Cat Carstairs
Cat Carstairs asked Robert Beatty:

I'm currently reading Willa of Dark Hollow and I noticed that in this book, Hialeah is fifteen, but in the first book she was twelve. In the first few chapters it is mentioned that the events of the first book happened only a year prior. Why was Hialeah's age changed? Love your books!! :)

Robert Beatty Thanks for loving my books. I truly appreciate it. Hialeah was supposed to be fourteen in book one, so she's fifteen in book two. There is a point in book one where Nathaniel is talking about a time period in the past when Hialeah was twelve. But that was a bit of a mistake on my part. At that time in the story, she would have been thirteen or fourteen, not twelve.

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