Privilege
Book Four: A Cedar Shoals Thriller
By Mike Anthony
Coming December 19, 2026
About the Book
Nora Garrison takes on a case that powerful people want buried. The retaliation comes from inside the courthouse—the very place where the case should have an opportunity to be heard.
Privilege, the fourth Cedar Shoals thriller by Mike Anthony, puts the pressure of the series inside an institution associated with evidence, procedure, and justice. The premise is unsettling because the threat is not limited to someone outside the process. It arises from within the place meant to give that process legitimacy.
At its center is the cost of refusing to let a difficult case disappear. When influential people want silence, continuing to ask questions becomes an act with consequences. Nora's case makes the distance between institutional authority and fair treatment the source of the story's tension.
Readers drawn to the series' concerns with credibility, power, and accountability will find those themes taking a different form here. Privilege moves the danger toward the courthouse, where a case can be challenged not only on its merits but by the people who want it kept from view. It is a thriller about the pressure placed on a pursuit of justice when that pursuit becomes inconvenient.
Courthouse retaliation in the Cedar Shoals series
Privilege continues the Cedar Shoals coastal crime series through Nora Garrison’s case and the people who want it buried. This fourth installment moves the pressure toward the courthouse, where influence and personal consequences complicate a pursuit of justice.
Book at a Glance
- Author
- Mike Anthony
- Category
- Cedar Shoals · Thriller
- Series
- The Cedar Shoals series
- Reading position
- Book undefined of 4
- Release
- Coming December 19, 2026
Reader Questions
Who is the author of Privilege?
Privilege is by Mike Anthony, the pen name of Dr. Dondi M. Day.
Where does Privilege fit in the reading order?
Privilege is Book undefined of The Cedar Shoals series. Read the series in this order: Betrayal, Surge, Signed, Privilege.
When will Privilege be available?
Privilege: Coming December 19, 2026. The announced publication date is December 19, 2026.
Are Cedar Shoals and The Bogue Banks Chronicles the same series?
No. Cedar Shoals is the coastal crime-thriller series beginning with Betrayal. The Bogue Banks Chronicles is the coastal apocalypse series beginning with Across Bogue Sound. Both are by Mike Anthony, but they have separate characters and reading orders.