I imagined the story in a future time when my heroine and her husband traveled to England using a sort of pneumatic tube for instant transportation. In that version, it was the trip that triggered her memories of life in the distant past. Not all my heroes have carried a badge, but many of them do, and I've always tried to make their behavior and outlook on life as accurate as possible. I live in western Maine, near ski areas, but nowhere near the ocean, and my settings reflect that. The characters, of course, are totally fictional.
Readers are smart.
They resent sloppy research and they tend to stop reading books by writers who make too many careless mistakes. The sixth book, Face Down Before Rebel Hooves, will be out in August of 2001. I'm also working on a young adult romance, Someday, which will be published as an ebook early in 2002. Unlike the heroine of Someday, I enjoyed being the center of attention. But then, at the time I didn't have a boyfriend I was trying to impress.