Dear Reader,

I am so happy to finally present to you the sequel to Ad Astra - Per Aspera.

Thank you immensely for your patience in allowing me to craft this story. I know many of you were waiting a long time for this (especially since I left everyone on a bit of a cliffhanger 😅), and I appreciated all the warm comments encouraging me to take my time and put myself first when it came to writing this sequel. No one ever made me feel guilty for taking more time, and I really appreciate having such a supportive audience.

Authors aren't kidding when they say a sequel is always harder to write. I was hoping writing this book would be as easy as the first, but I dealt with immense writer's block that ended up delaying the publishing of this book for quite some time. Writing this novel took an entire year, and for the past month I've been tirelessly working on fine tuning this novel and probably will continue to do so even as I start posting weekly updates. So please note that there may be some minor edits to chapters post-publishing, but nothing substantial that would change the sequence of events.

I put a lot of blood, sweat, and, quite literally, tears into this one, and I hope my hard work shines through in the chapters. I'm truly so excited to share this novel with you despite the rough patches I went through in the writing process.

Updates will be weekly on Fridays! Thanks as always for your support.

Keep on reading!

~Maeve