The Warren Brood #4, Revealed!

Greetings and salutations, friends and moon-watchers! Yes, yes, I know. It’s been quite a while since my last update. Much longer than I’d anticipated. Life certainly has a way of getting in the way of projects. Case in point: most of my time and energy lately has been taken up by the two new kittens my wife and I adopted over the summer. Just look at these tiny little gremlins!

That’s Nona on the left, and her brother Ortus on the right. We picked them up from a shelter in Gothenburg in early August, and since then they’ve been the tiny little suns about which our universe revolves. Frankly, it’s a bit hard to work on anything productive when these little menaces are waddling about doing kitten things. Ugh, my heart. Their raw, evolutionary charisma aside, we’ve been trying to get them to integrate nicely with our other cats, which has been taking a lot of time and energy as well. But the good news is they’re well on the way to being the best of friends!

Anyway, enough of them for the moment. Despite the delays throughout this year, I’ve been hard at work, and I’m happy to announce that the fourth Warren Brood book, Heirs to Manilius, is on the verge of completion! And, I’m super excited to give y’all a glimpse of the finished cover!

Holy moly, once again Adrian really knocked it out of the park!

Heirs to Manilius continues where Tatters of the King left off, with Spinneretta and Mark departing Grantwood to search for Mark’s estranged cousin Lily, who was last seen fleeing the bloody ruins of Arbordale six years prior with a dangerous artifact in her possession. Unsurprisingly, this will be easier said than done, and there will be more than a few setbacks along the way. But if you want to know more, you’ll have to pick up the finished book! While it is not yet set in stone, I am currently aiming for an end-of-year release. Rest assured that the official date will be announced here when it’s been decided!

In the meantime, some fun tidbits about Heirs to Manilius:

• At ~132.000 words, it is the shortest book in the series
• Featuring only 4 unique POVs, it tells a more contained, focused story than the volumes that came before it
• It is the only book in the series to not utilize scene breaks within chapters
• Its setting will be immediately familiar to fans of Into Vermilion
• It is the final book in the Warren Brood series (for real this time!)

Yes, that last bullet point speaks truth: this is indeed the end of the Warren Brood. But although this book bring the series to the conclusion it was always meant to have, that doesn’t mean there won’t be more stories set in this universe going forward. In fact, the new series I teased in my beginning-of-2024 post will actually be a spinoff of the Warren Brood, with a completely different atmosphere, feel, and scope than the main series. But I’ll have more details about that project when it’s a bit more hatched.

In the meantime, please stay tuned for an upcoming announcement regarding the release date! Until then, be safe my friends.