I had a blast, an absolute blast writing these three books, and to this day Sparrow remains one of my favorite characters.
When I began researching the actual stories attributed to Robin of Locksley, there were so many variances and discrepancies and sheer guesswork, supposition, and rumor, that it left all manner of doors wide open for my own interpretation of how the man.or men.developed into a legend. Through A Dark Mist, In the Shadow of Midnight, and The Last Arrow have become known as my Robin Hood Trilogy (click for links to Amazon) over the years.
There is something about misty forests and outlaws, robbing from the rich to save the poor, and the sound of an arrow thunking into a tree trunk that gets my imagination stirring. My second love, after tall ships and exploding cannon, has to be the legend of Robin Hood. Some of the characters were composites of real men and women who fought and died so heroically, and when I got that phone call at 3am from a friend who was reading it, and she was crying so hard I could barely understand her, I realized I had made them real for the readers too, and that made all of those long hours locked away in my office well worthwhile. A lot of the secondary characters and events that took place were real, I merely inserted my hero and heroine into their stories. After working on the two books for three years, the characters almost became real to me, and so I laughed with some of the antics, and cried with some of the tragedies as I wrote them. The Blood of Roses is a direct sequel and picks up the action from book one and carries it through to the tragic battle on the field of Culloden.
It is a rather unconventional way to end a historical romance, but in my mind, perfectly logical and heroic on Alexander Cameron's part. I have been taken to task by some readers over the way I ended The Pride of Lions.
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