Good morrow, friends. Thank you to everyone who has read We Are Not Strangers – truly, it means a lot!
Stubborn Things Publication Date
Stubborn Things continues to progress well. We’d like to tentatively announce a release date of June 17, 2026. We do reserve the right to push this if we need to, but if things continue as planned, it’ll come out on the 251st anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Mercy’s twin would like to use the following meme to express her experience editing the chapters for Stubborn Things so far:
Volume 3 Title
Also, while we aren’t writing this yet, we’d also like to announce that Volume 3, set in New York during the British invasion in 1776 and subsequent occupation of the city, is tentatively titled On Holy Ground. Yes, it’s a slight pun on the idea of “unholy.”
This story will follow the escapades of Silas Sinnott, whom you might know better as Lord Rawdon’s new servant (the one who gave better fashion advice than Matthew Wilcox in We Are Not Strangers). He finds himself entangled with Valentine Fletcher, an omega who is what we’d call a sex worker and what they’d call a common strumpet. It will also be the first but not the last book to deviate from omega/alpha as a pairing, as this is beta/omega… which has its own complications!
Coming Soon to the Blog: Reviews
Our books are obviously pretty niche, and while we do recommend quite a few books in our resources pages (and we’re adding more all the time), those are nonfiction. We thought we’d occasionally write reviews on the blog, reviews of fictional novels set around this time period.
As we’ll be starting to shift a bit away from the historical figures who populated We Are Not Strangers‘ 1775 Boston and more into those populating Stubborn Things‘ 1769-70 version of the same city, we figured the best place to start would be a book about the Boston Massacre…. because this book also has Matthew Kilroy as a main character! That will be up next week. Though, owing to the genre, while certain facts of Matthew’s life remain the same (as they’re based in history), Stubborn Things‘ version of Matthew is quite different.
However, head’s up that this book is actually a YA work. Since Mercy’s love of all things Revolution stems way back to childhood (ask her twin about how many books about it Mercy took out of the library. No, really, ask), we thought it’d be fun to include some of those books we read during childhood here.
While it is certainly a different genre and target audience than our series, which is for mature readers, nostalgia is a powerful motivator… and honestly, we want to spotlight some of the works that helped intrigue us. Also, frankly, you’re never too old to enjoy a good story.
Trauma is also a powerful motivator, and there’s one particular book that traumatized Mercy’s sister as a child that we’ll also review (eventually. That one’s about the Southern Campaign). Mercy’s twin has also been a paid critic (like, for TV and movies), and hence genuinely enjoys considering what elements of a story she likes and dislikes, and why. Some will be positive and some negative.
And, if you’ve any books to recommend us… we welcome that!
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