It occured to me as I was editing chapter 86 of Too Much Love for today's publication that it might look a little choppy to see another perspective from another brand new character who seems to have no obvious connection to Nick & Co. As with all of my strange writerly habits, I beg the readers' indulgence and promise there's a plan behind it.
In this case, my strategy for restarting TML is to tell the rest of the book through three rotating stories that are initially told by people who haven't been around since the beginning. That way, when these new characters encounter Nick, Max, Simon, Arwen, Lev, Dennis, and some of the other characters from the first part, it makes sense to treat those characters as "new" and fill in what they've been up to recently.
I hope this will work well. Time will tell.