Because, as Ilona eloquently put it, our last few weeks seriously sucked.
We get a treat, with the caveat (listen closely, Horde!) that it is not the beginning of a new serial, confirmation of the next project or any other secret message for us to divine in the tea leaves.
It’s a Friday short and we are fluffy about it.
The warehouse lay in complete silence. Nine thousand square feet of concrete floor with rows of drive-in bays on two sides and brick walls on the other two. Metal rafters supported a corrugated steel roof, punctuated by industrial lamps. Normally daylight would filter in through the translucent panels above the bay doors, but it was evening, and the lamps were the only source of light.
I left half of them off, and the concrete was a patchwork of light and shadow.
I sat in the middle of the floor, right leg extended and resting flat. I bent my left leg, grasping it by the ankle, and pulled it toward my chest, trying to loosen my hips. I wore a tracksuit with conveniently long sleeves that covered my arms and a pair of running shoes. My hair was up in a ponytail and out of my face. If anyone walked into the warehouse, they would see an ordinary forty-year-old woman sitting on the floor.
This wasn’t just a bad idea. This was a dangerous idea.
Maybe he wouldn’t show.
The warehouse sat on Pershing Road in Cicero, in the middle of an industrial zone. Warehouses lined the entire street, and by night the area was deserted. The traffic noises had receded a while ago. It was quiet.
I closed my eyes. The silence blossomed like a flower, and I sank into it, listening. There was no emotion, no worry, only waiting.
Reality faded. Not completely. It had become an overlay, and beneath it a different place and a different time unfolded. A lithe figure spun across rocky ground, a sword in her hand, her movement fluid one moment and explosive the next. Behind her, a huge purple sun rose in a pale blue sky.
I’d tried meditation before, but my thoughts always ran away in circles. Kids, bills, work. But this wasn’t meditation. I wasn’t at peace. I wasn’t healing or reestablishing inner balance. I waited like a predator, thoughtless and anticipating approaching prey, while my mind danced through someone else’s memory.
A faint whisper of a vehicle sliding into the parking space.
I let go of my left leg and switched to the right one.
A quiet thump of the car door closing.
Footsteps drawing near.
I opened my eyes.
The door in the far wall swung open, and Jeremy Fenlon emerged onto the warehouse floor carrying a long duffel bag on his shoulder. He was forty-five years old, although most would judge him to be in his thirties until they saw his face. His dark battle suit allowed for full range of movement, but despite being slightly loose on his frame, it couldn’t hide his build. People tended to pick up a little weight as they aged, but his body was lean and almost pure muscle, as if woven from steel wire. He was ridiculously strong and abnormally fast.
Jeremy approached and stopped ten feet from me. He had a classic square-jawed face with a very narrow nose, eyebrows that angled up, and smart brown eyes, wrapped in crow’s feet. His brown hair had begun to grey, and he kept it cut longish on top and brushed it straight back, so it curved slightly. He looked like someone who used his brain for a living, was excellent at his job, and had too much work on his plate. A highly competent surgeon in the prime of his career. A genius professor, scuffed up around the edges.
He was none of those things.
Jeremy took the duffel off his shoulder, crouched by me, and surveyed the warehouse. “Love the place. Thinking of changing careers?”
“I rented it for one night.” I straightened both legs.
“Why?”
“Privacy.”
Was I making a mistake? I’d rolled that question around in my head for the last three days, long before I asked him, and I came up with ‘no’ every time. Tomorrow, I would be officially returning to work. I needed a benchmark.
“I need to know if this is covered,” I said.
Jeremy sighed and nodded. He had a quiet, calm voice, and something about the way he talked anchored you and made everything he said seem reasonable.
“I’m still your assigned Peer Support Specialist. Anything that happens here is covered by therapist-client privilege. I’m bound by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Privacy Rule. The only thing that overrides that is the duty to warn and protect. Are you planning on making a credible, imminent threat to your life or the lives of others?”
“No.”
“Then we are covered. So, what can I do for you?”
“I need you to fight me.”
He frowned. “That’s it? That’s the favor?”
I nodded.
He looked around the warehouse dappled with patches of gloom and light and turned back to me. His gaze locked on me, unblinking.
“The fastest and simplest reaction pathway is by touch.”
He spoke in a measured, methodical way, his voice almost intimate.
“No thinking required. Touch a hot pan and your body jerks your hand away before you can process anything. It takes an average human 150 milliseconds to pull their hand out of the fire. It takes me 78.”
He really was ridiculously fast.
“A fight doesn’t rely on simple pathways. It depends on sight. For an average human, the response to visual cues takes about 250 milliseconds. Recognition bumps us up to 384 milliseconds, and once we start making choices, we go up to a full half-second. Normal humans also slow down with age.”
He gave me a quick smile. I smiled back.
“I don’t,” he said. “My choice reaction time in a fight is 246 milliseconds. I assess the enemy, make a judgement, and start moving before you can jerk your hand away from the fire, Ada.”
“I know,” I told him.
“Did you look up my stats?”
I didn’t answer.
Jeremy unzipped his duffel, reached into it, and pulled out a sword with an odd, segmented blade.
“This weapon isn’t designed to spar. It’s designed to kill. And I’m not your friendly neighborhood sensei, who teaches kids the value of discipline through martial arts. I’m a flux reaper. I’ve cut my way through breaches for seven years. Remind me, what is your designation?”
“Dimension Breach Resource Assessor.”
“That’s right. DeBRA. A noncombatant. Being in a situation where you are forced to fight for your life is inherently traumatic. Reliving that stress helps you move past it. However, exposure therapy has its drawbacks. There is a high risk of re-traumatization with improper execution. I’m not sure this qualifies as a proper execution.”
I would have to give him more to get him to agree. “This isn’t about PTSD.”
“Then what is it about?”
“Self-assessment.”
He raised his eyebrows. “I can kill you before your mind recognizes my face.”
“When we started this a month ago, you asked me what I needed. I need this.”
“If Monday makes you anxious, we can postpone.”
I shook my head. “Do this with me, and I will be ready for Monday.”
He pondered me for a long moment and sighed. “Okay.”
Jeremy rose with fluid grace, holding his sword in his left hand. He offered his right to me. I gripped it, and he pulled me to my feet.
“Do you need a weapon?” he asked.
“I have one.”
He squinted at my empty hands. I almost felt sorry for him.
Ten years ago, portals opened in large cities all over the planet. We hadn’t known we were under attack until they burst, spilling monsters into the world. Something had opened breaches in reality, connecting us to other worlds, and attempted to invade. From that moment, humanity was at war.
We adapted.
We developed new terminology, created the Dimensional Defense Command, and dug in for the long haul.
In the wake of that first burst, some people gained unusual abilities. We called those people Talents, and they fell into two broad categories: combat and noncombat. The portals became known as gates. We learned that they led to interdimensional spaces filled with terrifying creatures and valuable resources that defied our understanding of science. Resources we required to continue repelling the attacks.
My talent let me enter a breach and assess the resources it contained. I was a government employee, a valuable asset that the DDC loaned to the guilds. A noncombatant. An average human in every way that counted.
One month ago, I walked into the Elmwood Gate with one of the best guilds in the U.S. I was part of the mining team. The guild was supposed to protect me at all costs. Instead, it betrayed me and left me for dead.
Twenty-seven people lost their lives in that breach. For over a week, my children didn’t know if I’d survived, while the Cold Chaos Guild and the DDC were absolutely sure I was dead. Then I walked out of the gate with my dog.
Cold Chaos and I made a deal. The DDC might have had doubts about my account of their heroic rescue, but they had no proof we lied. More importantly, my death had the potential to become a huge PR nightmare, and once they discovered I was alive, they couldn’t wait to sweep the whole thing under the rug.
I’d been examined, interviewed, examined again, and once the higher-ups ascertained that I had every intention of continuing my work, they breathed a collective sigh of relief. Everything could go back to the way it was.
Jeremy was my DDC-assigned therapist. A high-grade combat Talent, trained specifically to work with people damaged by their time in the breach. His task was to get me over my trauma as soon as possible. For the last month, we’d been glued at the hip. Cognitive behavioral therapy, in-the-moment coping strategies, grounding techniques, we did all of it.
Two weeks ago, Jeremy walked me into a breach and walked me right out. We slowly built up the duration, and yesterday I stayed in a breach by myself for half an hour. Before I threw him this curveball, he had expected to clear me for work on Monday.
