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The place I call home has four seasons, and October falls in the middle of autumn. Spring brings soft fragrances, pastel colours and gentle breezes. Summer reinforces the maturation of those fragrances and colours and adds spectacular storms of thunder and lightning. Autumn is different. It’s the precursor to heavy winter rain, snowstorms, and ice. It arrives with attitude: brilliant colours of gold, burnt orange, crimson and blood red, a chilled wind that crushes the gentlen

TRAVEL PLANS My husband and I had already booked a Trafalgar tour of Spain, Morocco and Portugal, when I started writing my current manuscript The Tsarina’s Crown . Although the story occurs during World War I, it is not connected to my earlier works: The Prophecy Saga . As The Tsarina’s Crown developed, the need for extensive research became apparent and my research-assistant/husband was on it. A few days into the research and development, he suggested that we should leave