Actually this book sprang from a question from a reader who remembered I had hinted Darik and Nicolle might be expecting in an earlier Badari Warriors book and then I hadn’t done anything else with that. I replied to her it didn’t work out for them and went on with my day but the question sparked off a train of thought in my head as to why it hadn’t worked out (besides me moving on to other stories and plots) and how that would affect them as a couple and what they’d do next. And then the Muse s...