Warriors · Book 51

Chasing Shadows

by Erin Hunter

Published
31 March 2026
ISBN-13
9780063357167
Type
novel

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About this book

Chasing Shadows is the third book of the Changing Skies arc, published March 31, 2026 by HarperCollins, following Hidden Moon. Elder Tawnypelt receives a prophecy from Bluestar warning of a great peril to the Clans, while new ThunderClan apprentice Moonpaw is haunted by the presence of her deceased sister.

Its place in Warriors

Chasing Shadows is book 51 in the Warriors series. It follows Hidden Moon. See the full Warriors reading order.

A stray kitchen cat named Rusty slips into the forest one night and joins ThunderClan, one of four rival Clans of wild cats living by a strict warrior code, and is renamed Firepaw as he trains to become a warrior. What starts as a boy-and-his-cat premise widens fast into a full political fantasy epic: Clan warfare, prophecy, betrayal, star-based ancestor spirits (StarClan) who send omens to Clan medicine cats, and generations of cats whose descendants keep driving the plot forward long after the original cast has…

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