Ideas come from many places, but I think the most satisfying story ideas are those that grow out of other stories. When I wrote The Rogue, I fully anticipated that Merlyn and Ysabella’s story would stand alone. In the course of writing that book, however, I became fascinated by Merlyn’s wicked brother, Gawain. I wondered whether the love of the right woman would reform him, and Evangeline volunteered for the job. Their story was told in The Scoundrel. Evangeline had such a passion for her family holding of Inverfyre that I was anxious to see how that story was resolved – my curiosity resulted in The Warrior, about the Hawk’s attempts to secure Inverfyre for the future. Of course, he could not have managed it without the aid of the woman he seized for his bride, Aileen, and her psychic powe
