The entire third act of The Seals of Annach takes place in the Middle East and I spent more than a year immersed in learning the intricacies of life in Syria and Jordan in order to create a base that reflected the devastation of the Syrian civil war alongside the deep reverence for Islamic and even more ancient Middle Eastern cultures.
Long believed to be the seat of humankind and scarred deeply by the loss of culture and destruction of societies for thousands of years, the Middle East and its importance as the central location for the end of Book #1 made itself clear very early in my research and story mapping.
Travel and cultural identity proved key in these boards.
Robin Rivers 
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