Maggie Stiefvater to Publish Sinner, a Companion Book to the Shiver Trilogy

Posted on September 20, 2013

Scholastic has announced it will publish Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater. Sinner is a companion book to Stiefvater's bestselling Shiver trilogy, which has more than 1.8 million copies in print. Sinner will be published on July 1, 2014. It will be published simultaneously in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

Sinner follows Cole St. Clair, a character from the Shiver trilogy. Everybody thinks they know Cole's story of stardom followed by addiction, downfall and disappearance. However, only a few people know Cole's darkest secret - his ability to shift into a wolf. Isabel is one of the people who knows Cole's secret. In the new book, Cole appears back in the spotlight and back in Isabel's life. Cole is also back in the danger zone.

Author Maggie Stiefvater says in a statement, "For me, finishing the Shiver trilogy was a bittersweet moment - I knew that I wouldn't be returning to Mercy Falls once Sam and Grace's story was over. But Cole and Isabel still lurked in the back of my mind. Both of them were only half-fixed at the end of the trilogy, and I wanted to know if they could be fixed the rest of the way."