Cast in Peril, Chapter One

ELF says:

August 14, 2012 at 9:14 pm

I love the way you can instantly transport us to Kaylin’s world. I know that you said that much of this one gave you some difficulty but you did your usual great job with it! Can’t wait for the sequel (darn e‑books, can’t tell you are running out of pages unless you are paying attention to the pagination!)

Kathy Scappace says:

August 14, 2012 at 9:40 pm

OK. Finally took a deep breath. I’ve pre-ordered CIP from Barnes and Noble. Now I just have to wait for it. Again with the waiting. I can do this, I can do this, I can do this. After all I’ve given birth three times…not one of them was on time either. I can wait.

I can’t wait.I mean; yes I can wait. I will wait. I love this first chapter!

Chelsey says:

August 14, 2012 at 10:30 pm

Soo AMAZING

Chelsey says:

August 14, 2012 at 10:30 pm

Sooo AMAZING! I can’t wait for the rest in september!

Kerry aka Trouble says:

August 14, 2012 at 10:41 pm

Not out until the END of September — don’t want to wait that long.

But thank you — and see you in a couple weeks.

Hilda says:

August 14, 2012 at 10:53 pm

Why did I read it? Why? A month and a week or so more of waiting. When I was close to retirement I started to count the days backward. I did that for a year. I can count back from today. At least, I ordered B&N to deliver the first day. It
s agreat beginning. Very misterious in many areas.

robbin says:

August 14, 2012 at 10:59 pm

wonderful. but i should not have read it because now i want more. i am truly counting down the days. this is definitely one of my favorite series. thanks for the treat!

Meagan says:

August 15, 2012 at 12:31 am

You always have the best timing on these…every time I have a horrible day there is always something new here to get excited about. Absolutely love the first chapter and I cannot wait to read the book…but I shall wait because I have no choice in the matter. Eventually it will be September.

Thank you again for taking the time to post any and all tidbits of information, and especially for these first chapters!

vivi says:

August 15, 2012 at 9:56 am

You’re MAGIC!

I love your Cast books, and from the first sentence I’m cast in the Elantra world, it’s really an agony to wait a whole year for reading a new one, and I was waiting the first charapter from Chrismans! I’m really grateful for your work!

Dragons, Barrani.. I love all of them! Expecially Sanabalis and Severn.
How do you chose the names? Are they your original work? They are special!

Well, now I have to wait until october for the ebook and hoping you’d take pity and gift us whit another charapter or two (yeah, I’m greedy, but lately I found one K.H. who put on site a charapter at week for the last month and some other similar).

Planning novels may help, I loved Cast in Moonlight, will we see more?

Thanks for the hard work!

Amy says:

August 15, 2012 at 10:30 am

I’m soooooooooo excited!!!

Rasmusb says:

August 15, 2012 at 11:58 am

That was an amazing snippet with an absolutely evil place to stop! will we get chapter two before the actual publish date?

I’m so looking forward to this book!

Heather says:

August 15, 2012 at 12:26 pm

This is great!! I can’t wait to get the whole book.

Genna Warner says:

August 15, 2012 at 4:21 pm

Must read rest of book now. :) Thank you Mischelle.

Genna Warner says:

August 15, 2012 at 4:22 pm

I mean Thank you Michelle.. This is what happens when I don’t have my glasses on and can’t see the screen. Touch typing fail. :(

Liz says:

August 15, 2012 at 5:50 pm

I have been counting down until the release, and seeing this excerpt definitely made my day. It was fantastic; thanks so much for putting it up!

FyreInk says:

August 15, 2012 at 7:00 pm

Thank you so, so much for putting up the first chapter!! I can’t wait until September!

lorrian says:

August 15, 2012 at 8:21 pm

thank you for the chapter!
Now cast your mind back, reading the chapter from cast in ruin which ended in the office of lord diarmat .…oh my god you did it again!
my head will be bald by september.
i also must thank you for publishing in september which any canadian will tell you means summer’s over. how can we survive hoping for september? never mind waiting for our next kaylin fix?

