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**This title/ISBN will no longer be published by Ballantine Books. Avon is the new publisher, and their Paperback edition can be found here: Highland Ever After **

#1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Maya Banks returns to her beloved Highlander series with the story readers have been waiting for…

After Scotland’s three most powerful clans come together to build a formidable alliance, an apprehensive king conspires to keep his empire from collapsing. He orders Taliesan McHugh to agree to a marriage that will ensure the king maintains control of the coveted McHugh fortress. With no other choice but to obey her king, Taliesan accepts her destiny. But when her path crosses with that of Brodie Armstrong, she begins to wonder what it would be like to feel the warrior’s strong arms around her—and to be loved by him.

Staunchly opposing the king’s command to stand down, Brodie plots to save Taliesan from her arranged marriage. He is determined to make the gentle beauty his but finds himself at the mercy of a decades-old family agreement. As power struggles echo across the Highlands, Brodie continues to defy the king and vows to remain true to his cause, his people—and, most of all, the woman who has claimed his heart.

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Maya Banks

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Maya Banks is the #1 New York Times, #1 USA Today and international bestselling author of over 50 novels. A wife and mother of three, she lives in Texas.

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Profile Image for Val ⚓️ Shameless Handmaiden ⚓️.
2,088 reviews36.1k followers
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May 12, 2021
Update: 5/12/21:
Apparently the wait for this book is the hill I might die on.

Update: 4/2/16:

First it was 2015.
Then it changed to 2035 (for REALZ)
Then it got straight up cancelled.
And now...February 20-fucking-18?

W.T.F. Seriously?! Writer's block? What?
What are you DOING over there Maya?

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Update 2/3/15: My newest email says my pre-order has just been straight up canceled now. LOLZ

She must have just scrapped the whole thing and started over!

That's okay Maya, take your time!!!

Anything to avoid this from happening please!

Update 1/29/15: WTF???

Did anyone else get the Amazon update email that changed this release date to 2035?

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Seriously though, this has to be a typo. An EPIC typo.

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LOL
Profile Image for Aisling Zena.
634 reviews521 followers
maybe
February 23, 2020
Feb 2020

Every so often someone likes this review and it pops up. And just for information's sake I checked the release date and it's now October 2022 if anyone still cares.

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I can understand health problems, rewrites, writers block, etc. I'd appreciate it a lot more if the author is just upfront about it and just says "This book is on hold for the foreseeable future, I'll let you know when it's done/can be published etc." rather than doing all this postponing with no actual information anywhere.


June 2019

So someone liked this review and it popped up in my notifications and I remembered this. And lo and behold the date changed to October 2019.

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March 2018

The release for this was February 2018. Not falling for all this again.
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April 2017

So now the date is Feb 2018 with a fourth one "scheduled" for 2019...

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UPDATE April 2016

So whenever we get close to the intended date, it gets pushed back another two years.

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Are you kidding me? Is this for real??? If you don't intend to publish this just say so and stop stringing us all along.

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UPDATE Oct 2015
After a lot of digging around on the net and her site I've found this.

Dated 28th of June 2015. I couldn't find anything more recent.

https://www.facebook.com/AuthorMayaBa...

This should really be on her website and not facebook. And it still has no actual/ballpark/close enough date.

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I read the other 2 of this series ages ago and didn't mark this for some reason. I was going through my Highlander shelf and remembered this.

And it's still not out!! I don't know if anyone noticed but on amazon.co.uk it doesn't even have a kindle edition while the paperback has been out since Nov 2014 and costs £999.11

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Highland-Ever...

I don't know what is going and seeing friends reviews about a Feb 2016 release date was shocking. But it's not in the Coming Soon section of her website. What is going on Maya Banks? Complete omission of this book with the rest of the series on the site too. No explanation. It's not very nice to all the readers still waiting for this..

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160 reviews373 followers
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September 1, 2013
*******EDIT******************

MARCH 2014?????!!!!
EXCUSE ME....
MARCH 2014?????

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What the FUCK happened with September 24th, huh?!

It was all planned out for September!!!!


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I NEED THIS BOOK! PLEASE! AT LEAST MOVE THE PUBLICATION DATE TO JANUARY! IT'S MY BIRTHDAY THAT MONTH, SO DO THAT LITTLE FREAKING THING FOR ME AND HAND THE BOOK OVER!!!

