Hello all! I’m blogging the exciting news that the next book the Sun’s Guard series is up and available:

Here’s a link in case the one attached to the image doesn’t work: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV295LM4

This is the fifth book in the series, and we’ve started the long game resolution. There are parts of King, Ace (Book 6), and Reversed (Book 7) that I have set up since the beginning, so I’m excited for them to start being resolved and for you to see it all come together. Hopefully readers will have a mini-freak-out as a bunch of smaller things suddenly add up.

Writing this book was thankfully easier than I’ve had with Caley the last couple of books. I’m not sure if it’s because I had such a clear idea of what was going on, where it was ending, and had fresh ideas as I went along that just made it even better. Or if it could be I was writing during a time of year when I was less stressed. Either way, it was great.

And then we got to editing. I had it all planned out, I knew I could finish over my winter break even with holidays with the family, it was all good. Set a release date of my birthday even, that’s how confident I was.

Taylor (my older brother) exposed myself, my mother, and my aunt to COVID. Of course we all came down with it (I got to be the one who went to the doctor to find out what it was, he felt soooo bad). And while he had previously had it so he recovered decently quick, the three of us had not so our cases were pretty bad. Mom is still coughing. The point was, I got laid up for the full ten days it took me to recover, barely making it through work via remotely the last two days where I had to. Editing clearly fell to the side to handle whenever I had the strength, which wasn’t nearly often enough.

But we got there and with only a couple weeks of a delay.

Next up is Winter, a hardback which contains Queen, King, and then an exclusive short story, “Seeking Vines,” which is set between King and the next full-book, Reversed, and also hints at some of the shenanigans coming up in Reversed and Ace. I’m aiming to release Winter in March 2026, and then Reversed will be in May of 2027.