Goodreads asked M.E. Tudor:

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

M.E. Tudor When I originally started writing Standing Her Ground it was a very different story. I had wanted to write a story that touched on the corrective rapes going on in South Africa and other African nations. Originally, I started a story about Kaitlyn's ( a supporting character) mother, Catherine, but I could get that story to take off, and then the story about a young lesbian who had been raped and got pregnant came into my head. The stories in African made me wonder if that could actually happen here, and yes, I believe it could and probably has. I also know that there are a lot of young women who've gotten pregnant after being raped who have chosen to keep their child, so I covered a lot of territory that I wanted to write about with the one book.

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