Silent Thunder

The novel now has a pub date- January 20, 2026!

It’s a Mira Morales book, the 7th in the series. Those 2 dogs on the back are Nigel, the Golden, still very much with us, and Nika,  who was with us until 2023. The macaw on the front, Stephanie, is a macaw we met on a trip to Costa Rica.

The actual Stephanie. One of the other dog stars in the novel is Noah, the red Golden Retriever who passed in 2019. He and Nika were Nigel’s mentors.

And there’s even a cat – Beowulf. I adopted him during Covid, when my sister, Mary,  asked if I would adopt one of the 3 feral cats she’d taken in some years earlier,  who were living in her huge basement because her husband was allergic to cats.  So I went up to Marietta and went into her basement and shook a container of treats. Beo is the only one of the three who came out to say hi. A couple weeks later, we met in Orlando and Beo became our cat. He passed away in 2024.

& all of these guys – plus another hundred or so – are up against some terrible humans who tried to weaponize them. But the experiment failed miserably and enhanced their intelligence. The real antagonist behind this is the governor of Florida, who took over Disney’s animal rescue organization during his attacks on Disney.