"A Frenchman named Frédéric Jeorge received a copy of the book, and he found that almost all of the book was a copy of "Des cendres et du vent," a "Highlander" fan fiction written by Jeorge that was available on the Internet around 2001 to 2002.After being confronted, Côté admitted that she plagiarized the fan fiction, and presented it as an original work.