Goodreads asked Anne Merino:

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

Anne Merino I was having a coffee with an old friend and hearing about the restoration process to her family's historic house -- not, apparently, an endeavor for the meek and easily frightened as disaster can lurk behind every electrical conduit.

It occurred to me, as I listened to her tales of discovering old, fascinating things in long abandoned attics, that if one had immortality of some description, one could revisit a place from the past and, perhaps, find something that would shed light on a mysterious historical event. Upon returning home from the coffeehouse, I jotted up some notes about a northern English castle with a unique former inhabitant.

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