This is Cara enjoying one of her favorite places: a beach in southern Spain located about 100 ft from a cafe and another 50 ft from a bookstore. 

    And this is what the country looks like where she lives. Unusual, isn’t it? It’s called the Palouse, a vast area of rolling wheat, lentils, and other legumes. The entire area is called the Inland Empire (of the Pacific Northwest) as opposed to the Inland Empire of California. Spokane sits at the northern edge of the Palouse. Clarkston sits near its southern limit.

Cara is married to a retired military officer. She raised two boys. She worked and then didn't. She and her husband built a boat in Ireland then knocked themselves out sailing it around Europe.

But always, she tells me, she had a story brewing at the back of her head filling in the settings with wherever she happened to be. Since she’s been on the move all her life, her fantasy characters spoke French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and English with an Irish accent then a Cornish or Welsh accent. But not Turkish because she admits she never got competent enough to do more than ask for bread at the bakal, (a small grocery store the size of a box), or a taxi to her school in Cihangir, (pronounced Jee-han-gear), a district of Istanbul located on a hill overlooking the Bosporus and the Golden Horn.

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