Right now, he was likely having serious doubts about my mental state.
Jeremy had devoted all of his professional time to me. He was careful, patient, and attentive. And another person in my place might have mistaken it for genuine care. But I knew better.
Jeremy saw me the same way he saw a monster blocking his path or a vehicle that needed to be repaired. I was an issue he had to solve. The DDC entrusted him with the woman who had found the biggest load of adamantite in the history of this war. His primary goal was to put me back together and send me into the breaches, and he went about that task with maximum efficiency. Once I was fully operational, he would put a check mark by my name and never wonder what became of me.
He was good at controlling his emotions, but hiding from my talent was impossible, and when I tested him a couple of times, I sensed his frustration. There was no genuine compassion or connection there, only a skin-deep pretense at empathy. He must’ve promised to get me up and running by Monday, and he intended to hit that goal. He would do nothing to jeopardize it, which was why I invited him here tonight.
“You should prime the blade,” I said.
“I think we’ll be fine.” He motioned to me with his free hand.
There was something predatory in the way he stood. Something tinged with bloodthirst and inner indifference. A kind of selfish anticipation.
Both of us were shaped by this war. At our very first session, Jeremy told me that one Ada had walked into the Elmwood Gate and a different Ada came out. He had no idea how right he was.
I flexed. My talent snapped into being. Jeremy’s image split into layers of color, and I processed the input in milliseconds.
The wide, thick metal bracelet on my right wrist flowed like water. Smooth metal drained down into my hand and gathered there, still hidden.
“Attack, Ada,” Jeremy said. “Or better yet, let’s abandon this plan and go home.”
I moved.
Jeremy was fast. Fast enough to process the strike of my empty left hand but not quite fast enough to dodge. My fingers grazed his forehead, and I spun around him, my whisper floating like the first hint of rising wind.
“Faster, Jeremy.”
The flux reaper whirled around. I gave him no time to adjust. The metal in my hand snapped into an avelier blade, a narrow sword with a split, razor-sharp tip that was born on another world. I didn’t have a purple sun to guide me, but my body knew all of the movements. I had practiced them every day since leaving the breach. They were second nature now.
Jeremy lashed out, his sword slicing in a horizontal arc. I let his sword slide off my blade, lunged past him, and tapped the back of his head with my free hand.
Jeremy’s eyes flared with orange. The flux blade split in his hand, breaking into a whip of metal segments connected by pulsing veins of orange energy. He became a whirlwind of metal and energy, the whip sword striking, spinning, slicing, retracting into a rigid blade, then breaking back into a whip without warning. His breach name was Render, and that is exactly what he did. If he’d been facing a mob of monsters, he would’ve shredded them to pieces.
I flowed between his strikes, waiting for an opening.
Cut, cut, cut, cut…
He lashed at my legs, and I barely avoided the strike. The orange tendrils of energy passed so close that the static pricked my skin through the cloth of the tracksuit.
Jeremy bared his teeth. He was trying to cut me, but I was fog. I was water.
He spun the flux blade in a spiral cut, the end of the whip snapping.
Now.
I lunged into it and caught the energy tendrils with my blade. The sharp segment slid through the twin tip of my sword and stopped, wedged there.
I punched Jeremy in the chest with everything I had.
The flux reaper flew backward, landed on his side, rolled, and sprang to his feet.
I stopped. One of the lamps glowed directly overhead, and I stood in the cone of light. It slid off my sword as I retracted the blade into the bracelet. I learned what I came here to find out. I was now faster than a peak-tier damage Talent.
I knew I could kill monsters. Walking out of the Elmwood Gate breach proved that. The question was, could I kill people who killed monsters? I had my answer.
If I went into the breach and a guild member betrayed me again, I could kill them.
I would kill them.
“Two hundred and fifty-nine milliseconds,” I told him. “Your average choice reaction time.”
Jeremy stared at me, his expression shocked.
Silence stretched.
He opened his mouth. “Who the fuck are you?”
“Adaline Moore. Dimension Breach Resource Assessor,” I said. “Thank you for your assistance, Jeremy. I believe you’re right. It is time I returned to work. I will be in my office on Monday. Please let your supervisor know that I am available for breach assignment.”
He stayed completely still, as if rooted to the floor.
I turned and walked to the door.
“Come, Bear.”
A massive shadow slipped from its hiding place in the corner of the warehouse.
Jeremy’s eyes widened. He hadn’t seen Bear. He hadn’t even noticed her.
The huge German shepherd padded past him, completely silent, showed him her teeth, and followed me out into the night.
First?
Friday First! :*
wooohoooo…… snippet
OK I won’t wish for more 😉
Happy Friday
OoOoOoooooo a gift from House Andrews. Thank you!
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I’m totally going to believe that this is part of a new Inheritance story. Yep. Yep. Yep. I believe it.
I’m in the checkout line right behind you, and I am not at all fluffy about it.
Me too
Absolutely!
I’m so unfluffy, I’m basically a porcupine..
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A very fluffy mmmooorrreee
pppllleeeaaassseee.
The Inheritance Book 1 of 1 is lonely and needs a friend.
Ain’t we all sugar
Same! 🥳
No matter how hard Mod R tries to wrangle us, she can’t stop the power of the Horde’s willing something into being! It has been proven to work. We’ll all just keep wishing for the rest of The Inheritance trilogy or series (hee hee hee), but still totally understand that this is a gift and be happy for any scraps we get until then.
Thank you so much! 🤗
Yep!!
All aboard the sequel train!!!
Omg!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I’m absolutely being the fluffiest!
Squeee!
Literally trying not to squeeeeee loudly and get my expectations up! 🙂😀😃😄😁
I think I missed Ada and Bear.
Thank you so much for the little snippet! I will try my bestest to be p*t!ent.
So glad to hear Ada is doing well: we had worried about her, and her children.
Thank you!!
never been so excited for more OSHA violations. Will be chalant.
This comment had me ROFL!! It’s perfect!
+1000
Yes! Many many OSHA violations with a dash of sexual tension! Thank you for the snippit!
💯. I’m in deep for the OSHA violations lol.
Thank you for this snippet. It was brilliant.
Lovely story! Thank-you for the happy moments to start my day. Today I think I will break out the soft new baby yarn and start another hat. I found a local charity that runs a free shop. Anyone can take one kitchen size bag of clothes, food, linens or small stuff or drop off 1 bag. They get my excess garden produce too. There are charities all over the place if you look for them! Happy Friday!
Thank you for the snippet. I will remain fluffy and will absolutely not point out how so many of these snippets and funnies lead to books (don’t look at Augustine, Blood Heir, Wilmington or Maggie 😬)
or Hugh 😉😅
To be fair, Hugh was an April fool’s joke gone badly and wonderfully right!
The power of the Horde is mighty!! hehe
sqeeeeeee!!!!!!!
Ada-time 😀
Wow thanks 😊
WOW! Happy Friday. Ilona was completely right, the last few weeks sucked wide and this put a very happy cherry on top of a stress-filled week.
We are not worthy but extremely grateful.
Go Ada!!
Hell yeah!! That ending is so bad ass!
Love it – thank you for bringing some joy to our Friday!
❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you so much! Oh, and I love the way the graphic of the warehouse looks like a menacing mechanical face!
Loooooooove it!
Ahhhhhhh! I am completely ignoring all of the caveats at the beginning of this blog post! There will be a new book/novel/serial. It is just a question of when. My patience is an infinite lake. 🙂
Thank you. My heart needed this. I appreciate you guys so much.
I’m not fluffy!! More please, pretty pretty please, with cherries on top!
Now off to re-listen to The Inheritance.
Yummmmm. Thank you 😊!
we are SO Fluffy!
Thank you SO much for this! It was a delight to read and I found myself absolutely grinning at the screen by the end.
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Me too!
Squeee!!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this lovely treat.
It has indeed been a heckuva week/month/year.
That. Was. Amazing.
Thank you so much for the snippet! I know y’all will get back to this world at some point in the future, and it’s really cool to see how Ada is coming along.
Adaaaaa! Yay Friday!!!
WOW! She is AWESOME!!! Thank you for this glimpse into Ada’s world.
Thanks so much for this! What a lovely surprise, and much appreciated.
Great! Made my friday!
So worth a quick re-fresh this morning. Thank you for the present after a shitty week of loosing some very important people to all of us.
Thank you!
Yeah, Ada!!! Thank you!
