CLOAK OF EMBERS now underway

Now that GHOST IN THE SERPENT is out, it’s full speed ahead on CLOAK OF EMBERS.

I am 30,000 words into it, which puts me on Chapter 5 of 22.

What will CLOAK OF EMBERS be about?

The dwarves of Nerzuramaxis want to make a treaty with the Elven free cities of Kalvarion. The dwarves also want to sign the treaty at the Great Gate complex – which means Nadia is in charge of it. Naturally she expects trouble. Except there’s more trouble coming than she realizes, because her old enemy Michael Durst realizes this will be his best chance of killing her.

And another, potentially bigger problem is about to blow up in everyone’s faces.

Ever since the character of Victoria Carrow made her first appearance waaaaaaaay back in CLOAK OF ASHES, I’ve had a few readers who have been suspicious of her (hi, Juana!), and email their suspicions every time she appears in a new CLOAK book.

This is the book where we’ll find out if those readers’ suspicions were correct or not.

One little preview. Victoria Carrow has a huge secret.

Except she doesn’t know it yet. 🙂

The main POV characters will be Nadia, Russell, Riordan, Victoria, and Michael Durst.

If all goes well I hope to have CLOAK OF EMBERS out before American Thanksgiving, though it might slip to December.

-JM