Tahereh Mafi will return to the world of her popular Shatter Me books in a new spinoff series, Today.com reports.
Mafi is launching a new spinoff series of young adult novels, with the first installment, Watch Me, coming next year. Publisher HarperCollins calls the novel “an explosive journey through a dystopian landscape where enemies-to-lovers has never felt more impossible.”
Mafi made her literary debut in 2011 with Shatter Me, which follows Juliette, a girl whose touch can kill and who has been imprisoned in an asylum by The Reestablishment, an iron-fisted, military-run government. She is given a cellmate, Adam, who helps her escape to the headquarters of a resistance movement.
Mafi wrote five more novels in the series, which concluded in 2020 with Imagine Me.
Watch Me will focus on James, the imprisoned brother of a resistance leader, and Rosabelle, an assassin for The Reestablishment. The novel is set 10 years after the last book in the Shatter Me series.
Mafi said that characters from the original series will return in the new one.
“They’re all going to be very much there on the page, living their lives, and you’ll get to catch up with them and see how they’re doing,” she told Today.com.
Watch Me is scheduled for publication on April 15, 2025.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
