Kim asked Alexis Hall:

Hello!! My question is: Did Darian and Ash ever go back to visit Cambridge together? And, did Ash ever dedicate a book to Darian? Thank you! Congratulations on your new book release! I haven't read the Arden St. Ives series yet but it's next on my list.

Alexis Hall Thank you so much for the congratulations - I hope you enjoy Ardy's story :)

I know this probably sounds a weird ... but I sort of don't really think about books beyond the end of the narrative. I feel at that the point the story belongs to everyone, not just the writer. So my answer to those questions would be as valid yours.

I guess ... hmm. I'm not sure if they'd ever go back to Cambridge. I think they both might have too many bad memories of their time there, and while sometimes you want to over-write bad things with good ones, sometimes you just want to leave that shit in the past. And Ash is as self-conscious about his books as I am about mine (although I have much less self-loathing about writing genre than he does!) so if he did dedicate a book to Darian it would be in an oblique way that nobody would recognise (except Darian, of course).

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