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Of all the characters to feature in the Dancer Series – of which there are many – which is your favourite to write and why?

I don’t know. I love them all. In fact, I think I may be in love with the whole lot of them, at least a little bit. So, just to mix things up, I’ll say Michelle. While she is very much the antagonist of TENDU, or, at least, one of them, I know why she is the way she is. Readers will learn more through the series as it progresses. She’s so very clever, quite brilliant in fact, and I love the absolute focus of her mind, even though it leads to terrible things.

My favourite is Justin.

Now the Dancer Series is actually set in the same continuity as your historical romances, I hear. So, tell us Ailish, should we expecting to see the return of any familiar faces or names?

Well, there is the anomaly of Crispin Truelove, but I never speak about that. Readers of my historical fiction have so far enjoyed the brief mentions of the Mermaid and the Bear in the pages of TENDU. There will be more of that in the next series – Castle Dancers – as a television documentary is being made about the history of the castle in the second book, and two of the main characters will play Isobell and Thomas from Mermaid. That was great fun to write, and I hope it’ll be good to read too.

Oh I have no doubt it will.

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