There was a lot I didn’t have figured out-there was no bolt of lightning. I was pretty sure from the beginning that it would be a series. And then I thought, that’s interesting, but what if those other children didn’t die? What if they were kidnapped? Then there’s still some chance of rescue.ĭid you know from the start that it would be a story told in multiple volumes? I considered what it would be like to be aware of all those similarities as one of the surviving kids. The story stuck in my mind because it was so weird.Ī couple years ago, I started thinking about the potential of the story in the column. For a period of time, she was too terrified to drive her own car because of the eerie coincidences. The oldest two had the same names as her oldest two children and the third child had the name they would have used if the child had been born a boy. The three children who had died were the same ages as her kids. It was about a weird circumstance: a mother of three small children happened to read about a car accident the tragic deaths of three other children. The original seed was planted by a newspaper column I read 31 years ago. Out of all the books and series I’ve ever written, this is definitely the one that had the longest gestation period. From where did the inspiration for this unique series premise come?
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