Whew! Just finished the manuscript for Dire:Sins this weekend, and shopped it out to my editor and the beta circle.
This is the shortest Dire book yet, clocking in at around 85 thousand words... but I don't feel it suffers, compared to the others. I could have padded it, but I didn't. The story ends where it ends, and stretching it out would have been silly.
At least, that's what I think. We'll see what my first-stage readers have to say, and I'll have a long talk with my editor.
Anyway, barring mishap, you guys should have this one available to you by the end of July.