Today is the one year anniversary of the release of To Bargain With Mortals, and the first day that I get to tell you all about its sequel!!!

This book has been in process since before Bargain even hit shelves, and it's a title we've had since before you all even knew Bargain existed! I've mentioned before that we titled Bargain, book 2, and the overall series (The Reckoning Storm) at the same time before that first announcement was ever made, but we had to hold on to the title until R.A. actually wrote the book to make sure it felt like it still fit or if things moved in a different direction, but I'm pleased to say that at the end of it all it still fit!

With that said, book 2 is called...

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(is this enough for it not to be spoiled in the email preview?)

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To Conspire Against Gods

It's coming to shelves July 13, 2027 AND it's available for pre-order NOW!

Barnes & Noble // Bookshop.org // Indigo // Amazon

You can also add it to your Want To Read on Goodreads!

And because nothing in publishing ever goes smoothly, pay no attention to the synopsis on those pages because it's wrong! Ahh! I definitely didn't have a panic about that last night when I noticed it! What you see there is a very early version of the promotional text that we wrote up based on the very first draft of CONSPIRE which changed quite drastically in edits. The REAL synopsis is...

Poppy Sutherland clawed her way to the seat of Vicereine against all odds, and now she wants to lead her people into a new era of equality.

But gaining power is easier than keeping it. Her reforms die in the Council of Lords, her people are tiring of her slow progress, and the empire has installed a new Welkish duke in her own house with an army at his back. Poppy is about to learn what her father's chair is actually worth—and what she might have to surrender to be of any use to Viryana at all.

The conclusion to the Reckoning Storm duology, To Conspire Against Gods is a blistering reflection on power and sacrifice, name and inheritance—and what it costs to unmake the world that made you.

And you know what? What the hell, here's the cover too, just for fun ;)

EVERYBODY SAY THANK YOU DAN AND CHARLOTTE!

Dan Funderburgh is back for the artwork here with Charlotte Strick at Bindery on design work and they have once again killed it. Look at these two babies together:

More to come soon, but I think that's all I have for now. Let's see; title, release date, goodreads link, pre-order links, synopsis, cover...I do believe that's everything! I'm typing this post up on Tuesday night, about 7pm my time, and this will be going live in just over 12 hours. I wasn't really nervous about it at all until about twenty minutes ago and now I'm kind of freaking out. Which is silly, because this is the very beginning and we have just under nine months to go from here so now is very much not the time to be freaking out! I can't start this process at a base line of freaked out!

It'll be fine though. I'm very excited for you all to finally be in on this and I'm probably just hungry. Speaking of which, I've been notified that my grocery order is ready to pick up, so I'm off to go get that. I'll see you all tomorrow when this goes up! Keep an eye out for the posts on socials as well if you're on Instagram or TikTok and please say hi to us on the announcements (and share them!)

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p.s. A big shoutout to the subscribers here who have kept the secret of the title and release date since June, and the cover since last week! Thank you all for being so great and not leaking anything and here's that synopsis I promised you.