughter, also died, leaving my mother-in-law an orphan and the story begins. Her uncles were determined to take care of her and kept information about her biological father from her. But the mystery has been solved and more characters have emerged. It's historical fiction because I don't know some of the characters, so I made them up, but the twists and turns in real life rival any made up adventure.

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