What an honor it’s been to receive bestseller status and Top New Release badges on each book in the Midnight Sons series. The first three all landed in the Top 11! And I finished the series with Adam’s Rising, which earned its own badge as well. Crazy. Thank you—truly—to my wonderful readers for taking this journey with me.
The series is now complete. Anything I add from here on out is just gravy. Like the prequel that just released. You asked for it, so I happily obliged! It was fun going back in time… so who knows? Maybe I’ll do it again. I’ve even considered writing prequels for the heroines—but I’m not sure. You’ll have to let me know.
For now, though, the full mystery of the brothers—from Sam’s Folly to Daire’s Resolution—is complete. Each book stands alone, with an ongoing family dynamic woven throughout. So if you haven’t started the series, feel free to jump in anywhere.
That said, I recently made Sam’s Folly free so you can begin there if you’d like.
If you do continue, I keep my books priced at less than a latte. A latte is gone in minutes. My books give you six to eight hours of escape. Seems fair to me.
Now, writer friends… here’s why I believe new authors should seriously consider writing a series.
Streaming services may have trained our brains to binge, but I think books started it. Readers crave more. They want the backstory, the town history, the sibling drama, the emotional layers that can’t always fit into one novel.
Here’s the key, though: readers want more—but they don’t want to feel trapped. Even in a series, each book should resolve its main storyline. Then you can leave a hook. A larger arc. A reason to come back.
That’s why I structured Midnight Sons the way I did.
Each book centers on one brother. The others appear in the background, hinting at their own struggles. At the end of each book, I wrote the epilogue from the next brother’s point of view. The current story is fully resolved—but readers get a glimpse of what’s coming next.
So yes, there’s a hook—but no hostage situation.
Why did I do it this way?
Because once a reader hits “The End” on Kindle, Amazon immediately pushes them to rate the book. After that? Sponsored titles...books Amazon wants to promote.
Even if you include a sample of the next book, readers are often redirected before they ever see it.
So my solution was simple: I built the next story into the epilogue.
If it fits your story structure, I highly recommend this approach. It gives readers a satisfying ending and a natural doorway into the next book—before they’re pulled elsewhere.
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