FORMAT/INFO: The Last Soul Among Wolves was published on August 19th, 2025. It is 384 pages long and available in ebook, audiobook, and paperback format.

OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: It seemed like such a simple request: tag along with a friend to a will reading and offer support. It didn't take a moment for investigator Kembral Thorne to agree. But it doesn't take long for the situation to become much more complicated. For one, many of the other heirs of this strange will are old childhood friends of Kem's. For another, the will is actually cursed. Over the next few days, it will kill off one heir after another until only one remains. Last person standing gets the ultimate prize: a wish. Kem and her rival-turned-lover Rika will have to plunge into the other Echo realities that lay in parallel to their Prime reality to find a way to unravel the curse before it can kill all of Kem's friends.

The Last Soul Among Wolves is full of adventure, if a bit thin on character work. Like the previous installment, we are treated to a standalone mystery. Kem needs to not only break the curse on the will, but also figure out who is trying to help the curse by taking out the competition so they can inherit the wish. Unfortunately, I felt that the mystery element of the story lost out to the bigger storyline of adventuring through the echoes themselves. The new characters-turned-suspects felt a bit wooden, especially compared to previous works of the authors.

The real focus of the story is a power struggle happening in the Echoes and how that ties to Kem and Rika. The story is at its best when the two are dealing with the Empyreans, the powerful beings that rule the Echoes. There's daring heists from mysterious castles and tense negotiations. Empyreans have certain rules and tropes they have to follow to align to their core self, or they start to lose power. Figuring out how to use those rules to their advantage is the highlight of the story.

But navigating the Echoes also started to strangely feel a little rote. Characters go too many levels down, then have to make it to the exit while being chased by deadly creatures multiple times; towards the end of the story, it felt a bit like "here we go again."

If you like mysterious relics and curses, weird realities, and daring adventures, The Last Soul Among Wolves is here for you. While the mystery portion felt a bit underserved, I still had a fun time running along the rooftops of the Echoes, racing against the clock to find a solution before all hope is lost.