Well, the new chapter is done, and it has a title (it wouldn’t be done without a title, after all).

When I’m trying to figure out the title of a chapter (and when I’m trying to figure out where one should end and the next one begin), I look at the beginning and the end, and try to see what’s the “through line” (a phrase I swiped from Konstantin Stanislavski, but he’s dead so he won’t mind). And, once I looked at this chapter, it was obvious that the real point of it is Tammy Everett.

Tammy is one of the two biggest surprises of this book to me (the other was how well SarahBeth and Katherine hit it off, but that made total sense once it happened). But Tammy has gone far beyond what I could have expected.

And there is much more to come.

By the way, this makes Tammy the first character to have two chapters named after her (since there was one in A Sane Woman as well), which she would consider entirely appropriate.