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47North is the science fiction, fantasy, and horror imprint of Amazon Publishing. From international bestsellers to debut fiction to critically acclaimed novels, 47North offers great reads across a wide array of subgenres. 47North publishes critically acclaimed writers such as Marko Kloos and Anne Charnock as well as best- selling authors Robert Masello, Jeff Wheeler, Charlie Holmberg, and Sarah Fine.

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Soil Untitled (Book Two) (Book One)

Colin F. Barnes Amy A. Bartol Science Fiction Science Fiction Publication Date: 2/2/2016 Publication Date: 7/18/2017 Page Count: 306 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

It has been almost three years since a mysterious natural disaster This romantic SF trilogy pits a remarkable young woman against a left the Earth submerged beneath the oceans, and still the sole repressive destiny that her birth all but ensures and her world is survivors cling desperately to life aboard their flotilla. When they built entirely to guarantee. Roselle St. Sismode is second born, learn of a secret government facility located deep below the daughter to the leader of the military branch of government known surface, an expedition party headed by Jim, the group leader, and as the Fate of Swords. Firstborns are the ruling class; the second Eva, a former cop, sets out in the hope of uncovering the truth born are given to the government in exchange for the firstborn’s about their drowned planet. life of power and privilege.

But when the ragtag submarine crew, riven by discord, united in On Rowsell's Transition Day, she leaves her powerful family to be distrust, finally arrives at the underground bunker, the scene that trained as a soldier, where she begins a forbidden love affair and, awaits them offers more questions than answers. What happened after sparing a rebel soldier on the battlefield, becomes here to incite such shocking acts of violence? Who is responsible— unwittingly embroiled in a rebellion that will lead to the death of and where are they now? her own brother, her elevation to Firstborn, and her part in a vast conspiracy that will elevate her to the heights of power. Jim and Eva are determined to follow the trail through to its dangerous end. But the farther they venture, the more sinister Stay tuned for Book Two in Winter 2018! their world becomes. How high up does the conspiracy really go?

Rewinder Series Finding Paradise Series

Destroyer Fate of Perfection (Book Two) (Book One)

Brett Battles K.F. Breene Science Fiction Science Fiction Publication Date: 1/12/2016 Publication Date: 1/1/2017 Page Count: 254 Page Count: 273 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

With the whole of human history altered, Denny Younger may be In a corporate-controlled future where the ruling conglomerates the last rewinder in existence—and the last person on Earth with a genetically engineer their employees, Millicent Foster is the best of chaser unit capable of time travel. While caring for his ailing sister, the best.Physically perfect and exceptionally intelligent, Millicent Denny must discover a way to recharge his device before he’s left is granted the uncommon privilege of breeding. But her daughter with no defense against a past that wants him dead. inherits more than superior genetics…little Marie has a rare ability that the world has never seen, and the conglomerate will stop at Before long, Denny notices a mysterious stranger following him— nothing to have sole possession of the child. keeping tabs on Denny, his family, and his friends. Is Denny just paranoid? Or maybe he isn’t alone in this new reality after all… Teamed with Ryker, the formidable master of security, Millicent When his chaser is stolen and his girlfriend is kidnapped, Denny must risk everything in a life-and-death struggle to tear her risks everything to get both of them back. Launched into a high- daughter away from the ruling force who wants to own them all. stakes chase that spans continents and millennia, Denny’s The odds are stacked against them, but the conglomerate will learn responsibility to save our future isn’t over yet. It will take all of his that the pursuit of perfection comes at a perilous cost—and that cunning to stop a threat capable of steering the fate of the human love can’t be bought at any price. race into disaster. Stay tuned for Book Two in Spring 2017!

4 Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind Anne Charnock Science Fiction Publication Date: 12/1/2015 Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Named by the Guardian as one of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2015

History is storytelling. But some stories remain untold. In fifteenth-century Italy, Paolo Uccello recognizes the artistic talent of his young daughter, Antonia, and teaches her how to create a masterpiece. The girl composes a painting of her mother and inadvertently sparks an enduring mystery.

In the present day, a copyist painter receives a commission from a wealthy Chinese businessman to duplicate a Paolo Uccello painting. Together, the painter and his teenage daughter visit China, and in doing so they begin their escape from a tragic family past. In the twenty-second century, a painting is discovered that’s rumored to be the work of Paolo Uccello’s daughter. This reawakens an art historian’s dream of elevating Antonia Uccello, an artist ignored by history because of her gender.

Stories untold. Secrets uncovered. But maybe some mysteries should remain shrouded.

Dreams Before the Start of Time Anne Charnock Science Fiction Publication Date: 4/18/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the literary tradition of Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. LeGuin, and David Mitchell, this episodic, multigenerational novel set in the not-too-distant future centers on two families whose varying approaches to reproduction—including the rental of artificial wombs, the manufacture of chromosomes using stem cells, and more—raise fundamental questions about the nature of family; the role of the state in the raising of children; and questions of identity, lineage, and community in a world where genders proliferate; and there are as many meanings of family as there are families themselves.

