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ACOTAR Books 6 & 7: Everything We Know So Far

Last updated August 22, 2026. This is a living hub — we update it as new details are officially confirmed.

After five and a half years of silence, it happened all at once: this week, Sarah J. Maas revealed the titles, covers, and release dates for ACOTAR books 6 and 7 — via back-to-back Instagram posts and digital billboards in New York, Los Angeles, and Denver. Here is everything that is actually confirmed, everything that is not, and how to be ready for October.

The Announcement at a Glance

  • Book 6: A Court of Splintered Harmony — October 27, 2026 (Bloomsbury, global)
  • Book 7: A Court of Forgotten Melody — January 12, 2027 (announced date), just eleven weeks later
  • Both jackets carry a new arc name: The Valkyrie Cycle — Movement I on book 6, Movements II & III on book 7
  • Teaser captions: “What was broken will be remade” (book 6) and “What was lost will be reclaimed” (book 7)
  • No synopsis, no POV character, and no plot details have been released

Watch: the full breakdown

The covers

A Court of Splintered Harmony cover - The Valkyrie Cycle Movement I
Book 6 — pink-to-gold, stippled flames over splintered, bone-like shafts. The jacket reads “The Valkyrie Cycle: Movement I.”
A Court of Forgotten Melody cover - The Valkyrie Cycle Movements II and III
Book 7 — gold-to-teal, a many-limbed creature over a coiled needle. “The Valkyrie Cycle: Movements II & III.”

Both covers continue the gradient-and-stipple design language of the current adult editions — these are built to sit beside the books already on your shelf. And the captions Maas posted with them are a deliberate matched pair: what was broken will be remade; what was lost will be reclaimed. That mirrored sentence-shape is, so far, the only official hint at the story itself.

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What “The Valkyrie Cycle” actually tells us

The most interesting part of the announcement is structural. Back in March, on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Maas told Alex Cooper the continuation had grown into roughly 1,000 pages of storytelling — “the story that was finally ready to come out of me was big. Really, really big” — and that she would release it in parts rather than force it into one binding. “I’ve never told a story this way,” she said. “This is how it wants to come out.”

The jackets now show us the shape of that decision: three “movements,” printed as two books. Movement I is a full volume (Splintered Harmony); Movements II and III share the second volume (Forgotten Melody). That also explains the unusually tight eleven-week gap between releases — this is one arc arriving in two deliveries, not two standalone sequels.

One more piece of context, from the published books rather than any leak: in A Court of Silver Flames, Nesta, Gwyn, and Emerie revive an ancient tradition of female warriors — the Valkyries. Whether the cycle’s name means the story follows them, nobody outside Bloomsbury knows. The name is confirmed; what it points to is a guess, and we will keep those two things separate on this page.

What is NOT known

  • No synopsis has been published for either book.
  • No point-of-view character has been named.
  • No plot details exist beyond the two captions — neither Maas nor Bloomsbury has confirmed anything about the story. If you see a detailed “plot summary” circulating right now, it is not official.
  • Book 7’s date is the publisher’s announced schedule. January 12, 2027 is printed plainly by the trade press, but a date that far out is a plan, not a shipped book — pencil, not pen.

Read (or re-read) before October 27

October 27 is just over nine weeks away. The good news: publication order and story order are the same for this series, so the path is simple. Our full guide — including where the novella goes and why — is here: ACOTAR Books in Order.

  1. A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015)
  2. A Court of Mist and Fury (2016)
  3. A Court of Wings and Ruin (2017)
  4. A Court of Frost and Starlight (2018 — novella; skippable in a hurry, but it sets up book 5)
  5. A Court of Silver Flames (2021) — Nesta’s book, and where the Valkyries begin

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