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First, people should know that in the UK and elsewhere, this book is titled Genesis, which was the original title I chose. (In the US, there was another book called Genesis--sci-fi--that was publishing around mine and they didn't want confusion). I chose the title Genesis because this was really a restart for Sara Linton. She's in a new city, she's completely changed her life, she's still recovering from the horrible events in Beyond Reach (weirdly, called Skin Privilege in the UK and other territories...) I felt very keenly that I needed for readers to mourn alongside Sara, but I couldn't let it be so raw that she couldn't actually function, so I set the story a few years after Beyond Reach. So, we hear about what she went though, but we also see that there is a light peeking over the horizon.

This is also the first book where Sara meets Will Trent, which is something I had planned way back when I wrote Triptych. I see that book as well as Fractured (the only Will books without Sara) as Will's preparation for meeting Sara. He's starting to shake off Angie, he gets partnered with Faith Mitchell (whom I consider a grumpy Watson to Will's Holmes in that she makes him explain the things that are running around in his head and pulls him out of his shell), his relationship with Amanda is becoming more open...so, he's kind of learning how to be the sort of man that Sara would be interested in. And readers, too!

SPOILER!

I also write about a widow on Cop Town (June 2014) which I didn't realize until I had finished the book. What's this with me and widows? I guess I find it interesting, because how do you go on when you lose the love of your life? It doesn't seem possible, but people have to do it every day.