“We often hear it said that ‘hindsight is 20/20.’ It goes to the idea that it’s easier to look at the past with clear eyes because the event has already happened. You can see the errors in judgment that caused you to guess wrong (or right.) But we wondered what would happen if a person saw time as a fluid object—the past, the future and the present, all in one long stream that moved and shifted as every new choice was made.

How would someone deal with the knowledge of death and life, played out again and again over centuries? Either it would drive the person mad, or they would become resigned to it . . . cold and unfeeling. From this, the character of Josette Monier was born. She’s been judged evil, insane or dangerous by those who don’t know her—merely because of the “gifts” she was born with. But those who are close to her know she’s often troubled, sad and in emotional turmoil. That sort of complexity isn’t often encountered in romance fiction and we knew that she deserved to have her story told. We’d like readers to close the book thinking about the choices we would make if faced with similar situations.”