Ohhh I LOVE ADA!!! Thank you so much for the snippet this makes me so so happy!!
Oh my God, I feel so lucky, lucky, lucky — that snippet was awesome and exactly what I needed today! Thank you so much… I’m going to babble for a hot second, because I really can’t thank HA or the BDH for the quiet support that has kept me on my feet.
I’ve had a rough two weeks – I was laid off quietly 10 days ago and told that it was not at all for performance but they needed my salary back (I am eligible to retire with a state pension, so that was a factor). I’m 55 and the sole breadwinner for my family and have never had a below average evaluation in the 39 years I have been working…and I know I will get another job and land on my feet, but it hurt more than I expected. I have read TKWNKM fully 14 times and have been making my way through it a 15th time this week, for comfort…but Ada the survivor (and thriver) is an excellent role model for me going into this weekend.
Happy Friday to everyone!
Wishing you a quick exit out of the breach!
And remember, when the monsters try to keep us down, we eat them! #BearLessons
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Best wishes to you. May you find a job you love and are well compensated for it.
Sometimes things like that happen so we can be ready for something even better to come along!
May you find what you need, when it’s needed. ((Hugs))
And in the immortal words of Red Green, “Remember, I’m pulling for you. We’re all in this together.”.
So sorry to hear about your being fired and having such a rough, sucky week! Hope you land on your feet sooner than later – sending hugs and positive energy your way!
May the essence of Ada support you in the coming days. “I would kill them.”
Wishing you the very best… you will pull through
Thank you so much. I needed this after a tough month
SO GOOD
The way my eyes lit up when I got to “Ada”, OMG what a treat! Thank you for the fun Friday surprise <3
Squeeeee!! The best Friday treat! Thank you so much for such an exciting and satisfying snippet! Now to devour it again like the BDH member I am.
BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER! Thank you for this lovely snippet that definitely doesn’t look like a sequel of a book I’ve read multiple times. I am fluffy and chalant.
Happy fluffy Birthday!
Squeeeee!! Happy Friday. Great to have some Ada & Bear.❤️
Thank you so much for sharing! I’ve been wondering what would be next for Ada. Hope things calm down for you all soon.
Love it. Loved The Inheritance. Will gladly read the next book whenever it may happen. Thank you House Andrews!
And it’s a happy Friday with Ada and Bear, yippee ki ay. Thank you
This was AWESOME! Yay for Adeline!!!
Thank you. This is just what I needed 🙂
awesome awesome awesome that was amazing please let’s revisit that world
That woke me right up! Didn’t realize I was missing Ada and Bear. That was awesome! Thank you and Happy Friday.
Thank you…..
Squeeeeee!!! Thank you for that! I needed it.
Squeee!!! I love Ada and Bear! I’ve tried to convince my best friend to read the Inheritance but it’s a hard book to describe. All I know is I fell in love with Ada and Bear and will be in heaven when the next book comes out!
love it! I will still wish for more Ada and Bear but will do so patiently… mostly.
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Thank you
thank you
Oooooh a SNIPPET!! I am SO fluffy about it… so very, very fluffy :-D.
Thank you!
Fluffy. I will be fluffy. I WILL be fluffy. Thank you so much! This snippet is so exciting. I sincerely hope you had as much fun writing it as I did reading it. And I hope the edits are going well, too.
In an aside, my vellum arrived and they are so gorgeous. I’m having a tough time deciding where I want them in my book 🤔. Thank you! Have a wonderful weekend!
I love Ada!! thank you for the treat! you’ve inspired another re-read.
Love. I will pre-order Inheritance 2 the day it’s available. I’ll reiterate to my friends that they should read Inheritance.
More adventures with Ada, so cool!
Oh WOW!! Love this!!! Damn, now must be Chalant, or is it C.R.A.P.? Casually Resume Appearance of Patience.
I think the Horde has a new saying. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Made me howl with laughter.
I will be CRAP from now on….
Bear is such a good dog!
🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Loved the snippet, but I also love comments like this that make me laugh ^^
Thank you!
Brilliant and thank you!
Yay, I love Ada! As a fellow woman in her 40s, it’s nice to feel like badassery is still possible! (I cannot fight anyone, but I can project manage like nobody’s business!)
Wonderful! Thank you so much.
Ahhhhh. Sigh of satisfaction. Just what I needed. Thank you.
oh, this snippet is enticing my cheetah reading spirit.
I can’t think of any words in the English language to convey the excitement and joy of reading this post. Thank you for this snippet and for being a source of light and hope in the world!
[SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE]
thank you!!!
Woot! Thank you!
Fluffy! Fluffy!!! I swear I’m fluffy!
Thank you for this Friday treat — I have missed Ada and am happy to hear of her progress. Have a fabulous weekend!
You just made a crappy week a happy week. Thank you for your kindness.
OMG! Your talent and imagination is so wonderful! I love every little crumb you throw our way
So excited! Fabulous, thank you.
OMG that hit the right spot
Is now a good time to beg for more? Asking for a friend
Thank you for the treat… hope everything begins to go smoother.
Thank you. I love these Friday goodies. Sometimes they are the only thing I look forward to when the week is awful.
Thanks for the snippet! I’ve missed Ada, hope we get to see more of her 🙏🏻
Oooh. Wonderful!
Thank you for the Friday snippet. I will stay on Team Fluffy and enjoy even after looking into the coffee grounds (since the Horde can’t look into the tea leaves) to a maybe, someday, long into the far, far, far off future book. 😁
Go Ada and Bear! 🐕⚔️
Awesome snippet!!!!!!! Thank you!
This character is everything I wish I could be. Amazing snippet. Thank you.
Delightful! Thank you !
Yay! I very much needed that this week. Thank you!!!
Oh gawd. What a Friday. Thank you for this.
Thank you both! It did indeed fulfill a need I carry with me weekly.
Also, far be it from me to tell youse what to do, however, please tell your editors to go chillax jump in a lake. You are the creative minds. It’s all your inspiration and hard work. If your gut screams, no freakin’ way! Then stick to your guns. Your horde loves every word you write, rest assured.
Ada and bbear sre back! thanks ❤️
fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy…….but wow! that was so good!
With Maggie arriving, Ada sort of slipped into the back of my brain. I hadn’t really been thinking about what the follow-on weeks had to be like for her. Getting back to work. Whew! Convincing everyone around her that everything was normal…sorta. Wow. Now my brain has something to really chew on. I needed that. I had GA Kate on my calendar for today. Oops, it’s Monday. So it’s more
fluffy fluffy fluffy fluffy! Thank you HA!!!
thank you
eeekkkkk!!!! Totally chalant….
Wow! Thank you.
LOL. I literally had just started an Inheritance re-read! This is perfect. I love Ada and Bear!!!!!! Oh, and I would love a coffee cup that says “Into the Breach!” It would be a great way to start the work day 🙂
Aaaaahhhhhhhhhh – saw the announcement on insta and ran as fast as I could – LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT – nothing fluffy here to see 😀
So, does anyone else gleefully play how-fast-can-I-guess-the-world when we get these snippets???
Every time😀
Ada and Bear!!! YES! Thank you.
So exciting – this is a good day because of this snippet. Ada Rocks! Bear is so well mannered. There is more to come in the fullness of time.
I like your protagonists – they are inspiring in their wisdom individually or collectively across your stories.
What a lovely palate cleanser from living and breathing all things Maggie. Glad Ada is doing well.
Was doing a reread of the Inheritance. perfect timing!
As much as I love Maggie, the breach…. it calls for me…
also whether or not Curran got that moat built. LoL
I am drooling here, waiting for the next book; like waiting Christmas. I need a pre-order link, I am going through BDH withdrawal symptoms.
This has been, by far, the story I have been waiting for …. I cannot wait until this series gets 12more books….
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It won’t lead to anything … yet.
Love Bear getting in the last word. Priceless.
EEEHEHEHEHEEEEP
I am one of the people patiently waiting on the next installment of the Innkeeper series and now I am adding the next installment of the Inheritance series to the list of your self-published works I MUST read as soon as you release them. I know that novels that fulfill contract obligations take precedence and I will continue to wait, but you guys are really testing me with these FANTASTIC snippets. Have a wonderful weekend
YAY!!! That snippet was SOOOOOO AWESOME!!! thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Love Ada and Bear!🥰🥰🥰 *is chalant!! oh so chalant!! – squee!!- but also fluffy* 😇😉
Exactly what I needed to brighten my day 🤗
Oh my goodness, I love Ada SO much! Thank you for this delicious treat, it really hit the spot!
