For the last two books, the monsters of Bayou Mounds have come out of the water.
In Blood of the Serpent, Derek Brown, Dr. Sheryl Brown and Detective Olivia Hale went up against a man who traded his humanity for scales. In Beasts of the River, they hunted prehistoric predators engineered in secret and turned loose in the wetlands south of the city. Both fights ended the same way: in the mud, in the dark, in terrain that belonged to the thing they were hunting.
While the Browns were busy with things that crawled, the Death Claw virus never left.
It stayed in the air around the ruins of the old military lab, the same place it has been since the night the facility burned. It drifted. It changed. It waited for the next host.
On a Friday night on the west side of Bayou Mounds, it found two.
They weren’t strangers to each other. They were sisters. And they weren’t strangers to the city either. Not long ago they wore Bayou Mounds Police Department uniforms and served on its SWAT team, sworn to protect the same streets they are about to turn into hunting ground.
THE STORY
Mary and Nicole Norris were good at their jobs. Too good, and too willing to help themselves to what they found on raids. When an internal investigation caught them skimming cash and firearms, the department took their badges and every law enforcement door in the region closed behind them. So the sisters went into business for themselves, robbing their way across Bayou Mounds, the rural corridors around it and the New Orleans metro.
Then the virus took hold of both of them at once.
What came out of it is something the series hasn’t seen before: two wolf-strain Lycans who don’t need a hive, a signal or a master to move as one. They coordinate because they have always known each other completely. Every look, every habit, every half-second. They were dangerous when they were human. Now they are something the people hunting them have never faced.
The robberies stop being robberies. The targets get bigger, the money gets bigger, and the people standing between the sisters and what they want stop walking away. The trail runs through jewelers, developers, back roads and parish lines. Eventually it runs straight into a place that belongs to the very people trying to stop them. That’s when the case stops being a case and becomes personal.
Werewolf Sisterhood is a crime story with teeth. It’s a heist thriller, a manhunt and a family drama wrapped around the oldest question in Bayou Blood: what does a person become when the monster gives them permission?
THE RETURNING CAST
Derek Brown (Savage) carries this hunt the way a soldier does. When it becomes personal, the Army veteran and werelion has to decide how much of the man stays in charge of the lion.
Dr. Sheryl Brown (Death Claw) reads the sisters the way only another Lycan can. Her cardiologist’s eye and her years in the field make her the team’s best weapon. Away from the hunt, the double life she has kept from Howard Rawls is getting harder to keep.
Detective Olivia Hale is the one who has to find two former cops inside a department that would rather not look. Mapping the pattern puts her in a fight on two fronts: the killers on the street and the questions inside her own building.
Dr. Carlos Marsh returns as the team’s scientific anchor, working to explain how one exposure produced two Lycans moving like a single animal, and what that means for the air Bayou Mounds is still breathing.
Howard Rawls has seen enough over the last few books to know something doesn’t add up. In this book he gets closer to the truth than he ever has.
Chief Charles Davis keeps the department steady while the pressure from above keeps climbing.
THE STORYLINE CHARACTERS
Mary Norris is the older sister and the planner. She’s precise, patient and controlled, the one who maps routes, counts exits and never wastes a move. She has spent her whole life looking after Nicole. She doesn’t intend to stop now.
Nicole Norris is the younger sister and the edge of the blade. She’s sharp, impatient, sarcastic and hungry for more than money. Where Mary calculates, Nicole pushes. She has always trusted that her sister will be right behind her.
Together they are the most coordinated threat Derek and Sheryl have ever faced. Apart, nobody knows what they are. Not even them.
PAID-TIER EXCLUSIVE: THE BONUS CHAPTER
When the final chapter of Werewolf Sisterhood closes, the story isn’t finished with Bayou Mounds.
Paid-tier Patreon members will unlock an exclusive bonus chapter, The Remains, available only to paid subscribers. It won’t appear on Royal Road, Scribble Hub or anywhere else.
We won’t say much about it. It looks past the last page, at something taking shape quietly in the city while Derek, Sheryl and Hale are looking the other way. It’s a forecast of what’s headed straight for the Browns’ radar, and they have no idea it’s coming.
One thing is certain. What happens in Werewolf Sisterhood doesn’t stay in Werewolf Sisterhood. The choices made in this book carry consequences, and some of them won’t surface until much later in the series.
Read the book. Then read what comes after.
Paid-tier members also unlock The Remains, the exclusive bonus chapter that follows the final page.
READ IT FIRST
Bayou Blood: Werewolf Sisterhood launches Thursday, November 12, 2026 with Chapter 1, exclusively for Patreon Tier 1 members. Patreon members read every chapter early, weeks before it reaches Royal Road and Scribble Hub.
If you followed Derek, Sheryl and Hale through the serpent and the river, this is where the series comes home to the wolves.
