As promised with my previous blog update, the second piece of news I have to give.

The sixth book of The Fifth Place is finally published. This is the penultimate entry in the series, paving the way for the endgame, the final showdown. Our antiheroes start this book in a really bad way, and it’s up to them to break out of it in order to defend against the incoming retaliation of Fifth.

There was a fair amount of catharsis in writing parts of this, even more than DANCER. Overall it is not as wholly dark a novel as its predecessor, but it does go to some very emotionally dark places. I have hesitated, wondering if I have taken things too far at times – but then it would be a disservice to the characters to lie on their behalf, to pull punches and not let them truly fall apart, to restrict them from acting as terribly as they do just because we all want them to be heroes and Good People.

You can find the book here.

I have not done this before, but if you are interested in content warnings, please scroll under the following cover art to read them.

Potential content warnings:

Grief, PTSD, emotional abuse, threat of physical abuse, torture, reference to sexual assault