Ahhhhh that made my day so much better! Thank you!!!
Thank you for this gift!!!! So happy 🥰. Now I suppose I will continue with fluffy and chalant w*iting.
Thanks for the great snippet!
Just a couple of questions: Is this the beginning of a new serial? Is this confirmation of the next project? I’ll check my tea leaves and will get back to you if I come up with any more questions. 🙂
So good! So good! So good!
Thank you for the gift, it was very much needed today.
I love the world the Inheritance built and am looking forward to exploring that in whichever capacity and whatever time period that pertains to. Even if it’s just fan discussions about this little snippet.
Thank you.
Please, please, please! I need 10 more books in this series!!
Oh, yeah……
I am ready for more Ada.
Nice.
But she really really needs help with the trust issues.
She has been, betrayed, by every man she trusted not to act in their own selfish interest.
Internalizing that is a sad and lonely way to live.
It would be nice if she could meet and share a bond of trust and loyalty with a man that earns it.
Squeeeeee!!!!!
OMG! OMG! OMG! YES! YES! YES!
thank you.
Fantastic📖Thank you for brightening a particularly crappy week👍🏻
Thank you so much for this treat:) Hope that one day we will get to hear more about Adeline, Bear & her adventures in the breach worlds.
Love the teaser. Sorry House Andrews is having a series of bad weeks. I hope the tide is turning for them. Some weeks are just like that but hopefully it is behind them now.
I appreciate this fun little snippet!
Most of us did, I believe 😔. Especially with all the great people the world has lost recently.
They hit everyone hard. The world shines less brightly with the loss of them.
perfect
LOVE it! You had me at “Cicero” and I was squeeing “Ada, Ada” until, there he said it! Thank you for a wonderful end to a crappy week!
I love this so much. This world is enthralling
O M G . I love this
Absolutely Fantastic!!! 😃😲
Ada kicked butt
Thank you for our weekend treat 💜
Sublime. As always.
Many thanks.
Thank you, I didn’t even know I was missing Ada and Bear until you posted this😎
I’m so excited just to read this treat. I sincerely hope this short will make into the next Breach Wars book. I loved The Inheritance story and w*iting for the next installment until after the 3rd Maggie book and other story commitments are completed will be practically impossible. But I will be challant and not bother you anymore about it. Keep up the great work you folks do to keep us entertained.
….they *could* have Inheritance 2 as a weekly serial, like the first one… after all, they know that we will buy it in full once it comes out, because we are BDH.
ADA yesss !…. and now back to dying for all forthcoming good books. Sigh.
I’m trying not to be too excited. I know House Andrews has a lot on their plate but **squeeeee!!!**
Yay – thank you!!
In the absolute shit show that has been my week, this is a shining bright star. I love Ada and her story so very much. Thank you so much for sharing this awesomeness with us.
Now I’m off to go read this again, then re-read The Inheritance for the sixth time, lol.
We are so fluffy about this treat. Thank you
I am a 54 year old male, the Squeee in my head was pure 13 year old girl (at her absolutest most favorite boyband concert). This was very disconcerting.
More snippets please.
(and who do you think you are fooling with the statement that this isn’t the beginning of the next book) 🙂 BDH will run (amok) with this snippet.
Yup, ^THIS!
Freaking awesome and so needed on a really sucky Friday but now I’m jonesing for Inheritance 2….
Thank you! I needed this – onward friday or monday #5 this week!
Wonderful!!! I loved it. So very excited to see this
Ada and Bear! What a nice Friday treat!!
Fluffy thoughts. Fluffy thoughts.
I love the awesomeness that is Ada. Betray her and SHE WILL END YOU.
Ahem. Sorry, got carried away.
Fluffy, fluffy, fluffy. All the fluffiness over here.
And yes, this is what the week needed. Ada being awesome.
Thanks, House Andrews!
Thank you. I am also having miserable week. I hope yours improves. Please take care. This was a very nice surprise. And it was just what I needed.
Thank you for this delicious snippet.
BEAR! BEAR! BEAR! Who’s one of the best doggy’s lurking in the shadows, you are, yes you are. Such a stealthy dog, such a good dog, who gets lots of dog treats from the BDH.
ahem ahem, Sorry lost my composer for a second. Thank you for the snippet I will be a fluffy dragon and wait patiently for whatever comes out of it. Yes, very fluffy. Very fluffy.
BEARRRRRRRR! Does this mean sequel incoming? Ohhhh. Please I must see more adventures of Ada and her adorable sidekick. Just a little more, I’d be so fluffy after I promise. I will be less Smaug and more Toothless, promise.
Ahem, I mean thank you again for this. You’re truly generous and benevolent authors who feed us your humble BDH such tastie canapés.
BEARRRRRRRRRR!!!!! Ahhhhh! No fluffy, calm and fluffy
BEARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Fluffy, must be fluffy dragon, must be fluffy
Lollllll
You’re funny 😂
wow. thank you.
everything i could’ve hoped for! what a great way to start my weekend!
Love it! Thank you!
thank you so much for this gift!
I love Adeline and her competence! This was a great energy boost for a tired mom headed into the breach otherwise known as back to school!
Snippet was very appreciated, as was the check in with Bear especially (but Ada as well). Thank you!
I needed this! Thank you.
Ahhhhh, so good!
Wow! Love it! Thank you!!!
Woohoo!! And Yay!! Thank you for the wonderful snippet – Ada and Bear!! And that world is especially fun for me because I lived in the near West suburbs of Chicago for nineteen years.
That was amazing!🤩. Oh my word! Thank you thank you thank you!!!! Squeeeeeeee
YES!!!!!
I’m so happy with this snippet! all of the healthy and fluffy anticipation!
🥰☺️
Thank you so much and Happy Friday!
Thank you so much!
Thank you! I didn’t know how much I needed this. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your talent to take us to another world!
For a moment I thought it would be a Roman scene about Eeyore.
It has been a very rough week.
Thanks for Ada. 🙂
Thanks so much! A wonderful Friday treat.
Thank You! That helped to brighten my week. 🙂
Yes! Thank goodness for Friday. Fri-YAY! I need to listen to this book again!
That’s amazing.
Trying to be chalant and failing.
Thank you all for this Friday goodness.
Thank y’all for that.
Holy s**t I am so SAT for this
Yea! Being Chalant over here!
Love it! New weekend plans – reread Inheritance!
brilliant.
Omg! Loooooove this! Hi Ada! Hi Bear!
Thanks a billion, House Andrews!!!
SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
thank you so much for this wonderful snippet! i had not realized i was missing Ada and Bear this much. thank you for putting a big ole smile on my face.
oh absolute joy!! thank you!!
Oh wow! That was amazing and totally made my day. I am looking forward to the book (whenever it is ready – no pressure!) 😉
Woooooooooooooo Ada! Snippet! Snippet! Snippet! Thankyou SO much!!!
Yes! I adore Ada and I look forward to hearing about her adventures!
Awesome Thank you
FCK yea!!!!! Go Ada!!!!! Gimme more gimme more! Best Friday gift Eva!
Also thank you!
OMFG, that was great reading and I just did a reread of Ada yesterday! I am preening a bit that I told hubby that it sounded like Ada before we had firm indicators. Thanks for the snippet!
Oh, also, our vellums arrived today, and they are beautiful! Pictures and videos dont really do them justice. Hubby and I are considering getting a Maggie print and framing the lot together.
Great minds re: re-read!
I love them so much!!! 🥰 Get it, Adaline! 🔥 I’ve missed both of them, thank you House Andrews!!
I had just felt some Ada /Bear withdrawal and re-read the Inheritance. Then comes this, right after. Thank you so very much.
Although at the very beginning, I was thinking maybe this would be a Kitty / Elias bonding time.
And, of course, this is not the start of anything. Shirley.
woohoo!!! loved it!! appreciate the snippets we get.
Squuueeeee!!!!!!
I love love love ADA and Bear!!!
But I am chalant and can w@!t
No I can’t who am I kidding!!!
Gasp! Happy sigh. Thanks! I needed that!
I just finished re reading this and listening to the audiobook and checked for when book two will come!!
I know this is supposed to be a fun project that ended up evolving into a full book, but I can’t wait for the next book!!
Always so many things to look forward to
words can’t even express my excitement for rhis snippet!! I love Ada and Bear so much.