Stephanie says:

August 15, 2012 at 10:16 pm

Fair is fair. You gave us an awesome sneak peak exactly in mid August and I just per-ordered my book. Of coarse I will buy it in audio and electroimc form as well. Love these stories thanks so much for writing my favorite series. Hope your other news is that some of your other series will become audio books as well. My inner four year old loves to be read to. Plus your books sound so good aloud. I used to read Cast In Secert aloud just because it sounded so good in spoken word.

natasha`` says:

August 17, 2012 at 9:05 am

i would love if that happened!!!!! :)

great chapter i can not wait until the book is out!!! *jumping up and down*

Edward says:

August 17, 2012 at 2:30 pm

Ah hah. Indeed one giant tease to ramp the anticipation up high for it’s eventual release next month. Of course, those of us on the wrong side of the Atlantic will have a few more days to wait.. So woe is us.. ;)

Michelle says:

August 17, 2012 at 6:18 pm

Can’t wait for the book to come out! I’m hoping that Amazon was being pessimistic about the e‑book release date. It’s due out at the beginning of August 0 2 weeks or so after the print book is released. :-( The cliff-hanger at the end of chapter one is going to torment me until I finally get my full copy to read.

mandi says:

August 21, 2012 at 1:48 am

Hi,

Thank you so much for Chapter 1!!!!! Can’t wait for next month!!! I so want to know what hatches out of the egg!!! I’m counting down the days!

I am curious, how does the length of the book compare to the other Cast books? Is it longer, shorter, about the same?

I can’t wait to see the Lord of the West March again. I hope he has some good scenes with Kaylin.

Katie says:

August 21, 2012 at 9:14 am

Michelle,

Any word on the audiobook release? Will it be released in conjunction with the physical book, e‑book, or on its own timeline?

Great teaser Chapter 1, by the way. Clearly, I’m all sorts of anxious for the release.

mandi says:

August 26, 2012 at 6:41 pm

Hey Michelle,

Is it permissible to beg for Chapter 2? Or a teaser line from anywhere in the book? Please, Please, Please! Oi, September seems so far away!

Hilda says:

August 26, 2012 at 8:28 pm

I would love to go back to have the Cast book published in August or earlier; waitng for over a year is soooooo long. I think we got the second chapter of Ruin in last August too. I’m counting days. My calendar has these little marks. 20 more days? And, guess what.… we will then be desperate for Battle. Let’s not mention it.

ElizabethN says:

August 31, 2012 at 11:24 pm

Found this tucked away on Audible’s fall “romance” releases: “In her latest adventure Cast in Peril, out September 18, Private Kaylin Neva contemplates leaving her Elantra home.”

Wendy Good says:

September 1, 2012 at 5:29 pm

“…we will then be desperate for Battle.” Indeed. It’s like waking up in the morning after just a few short hours of sleep and knowing that you are going to get very little sleep tomorrow night as well. I am just so thankful that Michelle has not stopped writing this series. My life will suffer a grieving period when that happens!

Wendy Good says:

September 1, 2012 at 5:52 pm

Please, please, please may we have a chapter 2? 18 more days feels like torture.

I have a confession to make that almost feels guilty, although I committed no wrong, to my knowledge: I was on Amazon and clicked on the book cover because it has the arrow that says, “Look inside!” Well, I kept clicking the “Surprise Me” button and it kept taking me to random places THROUGHOUT THE BOOK! I now know what comes out of the egg and several other juicy, taunting tidbits; but nothing is connected, of course. Argh! Having multiple cliff-hangers and confusing, out of context scenes and conversations is not making the wait for consummation any easier. Anticipation is never that great when you are in it.

Wendy Good says:

September 1, 2012 at 6:01 pm

I just double-checked: you did give us a Chapter 2 of Cast in Ruin prior to the publish date. May there not also perhaps be a Chapter 2 provided us impatient and impertinent readers?

