Yes, that’s where I’m at. She has just got to go. Part of me is surprised but the other half sort of knew all along that my main character’s best friend would not survive the second book of a planned series Towards Paris.

After all, my main character Sarah Montague is a crossover character from my novel Tomaree where we meet her at age 38 living in Shoal Bay, Port Stephens, far away from the glamour of Paris or even Sydney.

At the moment though it’s 1924 and Sarah is about to turn twenty and she is trying to find a new life for herself in Paris. Earlier her best friend Louie eloped with a young Jewish man and the couple are living somewhere outside of Paris.

Now I have to sort out the how and the where. I’m thinking some sort of heart disease and maybe Sarah will find her best friend severely ill at a sanatorium in the alps. I am having fun playing with different scenarios. For the details you’ll have to read Towards Paris when it comes out!