I am curious to know if Thomas of Hookton’s girlfriend in Harlequin is Jewish? My reasons for suspecting it are all very tenuous: (a) her surname is Levy; (b) much is made of how black her hair is; (c) a sleazy lawyer says so – granted, he would readily lie, but he would also tell the truth if it was of use to him, particularly since he might be able to unearth some more evidence; (d) she makes some anti-Semitic remarks, as one might expect if her father was a convert, wanted to put his Jewish past well behind him, and brought up his daughter to fear and loathe Jews; (e) her father is said to have made great donations to the church, as one would expect if, as a convert, he wanted to put his past, etc., etc. This is pretty feeble evidence, but it occurred to me that you might have been setting things up for a shocking (to her) revelation down the road. And when that didn’t happen in the rest of the series, I wondered if you had changed your mind, and decided that there was nowhere to go with that particular plot device. Did I guess right? John Cross