

Though carefully sidestepping spoilers, Mead shares that Bloodlines fans will find some unexpected twists in The Ruby Circle – some of which they just might have inspired. “But it feels right, and I believe I’ve left them in places they need to be – I hope readers feel the same way.” “It was hard to finish The Ruby Circle, since I’ve put so much work into these series, and I love the characters,” said the author. Launched in 2011, the series is a spinoff of Mead’s debut series, Vampire Academy, and one that fans eagerly embraced: together, the two series have 10 million copies in print in the U.S. Though Mead calls finishing Bloodlines “bittersweet,” she believes that The Ruby Circle brings the story arc to the right conclusion. And Mead’s first standalone novel and first fantasy, Soundless, a saga inspired by Chinese folklore and set in a remote mountaintop village where no one has spoken for generations, is due from the publisher on November 17.

The Ruby Circle, the sixth and final volume of her Bloodlines series, is due from Razorbill on February 10. For bestselling YA author Richelle Mead, 2015 will be a year of both closure and new beginnings.
