Everybody has a few enduring fantasy fixations (at least I hope they do, otherwise, I might be abnormal). For me, the idea of a virile knight protecting and loving his lady is one of them. Maybe that's why I like Robinhood in all its incarnations, and stories about Camelot. But fantasies for me aren't enough. I want to see how they would play out in the real world, in my life. What would it be LIKE to know a real, live Knight of the Round Table? Maybe that's why I have been drawn lately to write time travel. It's a chance to work out how fantasy would meet reality.

So, THE MISTS OF TIME is all about Knights of the Round Table and what would happen if you let the fantasy of Camelot leak into modern day San Francisco. Of course there is a villain, and danger, and how the present would be changed by bringing the past forward. That's the plot part of the story. But its heart is about what an honorable knight would be doing if he lived today, and what it would be like to know him and to love him. Actually, I decided it would be... difficult. Protective? Oh, yeah. He'd be protective. But that might be a little hard for a modern woman to accept. Honorable? Without doubt. But that might stand in the way of pursuing a sexual relationship with the woman he is sworn to protect. And how would our modern day society respond to a man who acted like a "Knight in shining armor" whether he had armor or not? Well, let's just say that a stint in prison is involved. And it's no fun unless he is devastatingly handsome and really sexy.

Who has to deal with him? A romance writer who doesn't really understand romance, who doesn't write good heroes, and who doesn't think, down deep inside, that she deserves a dream come true.

Tell me I'm not abnormal. What are your enduring fantasies? Is having a real-life Knight of the Round Table for your very own one of them?