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AUTHOR’S NOTE
Thank you so much for reading Untamed Fate!
As archaeologists, we love to include historical tidbits and exotic
locations in our stories. Savannah and Jaxson’s Italian adventure was inspired
by a trip we took with Linsey Hall, long before we began to think about
writing. One of the places we stayed was Civita di Bagnoregio—a tiny
village perched on a plateau in the middle of a heavily eroded valley. It
served as the basis for la Città Che Muore, the town where the mage lived.
The only way to reach Civita di Bagnoregio is to either ascend the donkey
path up from t
he valley floor or cross a long narrow bridge that stretches out
from the rim of the valley (we removed the bridge for our version of the
town).
Civita di Bagnoregio was founded two-and-a-half millennia ago by the
Etruscans, who excavated caves in the hard volcanic tuff. The local geology
has put the town in a precarious position. While the city was constructed atop
the hard layer of tuff, the underlying layer is clay, and it is continuously
eroding (we actually saw several landslides while we were there). The plateau