
When I wrote The Lost Duke of Wyndham, I purposefully made no mentions of characters from previous books.This portrait of Marie-Louise O’Murphy by Francois Boucher is the painting that so captured Grace’s imagination:.I’d originally written Grace with brown eyes, but when I saw the cover, I changed them to blue!
The model who portrays Grace on the cover is actually the actress Ewa Da Cruz, who plays Vienna Hyatt on As the World Turns. In the end, that became the name of the two-book set. The working title of this book was The Two Dukes of Wyndham. Many scenes occur in both books, but from different points of view. When I began to develop these two novels, it became clear that if I didn’t want the plot or characters of one book to be dependent upon the other, I would need to write the two books simultaneously. Cavendish, I Presume take place concurrently, and their plots are very closely intertwined. Or you can just peek at my this interview I gave.) One of them must be wrong.” (Two points if you can guess where that line comes from.
For years I’ve wanted to write a two-book set based on the premise: “Two men say they’re the Duke of Something.