Live and Let Lionel

Live and Let Lionel is a bonus collection of about 100,000 words that marks the close of the Zodiac Academy series. It gathers short stories, alternate viewpoints and extra scenes from the books, and it assumes the reader already knows the main series.

The contents run from a short story about the love story of Hail and Merissa Vega to the night Caleb and Seth did or didn't kiss at the Shimmering Springs. Another piece shows the moment Geraldine first sees the twins.

A further story follows one Werewolf wandering on the moon with Seth. Another revisits the night the twins met the Ruthless Boys, with a chapter that has never been published before.

Several scenes are retold from other points of view. Orion gets two, titled blue and Fairy Fair, and Darius gets two, titled throne room and Stars. The blue and Stars pieces are new. The book also includes a map of Solaria that has not been seen before.

Lionel Acrux introduces every chapter. He looks back on how his enemies thwarted him and how he overcame what he calls their insufferable rebellion, so the collection carries his voice from start to finish. These framing sections are new as well. It reads as a fan companion, a series of short pieces to dip into rather than a single plot.