Thank you for the treat! I just finished listening to The Inheritance so awesome timing for me! So love Ada and Bear, who is the best girl ever!
this was badass. I’ll wait patiently
Thank you for the snippet! I loved returning to Ada and am so glad Bear was there too! I needed this so much today and you two are just the very best. ❤️❤️❤️
Bear is just the best doggie ever. I bet he takes the best care of Ada’s kids!
So just how long do we think Jeremy stood there thinking “What the …” before he could actually walk out of the warehouse?
Thanks for the surprise snippet! While I never see it coming, I am always happy when it arrives. Happy Friday!
Prolly a long ass time. Like everything is still a go, but uh. The revaluation period was likely forever. Especially since he thought he knew her after spending an entire month with her.
Woohoo Adaline snippet!!
Thank You. So wonderful
Oooh, I enjoyed this so much! The Inheritance has become my comfort read- it’s so exciting to see Ada with her new skills out with gen pop. Thank you for the gift! 💜
This was amazing! Thank you for the needed escape.
Quietly sitting on a bench chanting Fluffy, devouring the snippet, when some randomly guy ran by and threw a bunch if tea leaves at me while roaring FOR THE HORDE. Weird. Going to go back to my chanting until next Friday.
Yeah, just what I needed on Friday!! Thank you!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Thank you so much for this snippet and BDH fluffiness or no…it’s so hard to be chalant for book 2 of The Inheritance!!! *chanting voice* More Ada and Bear! More Ada and Bear! Morrrrrrrre 😛
Hoping everyone has a wonderful weekend! 🙂
lurve so much, thank you – also do you guys have a thing for warehouses??
I’m screaming. Are you screaming? Because I’m screaming.
Oh thank you!!!🩷
Thank you so, so much!!!!
Thank you! I needed this today.
Thank you x a lot. That was needed today ❤️ You are the best!
So needed this today! Thank you!
Thank you! I’ve missed Ada and Bear. Very glad she can still kick butt!
Hoping for better weeks ahead for us all.
Whoa! I wondered about Ada and Bear. Very interesting development.When I realized who Ada was I wondered what became of Bear. Should have known they wouldn’t leave out the dog.
What an utter delight to visit Ada and Bear again! Thank you for the nice snippet during a hard few weeks.
Cool. Your writing leaves me wanting more. Thanks.
Thank you for the snippet. It was awesome, per usual.
And Bear is The Bestest.
Thank you, so much.
Omg- what a Friday treat! Thank you, thank you, thank you 😁
Squeee! Thank you!
I’m so fluffy! thank you, house Andrews!
best wishes for the turning of the luck!!
Excellent!
Thank you so much! a wonderful snippet. I think I have to reread The Inheritance over the Weekend ❣️
well I needed that today. thank you!
So. Satisfying.
Hot dang.
Ada Moore gives me such joy. Bear, even more.
Poor Jeremy. He never stood a chance. Patronizing jerk. I hope he goes home and cries about the fact that he’ll never be as cool as Ada.
Heh.
<3 love your comment
omg!!! f**k absolutely amazing. I love this!!!
I sent love and wishes up to the eclipse of the moon last night hoping for some goodness to balance the suck of the last several weeks — and the universe delivered. Thank you House Andrews!
This was soooo delicious! Thank you for the snippet!
💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
So fluffy about this that my fluff is gently waving in the breeze of life.
I am so looking forward to this 2nd Inheritance book ?? – hopefully as soon as Maggie 2 is with the Publisher !!!
Thank you!
Omg. So good. Thank you!
Wow.🤯 go Ada go, I want a Bear 😉, the best ‘dog’
Thanks IA, what a treat.😻
Sigh. So satisfying.
Thank you! Thank you! I totally needed this right now.
Perfect timing! I just reread Inheritance (4th time, maybe more?) and I was wishing for a snippet soon. Thank you!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you overlords. YES!!!!
** walking away from this snippet with Hamilton’s “You’ll never be satisfied” lyrics playing through my head***
MORE!!!!!
ok i’m breathing. Repeate after me. i will be a FLUFFY member of the horde. I will be FLUFFY member of the horde. I will remain calm. I am in control. sigh
This was amazing thank you for the Friday treat!!
I love it—Ada and Bear in action again! Thank you!!
sorry but can we see a pic of Adas Sword ? …have Problem tho pictures in my mind ? then i dont find anithing under avelier blade ! ….thangs
Because the bracelet is an interchangeable item from an alien world. The ‘avelier’ blade was created from one of the memories of a previous alien Sadrin.
There is no exact equivalent here – You’ll have to use your imagination 🙂
Bear!!!!!
You expect fluffy after a drop like that 😂
Thank you for the snippet. That was a fun Friday surprise.
❤️ oh man, I love this story so much
THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart! I love this bit as I was wondering what happened to her after the book ended. It’s such a wonderful story. I’m off to rererereread it. Take care
Fluffy fluffy fluffy. Thank you!!!! That brought so much joy ❤️
Love seeing Ada and Bear again!!
Ooooooh. Thank you!!!
Holy shit! I’ve got chills! Thank you, thank you , thank you! I think Ada and Bear are my absolute favorites ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
ooooh DeBRA Fridays! looooove it.
OMG a Breach Wars short story! What an amazing Friday afternoon surprise!
*screams* Thank you. I needed this. It has been a sh!t week. I cannot wait for more.
So good!!!
AAaaaaahhhhhh!!! I love this so much. I won’t lie, I liked the Inheritance more than I liked This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (which was still great, of course) and this snippet is just making that worse. I won’t beg for another book, but only because you said not to. 🙁
+ 1
Yes! Yes! Yes! Ada and Bear!!! Thank you!
It‘s an ideal starting point for part two of ***SMACK*** (The Magical Moderator Mace appears out of thin hair and smacks me over the head.) Ouch! I mean, it would be a fine bonus chapter for part two of Ada‘s ***SMACK*** Ow! I get, I get it; it’s a short story absolutely not indicative of any continuation of anything in epic novella length. (ducks)
thin air, I meant. Darn autocorrupt.
😂 The Magical Moderator Mace giveth, and the Magical Moderator Mace can smack it away
Gives Norbert a helmet with a microphone so that he can keep making sense while running away from Mod R XD
Oh my Gosh!!! WoW I got goosebumps! Incredible! Thank you for this amazing “little something”!!
Happy Friday BDH we are blessed. Ha Life is amazing!!
And the Horde goes mad…. Thank you for this snippet at the end of horrible week. I love to see Ada embracing her strength.
+1
It’s wonderful. it’s difficult to wait for whatever is next!
Awesome! I want more!!!
Thank you so much. I was missing Ada. I am glad she’s still in your thoughts.
I’m glad to see Ada and Bear again, and that Ada’s settling in with her new abilities!!!!! They rock!!!!!!!!
ahhhhhhHHHHHHhhhh I freaking love Adaline! ugh I wish she had more books lol. time to reread the book for like the 8th
Thank you! Thank you for the treat.
Sharing some fluffy thoughts:
Nicely played, Mod R. Since there was no mention of what it was about, I found myself guessing between the world of hidden legacy or inheritance for about 8 paragraphs in. Fun bonus.
Glad to see bear being bear. Makes me wonder how the cat is doing.
Also, interesting that Ada is using her talent to assess people’s emotions when she didn’t before (only her daughter did in inheritance that I noted)… wonder if she and Tia had a chat about it?
Love love love love! I don’t know which I want first, Hugh 2 or Ada 2. Or Innkeeper. Can hardly w*it for Maggie 2 and am rereading Maggie 1 right now – all of these have such great fight scenes! The descriptions make for terrific mental visualization. Thank you for making this little piece of today into Fantastic Friday!!!
Wahoo!!! Thank you for the snippet!!!! As soon as I started reading I felt it was going to be Ada or somehow based in the Inheritance world setting!!! Love it!
Omg. Ada. BEAR. I appreciate and am deliriously happy with anything. Thank you, HA!
OMG!!! I am SOOOOOO HAPPY.
OhOhOhOhOh yes!
I will not be greedy. I will not be greedy. I will not be greedy.
I will repeat this mantra until I believe it.
I waa just wondering how Ada was.
Ahhhhh what a lovely gift after a busy Friday at work . Thank you our benevolent horde overlords . We thank you for the precious .
Yes!Love it!Love it! Love it!Thank you!
