Goodreads asked Rex Grainger:

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

Rex Grainger The idea of an anomalistic skeleton with skin residue due to a powerful, ancient anti-ageing source just appeared after a lot of thinking. I think it was all those Hammer horror films I've seen as a kid. I always wanted to write a book about reversing ageing and to focus on who would benefit from this. Originally, it was going to be set in Egypt, but I finally settled for Bulgaria and Turkey as there were links between the two. Bulgaria has a lot of Thracian Tombs, as well as tomb looting going on, so I thought it would be great to set it there. And also due to the Byzantine and Roman history in Bulgaria, I made my tomb a mixture of Thracian and Byzantine.

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