Shelly says:

September 1, 2012 at 11:35 pm

The first four chapters of Cast in Peril are now available off of Harlequin’a website
http://ebooks.harlequin.com/B7DE6B2F-9C62-4332-AD14-64DF31A19155/10/141/en/SearchResults.htm?SearchID=32242374&SortBy=date

Shelly says:

September 2, 2012 at 6:08 pm

Alright, let’s try the link again:
http://ebooks.harlequin.com/B7DE6B2F-9C62-4332-AD14-64DF31A19155/10/141/en/SearchResultsImprint.htm?SearchID=32260621&SortBy=date
IF this doesn’t work just go to the Harlequin site, ebooks area and search for Michelle Sagara.

mandi says:

September 2, 2012 at 9:31 pm

i just looked and i don’t see it

Mandi says:

September 2, 2012 at 10:46 pm

I got it to work!! YIPPEE!!! THANK YOU !!

Jo O says:

September 3, 2012 at 5:22 pm

I found it as well. Thank you so much for posting about this I would never have found it otherwise. Not to wish my life away or anything,but I’m rather impatient for the 18th September!

a.esther says:

September 4, 2012 at 1:26 pm

that info was blessing and curse…i read it all like an addict, and now am even more impatient for my next “fix” (i.e. sept.18th!)

Stephanie says:

September 4, 2012 at 1:57 pm

Bless you Shelly! I can’t wait for it to be published. Wish I had the whole book now.

silentmum says:

September 7, 2012 at 5:44 pm

Sob.….can’t get it to work.….……oh.…no.….….my lif eis over

Jo O says:

September 11, 2012 at 4:21 pm

I went on to Harlequin.com. Clicked on the “ebookstore” tab then typed Cast in Peril in the search box at the top of the page. However, if you aren’t in the ebook store when you search, you get 99 titles including all Ms Sagara’s other titles but not Peril for some strange reason.
Hope this works for you.

Hilda says:

September 11, 2012 at 9:57 pm

I will be strong; I have waited sooooo looong; I can wait until then. I ordered the book to be delivered first day by Amazon; and I also ordered the Nook version (B&N); have to give business to all. I’m leaving for Las Vegas on the 19th to babysit my only grandchild, while my son (her father) celebrates her mother’s birthday there. She is 10, So, I will read the tree copy here, and will read the Nook version again and again. MY grandaughter loves to read; last year I gave her the first of Kaylin’s adventures; I will order the second for her to read in Vegas so I can read. NO TIME TO GAMBLE!!! Then.…. Battle.

Hilda says:

September 11, 2012 at 10:19 pm

Michelle, once we read the CIP book, where in this new website do we write comments that may be spoilers, so other readers won’t read them? IF NOT, THEN WE WON’T. We will be careful.

Mandi says:

September 12, 2012 at 8:56 pm

B&N has chapter 5 and part of chapter 6 posted online now! Just click on the picture of the book to read them!! It is so good. B&N says that the book is being mailed to me tomorrow!! I can’t wait!!! I want to read it soooooooo bad!!!

Mandi says:

September 13, 2012 at 10:23 pm

i just read the entire book on B&N.com! Maybe b/c i ordered the book. I just read it under nook sample and to my shock the entire book was there!! OMG it was good!! It was great!! I can’t wait for Cast in Sorrow!! Does it have to be a full year from now???

CW says:

September 13, 2012 at 11:48 pm

Thanks for the heads up! So good! And BN print book page doesn’t say pre-order — it looks like its shipping out like a regular book. I’ve already pre-ordered through Amazon but I’m so tempted to cancel & get from BN instead. The only thing holding me back is I tried that once before & BN didn’t actually ship the book ahead, they just created a shipping label & tracking number but I didn’t get the book any earlier. Man, I am going to be worthless next Tuesday & I can’t wait! :)

mandi says:

September 14, 2012 at 9:42 am

If you live in Manhattan, u can get same day delivery for free. See I should have waited for it to say same day Manhattn bc now it’s stuck somewhere in TN when I could have it in my hands tonight!!!! That is why I was so happy to read it all digitally on the bn website!

Tyronne Hodgins says:

September 14, 2012 at 1:45 pm

Hi Michelle.