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And...

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Because you are selfish monsters and you won't give it to me.

So...


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THE FREAKING COVER!!!! HOLY MOTHER OF HELL!!!! excited zps7526861e



ISN'T THIS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER EVER?! ISN'T IT?! I WANT IT! PLEASE....................................................................................................................GIVE..................................IT............................TO...........................ME....................
Profile Image for Chryssa.
104 reviews157 followers
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September 14, 2015
A Reader's Diary of A Book Never to be Published

Update, September 14th, 2015.
Q: Why is this book in the January - July 2016 HR List? WHO HAS THE INSIDE INFO WHO KEEPS CHANGING THE RELEASE DATE (Now: February 23rd 2016)? Maya B.'s site still has no info AT ALL on the 3rd book of the series.
So,

Jessep: I'll answer the question. You want answers?

Lieutenant Kaffee: I think I'm entitled to them.

Jessep: You want answers?!

Lieutenant Kaffee: I want the truth!

Jessep: You can't handle the truth!


....I can handle it...
And please, Amazon - you with all the strict rules on reviews - you allow ONE review on this for a book not published?
No.comment!

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UPDATE January 22nd, 2015!!! 2,5 years after the quest for the 3rd Montgomerys and Armstrongs book has started!

Hear ye, hear ye!
THIS SHIP HAS NOT ONLY SAILED BUT...


It is the year of our Lord 2015, almost 2 whole years AFTER the publication of the 2nd book in the series. This Highland Ever After that we all Maya Banks's Highlander devotees anxiously seek BUT NEVER FIND is NOT included ANYMORE on Maya Banks's site....


(Ok, my fellow lassies MOI must be the only person who did NOT cry in Titanic, but still you get the picture...)

Here our expert librarians have noted "Expected publication: February 23rd 2016 by Ballantine Books".


PLEASE SOMEBODY GIVE ME THE TRUTH THAT IS OUT THERE....
I just...I won't...I can't..I...HELP ME!!!




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September 7th, 2013....

As posted on Maya Banks's site:
COMING SOON
SPRING, 2015
Bookstores say April 2014—this is not correct. The earliest I will be able to get this book to you will be Spring 2015... it may end up being Summer. I promise to keep you informed via this page!


WHAAAAAAAAAAAT??????

no no no no!!!!!!!!!!

oh , what the..........





........and to think that this was my first reaction!!!

O. M. G. !!! IT HAS A COVER TO DIE FOR ALREADY!!!
....PRETTY PLEASE I WANT IT ASAP!!!


Profile Image for ♥ℳelody.
780 reviews838 followers
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September 9, 2020
9/8/20
Hi. So here is Maya Banks' own website as of today. Still no publication date. Don't believe Amazon guys.

This woman has stopped writing for the past 3 years, her Facebook page which once was very active is no longer up to date and ghost town. The last three "dates" didn't even come from her team. So please please please Goodreads Librarians stop posting publishing dates from Amazon unless it's been confirmed by Maya Banks or her publisher cause at this point it's getting silly and creepy. I feel like someone is taking advantage of this whole thing for fun.


8/21/2018



*deep sigh*

So April 2019 now?


Here we are. Again. I am trying insanely hard not to rant my head off about this but honestly I'm over it. I can't anymore. This book has been continuously pushed back since 2013. That is insane. I've held my tongue and been understanding because MB was going through some health issues on and off since then. So I got it, I understood. But considering she had no problem spitting out books left and right for her KG Contemporary series and countless Erotica trilogies without pause in the meantime, my understanding and patience started to waver and I started to side eye this whole murky mess. First the delay for this book was because of publishing issues, then health issues, then it was because she had no time to write this, etc. etc. etc. Honestly? If you don't have the juice to write it anymore then don't. I'm more frustrated than anything with her team (er assistant?). Cause over the years her team have been throwing out vague questionable release dates on Maya's FB page with ZERO follow up and putting nothing on her website about it afterwards. No promo, no marketing, zilch. Her team has been horrible in giving consistent information to her readers and not updating her website over this one dang book. I have never in my life seen such a thing. How do you give out information but not put it on the author's website? Everything else seems no problem. But this one book? Complete crickets. If you aren't 100% on a release date then don't release that information. They seem to not even be communicating with Maya's publishers because Amazon always got some random ass release date posted that her team are never aware of or insist that "the date is wrong". 😑 So naturally, I stopped buying the "promised" new dates until we finally got a new cover and confirmed date last February. Things started to look hopeful after a looooooooooong draught of nothing. But now this?

