I spent twenty years helping my grandfather, a retired British Historian, sort, restore and rewrite the history of our family in Scotland and England. That is where I came across the basis for my historical novel set in the year before the rising of William Wallace. I was working on pages for the history of my family in the late 1200s, and thought it a perfect story for a marvelous historical romance. I currently reside one-half of the year in Britain, the rest in Kentucky – a pattern of my whole life. Receiving my education on both sides of the Pond gives more...