Tonight, the last piece finally fell into place for the plot of my story. FINALLY!!!

It' s the brother!! He's the one causing all of the problems that I was trying so hard to attribute to other people.

Before I knew it was him, I couldn't figure out how this nice gal could possibly have so many enemies. But she doesn't, because the brother is behind everything. Ah-hah!

And if you go back to my Torturing Characters post, where I talk about her parents showing up... I never knew what prompted her parents' arrival... and it turns out, that's the brother, too. Or should I say, the brother's untimely demise prompts her parents to show up on her doorstep. The brother died without kids. Daddy-dearest wants grandkids to leave his "empire" to. And as far as Daddy is concerned, that means it's now my heroine's job to have those kids... except that she's barren... and so on, and so on.

It's the brother's fault! Cool! It explains so much.

I love it when that last piece falls into place. :-)