Hello,

First of all, I hope this note finds you all safe and healthy. These are terrible times we live in and the most we can all do is cope. I truly wish that all of you are dealing with the current situation as best as you possibly can. Second of all, I want to thank you for supporting this story. The overwhelming support I've gotten through your reactions and reviews have honestly stunned me, but I'm afraid I have to let you down, if only for the moment.

I'm taking a step back from The Hidden Duchess. It's taken me too long to finish this story and I find myself forgetting what i've written, and having to reread my own story to jog my memory. I've been so busy this year, as you all may have noticed. My time for writing fanfiction has been cut by everything else. I have no clue where this story is going anymore and all I want is to do right by my readers. I'm placing this story on a temporary hiatus. I hope that I'm not letting you down. One of my own pet peeves is authors who have more on hiatus stories than they have WIPs and completed ones. I have several other projects that I'm more interested in at the moment and I just can't seem to focus on this one.

I hope you all understand.

xx, China