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Frankfurt 2015 Rights Guide www.apub.com For Global Rights inquiries, please contact: Jennifer Bassuk—Director, Global Rights Jodi Marchowsky—Manager, Global Rights Alexandra Levenberg—Manager, Global Rights Amazon Publishing 1350 Avenue of the Americas, 17th Floor New York, New York 10019 [email protected] Rights Guide Table of Contents 47North . 3 Amazon Publishing . 22 French and German Titles — Amazon Publishing . 29 Grand Harbor Press . 41 Jet City Comics . 45 Lake Union Publishing . 51 Little A . .82 Montlake Romance . 92 StoryFront . 123 Thomas & Mercer . 129 Waterfall . 165 For information about our backlist titles, please refer to our backlist rights guide, which is available on our website at www.apub.com. For Media Inquiries, please contact: [email protected] 2 This Way to the New Unknown 47North, whose name is based on the latitude coordinates for Seattle, offers a wide array of new novels and cult favorites for avid readers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. 3 Seed Ania Ahlborn Horror Publication Date: 7/17/2012 Page Count: 246 Rights Available: All Languages Rights Sold: German Seed plants its page-turning terror deep in your soul, and lets it grow wild. With nothing but the clothes on his back—and something horrific snapping at his heels—Jack Winter fled his rural Georgia home when he was still just a boy. Watching the world he knew vanish in a trucker’s rearview mirror, he thought he was leaving an unspeakable nightmare behind forever. But years later, the bright new future he’s built suddenly turns pitch black, as something fiendishly familiar looms dead ahead. When Jack, his wife, and their two small children survive a violent car crash, it seems like a miracle. But Jack knows what he saw on the road that night, and it wasn’t divine intervention. The profound evil from his past won’t let them die...at least not quickly. It’s back, and it’s hungry; ready to make Jack pay for running, to work its malignant magic on his angelic youngest daughter, and to whisper a chilling promise: I’ve always been here, and I’ll never leave. The Last Flotilla Series Salt (Book One) Colin F. Barnes Science Fiction Adventure Publication Date: 10/13/2015 Page Count: 372 Rights Available: All Languages In the near future, the effects of a catastrophic solar flare have left the earth almost entirely submerged, with only the tops of the very tallest mountains remaining above water. Moored to one of these peaks is a flotilla of ships and boats containing all of the planet’s known survivors. One hundred and twenty-five souls remain, but not for long—a mysterious infection is turning the air they breathe and the water they drink into deadly hazards. Twelve volunteers have been sent out to look for help—or even any signs of life—and none have returned. It now falls to Eva, a former cop, and Jim, the flotilla’s elected leader, to keep the fragile peace among the inhabitants. Humanity is depending on them for its survival—together, can they find the answers in time? Stay tuned for Soil, the next book in the series, which will be released in Spring 2016! The Kricket Series Darken the Stars (Book Three) Amy A. Bartol Science Fiction Romance Publication Date: 9/8/2015 Page Count: 302 Rights Available: All Languages Kyon Ensin finally has what he’s always wanted: possession of Kricket Hollowell, the priestess who foresees the future. Together, their combined power will be unrivaled. Kricket, however, doesn’t crave the crown of Ethar— she has an unbreakable desire to live life on her own terms, a life that she desperately wants to share with her love, Trey Allairis. As conspiracies rage in the war for Ethar, Kricket’s so-called allies want to use her as a spy. Even those held closest cannot be trusted—including Astrid, her sister, and Giffen, a member of a mysterious order with a hidden agenda. But Kricket’s resolve will not allow her to be used as anyone’s pawn, even as the Brotherhood sharpens its plans to cut out her heart. As the destiny prophesied by her mother approaches, Kricket will backtrack through her fiery future to reshape it. For she knows one thing above all else: the only person she can truly count on is herself. 