Mette Ivie Harrison is the author of The Princess and the Hound, Mira, Mirror, and The Monster in Me, and she says of The Princess and the Bear, I never believed there would be a sequel to The Princess and the Hound, but when I looked through the galleys, I discovered there was another book waiting in the story of the bear and the hound. Because it stands on its own as a fresh plot, you might conceive of it as a parallel novel rather than a sequel. Who knows, though.