Rigney had worked so hard and for so long to wind up his saga that his widow felt it was her mission to see the series finished. “My husband left a tremendous amount of material,” McDougal says. “My duty is to that above all.” The author had made outlines and copious notes, along with about 50,000 words for at least one more book. Some chapters were finished, merely requiring an edit by McDougal. Some scenes were fully defined. As his illness progressed, he’d told an oral version of the story, which was recorded on tape by his friends and family. This enabled McDougal to create a comprehensive outline of his planned final book. But these breakdowns and fragments still had to be inserted into a complete novel by a new writer, with Rigney’s notes as a thorough guideline.
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