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January 13, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n Your characters have been placed in Witness Protection. What three truths about themselves do they want to keep?<\/strong><\/p>\n I laughed when I read this week’s prompt and immediately thought of Harmony from the Harmony Duprie mystery series. She’d probably end up getting herself thrown out of the program due to not wanting to play by the rules.<\/p>\n After all, she’s tangled with some nasty bad guys who might want to get back at her. I can see her having to get into Witness Protection at least for a bit while the legal system worked through her latest adventure.<\/p>\n Image by Marco Oetjen<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n She’d have to give up Dolores, her salsa-red Jaguar, and that would make her unhappy. Dolores attracts too much attention and isn’t useful for hiding. Harmony figured that out long ago, and Federal agents would have a heart attack trying to protect her if she kept her car.<\/p>\n So, what truths would she keep?<\/p>\n She doesn’t have to worry about her hair color, she’s fine with wigs. She already switches between her glasses and contacts, so she’s good there, too. So, external characteristics are not the issue. Losing touch with her friends and having to make new ones, however, would throw her for a loop.<\/p>\n Especially Eli, her lover. He “grounds” her. He’d be unable to go into Witness Protection with her and still run his business. Of all her truths, he’s the one she’d want to keep and it would be impossible.<\/p>\n Now, the Feds should be able to find Harmony a job as a librarian in a small, backwater town where no one would think to look for her. Maybe even a place smaller than Oak Grove. She’d fit right in. So, that’s one.\u00a0<\/p>\n She’d be able to take her mother’s African violet and her collection of first-edition books with her. A\u00a0 bit of home.\u00a0 That’s two.<\/p>\n I’m sure the Feds could fix her up with a way to access the funds she inherited. Not that she likes to spend that money, but she’ll need some help settling into her new life. That’s three.<\/p>\n And where is Jake, her ex-lover, in all this? He’d get such a kick out of slipping past the protections and finding Harmony, especially with Eli out of touch. I’m just not sure that he has the skills to find her. But there are things I don’t know about him, so he might surprise me.<\/p>\n There you go. Three truths and a bonus question. Sounds like a setup for a new book!\u00a0<\/p>\n Now I’m off to check out the truths the other authors chose for their characters. Come with me by following the links below.<\/p>\n \r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pjmaclayne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jaguar-1104865_1920-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\")