It intrudes. I had always intended to quickly follow up The Mind Field with this book. I just never planned for it to take me nearly a year to get there.Wilhelmina Teague returns for the adventure she didn’t get to have before. Javier and Suvi get to grow into larger and more interesting characters. The universe, the sandbox, gets richer.In between then and now, you have the first three Jessica Keller novels: Auberon, Queen of the Pirates, and Last of the Immortals. The last one does not bookend this universe. I have other adventures planned for Suvi in Jessica’s future, but Jessica is six thousand years in Javier’s future.We are just starting out here, and there is a lot of ground to cover.There is never enough time to write all the stories I would churn out if I could. On the drive home tonight, as I was climbing the pass, Javier tapped me on the shoulder and explained some of the key bits of what will become his fourth story, after I finish the current project (or projects).I like writing these as novellas instead of novels.
