Goodreads asked Sydney Walters:

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

Sydney Walters I came across a newspaper clipping of a young boy that had fallen into a sinkhole in a town called Centralia, Pennsylvania.

When I learned about why the sinkholes were there, it terrified me. I couldn't believe that such a place could exist, and I thought about the horrifying fate that awaited the boy had he not been pulled out in time.

I wanted to write and tell people about the town as a very real place, but in a fictional light.

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