Well, I received a Kobo Touch for my 50th birthday and needless to say I’ve downloaded this series in its entirety. This series has become one of my favourite and for the second year now, I will have to wait until my return from Algonquin Park to pick up your latest — Cast in Peril. But that’s okay, I have purchased and downloaded all of your books (excepting some of the short stories) in all of your series and will content myself with reading your Chains series for the first time up there. I expect to be enthralled by this story as I’ve been enthralled by your other series. I look forward to your Sun Sword series being available for download.

Melissa R says:

September 14, 2012 at 10:31 pm

Barnes and Noble does seem to be very liberal with its “preview” pages. I was able to read up to page 188 with only being forced to skip a few pages. I did not order the book through them, but through Amazon. While I love the series and love being able to read the new book early, your publisher might want to have some words with Barnes and Noble about releasing too much of your work before the official publication date. I can’t wait for Tuesday =) I wish I could skip work and just read the book all day.

Chris says:

September 15, 2012 at 4:05 am

Only 80 more hours!!! (at least for me)

I downloaded the first 4 chapters from Harlequin, but my computer won’t play them (maybe because I don’t have an ereader)?

B&N won’t let me see the print preview because I don’t have a flash drive. But I was able to read part of Ch. 2 from the e‑preview at B&N. I was very pleased by that and am even more excited to read more. Thanks very much for writing such enjoyable books.

Chris says:

September 15, 2012 at 4:06 am

I meant flash player, not drive. Oops.

Kirsten says:

September 17, 2012 at 6:34 pm

Just a quick complaint about B&N.

Once again, my local B&N store has no idea when/if they will receive Cast in Peril in paperback form. According to the lady I spoke to, their district warehouse is not scheduled to receive the book at all. The B&N lady implied (but did not say directly) that she thought Amazon might have blocked distribution to B&N at least temporarily. Possibly simply by makin a big enough initial order and having a higher priority? B&N will have the ability to sell ebooks on the release date, however.

Anyway, if you are in the Seattle area, you shouldn’t rely on B&N for your Cast in Peril fix. Order online.

By the way, I didn’t check to see if B&N online has availability. As I understand it, B&N online is a separate company than the stores, and the book might be available through them. I don’t know. I’m taking the area of least resistance and going with Amazon.

Alan says:

September 18, 2012 at 12:36 pm

Echoing the above. I’m in Houston, Tx. It’s not a small town. CiP nowhere to be found. Even called the Hastings in surrounding towns; no luck.

Apparently distribution of CiP isn’t great, or B&N is full of it, or possibly both. This is the 3rd time my local B&N Failed at a pre-order, and worst of all, amazon is now showing 1 – 3 weeks ship time? I’m hopeful that this means it was a massive sell-out success, but I’m dubious that it wasn’t just publisher/distributor failure. Insult to injury is that the ebook is available if I wanted to cheat my way past googlebooks or barnesandnoble’s hilarious ‘preview’ system, but a legitimate ebook that gets royalties paid isn’t an option until the 1st. What is the point of technological advances if we’re going to keep the cave painting industry alive?

Ugh. I had plans for today. Wonderful reading plans. Now that’s gone south. I plan on buying the ebook at this point, because apparently paper books are not on the menu. Way to fail harlequin/Luna. I really wish there was a more effective way for me to highlight just how irritated I am with your publisher. I love your work. I am willing to wait for your work. When your work has a published release date, and it is not available because of terrible ineptness on the part of the people responsible for basic shipping and handling, it’s frustrating but somewhat understandable, books have to travel in trucks etc. When the ebook version which would instantly prevent ‘shipping and handling’ errors exists and is not for sale for no apparent reason, it is beyond frustrating and edging towards outright disgust.

I know the entire ebook is at gbooks and ibook and kindle and nook and is just locked away because someone at Luna/Harlequin thinks it’s a good idea to stagger release. I sincerely hope that person, whoever they are, has an excruciatingly awful career until they rethink that position. I also cannot wait until you can smashwords everything. I had plans. I had a preorder. I won’t be getting to read the book until the ebook version comes out. Assuming it comes out, and I don’t get yet another “Your Peril is in Another Castle”.

(To be completely clear, I am in no way upset with Michelle, but someone at Luna/Harlequin||B&N is a terrible book-hiding nerfle, and it sucks.)

