Hi everyone!

Firestar's Quest comes out this month, hooray! We get excited about every new title, but this one is particularly important because it is a departure from the ongoing series, back to the time when Firestar was the new leader of ThunderClan and all four Clans still lived in the forest by Twolegplace. We have missed the old hunting grounds almost as much as the cats, and it was such a treat to go back and rediscover places like Sunningrocks, the ravine, and the river. Our characters have come so far since the first series, and Firestar is all grown up now, with wisdom and responsibility and even grandkits! But as soon as we started working on the story for Quest, the moons fell away and it was easy to recall how he had been at the start of his leadership, when he was still sorting out his relationship with Sandstorm, and working hard to earn the trust and respect of his Clanmates.

As always, I’m being very careful not to give away any details of the story, but I can’t wait for you all to read it! A whole year passed between the first and second series, and by the time we began The New Prophecy, Firestar and Sandstorm were a fully-established couple and Firestar’s leadership of ThunderClan seemed set in stone. It was great to have the chance to go back and explore some of the questions that had been left unanswered. For example, I always suspected Sandstorm would have had something to say about Firestar’s strong friendship with Spottedleaf —did she feel second best? Would Firestar confess how he really felt about the medicine cat? And I can’t imagine Spottedleaf keeping quiet when Firestar chose a mate, can you?

If you received the last AuthorTracker, you might remember that I talked about each Warriors series being like a jigsaw puzzle, with pieces from each book fitting together to make an over-arching story. Well, Firestar's Quest is going to provide a few essential pieces for Power of Three, so read closely! I developed the two storylines, for Quest and all six books of Power of Three, together so that questions in one would be answered in the other (but it doesn’t matter if you haven’t read as far as the third series yet).

But Firestar's Quest isn’t just a book for tying up loose ends left over from the first series, or giving hints about Power of Three. It’s a story all on its own, about Firestar making a terrible and far-reaching discovery, and realizing that he has been betrayed not just by cats whom he loved and trusted, but by StarClan themselves…

Read on, and enjoy!

Very best wishes,
Erin

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