Wolf's Trust Update: Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Book 5

Wolf's Trust Update

This book as been a challenge. In a previous post, I mentioned that this is the first book I have written out of sequence. It has also been the most difficult to write to get everything that needed to happen done. Even so, I completed the first draft of the book last week.

Since then, I have been slowly working through spelling, grammar, and structure edits.

There are still three edits to complete, but they will be complete in time to publish the book this week. My target date is Wednesday, October 4th. I will post to let you know when it is available.

The cover has been completed. The blurb is below. Comments are always welcome!

Wolf's Trust

Evil must be contained. Compromised Huntsmen must die . . .

The Triumvirate, Commanders of the Black Forest Huntsmen, teach their hunters that werewolves are evil, human-eating animals.

When a Huntsman is captured by werewolves, the Triumvirate sends Zoe to kill the compromised hunter and destroy the pack.

But her efforts result in a traumatic head injury. Daryll, an Enforcer for the Texas Ranch Wolf Pack ensures Zoe gets medical treatment. Why would the evil were help her?

Believing Zoe, too, is compromised, a Huntsman attacks her in the emergency room. Daryll saves her, and Zoe's confusion grows.

Then Zoe learns the Triumvirate aren't the saviors of humankind she believes them to be. Will she follow her heart to help Daryll and the pack in their efforts to stop the Triumvirate?

Or will she blindly follow orders to destroy the pack?

Later,

Get Caught Up on the Series!

Book 1: Wolf's Man
Book 2: Wolf's Claim
Book 3: Wolf's Mission
Book 4: Wolf's Huntsman
Book 5: Wolf's Trust (Coming Soon!)

Best Laid Plans

Plans were to complete and publish Book 5, Wolf's Trust, by the end of August.

Hurricane Harvey put a damper on that plan. Right now, we are preparing for the worst storm I personally have ever experienced. We're about 50 miles north of Corpus Christi and 100 miles south of San Antonio. The news reports say the winds will still be Category 2 when they get to San Antonio, so we'll have at least Cat 2 and up to Cat 3 winds here.

From now, until the storm is over, I won't be writing, so it doesn't look likely that I'll get the book finished this month. I currently have 31,430 words written in Wolf's Trust, with at least 5,000 words to go.

I'll get this completed as soon as possible, and when edits and reviews are complete, it will publish. Harvey has moved that back, but without knowing if I will have electricity and Internet access next week, I don't have a date, yet.

Stay safe, everyone!

Later,

Get Caught Up on the Series!

Book 1: Wolf's Man
Book 2: Wolf's Claim
Book 3: Wolf's Mission
Book 4: Wolf's Huntsman
Book 5: Wolf's Trust (Coming Soon!)

Texas Ranch Wolf Pack Reboot

Wolf's Reign Moves to Book 6: Book 5 Becomes Wolf's Trust

Book 5 of this series has been a problem child. Books 1 through 4 rushed through the keyboard to the screen, but Book 5 has been kicking and screaming since I started writing it.

But I finally, Finally, figured out the problem. I will still use the book cover I designed for Wolf's Reign. However, Wolf's Reign will not publish until September. Wolf's Trust will publish as book 5. The preliminary cover for Wolf's Trust is shown at the left.

First I thought it was because I wrote the chapters in the wrong order. Then I realized at least one chapter belonged in a separate book. At nearly 29,000 words, the reason occurred to me. I'm trying to write the last book in the series and this isn't the last book.

Instead of rushing to the final series climax, which I have been trying to do (with less than 10,000 words to go), I stopped and took a hard look at the book I have written so far. Yes, it is still part of the series. Yes, it is book 5. No, it's not the last in the series, as I thought.

Book 5 takes a side-step and pulls in the story of two of the less prominent characters who will, nevertheless, have important roles in concluding the mess they are all in.

POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT

In Book 4, Zoe and Paige go to the ranch to rescue Phillip, only to learn he doesn't want to be rescued. Zoe makes some bad decisions and is injured.

Wolf's Trust

Book 5 picks up after Zoe is released from the hospital and follows Zoe and Daryll, a werebear enforcer, as they help Nate determine what to do about the Black Forest Huntsmen.

The chapter I previously posted as chapter 1 for Wolf's Reign is now chapter 8 in Wolf's Trust. Wolf's Reign will begin immediately following the end of Wolf's Trust.

Whew! I suppose if I was a plotter writer instead of a pantser writer, this wouldn't have happened. But then, the way I write, if I plotted it, the story wouldn't follow the plot anyway. My characters drive my fiction and tell the story. If I try to tell them what happens next, they revolt and refuse to let me write. And that is just what happened with this book. After I made the changes, I wrote nearly 7,000 words yesterday. Before that, I was only able to force about 500 words a day.

So, I'm back on track. Book 5, Wolf's Trust, should be out before the end of August.

Tomorrow, I'll post the first two chapters of Wolf's Trust.

Thank you for your patience.

Later,

Get Caught Up on the Series!

Book 1: Wolf's Man
Book 2: Wolf's Claim
Book 3: Wolf's Mission
Book 4: Wolf's Huntsman
Book 5: Wolf's Trust (Coming Soon!)