Her adventure begins when she must escape a cruel suitor in Montreal, where most of her upbringing has been at the hands of an ailing aunt and the nuns from the Congregation of Notre-Dame. So Brigitte was born of an Ojibwe mother and French Canadian fur-trader father. I originally imagined Brigitte to come to the continent as one of the "King's Girls" sent from France to build a home in New France, but I soon realized that for authenticity and historical accuracy of the story setting (which is very important to me) my heroine would more likely be Metis, meaning Brigitte is of both French and Native American heritage. I first dreamed up Brigitte's story of finding love in the North American wilderness while sitting in a northern Wisconsin deer stand on a frigid November day long ago.
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