Not a Breath to Spare: Revealing the Cover for Book 3 in The Outsiders Sequence

Today I’m so excited to share the cover for the third book in The Outsiders Sequence: The Spare!

About The Spare:

Kasper is tired of these extended family reunions. No matter what she does, she’s always the odd one out. She’s used to feeling outnumbered, but on this remote camping trip, those numbers keep changing.

Available to pre-order now everywhere books are sold! Arriving 3/9/27.

• Shortwave • Next Chapter Booksellers • Amazon • Barnes & Noble • Books-A-Million • Hudson Booksellers • IndieBound • Simon & Schuster • Target •

A huge thank you to Zoje Stage for volunteering our front cover blurb!! I was in absolute awe of Baby Teeth, so it’s a real honor to receive praise from someone as talented as Zoje.

“Many of us know the torment of feeling like no one in our family truly sees us for who we are, but Neugebauer has given that a cosmic horror twist. The Spare is set at a small family reunion in a remote canyon campground, and I was equally enthralled by the character dynamics and the environment—all of it pulsating with life. This is a beautifully written nightmare that filled me with a shivery unease—I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.”

–Zoje Stage, USA Today Bestselling author of Baby Teeth

Thank you to everyone involved in making these books what they are–including my readers old and new! I feel indescribably lucky to have landed with Shortwave. Working with such an excellent publisher is the best.

These little novellas are a true testament to word of mouth. The Extra, my debut, has become Shortwave’s third-bestselling title of all time! The Other is also climbing the chart, and we have so much more up our sleeves. Including, of course, The Spare, which you can line up a copy of now.

I sometimes have folks ask where we prefer they order their copy from, and the answer is simple and complicated. Ultimately, I just want you to read it. Buy it where you can, when you can, and tell your friends. Ebook, print, audio, library loan. I love supporting my local Twin Cities bookstore Next Chapter Booksellers, and will be offering personalized signed copies through them again. But you can also give us a statistical boost by pre-ordering from Barnes & Noble. It helps our distributor, Simon & Schuster, see that there’s true demand, which means they’ll market harder, which means big chains will order more copies, which means more new readers will find them on the shelves.

Pre-ordering is enormously helpful for a book’s success, so thank you so much for buying it wherever you choose to buy your books. I can’t wait for you to read it. March can’t come soon enough!