First, a big announcement: the fourth and final installment of Werecat will be coming out in the second quarter of 2017.
It’s still working its way through the production cycle, but I can tell you it will be a novel-length book that takes Jacks on a new adventure through Venezuela, the Amazon, the Mayan Riviera, and even the South Pacific. Yes, he covers a lot of territory while on the hunt for the elusive leader of the secret werecat society The Glaring, using clues from Amerindian, West African, Native American, and Southeast Asian folklore and mythology, and the story does bring the saga to a close.
This installment took some extra time and research to write because of the exotic locales, especially the Amazon rainforest where a lot of the action takes place. I’m trying hard to refrain from spoilers, though I will share that several of the characters from the earlier books join Jacks, or at least make appearances in the story, including Farzan, Kwame, Maarten, and of course Bella. There’s even a re-appearance by a past love interest of Jacks’, which is probably the biggest surprise. And, you can expect not one but two epic showdowns in this installment, with an old enemy (The Glaring) and a new one who emerges while Jacks is tracking down the mystery of werecat magic. My publisher Vagabondage Press and I haven’t quite decided on a title, but expect that and the cover reveal soon.
As a lead-in to the big release, you can read the beginning of the saga for free. Just sign up for my maling list on the website form (above and to the right), and I’ll get the first e-novelette Werecat: The Rearing (Werecat #1) right out to you. That’s a pretty sweet deal, right? And I promise, I only bug folks on my mailing list two or three times a year to let them know about special promotions and pre-orders.
Here’s the cover and blurb for Werecat #1:
For Jacks Dowd, a college senior who feels ungrounded from his family and life in general, an alcohol and sex-infused weekend in Montréal sounds like a pretty good escape. His Spring Break binge takes a detour when he meets Benoit, an admiring drifter with startling green eyes. A hook-up turns into a day, two days, and then a full week in Benoit’s hostel, making love and scarfing down take-out food. But at the end of the week, Benoit demands that Jacks make an impossible choice: stay with him forever, or go back to college and never see him again.
There’s something dangerous about Benoit, but Jacks falls for him brutally. The night before Jacks is supposed to return to college, he finds Benoit in Mont Royal Park, where they first met, to try to work things out. Benoit springs on Jacks an unfathomable secret: he’s a mythical creature, half man and half jungle panther. He traps Jacks in an abandoned cabin and performs an occult rite so they will be mated forever.