4 Rewinder Series With time travel, make one wrong move and your future is history. Rewinder (Book One) Destroyer (Book Two) Brett Battles Brett Battles Time Travel Time Travel Publication Date: 7/21/2015 Publication Date: 1/12/2016 Page Count: 274 Page Count: 281 Rights Available: All Languages Rights Available: All Languages Armed only with his wits and his time-travel device, Denny’s With the whole of human history altered, Denny Younger may adventures take readers on a pulse-pounding journey of page- be the last rewinder in existence—and the last person on earth turning twists. But will everything he’s got be enough? with a chaser unit capable of time travel. You will never read Denny Younger’s name in any history book, but While caring for his ailing sister, Denny must discover a way to the world as you know it wouldn’t be the same without him. Denny recharge his device before he’s left with no defense against a past was born into one of the lowest rungs of society, but his bleak that wants him dead. Before long, Denny notices a mysterious fortunes changed the day the mysterious Upjohn Institute recruited stranger following him—keeping tabs on Denny, his family, and his him. The role: “verifier of personal histories.” The job title: friends. Is Denny just paranoid? Or maybe he isn’t alone in this new rewinder. After accepting the offer, Denny discovers he’ll have to reality after all...When his chaser is stolen and his girlfriend is do his research in person…by traveling through time.Using a device kidnapped, Denny risks everything to get both of them back. capable of opening a portal into any era from the past, Denny is Launched into a high-stakes chase that spans continents and sent back to serve as an eyewitness to significant moments in millennia, Denny’s responsibility to save our future isn’t over yet. human history. But as he journeys across the centuries, he begins It will take all of his cunning to stop a threat capable of steering to suspect that his missions to “observe and report” have a much the fate of the human race into disaster. darker purpose. When a time jump drops Denny into the midst of a rebellion, he finds himself in over his head in a deadly game where even the smallest choices can have catastrophic consequences. A Fangborn Story Burning the Rule Book Sleeping Embers of (Book Three) an Ordinary Mind Dana Cameron Anne Charnock Contemporary Fantasy Literary Science Fiction Publication Date: 7/28/2015 Publication Date: 12/1/2015 Page Count: Digital only Page Count: 223 Rights Available: All Languages Rights Available: All Languages Dana Cameron’s prequel novella brings new depth, richness, History is storytelling. But some stories remain untold. and intrigue to her acclaimed Fangborn series. In fifteenth-century Italy, Paolo Uccello recognizes the artistic To protect humans from evil yet remain undetected, the Fangborn talent of his young daughter, Antonia, and teaches her how to follow strict rules—but werewolf Jack Parker just keeps breaking create a masterpiece. The girl composes a painting of her mother them. Failing to disclose his relationship with a Normal could cost and inadvertently sparks an enduring mystery. him his powers, yet there’s something irresistible about waitress Emily Vargas. For one thing, she seems to have no past—at least In the present day, a copyist painter receives a commission from a not one she’ll talk about. wealthy Chinese businessman to duplicate a Paolo Uccello painting. Together, the painter and his teenage daughter visit China, and in Jack has kept his affair from the Family but not from his partner, doing so they begin their escape from a tragic family past. Sully. Lucky for Jack, Sully has more important things to do than report him—like the duo’s strange new assignment. An oracle is In the twenty-second century, a painting is discovered that’s barricaded in the Tower of London, refusing to turn over a precious rumored to be the work of Paolo Uccello’s daughter. This sword until Jack and Sully complete an unusual task. If they reawakens an art historian’s dream of elevating Antonia Uccello, an succeed, the oracle may reveal Emily’s secret. But if a little artist ignored by history because of her gender. Stories untold. knowledge is a dangerous thing, too much can mean the difference Secrets uncovered. But maybe some mysteries should remain between the future Jack longs for and a living hell. shrouded. 5 Odyssey One Series Untitled (Book Five) Evan Currie Space Opera Publication Date: 5/24/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Available: All Languages The crew is back, along with new characters from the Block and the Priminae, in the Heroic ship class Odysseus. Their mission starts as a combination long-range exploration slash patrol, back- tracking along the path the Drasin aliens originally used to strike at the colonial worlds in the hopes of finding evidence of their origins. But the hostile Empire that originally sent the Drasin out has been warned that they lost control of the aliens. The Empire mounts a recovery operation in an effort to resecure control over the Drasin, putting the two opposing sides on an epic collision course for the ages.