Goodreads asked C.C. Rae:

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

C.C. Rae I had a brand new pair of running shoes, red and white Nikes. When I first started wearing them and they were fresh and clean I had the thought that it would be incredibly unfortunate to find yourself running through a muddy forest the day you put on a new pair of shoes. I live in the desert, there isn't a muddy forest anywhere nearby. But this fragment of a scene stuck in my head and got me wondering, what was happening, why would someone be running through a forest, what were they running toward or from? That was the start of it all. Nicole's muddy chase through the forest didn't even end up in the book by the time it was published, but I still have the running shoes.

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