Thank you for giving me something to take my mind off how my baby is doing on his first day of kindergarten 😭
OMG Inheritance 2 snippet!!!!!!
I love Kate Daniels but Ada is now my favourite one. I can’t wait for the next book. I read Inheritance soooo many times. Time to reread it again.
**** we ball
That was so awesome. Great gift to us on a Friday! Thank you!
thank you
Thank you. So many stories, in all genres do not deal with, or even mention the aftermath of trauma. The hidden message being that you should bounce back to who you were before and move on.
I’m glad to know Ada is managing well.
I wouldn’t mind a book though …. now that I’ve backed out of “This Kingdom WillNot Kill Me.”
First, thank you for the teaser – it was perfect!
The thing I love most about House Andrews is how they always, ALWAYS manage to write something I didn’t anticipate – a direction that never crossed my mind. That might just be a lack of imagination on my part, but I think the avidness of the BDH response to pretty much everything they write shows that I’m not alone in this.
I did give some time to wondering just how the massive changes in Ada’s (and Bear’s) physiology and abilities were going to be factored into her interactions with other humans. Her actively demonstrating her enhanced abilities never hit my bingo card. Fabulous!
Oh, this is so badass!!! Go, Adeline, go! Thanks so much, Ilona and Gordon!!!!
Thank you! Was just listening to Inheritance on the way home from errands instead of the book I’m supposed to be reading. (Oopsie). Talk about a very happy surprise!
Fluffy thoughts, think fluffy thoughts. *Happy squee* I love Inheritance so much, thank you so much for this, you made my week!!! Fluffy thoughts, so fluffy, like clouds…
it is impossible to not wish for more! Thank you! Best Friday in a while!
Wow! That was awesome! Thank you and Happy Friday!
Well, there goes the patented HA “grab the complete attention” in X milliseconds – literally.
Thank you. It was lovely.
Some day, there will be more of this. Assuming I live long enough, of course.
Waiting, waiting, wa…
I’m in Inheritance Heaven😍! Absolutely love Ada and Bear! Thank you for this gift!
Thank you! Happy Friday!
❤️❤️❤️🔥
OH MY GOD!!!!!
YES YES YES YES!!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!! I so needed this!!!
No questions asked.. no sequel snippet requested… no no.. I will contain myself!!!
Thank you! This snippet has allowed my stressful week to end in a good note!
Woohoo, more please
Thank you! Made my Friday!
+1
This is a wonderful way to end a really screwed up week.
Thank you so much!
ADAAAAA!!!! Yusssssss!!!! And hi Bear!
She is such a bad***
*dreamy sigh
Ada! Ada! Ada!
this makes me ridiculously happy
Friday thanks House Andrews
Thank you! Thank you!
Wheeeeee! Finally! I’ve been w@iti*g very p@tie*tly to see Ada and Bear again! Love them so much!!! Thank you!
AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
That is all
Thank you, House Andrews. This will hold us for a bit. 🙂
LOVE IT!!!
I’m on board for Inheritance II or the chalant way I2. It’s a good present for the start of my tenth decade beginning Tuesday 09012026. Thank you.
Sir ?! As in your 90 or 91??? OO in September?
90. Thanks for the Sir. Proud member of the Facts be Damned team.
Inheritance is my # 3 HA universe. Innkeeper is # 1 and the Edge is at # 2.
Congratulations!!!! 🙂
You are rocking it, Henry!
09012 is the anniversary of my final vows. It will have been 33 years, come this 09012, since then. Will keep you in mind when I pray in thanksgiving that day for all that has been (HA in particular) and all that shall be (a little more HA, God—a little would be good and a lot would be sooo much better??? All the while, I shall be trying to be “fluffy” . . . .). Blessings on you, HA, and the whole of the BDH.
Congrats!!!!
Hope you have as many more as you wish to have.
Thank you so much for this “short.” More, please😁
OMG. I loved LOVED the Inheritance. I was so excited and thrilled about this that I had to take a walk around the office. It took a lot of effort to hide the maniacal grin off my face while doing this, so I didn’t alarm my boss. THIS WAS SO GREAT. Thank you, thank you both for the treat. Hooooo I am excite now.
This sparks joy. <3
I am not fluffy. I AM NOT FLUFFY!!!
Thank you!
I know this kingdom is great but I am still honestly more in love with this story. great job as always!
I’m sick today and in a great amount of pain. This genre and the first book was incredible and this snippet just made my day a thousand fold 🙂
I hope you feel better 🤗
Wonderful! Thank you!
I love this snippet and the Dolly condolences.
O.M.G. Sqeeeee!!! Ada #2!! I’m so excited.
Wait.. No, I am totally challant.. So that was a fun snippet. Sounds like an interesting read.
~deep breaths ~
Thank you soooo much for this not-an-anouncement-of-a-new-series ❣️ I am fluffy and chalant… And I wonder where you take the time to write such a nice little morsle of deliciousness.
Ada and Bear are some of my all time favorites and bring me so much joy. I’m choosing to believe getting an Inheritance snippet after stressful weeks mean they also bring House Andrews joy, and by extension that things that bring joy eventually get more stories. But in the meantime yay fluff!!!!
OMG! Thank you!!!! A re-listen is in order (right after I finish my re-listen of the GA White Hot).
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍Thank you!😍😍😍😍😍
What a tasty treat!
Love it! 😍
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
ADA! BEAR! Welcome to the Breach!!! I LOVE The Inheritance!!! Ilona and Gordon, you just made my day—week—month! Thank you guys!
Also, my 88 year old Dad andI read this together (I read it aloud to him!) and he’ll be so thrilled! He’s eagerly waiting the 2nd book! His name is Norm [the Norse] and he’s asked very politely when book 2 comes out! 😊😁😂)
Loved this! Wanna be Ada!
thank you! much appreciated
That was excellent! I love Ada and Bear! Extra loved The Inheritance!! 💚
Thank you SO MUCH.
Great snippet! Thank you so much!
oh wow. Water in the desert.
This made me happy! I needed it!!
“We get a treat, with the caveat (listen closely, Horde!) that it is not the beginning of a new serial, confirmation of the next project or any other secret message for us to divine in the tea leaves.”
LOLOLOL – remember Hugh? Don’t dare the Horde.
Oh. Mah. Gawd.
Yaaaasssss!
Fluffing all the fluff I can muster.
Most excellent for a Friday treat, and thank you!
I am SO beyond ready for next Inheritance book. Squeee!
OMG! I LOVE IT! Ada for the win! and Bear showing her teeth! Those 2 are going to kick some breach a$$!
Just so, SO good!
I’m working very hard to not be pushy and ask for more and that part of my brain is arguing with the other, story loving part of my brain.
We love you guys! If you weren’t so good, we wouldn’t wish/ask for more … blessing and a curse right there I call it.
Sorry for your bad week and thanks for making ours much better! Sending hugs!
thank you so, so much!
Thank you for the fun little snippet of a story. 🙂
Thank you! This was so lovely! I am trying my best to be fluffy and chalant, but I don’t trust this Jeremy guy. Hope Ada doesn’t have to kill him for betraying her, HIPAA or not. Also, I hope Elias doesn’t find out she fought Jeremy. He’s already intrigued as to how she survived the breach. He’d be SO disappointed to miss this fight. Suppose he will have to wait his turn!
OOOOHHH, I’m excited! I loved the first story. This is part of the next. I can’t wait to find out more!
I am so chalant about this upcoming book.
This is me being all chalant over here!😶🌫️🫡
I adore Ada… sigh & I will not ask for more & am going to politely return to my copy if The Inheritance for a re-re/(..)read.
Thank you! So awesome to spend a little time with Ada – she’s a favorite!!! If I were a pup I’d be wiggling with happiness 🥰
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I waited this for more than a new Kate Daniels book.
DO NOT STOP WRITING 😀
Yay yay yay
Sorry, can’t not extrapolate. It’s Ada. It is eternal head cannon. But I won’t turn it into speculation or pressures.
It’s fluff and I’m fluffy about it and so happy.
This sequel was promised and I will be good and wait but right now I’m just SO happy to see the snippet.
Wonderful! I realize you said it’s not part of something upcoming, but I’d love to read more. Thank you, you’re right it has been several very bad days and this was a reprieve.
thank you!
Yaaay! many thanks<33
Wow. Thank you so much for this bright spot of respite. I love Adeline & Bear <3
thank you 😊 soooo good 👍 I needed this.
