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Chapter Five

Maurice is named after my mission president.

Nicole Benson, the girl who owns the antiques shop and who plays a bigger role later in the book, was a hugely important character in the earlier versions of the manuscript. As a matter of fact, in Tangled Web, she probably appears in the book more often than Rebekah.

Her name means nothing, and I can’t remember where it came from. However, I generally have a picture in my head of what the characters look like – and generally I style my characters around real people I’ve met. Nicole, in my head, looks like a woman I met while speaking to the Utah Librarians Association. She won a copy of Wake Me When It’s Over. I was writing this section of the book at that time, and was having trouble coming up with a description for Nicole, so I used this librarian.

In the earliest version of the manuscript, Watermark, Nicole was actually an eventual love interest for Baxter.

Christy’s Island Salon is a real place on the island. I know absolutely nothing about it, and I can’t find a picture of it, but decided to use it anyway. Likewise, so is Duke’s Sporting Goods.

More photos:

The store where they buy clothes.

More shots of Friday Harbor: here and here, and here.

Big deleted scene:

The audio version of the book, you’ll be pleased to know, is unabridged. The deal I had to make with Covenant, however, involved cutting forty pages from the manuscript. Part of the forty was the scene when Eric goes to pick up Rebekah from the salon. It was one of my very most favorite scenes in the book, but it really had no other purpose than just to be fun, so it got the axe.

Here’s the scene. (To get the full extent of it, however, you really need to read the deleted scene from chapter four, wherein Eric and Rebekah discuss possible cover identities – including a doctor and an artist.) (That scene, if you haven’t already read it, is here.)

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