Goodreads asked Mia Pride:

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

Mia Pride Writing has always been a passion of mine, but the right story never called to me. Life got crazy. I had kids and started my own baking business. Years went by with the desire to write a novel growing more intense by the day, but still...no story to write.
One day, I had a horrible headache that left me very ill in bed. As I lay there holding my head in pain, the entire story of Gwynneth and Liam came pouring out of my mind, as if they were always there, waiting for the right time to reveal themselves to me. As my headache subsided, I wrote down every single detail as more and more details came to me. Within the hour, I had a a pretty good beginning to what word become an entire series of stories: the Sisters of Danu series.

Book one, Forbidden Fate, is my story for Liam and Gwynneth, but in truth, they guided my hand. there were times when I thought Gwynneth would go one direction, but she insisted on going another. The book is set in Iron Age Ireland, the year 58 AD. This is the time of Celtic, Pagan Ireland. No written language existed and all materials were organic. This means that there are no true written records of the time and very few artifacts left to study. After 1.5 years of research and writing, I tried to use as much historically accurate details as possible, using other nearby Celtic tribes as reference when needed. As for the mysteries of their time, I used my imagination to fill in the blanks.

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