I’ve had plenty of interest in Behind the Scenes, and I promise I’ll keep those coming, but I thought it might be fun to do a few Behind the Story posts. Here’s my first one, a look at how Psychometry came to play an integral part in Past & Present, book 2 in my Marketville Mystery series:

When I was about sixteen, my mother and her best friend, Kay, dragged me to an “event” where a blind psychic would go into the audience, take a proffered object, and tell the owner something about it (for something like $10 a pop).

At the time, Kay and my mom were big on going to fortunetellers, Kay being recently divorced and actively looking for a replacement husband and impending news of where or when she’d find one, whereas my father had died of stomach cancer two years earlier, widowing my mother at age 41. She was looking for answers, too, though her hope was that she’d hear from my father on the “other side.”

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