Plus, as a historian, I knew that as deep and real as their love was, the realities of their age would have made any marriage between them destructive. I love Kat as a character, but fiction requires conflict, and the conflict between Kat and Sebastian would have worn thin over the course of the series. I did know before I ever started writing the first book in the series, What Angels Fear, that I wanted Sebastian to end up married to Hero. Why did you decide to choose a new pseudonym for this series and are there any secrets behind your choice? You've written other kinds of fiction under various names. But it was the story of Sebastian and his loves, friends, family, and enemies that really grabbed my imagination and wouldn't let go. I toyed with several other settings for a series-namely medieval England and nineteenth-century America-and developed casts of characters for each. But eventually I came under increasing pressure to "pick a time and place and stick with it." I decided that if I had to stick to writing about one time and place, I'd rather do it by following a cast of characters through the twists and turns of their lives in a historical mystery series. I wrote seven historical adventure-romances before I decided to move to historical mysteries, and I was fortunate to be given a great deal of freedom with them, particularly with the settings that ranged from medieval France and nineteenth-century America to Colonial Australia and the Victorian-era South Pacific.
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