Kirsten says:

September 18, 2012 at 2:26 pm

That’s terrible! Even yesterday Amazon was claiming it could deliver by the 20th, but now I see new orders won’t deliver for 1 – 3 weeks. My pre-order still shows a delivery date of the 20th, but I’ll be holding my breath until it arrives.

Clearly someone is underestimating the popularity of your books on their release date. I’d guess it probably does end up costing Michelle at least a little bit in royalties because stymied buyers will hit up the used instead of new book market.

This is the 2nd or 3rd release date that has been problematic, from my viewpoint.

Danita says:

September 18, 2012 at 7:59 pm

Thank you all for letting me know that I’m not the only one unable to get my hands on this much desired book. I’d also set aside time for reading bliss and was eagerly looking forward to spending today at home reading. Sigh. Fingers crossed it gets here soon.

Melissa R says:

September 19, 2012 at 12:46 am

I did not even try to get the book from Barnes and Noble this year because they failed so spectacularly last year with Cast in Ruin. I paid for one day shipping from Amazon, however, they have yet to actually ship the book. I refuse to believe the 1 – 3 week ship time, that should have been information provided before people pre-ordered! I traded work days with a co-worker because I was sure it would be here tomorrow and I want to read it cover to cover. 1‑day delivery is supposed to be here by 7pm tomorrow, and if it isn’t I will turn my rabid fangrrrl powers on the poor sap who happens to answer the customer support line for Amazon.

Ms Sagara, can’t you let your publisher see this thread (and last year’s?) so they can do something about smoother releases? You have a dedicated, screaming fanbase salivating for your new work, so I don’t see how making the book nearly impossible to find can be beneficial to anyone.

Chris says:

September 19, 2012 at 1:22 am

I was at B&N at 9:05 AM Pacific Time Tues. morning (just after noon Eastern) and spent an hour there. This is what I learned,

The store has had three copies on order since July 5th (none spoken for). They did not know who/how they were ordered, just that they were ordered. The employee I spoke with was very helpful and spent over 45 minutes on the phone with various people at the distribution department in Reno, NV.

She said that as of that time there were no copies in any B&N retail store in CA. She also said that they seemed confused there and I heard her use phrases such as “I just spoke with them and they transfered me to you”. Finally she spoke with a distribution supervisor who said that the problem lay with the publisher who hadn’t gotten the books to B&N until today. The supervisor said that the books would start going out Tuesday and hopefully make it to stores Wed. and Thurs.

The B&N employee was nice enough to Next Day UPS a copy from Reno for me. She told me that they see this happen sometimes with Paperbacks (not with HC’s or MMPB’s). I was of course very disappointed, but it seemed that the employee I was speaking with was doing all that she could to help me. Hopefully she was given accurate info and most B&N’s will have the book in the next few days.

Chris says:

September 19, 2012 at 4:32 am

At 1:02 AM PST I received an automated e‑mail claiming that the book is ready for pick-up. I’m hoping that that’s accurate and will try to get it tomorrow.

Melissa R says:

September 19, 2012 at 2:28 pm

Several B&N have copies in hand today. They do exist!

Hilda says:

September 19, 2012 at 4:32 pm

Here I’m waiting with my heart running double speed and nothing yet. I open my front door every hour. Amazon notified me yesterday that they shipped CIP; since I paid for one day delivery I expect it to arrive today; my Nook copy will be later. Last year my one day delivery came at night.

Michelle, where do we put the comments for those who have already read the book, possible spoilers? Or you prefer not to have spoilers?

Danita says:

September 19, 2012 at 10:20 pm

So jealous Hilda! I paid for next day too and they tell me I won’t get it until sometime the first or second week or Oct. I’ll just have to tell myself that that makes the wait for Cast in Sorrow not as long. Perhaps the publishing company could put it out in July or August again if Michelle has it ready? That would completely atone. Grin, Danita

a.esther says:

September 19, 2012 at 11:22 pm

I got really lucky this year; after calling all of the local bookstores every hour or so starting sunday, the B&N got ONE copy in and put my name on it right now. I got it just in time to be completely unproductive yesterday :D –and I loved the book – but now I have a serious question that hopefully another reader can answer, and I don’t want to post it where it would be a spoiler! Someone email me or something if they’ve read it and think they can help me out…it has to do with names, one character’s in particular..so confused, I think I missed something!

a.esther says:

September 19, 2012 at 11:23 pm

oops – email is aesther9@gmail.com
…is there a site/blog where we can post this stuff?