Unless Maya is dealing with health issues again (and I truly hope not) then there is no excuse for this. None. Get it together!

Wake me up when this is actually physically on shelves then I'll believe it.

Until then, no mo' for me.


********Previous Updates********

Profile Image for Julia's Book Haven.
820 reviews215 followers
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October 7, 2020
*Update, Oct 6, 2020*
In case anyone still cares, it now says this will be out in 2022. That means it will be 9 years between this book and the last book. And to think I was naively complaining when it was going to be only 3 years between books. Ah those were the good old days, when I actually still had hope I'd get to ever finish this series lol.

*Update, Oct 18 2019*
For a couple months there this had a release date of Oct 2019, even knowing that is was HIGHLY unlikely to actually come out, I still put in on my 2019 release list. Apparently deep down there was still a small, tiny, almost non-existed spark of hope that I might actually get to read this book in my lifetime. But alas, someone liked this review causing me to take a look and see that the release date has once again been pushed to 2020. I truly have nothing against an author who is struggling to write a book, or struggling with personal stuff making it hard to write. What I don't like is the constant back and forth with a release date like this and the lack of communication about why the release date keeps getting pushed. If you have no plans to ever finish this book or series just be honest with us so we can just let it go and move on.

*Update, Jan 21 2016*
Okay guys so I finally saw an update from the author on this book. Not thrilled since she said on her Facebook page it will be out in Feb of 2017. Yeah 4 years later. And I totally get that she has stuff going on and is like switching publishers or something but oh my god, the lack of communication with what was going on with this book has driven me freaking nuts. Also she said that there will be a 4th book but it won't be out till 2018...So yeah that's great...I'll be dead from old age before this series is finished.

*Update, Oct 14, 2014*
Ok what the ever-loving hell? Now it says it won't be out till Feb 2016?!?!? That is 3 years between books, what is going on? These are 300 page books not some Game of Thrones 1000 page shit. This is ridiculous. I am so pissed.

*March 30, 2014*
Does anyone know if the Pub date on Goodreads for this is right? Cause it said 2015 before but now it is coming out April 2014? In a few days actually. I've already gotten excited and been let down once when it was supposed to be out in Sept so I don't want to get my hopes up now...
Profile Image for Ⓐlleskelle - That ranting lady ッ.
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August 19, 2020


Readers can be SO needy. Seriously. (And I'm fully guilty of acting like an entitled asshole myself)
Here I was scouring GR to see what books to add to my 2018 most anticipated reads and I've been literally dying of laughter reading everyone statuses about this book.



Yes, it has been delayed (under-freaking-stament), but come on, everyone is saying they've lost all interest in this book/series and all I'm thinking is : The same needy whining readers will be firsts to read the book IF it ever releases on February, 2018!



I for one, have been waiting for YEARS and you can bet I'll be there on release day if Maya Banks holds onto her promise and releases this baby in less than 2 months now. I'll be there in 6 months too. A year. I don't mind. It gives me time to re-read the first books and get in the mood.
Now... let's hope book 3 is as good if not better than book 1&2.



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52 reviews26 followers
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October 3, 2013
Oooooook....2015......Now they are just being mean. What a shame. 3 Years in between installments is a ridiculous amount of time to wait...*sigh*
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July 10, 2022



7.10.22 Update:
Newest Expected publication: January 21st 2035 Good thing I’m not holding my breath.




11.05.18
Now the release date Oct 2019 according to her website. *sigh* I don’t think we’ll ever get this book!

7.27.18
From MB’s website, preorder links are up!!! Hopefully this is finally really happening!! Release date of 12.24.18

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5.21.18
Fingers crossed we’ll actually get it this year (Dec 2018)....not going to hold my breath though.

