Stirling, Elaine

We live our lives in chapters, Joseph Campbell used to say, and not until later decades do we see the curving arc, how all that seemed random and disjointed slowly comes together to support a premise or a common theme. For a long, long time, we don't know who holds or turns the kaleidoscope. I've been a "professional" writer since 1985, by virtue of having sold my first of ten Harlequin romances in that year. Five of those were romantic suspense because I love a good mystery as much as a good love story. In subsequent years, while attempting to write a godawfully serious and tragic historical