The idea for Daughter of Vengeance came to me in a very odd way. I was attending a funeral for a friend and during her eulogy, her brother-in-law told us how she had stopped breathing for a few seconds. After she'd been resuscitated, she told them that she'd seen the other side. When they asked what she'd seen, she told them "I'm not allowed to say." I still get goosebumps when I think about it. I thought that was a really compelling idea; what happens on the other side? Do our friends and family watch us? How? Why? Do they cheer, cringe, cry and celebrate with us? I wanted to imagine that afterlife and somehow incorporate it into a larger story. Since I've always been a fan of the fantasy genre, I thought it would be fun to tell a story of a young lady who became apprenticed to an assassin. Because the whole story is told from her point of view, there are brief flashes into the afterlife as her father and other relatives watch her go through the trials of becoming an assassin for the King. Ultimately, she's confronted by the ghosts of her past as the man who killed her father is one of the architects behind a plot to overthrow the King. The first chapter sets the scene for our heroine, showing us how her parents died and how she was born from violence. We get to know her father and start to understand how the afterlife functions and how he will become obsessed with watching his little girl grow up without him.