Dear Reader,

This next chapter is running a little later than anticipated. The reason for this is that I have a couple of issues in my personal life right now. Specifically, I'm being audited, and my wife has correctly pointed out I need to engage, or bad things will happen.

The book isn't gone, and it's not on Hiatus. It's here on my desktop. I have 40k in the backlog and a three-book deal with Tantor. The next chapter isn't ready, though, and I won't push something that isn't ready because it will break an arc I have planned for book three. This is going to take me about a week to get through.

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I sincerely appreciate you all being here. Please do hold fire on the downvotes for a bit. Life is tough right now. Upvotes and comments are always appreciated, although I may be slow to respond.

Sincerely,

Nicholas Johannesen