Goodreads asked Janet Lane:

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

Janet Lane I was researching (one of my favorite pastimes!), and noticed that many of the battles over the centuries were staged on bridges. In centuries well before the time period in which I write (15th), victories were often achieved by burning bridges. This made it more difficult for military divisions to join armies or provide back-up to a battle-in-progress. At one of the most beautiful libraries I've had the pleasure of frequenting (The Denver Public Library), I discovered a gem of a book: Living Bridges, The Inhabited Bridge: Past, Present and Future. What if my handsome protagonist was a Master Bridge Builder? What if his family lived on a strategically important bridge? My imagination roared to life, and I was off and plotting Crimson Secret.

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