Iain says:

September 20, 2012 at 5:58 am

Fully agree.

I abandoned Amazon at Cast in Fury because they were always behind schedule. I use bookdepository.co.uk now which has never failed me on release dates.

As an aside the situation with Sun Sword series is even worse. I couldn’t find a physical book purchase for 3 of the series and couldn’t get a legit e‑book for 4 anywhere, although they are all over the net as free downloads. How can you run out of stock on a e‑book for goodness sake !

I ended up on e‑bay to pick up second hand copies of the series which is neither what I wanted on my bookshelf nor particularly helpful to Michelle.

The distribution network behind the books seems to be letting both the author and the readers down.

catherine predal says:

September 20, 2012 at 7:58 am

helleo dear author,
i’m so sorry that i can’t read your book. i have pre ‑command cast in peril since 5 months by amazon.fr but they don’t have your book no more…
please; can someone to say to me what happens?
thank you very much — thank you very much.……

Hilda says:

September 20, 2012 at 10:09 am

Danita, Melissa, Catherine Predal: I think we are all victims of some kind of publishing monopoly. I paid for one day delivery; Amazon sent me an e‑mail on Tuesday notifying me that my book would be delivered (yesterday) the day after mailing. Then I got another e‑mail saying it will come middle of next week. I’m still waiting; I last looked outside my door at 11:00 last night; then first thing this morning. NO BOOK!! But I did manage, not easy, to connect via e‑mail with Amazon customer service. They called me back in a few minutes. USELESS!!! The guy has no idea of the problem. He is seeing everything in the computer at his end, the most he could say is that I will be receiving it when I receive it. He has no idea. Poor guy, he got my frustration. I really sent him to Michelle’s website so he could read all the messages we have been posting about Amazon’s poor ustomer service.
I will be out of town all of next week, so I can’t even read it during the trip as O planned. Maybe I’ll go to the local B&N. I will end then with 3 books, including the one in NOOK. I’ll give one to my niece as present; she has the first one.

Kirsten says:

September 20, 2012 at 11:35 am

I received my copy from Amazon yeserday around 5:00 pm. I pre-ordered in April.

It is wonderful.

catherine predal says:

September 20, 2012 at 11:51 am

hello dears,
i think that i will command the book by amazon.com . they said that they have the book in stock. maybe this one will come really in 4 – 6 days, it will be bester that to wait amazon.fr to have stock.…
it’s shade that we can’t buy it in france.…
what do you think of this?
catherine

john says:

October 6, 2012 at 4:39 am

please tell me it isn’t going to be an entire year for cast is sorrow. I know its a two parter but nothing got resolved — the new outcast lord is still at large — the familiar is barely less of a mystery than it was as an egg — she never even reached the west marches — and the title is the only hint for where the story is going.

I mean kaylin fits the whole REVISE, ELEVATE, and TRANSFORM to the elevate so far anyway. the recitation is suppose to be transformative… what do they transform into on the lords of law side of things?

John says:

October 8, 2012 at 2:05 am

If you use it to look upon the world it changes what you see.
It can save or take a life depending on how it is used.
if you don’t control it, it may consume you.
when in check empires rise in it’s wake, but left unchecked civilizations have vanished seemingly over night.

I knew there was a reason I couldn’t move on to my next reading adventure and it was because you hid a riddle with bits of info given by unlikely characters and my mind wouldn’t let go of it until it put it together. sneaky, sneaky, I like that. I wont answer the riddle here so I dont prematurely enlighten other readers who haven’t worked out the familiars name for themselves.

I still hope it doesn’t take an entire year for this installment to be concluded sense we just got the build up for the next books actual climax.

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