After waiting two years, hopefully this will be finally be released this year (2016).....Please Maya Banks!!
Profile Image for Sara Reads (mostly) Romance.
351 reviews246 followers
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August 1, 2018
Edit 8/1 Umm bitch where you at

WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS NOVEL LOL PEOPLE ARE ALREADY RATING IT WITHOUT READING IT BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW IT'S GONNA BE AMAZING BUT SERIOUSLY WHERE IS IT PLEASE MAYA BANKS WHERE ARE YOUUUU?????!!

Will the real Banks fans please stand up
And put one of those fingers on each hand up

AND BEG FOR THIS NOVEL TO COME OUT

All the restless fans trying to be calm when we NEED THIS BOOK


When no one can answer the simple question of WHEN IS THIS GOING TO COME OUT


Me when I am a little shamed at not considering how hard it is to write a novel and people have lives a writers block is real and we should cut the author some slack


ALSO ME WHEN I DON'T GIVE A FUCK BECAUSE I NEED THIS BOOK SO FUCKING BADLY


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415 reviews124 followers
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June 16, 2013

I WANT THIS BOOK!!!!

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March 2014?

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But well, must focus that at least will be having Brodie and Taliesan story! YAY!

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1,066 reviews291 followers
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February 15, 2020
2020 update:
It says October 15, 2022 on Amazon. (expect it to be pushed back again when we near that date)
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Instead of releasing this year (2019), it has been pushed back AGAIN. New release date is October 27, 2020. (at least it says so on Amazon)
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UPDATE August 14th-2018
Book is pushed back AGAIN to April 2019! I think this book will NEVER release. <_<
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Release Date: Dec 18, 2018.
Preorder on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Highland-Ever-...
Profile Image for Nitzan Schwarz.
1,195 reviews224 followers
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August 27, 2017
Edit: May 8th, 2015
PEOPLE, YOU HAVE TO HEAR THIS! THIS BOOK IS HAPPENING. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IT IS A FREAKIN' SIX BOOK SERIES. I REPEAT: SIX BOOKS. MAYA HAS CONFIRMED THAT HERSELF IN HER REPLY TO MY QUESTION ABOUT THIS BOOK ON TWITTER. SHE SAYS THE BOOK CHANGED PUBLISHERS, WHICH IS WHY THERE IS NO PUB DATE/LISTING ON HER SITE CAUSE IT'S STILL UNDECIDED THE SPECIFIC DETAILS OF RELEASE, BUT IT'S ALL HAPPENING!
And now, after I feel I sufficiently expressed my elation with all-caps, I will stop it. Thank you for suffering through.

@NitzanSchwarz It is a 6 book series, not just a trilogy.

— Maya Banks (@maya_banks) May 7, 2015


@NitzanSchwarz it's complicated. Highland Ever After is with a different publisher now & so they have to schedule it but it WILL be released

— Maya Banks (@maya_banks) May 7, 2015


Edit: May 2nd, 2015
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! There isn't even a pub date anymore! And it doesn't appear on Maya site... WHY!? Why are her amazing historicals being pushed and pushed and pushed?! They're the best!
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Does anybody knows what happened to make this book's pub date be moved to 2015? When it was due this month before?
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128 reviews302 followers
July 30, 2013


seriously guys...LOOK AT THAT COVER. it is the best cover ever. Like holy shit I'm feeling ready for a romp just looking at it. Hope you all are hype as I am for this book.....

P.s. dont mind the stars...I accidently rated it prematurely....
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5,096 reviews622 followers
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January 30, 2021
WHEN. WILL.YOU.FINALLY.ARRIVE.ITS.BEEN.FOREVER!!

EDIT: WAIT A MINUTE- NEW PUBLISHER- AMAZON SAYS "This title will be released on November 10, 2022.".. IS IT COMING?!
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November 2, 2022
Update 11/2/22

See the latest comments below. Maya appears to be rather ill. Sorry to see that and wish her the best. I don't think we'll get this last book or perhaps any others. Which is sad but I wish her nothing but the best and hope she gets well soon for her own sake and her family's. God bless, Maya!!! Get well soon.

Update 10/16/22...
Well, this was listed as coming October 27th 2022 on my library Holds shelf for like 2 years...and now it has completely disappeared. So I'm going to go out on a limb here and say we are NEVER going to get this 3rd book.

