Working on the outline for book two. It's getting there, but I can't nail the ending. I feel I'm missing something, something that should be in plain sight. I'm trying to go back to what made me write this story, what I wanted it to be about--this should tell me what the end should be, right? So for now I've typed up a few guiding thoughts and keep staring at them in the hope that the answer will reveal itself...

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