New series: the Sanctuary books are going back in time!

That’s right!  For a while now we’ve hinted about it and hoped, but now we know for sure where the Sanctuary books are going after Sanctuary Unbound comes out next June!

In the beginning we didn’t even know what we were doing.  We had ideas! Arcs of six books, three books, 4.75 books (okay, maybe not but some days it seemed like it!)  Things changed as we grew, and one of the reasons I love the Red Rock books so much is because I think you can see that we were growing.  It’s the only series we’ve been working on pretty much continuously this whole time, and I really feel like we’re learning so much with each successive one.  (And this is the time we give thanks to our fantabulous editor Anne Scott, who strikes a perfect balance between educating and encouraging, and makes each book so much better than it was.)

So, anyway.  We didn’t know where we were going when we started Cry Sanctuary, but we knew as we finished up the synopsis on the 4th book, the one that tied up all the loose plot ends, that we didn’t want to be done with the universe.  Maybe the denizens of Red Rock deserved a few months blissful peace after the crazy we put them through, but there was a lot we hadn’t gotten to explore yet.

One of those things is how it all started.  In Sanctuary Unbound we get to hint at the story of how the first sanctuary town came to be, but it wasn’t the time or place to explore it all.  Instead we’re happy to announce that close on the heels of the fourth book’s release we’ll be taking the series back in time with a novella set in 1933!

A Safe Harbor will feature Joan, a young wolf desperate to protect her people from the growing corruption in the Boston pack, and Seamus, an ex-bootlegger whose friendship with Gavin Hamilton gets him tangled up in protecting Joan as they fight to free themselves from the status quo and find a place that can be their own sanctuary.

I couldn’t be more excited!  And though it’s a bit of an odd time period I hope some of you will be just as excited as we are.