Skweee! A gift from house Andrews *kicks legs with glee* thank you!
omg, this is so good. I’d wondered if it was Ada when the memory played through her mind. thank you both
OMG! Best snippet EVER! I am obsessed with The Inheritance and I am so grateful to be able to devour this snippit. Thanks HA 💙
Thank you from all my fluffiness!
<3
I like Ada! Good to see how she's integrating and hiding what happened.
AAAHHHHH!!!!! I can’t even begin to describe how happy reading this made me!!!!! This has me wanting to re-read Inheritance for – is it the 4th time now? *happy dance* I can’t wait for more to come – maybe if I’m lucky it will be after Maggie #2. Thank you thank you thank you House Andrews <3
Sorry to hear it’s been a rough time lately. Sending some positive energy your way. Thank you for this snippet. It was delightful!
Woo hoo!
Perfection. Exactly what I needed. Once more into the breach, my friends!
oh oh oh oh oh. I cant even tell you the giddiness. squeee!!!!
Bless you. I needed this. 💕
I could cry. I’ve been reading you for years and The Inheritance has taken over the position of my favorite book. Thank you, Thank you.
… now I can go read it again…
How do you expect us to be fluffy about this?!?!
concur
Oh, how I have missed Ada and Bear…this was wonderful! Thank you and have a lovely weekend 🥰💕💕
Trying to be… fluffy.
But I am SO glad that this gift of a snippet alludes to the fact that writing in this world hasn’t stalled, I am MOST PLEASED. 🙂
A new Ada snippet!
=> My actual #1 book (series)!
Number # 2 is Kate Daniels (and it‘s world)
Can‘t wait for new books, even new interpretations (see GA).
O My Word!!! That’s the best present ever! Thank you♥️♥️♥️
Squeeee, Ada is back. Thank you for this present. She’s one of my favourites.
Love it. A wonderful short story about a new world.
Yay! I love Ada and Bear. Thank you!
Tantalizing.
thank you. found out again how my mind is working, warehouse Hugh snippet, oh tracksuit, Kate?, forty Adda? Yes Adda, other person memory, okay great. start again at the beginning, cool it is Adda, oh Bear is there too cool love the snippet. thank you
“Two hundred and fifty-nine milliseconds,” -> me “OUCH!” and then Bear too <3
Thank you so many times!
I was just thinking about rereading The Inheritance. Guess it’s time to do it.
Well, we have something to look forward to when Ilona and Gordon can get back to it. Fortunately for me, I am one of the BDH who does not consider w*it and p*tient to be curse words.
mmmmm Inheritance. I have been thinking about this world recently. Maybe because I feel like I’m fighting my way through what should be a familiar breech with the glimmer of the gate just out of reach. Ugh! lol TY for the snippet! 🙂 I go back to C.R.A.P. mode now.
Wow! Love this!!
I’ll read anything House Andrews writes. It’s been proven, time and again. I love their intricate worlds, their precision and research, their expressive and thoughtful characters.
Ooo, new snippet, so shiny 😍
And once in a while, something they write *really hits home*. I’ve been a check mark. I don’t resent it, but you do remember it, because you have to see it for what it is and watch yourself. If this is the next whatever, I’m hooked. I’ll be waiting.
Good for you, Ada! And Jeremy can’t tell anyone! Hehehehe
Awesomeness
💕 I got goosebumps reading this, it made me smile the whole way. love it
wow. more please
Oh my goodness! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Oh my goodness! THAT WAS FREAKING AWESOME!!
Thank you 😊
Love this!! Thank you so much for this snippet!! Happy Friday to all of us 🙂
Thank you House Andrews! Your ability to set a scene in a couple of paragraphs is unparalleled.
thank you! it’s been a week. Dolly, then Tim, then Peter. all lived long and rich lives but it’s still been hard. thank you fir the gift.
I’m relistening to The Inheritance right now–on chapter 12. This is the BEST gift.
Thanks for an amazing fun and tantalizing snippet. I’ll be waiting …
Thank you, thank you, thank you! The epilogue I didn’t know I needed. <3
Aieeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! Loved the snippet as I truly enjoyed “Inheritance” – So excited by this little snippet!
That was good! I will be good and not ask what comes next. It was nice to see Ada and Bear again!
Could read this over and over. Big sigh.. love ya work!
Thank you! Thank you! This brought so much joy!
THAT WAS FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!
THANK YOU!!!
Yay! I love Ada and Bear so much. Can’t wait for the rest.
Thank you!!
Beautiful. Thank you.
Chills down my spine. That was wonderful. Thank you HA.
This is a treat, a real treat. I enjoyed it, very much so. I’m looking forward to TKWNKM 2. Also The Inheritance 2. Actually anything you publish.
Have a great day. You made mine
Thank you! It’s been a rough couple of weeks and this was a lovely ray of sunshine
EEEEEEEEEE ahhh so so good. it’s like crack I need more 😭🤣 thank you Authorlords!
Awesome! Thank you so much! you never disappoint!
Have a great weekend1
Omg!
THANK YOU for the update on Ada. Some day (?) we will see what else she is up to. Including, maybe, some romance??? HA , love your brains! We are wa*ting. Yes, we are…….
This gave me chills! So good! A needed dose of IA medicine to keep me from going crazy until the next release.
This piece is absolutely AWESOME! I’m addicted to your innkeeper series first, but this comes near! Thanks
I really, really needed this today. Thank you for a Soul-satisfying Snippet!
I don’t think Bear likes him.
-incoherent happy noises-
I don’t expect this world to get anything full length any time soon, but I’m glad they’re still thinking about it.
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Sooooo, cool! 😎
Thank you😊
Yippee! Yes, we needed this after this week!
👏👏👏👏
😁
Love this!!!
and in spite of the warning, I’m now in a hope state.
Thanks HA!
I am so looking forward to the next chapter of this series. Loving your work!
Yes yes yes!
Go Ada ♥️
Thank you for this and I am sorry your life has been hard recently.
I hope it improves.
Best wishes
Danny
yay! I think her motivation to stay safe is very justified. what a great snippet to give us a little more grounding in what happens next.
ooh you big teasers! its so fun.
Thank you for this snippet.
Loved this short piece! And would be delighted to see another Inheritance book. 😀
I need a Bear Hug today and, boy, did I get one.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you! 💜 This has been the lift my week needed. I love your writing, it takes me to amazing places with characters I love. I read your work over and over as there is always something new within it or just the comfort of great stories. you are an amazing partnership 💜
Perfect start to my weekend. I might have a re-read in my near future.
Love the vibe of this world.
That was delightful. Thank you. As ever, we’re ready to purchase your books when you’re ready to let us see them. No pressure, just confidence and assurance.
First read inheritance a month ago. Zipped through it in less than a day.
Thank you. Your world building and characterization skills are so important right now.
Still perpetually rereading Maggie. Not really clear on why, but why not?
:::squeeeeeee:::
This makes me so happy. I absolutely love The Inheritance, Ada is such a badass.
Also, so very chalantly waiting for Maggie 2 next year, and one day hope to get Hugh’s next book.
Hot Diggity dog!!
Fantastic
Can’t wait for more!!!!
Squeeeee!!!! Thank you for the treat! Soooo good!
I needed that 🙂
This is fantastic. Thank you so much!! I needed this smile more than I realized.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What a fantastic way to end the first week back to school.
So, so, so good!!!!💕💕💕
I love your older heroines so much! I’m rereading the Edge now, and it’s amazing to see the growth from even earlier work. ❤️
See me trying to be chalant and think fluffy thoughts… Inner me is yelling “SQUEEEE!!!”
excellent! I don’t need more (tho obviously I’d love love love as much more as you could give me) since this affirmed my hopes of what she would be after getting out of that initial breach. Yes! Ada rules 😁
My precious. We needs it. We wants it.
No we must be chalant. We must be good. Be pat…
Bah! Needs it!
Is there going to be a continuation to the first Inheritance book? It’s one of my favorites.
Yes, a sequel is foreseen by House Andrews 🙂
Let the loud roar of “Ada!”, “Bear!”, and “Book!” commence. 😂😂😂
YES!!!!
Oooh snippet is one of my new most favorite words!! Thank you!
that was wonderful! I just finished a register to the Inheritance last night and instantly recognized this. excellent snippet, thank you!
Barsa Barsa. Barsa Barsa Barsa
Thanks for the snippet. Looking forward to more.
