Maple Hollow · Book 2

Wild Wicked Mate

by Laurie Gilmore

Announced for
20 October 2026
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9780008834890
Type
novel

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About this book

Wild Wicked Mate follows just six weeks later, in October 2026, at a shorter 368 pages, introducing a new central couple in the same town while the recurring cast builds across what's planned as a trilogy; no familiarity with Dream Harbor is required.

Its place in Maple Hollow

Wild Wicked Mate is book 2 in the Maple Hollow series. It follows Big Bad Wolf. See the full Maple Hollow reading order.

Maple Hollow is Laurie Gilmore's swerve away from the sun-drenched cozy contemporary romance of Dream Harbor into darker, fairy-tale-inflected paranormal territory. Book one, Big Bad Wolf, retells Little Red Riding Hood with teeth: Ruby Bellerose lives alone at the edge of the woods outside Maple Hollow, half-hiding from town gossip, until a chance encounter with Rafe -- a brooding stranger who lives deep in the forest and is clearly hiding something -- pulls her toward a danger, and an attraction, she didn't see…

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