Goodreads asked Amy Belding Brown:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Amy Belding Brown After I wrote Mr. Emerson's Wife, I became interested in exploring the world of the New England Puritans, because I wanted to learn more about what the Transcendentalists and others were reacting to. I happened on a copy of Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative in a gift shop at the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, and it immediately intrigued me. I soon widened my reading and became absorbed in the drama of King Philip's War. It was a remarkable time that's not covered in many American history texts. That led me to the story of the "Praying Indians" and the remarkable Nimuc man, James Printer. I was also fascinated with how Mary might have negotiated her re-entry into English colonial society after her captivity.

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