To answer some of the questions: Diamond Fire is a bridge novella. It is roughly 30,000 words long, so about a third of a typical book. It features two viewpoints. We start with Nevada, but move on to Catalina, who is solving a mystery during the wedding. At the time of the wedding Catalina is 18 years old.
The next trilogy after the novella will focus on Catalina and jump in time a few years, so she will be older. We wanted you to know where Catalina was coming from and to show her to you at a time when she felt at her most vulnerable, so you will understand what happened to make her into the woman she is when the trilogy starts.
It’s a bit of fan service, which is why they are selling it through Impulse at $1.99. If you are expecting some sort of deep love story with Alessandro in this novella, that’s not realistic. He is in it, and it’s important to understand how she feels about him, but they are both still very young.
Nevada and Rogan are beginning their HEA. The wedding itself is not the focus of the novella, but is more of a backdrop. 🙂 We are moving on, to an exciting beginning of a brand new story.
i love this!!!! i hope we seemore of the other houses and the world in the next books !!!
That’s it right there! The other houses!
I really don’t care how long it is! I’m just so excited to be getting it!
I like the cover. I do not see the cityscape which Simon viewed, but I see a landscape with a range of hills. The model appears to have used the tiara to unveil what looks like a calendar of the Zodiac or a universe described by runic symbols. The model may be searching for a clue, for time or direction.
What I’m wondering about the cover is, are those emeralds in the tiara, or did Rogan buy the other two green diamonds?
Brand new. Yea yea yea
I’m so excited! I love your books, and we are getting a bonanza this year!
Thanks for the clarification and this soo cool! Happy Monday to all!
Congrats on finishing and thank you for the clarification. It was always interesting to see Kate from the POV of other characters so I can’t wait to read things from Catalina’s POV.
Any Catalina/Alessandro is a treat! I am so glad we are getting books about them and don’t have to say goodbye to this world, it’s so interesting and well built! If we also get an Arabella book in the trilogy, all my dreams are coming true!
Awesome! I love it. It’s like an extended epilogue and prologue all at the same time. Wonderful!
YES!! Setting the stage.
I am so glad to hear there will be more! I was afraid to ask. I love this series! Hope the fingers are feeling better.
Is this already available? Love anything you write.
Not yet. I recall a recent post about just having finished edits.
Thrilled to have more coming in this universe!
Is it bad that I kinda wish Nevada and Rogan would have to wait a little longer for their HEA? 😉 I’m not ready for them to become secondary characters so fast, you spoiled us too much with 10 Kates haha.
I agree! I love Nevada and Rogan and could easily read a dozen books about the next 30 years of their lives. Ilona and Gordon would make it brilliant! Imagine Rogan chaperoning his daughter’s 8th grade school dance?
Ilona and Gordon, you two are just wonderful people who create joy with your thoughts! Thank you.
Ali and Addy, risking my life here, I’m with you. When I first read Burn for Me I was so completely hooked. It was a fabulous story in it’s own right, but I felt it was the perfect story line to ease us away from Kate. It helped with that sting. I assumed if the books sold well, we might get more. I have no doubt I will love what ever Ilona writes, but I sure hope we will see more of Nevada and Rogan in more than a supporting role. And, as I’m being greedy here, I hope we will see more, perhaps an entire book, of Augustine. And Linus Duncan. And Michael Latimer. ….running away now.
Me too! I am definitely here for Augustine! Nothing like seeing an uptight icicle melt!
OMG! A flash forward snippet of Rogan and Nevada chaperoning an 8th grade dance would be fabulous! As a parent of an 18 yo, this has so many ways it could go to be both funny, exciting; while it would show that there is a world after an HEA. But, then again, I also love all the new stuff so any writing will make me happy.
Love the cover…does anyone know what 30 thousand words means in terms of pages? Is it about 150 pages?
I just finished my 3rd read of the Edge series (after I read Iron and Magic the 2nd time and a full re-read of all 9 Kate books). Earlier this spring I re-read the Hidden Magic series. It’s been 3 straight months of Illona Andrews books! Nothing else seems to satisfy.
