Goodreads asked Cynthia Ripley Miller:

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

Cynthia Ripley Miller A question people ask me all the time is what set me on the path to writing my novel—I would have to say ‘signs.' I taught history and one summer I stumbled across Diana Gabaldon's, Outlander. After I read it, I thought I would love to write a romantic historical with elements of adventure, but I wanted a fresh time period. A short time later, a went to see the movie The Matrix. In the story, there is a character called The Merovingian. I felt slammed. A time period I had considered was the 5th century at the end of the Roman Empire and when Frank barbarian warriors rose to build the Merovingian Empire in France. I went home that night sparked by this idea. The next morning, I wrote my first chapter about a Frank barbarian noble and a Roman senator's daughter.

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