Chaos Reigns and Characters Take the Reins

The new book, Chaos Reigns, may have gone off the rails this week when certain characters did things they maybe should not have done. Details and spoilers and more in this newsletter!

Welcome back! Last week, we talked about bonus content. But I don’t have an update on that yet because I am not sure if we can manage it this time around.

We got a suggestion for a story after the book ends and that sounds like a great idea until you realize that there is no end. Just because one book ends that doesn’t mean we end. Us characters go onto the next book, and we always tell you what that is.

But maybe we could put an excerpt of the next book if it’s ready. The next book after the Riders of the Apocalypse story arc ends is obviously a book that stars me and my family. That will be Curse Breaker Unleashed. If enough of it is written, we could add an excerpt.

This is Ran, Sarn’s son from the Curse Breaker series, and I like the idea of an excerpt. It means Melinda, my scribe, needs to write more, and I’m always a big fan of that. More writing = more scenes for me!

I don’t make the math but I make it work for me. :)

So how is the book Melinda is writing now going?

I am so glad you asked! I have so much to say on that and lots of tea to spill.

Chaos Reigns: Progress Report

Melinda wrote a lot this week because the end of the book felt really close. If she just kept writing (who needs sleep, right?) then she might find it.

Why do I say “find it”?

Okay this is where the gossip gets hot and juicy.

There was an ending Melinda wanted to reach, but the story didn’t want to go to there. At least not yet.

What was that ending?

Well, Melinda wanted a big fight between…

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I tried to tell you what that ending was, but Melinda deleted it from the final newsletter. So you’ll have to blame her for the lack of spoilers this week, assuming I don’t find a way to sneak some in. Keep reading to see if I do.

Okay back to the gossip.

Actually, let me back up for a moment and review. So at the end of Chaos Rises, our heroes (my aunt Sovvan and Misriah my dad’s guardian angel) went to the Gray Between to lock up the two wraths my aunt caught.

Then my family may have gotten into some trouble, and I may have summoned my aunt to save us. You would have done it too if you could, so don’t look at me like that.

I didn’t know my aunt was doing something important. But I’m glad she came to help me.

What trouble was I in?

Well, in Curse Breaker Revealed, Furball and I snuck out to look for our friend, Saveen. In case you missed it, Saveen is a young dragon. We might have wanted to find where he lives so we could meet a big dragon (his mother)!

But things didn’t go to plan. I got separated. Some people who don’t like my dad found me and they kidnapped me. Of course Papa figured out what happened. His magic keeps track of me and my icon moved to an area of his mental map where I shouldn’t be. That was a big clue.

Furball teleported to his favorite human (Nulthir) to fetch help. Since Papa’s friend tried to stop the bad people from grabbing me, he went to the Rangers since he knows Papa works for them. So a lot of people knew and my dad heard what happened from multiple sources. You can read all about that in Curse Breaker Revealed.

So I didn’t like being kidnapped. Who would? That’s why I summoned my aunt.

You would have summoned her too if you were in my place. A lot of things happened after that while my aunt figured out what happened and how to get us out of trouble. At the time, my dad’s guardian angel didn’t appear at all, not even when a ghost knocked him out of his body and he was all floaty and transparent like a ghost.

My aunt thought it was a test. Misriah wanted to see if she could save us on her own.

But that’s not what happened at all.

Misriah wasn’t just missing. She was being hunted. A fiercely intelligent, and manipulative wrath named Conquest was searching for a worthy rider to help him bring the world to its knees. He preys on her deepest insecurities, isolating her from her friends so he can forge an unbreakable bond. He wants Misriah to be his new rider.

What happened to his original rider?

The opening chapters of Chaos Reigns shows you that and you can read them now on Patreon and Substack if you want. The ending is not posted yet since Melinda is still making changes, but the closing chapters will publish in the next week or two.

Let’s just say his original rider didn’t measure up, so Conquest repudiated them and severed the bond. But that left Conquest with a problem.

To go to the Mortal World, he needed a new rider. Until he found one, he’d be stuck in the Gray Between.

I don’t blame him for wanting to get out of there. It doesn’t sound like a nice place from everything my aunt told me about it. I’d want to leave as soon as possible too.

So stopping the apocalypse was way more important than I thought. It couldn’t wait either. It unpaused itself.

But I stand by my decision. I got into a scary situation, and I don’t regret calling for divine protection. Auntie Sovvan saved me and my uncle and my dad and I don’t think we’d have survived without her help.

I didn’t know the wraths don’t take time off.

So I’m sorry they went after you, Misriah. But if I could do it all over again, I’d still summon my aunt. I like living and I’d like my family to continue to do so too.

Was that the only time I summoned my aunt?

I’ll answer that next week since it might be the reason my scribe didn’t get the ending she wanted yet.

I have to leave you wanting more or I don’t get more page time. You understand right?

Have a great week and I hope you read an awesome book even if it doesn’t include me.

—Ran, Sarn’s son and sidekick from the Curse Breaker series writing on behalf of my scribe, Melinda.

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