Finucane wrote No, Goldie Soldie.  If we tell our plans now, who'll by the books?  As to KB's comment on Charlette's rescue, that is a flashback in this book, a wrapping up of that loose end, you might say.

I'd still buy them. But, if Third Herd gets horribly split up, then I might become depressed and not buy anymore books because I can't dare to read my favorite characters being split up.