Goodreads asked Debbie A. McClure:

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

Debbie A. McClure Growing up, my mother told me about a great paternal aunt of hers in Denmark who claimed that we are related to Louise Rasmussen, Countess Danner, a woman of poor birth who rose to become a ballerina with the Royal Danish Ballet and who then fell in love with and married King Frederik VII of Denmark in the mid-1800s.

Despite having found true love, Louise was never accepted by the aristocracy of the time, so consequently, had a terrible time. Never forgetting her roots, toward the end of her life she created Denmark's first home for poor, abused, and unwed mothers of Denmark. Danner House, as it came to be commonly called, is an outstanding legacy, and still exists as a safe house for women in Copenhagen today.

I fell in love with Louise and Frederik's story as a teenager, and after much research, have come to respect both of these incredible people who did so much for the people of their country. It is a story of unequivocal love, acceptance, and shining example of what one person can do to affect real change in the life of others.

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