Goodreads asked Michael Amos Cody:

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

Michael Amos Cody I don't know about a plot, but here's a possible inciting incident. One Sunday morning, I stepped out my front door in the woods south of Asheville. I intended to fetch the newspaper, but I was stopped when I looked down and saw a woman's dew-wet footprint on the concrete stoop. Just a single footprint, angled in such a way that I could tell somebody had stepped up cautiously (only one step--so, ready to run if caught) to look through the window into my home office, with a view of my bathroom sink and mirror. I looked up from the footprint and looked around, but all was quiet in the woods.

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