Is there any intention – beyond what’s in the Innkeeper with George and Sophie – to revisit the Edge world? The allusion to the historical impact & power of Declan’s non Weird born mom seemed to suggest that there’s a story that you were thinking of telling there. Love it if you ever went back to that world /storyline — or were to include a dedicated story for George and Sophie maybe in the next Innkeeper.
I can’t wait!
Love this!
Diamond Fire’s release date is my birthday — thank you, something to look forward to!
All this is very exciting. Can’t wait!
Love spending time with the Baylor family!!!
You know we would happily pay more for this, right? Thank you SO much for making this available to us especially when you guys are slammed with work. Hope your fingers are feeling better every day and all is well with the family!
This sounds perfect. I love that you decided to bridge to help us with the characterization of Catalina. Thank you!
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Even more excited to read this one now! Thanks for the clarification!
30,000 words. Yikes!! If I counted all the words in the two papers that I liked that I wrote in college (out of however many there were in four years), it was maybe 1,000 words between them. Writing is a gift as well as a skill, and perhaps a touch of magic!! Thank you for sharing yours with your readers!!
Yeah!!! Can’t wait to read it.
I cannot wait…thank you for all your stories and snippets, I love them all! I am so glad you guys decided to continue in this “storyverse”. I actually didn’t read Wildfire until this past March, because I wasn’t ready for the series to come to a close, so you can imagine my excitement when I heard that you guys decided to continue. Hope the hands/fingers are doing better!
it all just makes me want an arabella story … bring out the beast! 🙂
You guys are amazing and wonderful. Don’t let anyone tell you differently. ?. When you get negativity please balance that against the vast numbers of your BDH. That said, I have all your books in print and most in E format. Recently, while loading my IPad with audible books from the Dallas library (in preparation for a long road trip) I realized they had several KD books and Burn for Me. Oh joy. I was entertained for many many miles despite knowing them almost by heart. I usually only listen to non-fiction in the car because I get a Little to wrapped up in the story but this was awesome. Thank you as always for hours of smiles, laughs, sadness and challenging ideas.
Lwhats impulse and do I need to download an app? Is this the only place for the novella? – Techno challenged
Impulse is the publisher imprint (from Avon, I think).
Yes, you’ll need the store’s app to read it (Amazon Kindle, Kobo, etc.) on your phone/tablet/computer if you don’t have an ereader.
Bless whoever asked this question ❤️
+1 like to story treasures
Whelp I meant to leave this comment on the opening the trunk post. Now I don’t know how to delete it and look like a moron. I give up on today. Thank you Ilona and Gordon for all your hard work and the joy you bring to your readers. Sorry I can’t comment correctly ☹️
It’s okay! I saw it anyway.
This makes me so happy! You guys totally rock!
What an excellent way to set readers up for Catalina’s trilogy – great idea!
P.S. The cover is gorgeous!!
I totally agree!!
Take my money!!!
Cover looks awesome, storyline sounds fantastic, cannot wait!
Already pre ordered it. I can’t wait to read more stories see in this universe. Thank you.
I am sooooo excited. I hope this series continues for decades.
Hello,
Do you know what Letter Font was used to describe ‘Ilona Andrews’? I love the style.
Thank you ?
I CAN’T WAIT!!!
OMG!! I am so excited !
Looking forward to the new novella but i like Nevada and Rogan, not sure about Catalina, I didn’t get a great impression of her in the original books. Also the figure on the cover is an exact copy of the figure on the cover of the novel Bone Witch by D N Hoxa, which came out last year.
Thank you for the clarification! So excited for the novella and info on future hidden legacy! Yay!
I loved ‘Emily’! I kept scrolling down hoping it would reveal more story. I love your voice and I would live to hear more about Aby and Iris and the Grays!!!!!
Dang! I commented in the wrong place! Yes – more houses! Yay!