The name of the book went through a few stages. My working title for a quite a long time was ‘Loveless.’ I felt the main character was missing the unconditional love that anyone and everyone deserves. Late one night as I was working it became clear to me that so much of what was being written was about a life hidden and tucked away. It was “Beneath the Surface” of what others saw in daily life. I changed that to my working title and it stuck.

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