It’s the right time

I’m happy to announce that book three has officially been birthed. And it’s a boy!

I’m so excited for you to read Calvin and Everett’s story. Funny thing. Theirs wasn’t supposed to be book three. Book three was going to be Leo and Vivienne, but the story felt hollow. I had a very detailed outline of the book completed (I had actually outlined the entire Concord story arc), but their story didn’t feel fresh. Trying to keep the Concord storyline moving forward and tell Vivienne’s complex story just wasn’t working. Also, Everett kept popping up to tell me he had something to say. I knew I wanted to use him as a catalyst for something later in the Concord arc, and suddenly it dawned on me. So I went to the story I had outlined for him and Calvin, moved some things around, and I knew I had my book three.

There are a lot of surprising events in this book. The Moonridge you thought you knew flips on its head. I will admit, some of the big reveals weren’t in my periphery when I plotted this out, and they have major repercussions on the future of Moonridge, these characters, and the Concord 13 story arc.

Speaking of the Concord 13 arc, I’m hoping to wrap it up in the next two books (if I can). That doesn’t mean I’m planning to leave Moonridge behind. I just have other stories I want to tell. Lots of them! But I want to put the saga with the Concord (or at least this saga) to rest. Which means I need to get to work and get book four going.

Speaking of book four, it will focus on La’Tasha. I love her so much and have such big things planned for her, but I also want to take good care. I want to tell this story the right way. I’m not a Black woman, so I am employing the help of several Black sensitivity readers. I’d like to say I’ll have the book out by fall, but it may take longer. Be sure to keep your eye on the blog (or subscribe to my newsletter) for updates.

For now, I hope you enjoy Calvin and Everett’s story. I love these two so much and I hope you do as well.

As always, thank you for loving these characters and this little town as much as I do.

Avery

The Right Place & Time For a Cover Reveal!

Happy New Year, Moonridge friends.
I hope your holidays were amazing (mine definitely were) and that you are easing into 2026 with a good book and a positive outlook.

I wanted to kick off the year with a quick update and something very exciting, because if we’re starting a new year, we might as well do it with ghosts, time travel, and bad romantic decisions.

I am officially in the final proofing stage for Right Place Wrong Time, Book 3 in the Welcome to Moonridge series. The story is firmly in place (even though I did add another chapter right after Thanksgiving) and at this stage, it’s all about catching the tiny things. Once that’s done, we move into typesetting, ordering physical proofs, and making any last, minor tweaks before the book is locked and ready to go.

Which means I have a release date:

Right Place Wrong Time releases on March 10.

And today, I’m happy to share the cover.

This book has been a labor of love. It’s spooky, romantic, emotionally messy, and deeply tied into the larger Moonridge mythology. If you thought things between Calvin and Everett were done after the reveal at the end of Book 2, this is where things get complicated.

Everett and Calvin reconnect after a drunken Valentine’s Day mishap, and Calvin begins to realize Everett might not be the bad guy he thought he was. When a time travel door is discovered, Calvin decides he’s going to go back and prevent the Concord from ever making Everett one of them. But, as is to be expected, nothing is ever that simple in Moonridge.

This book digs deeper into the town’s past, the reach of the Concord, and what happens when love doesn’t follow a straight line through time. It’s still very much Moonridge, and full of found family, sharp humor, and supernatural chaos. Just be prepared for everything to be turned on its head. The Moonridge you think you know is anything but.

I’ll be sharing more details as we get closer to release, including preorder info, sneak peeks, and links to ARCs when available.

Thank you, as always, for reading, cheering, and letting me keep telling these stories. Here’s to a new year, a new book, and another trip back to Moonridge.

Now it’s time for me to get back to scoping out Book 4.

We have a title!

I’m happy to announce that book three in the Welcome to Moonridge series officially has a title. Say hello to Right Place Wrong Time. This one follows Calvin and Everett as they stumble through love, danger, and more time-bending chaos than I probably had any business writing.

I had a really difficult time landing on a title that felt right. It started out as The Restless Hearts Club which was fine, but didn’t quite hit what I was looking for. Then it was Hearts in Retrograde, but that felt cheesy. I finally settled on Right Place Wrong Time and after finishing the rewrites, that title feels very appropriate.

If you’ve been here a minute, you know this book has been through an absolute identity crisis. I ripped it apart, stitched it back together, and somehow came out the other side with a story I’m really proud of. I just wrapped my developmental edits (went from 122,000 words to 110,000) and the manuscript is now in the capable hands of my editors and beta readers. They’ll poke holes in it. I’ll fix it. Then we’ll shine it up and get it out the door.

More fun stuff is coming soon. I’ll be revealing the cover and the release date on January 2. Mark your calendars!

Now here is the official synopsis:

Welcome back to Moonridge, where the ghosts are still restless, The Concord 13 wait in the shadows, and time travel has entered the chat.

Calvin Carter is doing his best to keep it together, but that gets tricky when Everett Bradshaw—the ghost he fell for last fall—suddenly breaks free from Skipper Lake and shows up in his house. Everett is still bound to the Concord, and still heartbreakingly out of reach.

Things take a wilder turn when Calvin uncovers a history-triggered time portal in the basement of an old shop while doing renovations. Desperate to change Everett’s fate, Calvin travels to 1958 Moonridge, where Everett is very much alive and walking straight toward the death that will bind him to The Concord for the next seventy years.

Now Calvin has four days to earn Everett’s trust, outrun the Concord’s schemes, and figure out how to make it back to the present without erasing them both from existence for good.


Magic, mystery, and a time-twisted second-chance romance collide to bring Moonridge’s magic to a whole new level.

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