The Grotto's Secret

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Although this abandoned hospital is in Beelitz Heilstaetten, Germany, in my mind Kelby is guided to the bottom of a rotting wooden stairway.

This spooky image from photographer Alicia Rius and her experience of seeing them in a mirror gave me the idea to have my heroine frightened by a ghost ... err statue in The Grotto's Secret.

Medieval Costumes Paper Dolls, this is a great way to find out what they wore in the middle ages.

This lovely image of looking out from the inside of a cave or grotto gave me the idea for my character to hide things inside ... what does she hide?

In The Grotto's Secret conspiracy suspense thriller, I imagine my medieval character to be as beautiful and feisty as Isabelle in Braveheart. If she wasn't so defiant and show her feminist views, she may have dressed this way in gowns with both tight and trailing sleeves. Find out how she really dresses in The Grotto's Secret.

This image by photographer Alicia Rius is totally creepy. I took this idea OTT and had the Homerton Lab in The Grotto's Secret full of weird bottles like this. Find out when my character sees this horrible sight and what happens next in The Grotto's Secret suspense thriller.

When I was thinking of an idea of how to frighten my main character in my conspiracy suspense thriller, The Grotto's Secret, with something terrible the villain does to her family, I came up with the idea of hanging an ear (yes, a human ear) to a wind chime. Please don't do this at home! When searching for ideas for wind chimes I found this site with lots of inspiring ideas for wind chimes. I even used some of the chimes shown on this site in that chapter in The Grotto's Secret.

An abandoned dentist equipment added a nice imagined touch to my scary hospital lab in The Grotto's Secret.

Firstly, I love this image of a fight scene in the Pirates of the Caribbean. Secondly, this image has nothing to do with The Grotto's Secret, I just love the image because it conjurs up delicious images of a great fight fight scene. The lighting helps to give the image a medieval glow. So, to my fight scenes in my conspiracy thriller.

Queen Cleopatra famously forced servants to commit suicide by means of a strychnine tree’s fruit seeds, which contain lethal levels of strychnine and brucine, in order to determine if it would be the best means for her own suicide. Upon seeing their agony (which included painful vomiting, facial contortions and convulsions) she opted for the apparently less horrific choice of the asp. In The Grotto's Secret, my character finds some natural toxins in a lab and ... well, I won't give away the plot!

I found this fabulous site that is incredibly resourceful for authors wanting to find out more about Medieval Fashion. Don't you just LUV the shoes!

These tools were used by scribes and writers in medieval times. In The Grotto's Secret my character uses these tools when she writes her mother's herb journal. Little does she know that trying to get it published would come to the attention of the Spanish Inquisition and prove fatal.

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