It's been forever since I read the first two books in the series so I will probably need to re-read them if this one is ever released.

Update 10/22/19 Again...

OK, so now it says on Goodreads the publication date for this is October 2020...so I'm just gonna go crawl into a cave until we have a firm release date. :-/

Update 10/22/19

See my last update below because....GUESS WHAT'S ON MY HOLD SHELF FOR THE E-BOOK AT MY LOCAL LIBRARY?!!! It's a different cover than this one but I'll take it!!!! (And it is the Kindle edition I am getting but I'll leave it at this review.) Woot! Woot!!!



ETA 9/24/19 - well, Goodreads has this as releasing October 29th...I'll believe it when I have it in my hold queue at the library....

**Previous update**

It appears this book will be released when....



I can't even begin to be patient about this. Already waiting four or fives years for the release. Then getting a release date for 2018, then changing the release date 3 x after that. I can't even. This is absolutely ridiculous!
Profile Image for Al *the semi serial series skipper*.
1,659 reviews850 followers
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August 24, 2018
I am officially removing this book from my tbr, I have waited yearrrrrsss. It's not that serious. I don't know what the delay is about considering she's had several books out in those years, so yea. Bye.
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April 17, 2023

Hi, it's 2023. The book still not out yeah?



UPDATES: December 13, 2019.
New book cover! New release date and it's October 27, 2020



UPDATES: June 25, 2019.
It's 2019, where's that February 2018?
Then I saw a date there October 29, 2019.



UPDATES: June 26, 2016.
So I was told it will be out February 2018.



This is better for REAL or I'm going to be uber furious.

UPDATES: July 13, 2015.
The news was on March 2015 but I just learned it today that the series got CANCELLED. I've waited for so long for thisss whyyy



RD: Feb 23, 2016 <--- FOR ALL HOLY AND UNHOLY ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME WHEN WILL THIS BOOK EVER GOING TO BE PUBLISHED DAMMIT!?
Profile Image for Jo ★The Book Sloth★.
486 reviews443 followers
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April 1, 2014
This book is in my New_Releases for this month page...Why??

This is like GoodReads is taunting me with what I can't have!! It's still a year away!!

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550 reviews
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October 20, 2013
I'm dying for this book and I thought it was coming out before the end of the year... and then I find out it's not coming out until 2015?!

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65 reviews
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April 13, 2022
I had emailed the publisher and they said that this title was canceled and they have no further infomation :( I really hope it actually comes out. I really want to read about Taliesan and Brodie! They were so cute and I loved seeing their interactions
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May 28, 2017
Dear Maya Banks, why must you torture me like this? The last book in this series came out more than 3 years ago (i think) and there is still no official release date for Highland Ever After! I am dying to get my hands on this. Till this comes out i'm going to keep reading Highlander Most Wanted! And make up stories about these two in my head.

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4,394 reviews621 followers
no
October 27, 2019
I got an email about a month ago with the coming 10/29/19 pre-order now. Bwaaaaaahahahahahaha, no you can’t have my money for a book that will never be published! LOL

I thought I’d be proven wrong this year but alas, they just pushed the date another year!! lolololol

Bet me Amazon will send a *coming soon* email in the next couple of days 😂😂😂😂
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May 12, 2021
Edit 30/01/18: Just saw this in my February newsletter. Is this for real? Has the time finally come? This page still doesn’t have an exact date.

Ok so if this is gonna be a 6 book series then Teague and Aiden are probably gonna get books too. Then who will be the sixth? *gasp* Rorie?!
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482 reviews865 followers
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March 10, 2017
Omg.. Apil 2014?! I guess I can wait.

edited:
Now it's been pushed to Nov 2014?

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edited:
Oh look.. Its already 2017..

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I pretty much forgot the main characters in the previous books. I love waiting. Really. I like how authors takes their sweet ass time. I love when they don't even give you an exact date. I'm still gonna wait because it's Maya Banks. So yeah. Take your time. I have just been waiting for 3 years.

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April 6, 2014
I used to be excited about this book. Now I'm just annoyed.
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February 20, 2023
So as of this day, February 20th, in the year of our lord 2023, Amazon.ca has this title for pre-order for Oct 15, 2024. I'm not holding my breath but thought I'd comment as an FYI.
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