the novel has been taking shape for me sometime in the mid 1990s I've been thinking about the ballad Scarborough Fair as recorded by Simon and Garfunkel as a teenager I found the song beautiful and sad and oh so romantic. listening to the lyrics as an adult though I was taking it back the man demands one impossible task after another from the woman and if she doesn't deliver then she'd know true love of his I thought there's no way that woman can possibly prove that she loves this man he's already made up his mind did she do him wrong what's the story.

ISBN: 9780142414910