Goodreads asked Erik Jacobs:

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

Erik Jacobs Derin and Dylan's characters (and their love story) had been swirling in my head for quite some time, and I had been developing a "pipeline" of different set-ups, plots, and story-contexts which I considered interesting. But since I started following more closely what is currently going on in the UK (and, as a matter of fact, in several of our so-called "western democracies") I realized how fragile our societies really are: manipulation of people's deepest emotions and fears, blunt lies becoming the norm, intolerance, discrimination, ultra-nationalism, hate... The —not so remote— possibility of our free society turning into a totalitarian dystopia in a relatively short time (within our lifetime) sparked the development of Heroes of Englandom's plot.

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