Goodreads asked Kim Rendfeld:

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

Kim Rendfeld When I finished my first novel, "The Cross and the Dragon," I went through an odd form of grief, one that can only be addressed by writing another book. At first, I was going to write more about two nuns I had met in "Cross and Dragon" but couldn't get a plot together.

In the meantime, a family of Saxon slaves, who were supposed to be minor characters, kept nudging me and reminding me of how Charlemagne destroyed the pillar sacred to their religion and how they lost their freedom in that war. Their back story of loss and betrayal captivated me. I surrendered to them and made that back story the main story.

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