I just hope that Jeremy doesn’t decide she is a threat to others, and keeps his mouth shut:-)
yea! the adventure continues.
Ada and Bear!!! Ada is awesome! Thank you HA! Looking forward to more.
excellent story. shows us how Ada and Bear recovered without any spoilers for future stories.
I know. No promises. BUT I am allowed to hope-and I do.
Rereading the Inheritance for the umpteenth time, and I just read the Letter to the Readers (which, honestly, makes me laugh every time). I do have a question though, Ilona, do you actually think it will be just ONE sequel? Because, I’m, I’m all in, I need another series because everything you write I love. (Please, please, please, don’t misconstrue this comment as demanding anything of you. You are generous to a fault and kinder to your readers than anyone I know. I want more books. If you never write another one, I will be sad, but understand. Sending you love and virtual hugs, because, yes, it’s has been a rough couple of weeks.
The sheer joy I felt reading this made my weekend. The Inheritance is my favorite book (yes, even beating Kate Daniels) and I’m so excited to know they are actively working on another book. I’m amazed at how they can keep up with so many different characters, story lines and multiple books at the same time.
House Andrews is utterly brilliant.
Please tell the author lords thank you, but also, you’re killing me!
So good. I’m so looking forward to seeing a HEA for Ada.
Hope we see more of Ada (and Bear) soon.
Thank you.
Thank you – much needed on a hard week. Best Authorlords ever!
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 More, pretty, pretty please??🙏
I love that I was rereading the Inheritance just this week and sighing over when the next one might come and this magnificent interlude popped up. Thank you
I am totally chalant about this! Thanks for the gift.
The more you deny, the more the horde believes more of Ada is on the way. Already lining up to preorder.
Soooo good. I just finished rereading The Inheritance yesterday.
Thank you 🩷
Thank you!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you. It’s been a shitty day. I just listened to Inheritance again for the (insert double digit number of your choice here) time about a week ago. This snippet fills me with so much joy…the shitty part of my day just had to move out of the way. So worth it 🙂
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hope the rest of the weekend fares better
Thank you…
Ada!
So is this the start of….
*Remembers what Mod R said*
Nevermind. I shall remain fluffy.
This is so great… thank you so much. I have a special place in my heart for Ada…
I haven’t been checking the blog as often… I’m doing radiation and I am utterly exhausted, but this was such a gem, and I so enjoy the Horde…
I am forced to be fluffy and Chalant because I don’t have the energy to be anything else, in true Horde fashion. However, I am going to order the paperback and re read (I have the ebook)!
Happy weekend HA, Mod R and Horde 🫶🏾
I hope your time doing radiation will be over soon, and you can get your energy back shortly after! In the meantime enjoy the re-read.
Oh my God this is amazing! No pressure just I love it.
thank you for a quick peak at Ada’s status. really hope there is another Breach Wars book.
Argh. I loved this book. Thanks for the gift. I’ll try not to be greedy. I hope your weekend is all good things.
SO GOOD!!!!
Oh. My. Goddess.
His self interest will insure that he won’t say a word about her new abilities.
I know there are other projects ahead of Ada’s story. I’m looking forward to them too. 🕯️
This was such a treat. Thank you. 😊
Yippee!!!! What a fantastic treat to start off the weekend! Love it, love it, love it. ❤️❤️❤️😁😁
Thank you. It was a lovely surprise to hear from Ada.
Thank you for this. I had missed Ada, and reading this reminds me that I’m strong, too. Not “take on an interdemensionl beast” strong, but still strong enough to handle what the world throws at me.
THANK YOU!! I LOVE ADA! I didn’t realize how much I’ve missed her ❤️
Holy wow! Intense!
Thank you. 😊
Oh, this was soooooo good! Thank you!! I’m sorry to hear that the last few weeks have been so intense for you too. Hopefully we’re all coming out on the other end. Lots of love and hugs.
Well. To quote the Simpsons-
“C’mon kids, let’s go home.”
“We *are* home.”
“That was fast.”
Oh, that was delicious. Many thanks for the treat.
Yay! Perfect Friday night gift for a long, hard week. Thank you HA!!!
I read an abridged version aloud to my Mom trying to explain why in the BDH p*tience is a dirty word… She’s now a BDH member without ever reading one of House Andrews’ books.
love it!!! *runs around screaming kn excitement!!!*
Oh yay, love it.
Yippee!! I’m doing a wiggle dance in my seat! I’ve just started rereading Inheritance again. Can’t wait for more! 😁
thank you. I needed this. I was really hoping you were still working on book 2 in the quiet so you could surprise us with a release around December.
I don’t know how HA does it, but I’m always anxiously awaiting the next book in the series of the book they just published, and then they throw snippets of other stories and I can’t choose which one I want to come out next again!! Thanks for this, it’s been a rough month for everyone.
Go, Ada!
Thank you! I’ve been re-listening to The Inheritance audiobook recently. Love it!
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My Kindle has thousands of books on it but lately when I look at it all I get is a feeling of ennui. Thanks to HA that problem has now been resolved. I WILL be re-reading Inheritance again tonight.
And wishes for the snippet to take root and grow into a Vala tree of a second volume.
And Mod R, there does not need to be a new serial. There is an existing serial with the first volume already published.
Ooooooooooooh, a new serial confirmed next project with a secret message in tea leaves!! Yay!!
I AM FLUFFY! I AM HORDE!!!
I know what you said But…. This has got to be a prelude to the next Inheritance book, and as an X -Files fan too, I Want to Believe.
Thanks for the gift. I’ve had a really 💩 couple of days at work and this makes it much better!
OMG Thank you for this!!! (Now off to re-read The Inheritance)
This month I’ve re-read TKWNKM TWICE, Finished KD 1-10, and was planning to read Maggie’s again today).
My favorite new characters! I can go to sleep happy tonight after a rough day!
Thank you, it was wonderful.
Like slipping into a cool pool on a hot summer day.
Words cannot express the gratitude….y’all are the best. All the good vibes and happy weekend.
Thank you!!! I know this isn’t the start of a series…. but I can’t wait for a continuation of the story 😉
Thank you thank you!!! I needed this Friday short.
P.S. …poor Jeremy hahahaha
Lovely, and just what I needed, thank you!
it is so good. Thank you ❤️
thank you for the lovely gift snippet, really hope another Breach Wars is soon as I love reading about Ada and Bear
This was so good I got goosebumps. Thank you once again to House Andrews for your frequent generosity! Now off to re-read Inheritance…
Wow
🥹 y’all give the BEST gifts
Best thing of the week ! Thank you so much !
Oh my goodness!!!! This is so very exciting!! I lOVE getting to see a little more into this world! Ada is the best!
fabulous thank you
Yes!!!!!!!!!
I grew up just outside Cook County, so this really resonates.
And even just a snippet…dare we hope? (Be fluffy…be fluffy…)
Woohoo, thank you.
I loved inheritance, it is a fantastic book. thank you for this! when you’re ready I can’t wait for more.
I will join the rest of the horde in expressing my joy of even the slightest hint of an inheritance sequel. But what I find more lovely is that you still enjoy and think about the inheritance when you have horrible weeks and writing it out helps.
Hope all your worries and troubles are behind you and wishing you all the best!
so so happy! love
😀👍
I can’t do fluffy…. Just saying, I really, really liked the “first” book.🫰 Ever hopefully.
Love, love, love Ada and Bear!
Trying very hard to stay fluffy when my inner child wants to jump up and down and scream more, more, more!
OMG I AM SO FLUFFY!!!
Ahh, so excellent. I am grateful for this return to a place with no peer. More than that, my heart is completely engaged. Thank you.
Ohhhh yes snippets Ö.Ö
Oh my!! That was absolutely delicious, House Andrews! Thank you so much!! Yessss!
Lovely! Thank you!
Thanks for the snippet! I can’t wait for more about Ada and Bear!
O. M. G.
I have been in such a reading slump. I haven’t really read anything or even wanted to read anything for over a month. I was getting worried that I was read-out. Nope, turns out, I just needed an-tis-ipation for more Ada & Bear shenanigans. (R.I.P. Tim Curry)
Oh, that was fantastic.
Weeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! Thank you so much for that nugget 😍 Looking forward to more Ada in the future ❤️
Hmm. That was wonderful. I’m holding back from wishing you more crappy weeks in the hope they would produce more of this goodness. That would make me a bad person. I don’t want to be a bad person. Dammit. Have a great week!