My blind date and I weren't really strangers after all.
We had flirted briefly on Amazon when BookBub sent a special offer to set us up but the timing just wasn't right for a commitment.
We had so much in common unbeknownst to me.
The author, Bruce Holsinger, is a professor at the University of Virginia (my alma mater).
He also teaches the following class on Coursera that I had signed up for last fall (but haven't finished): Plagues, Witches and War: The Worlds of Historical Ficion.
Fate was drawing our paths together all along.