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Warrior King (Book Five) Evan Currie Science Fiction Publication Date: 7/19/2016 Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Battle weary after a desperate fight to save Earth from the Drasin alien onslaught, Confederation Captain Eric Weston is tasked with a perilous new mission. He and the crew of the Odysseus must hunt down those who unleashed the hellish attack on his homeworld and that of Earth’s Priminae allies.

But the situation turns dire when they catch sight of a ship belonging to the mysterious beings who orchestrate the fearsome Drasin’s depredations. This powerful Empire, it seems, has two primary aims: to conquer new worlds and settle old scores. Weston’s ultimate objective: keep humanity from becoming collateral damage as the Drasin war expands to engulf the galaxy.

The Scourwind Legacy

Heirs of Empire (Book One) Evan Currie Science Fiction Publication Date: 9/22/2015 Page Count: 352 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The Scourwind family legacy brought the empire to the height of its power and prosperity and defended it against all enemies. Now one man’s machinations aim to shift the balance of power—with violent and devastating consequences.

When the trusted General Corian launches a coup against Emperor Scourwind, he hurls the planetary kingdom into chaos. To secure his claim as ruler, Corian will need the strength of the Scourwind name behind him, and he will stop at nothing to bring under his grasp the young Scourwind heirs, twins Lydia and Brennan. Barely into adulthood, the two are thrust into the crossfire. Battling new obstacles at every turn, they eventually find refuge with Mira Delsol, pirate and former member of the elite empire forces. As the stakes rise, loyalists, mercenaries, and political opportunists rally around the heirs in a desperate bid to unseat the usurper. But if their risky gambit fails, will the empire crumble into oblivion?

An Empire Asunder (Book Two) Evan Currie Science Fiction Publication Date: 11/15/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

The coup that won traitor General Corian the Scourwind throne has been overturned, but his ongoing rebellion has left the empire divided. Lydia’s birthright regained, she adjusts to her role as empress at war, while Brennan begins training as an elite Cadreman soldier. With tensions rising between the empire and the Alliance, this momentary lull seems to portend a gathering storm…The royal twins aren’t the only ones sensing peace may not last. Searching for a vanished supply shipment vital to her own mission of vengeance against Corian, former Cadrewoman-turned-pirate Mira Delsol makes a shocking discovery about the theft. As both Mira and Brennan follow similar clues to the fate of the stolen supplies, their trajectories converge. Now Mira will embark on a perilous attempt to infiltrate the heart of the enemy camp, while Brennan’s path will also lead him across Alliance lines, and into a lethal confrontation with the Alliance air fleet. But will either of their efforts be enough to keep Corian from executing his plan to bring the empire to its knees once again?

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Black Rain Matthew B.J. Delaney Science-Fiction Thriller Publication Date: 9/1/2016 Page Count: 386 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In a darkly warped near future, lucrative disease cures are brokered on Wall Street’s Genetic Stock Exchange. And the hottest consumer products are artificially synthesized humans that serve as everything from domestic slaves to combatants in savage gladiatorial games. For Jack Saxton, the young heir to genetic design powerhouse Genico Inc., these Synthates are just a fact of life...until the murder of a high-profile genetic scientist leads a pair of seasoned NYPD detectives to Genico’s door.

As a small band of Synthate rebels steps up its attack on the status quo, Jack encounters a pleasure-parlor girl who opens his eyes to their cause. When he dares to sympathize with the rebels, Jack is hunted down and arrested for the murder. Sentenced to die in the brutal games on Bloomberg Island, Jack will be forced to fight—for his life, for the future of all Synthates, and for a chance to uncover the mind-bending secret buried in his past.

The Memory Agent Matthew B.J. Delaney Science-Fiction Thriller Publication Date: 7/11/2017 Page Count: 416 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A new type of prison system puts convicts into a sleep state to serve their prison sentences in a shared virtual-reality environment that encompasses variations of New York City from different time periods. When professional prison breaker Bill Conway and his team are hired for one last job—to find the son of a wealthy senator who has been imprisoned inside the same system that holds Conway’s own wife, the senator promises to get him information about his wife’s new identity. As Conway moves through the multilayered prison system, he begins to lose grip on his own reality and struggles to remember which is the real time period he comes from and what his real mission is.

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Enemy (Book One) K. Eason Fantasy Publication Date: 6/1/2016 Page Count: 347 Rights Acquired: English and German

The Illhari Republic rests on the bones of gods, telling tales of conquest and forgetting its once-bloody devotion to its most powerful goddess. Snowdenaelikk, half-blood conjuror and smuggler, cares less about history than the silver she can win with sharp metal and sharper wits. But when the local legion blames her for burning a village, an outlander with a sense of honor intervenes, and Snow finds herself tangled in politics and an unwelcome partnership.

Snow and her new partner, Veiko, together with the legion scout Dekklis, uncover a conspiracy that will destroy the Republic from within. It seems that the goddess is back from wherever dead gods go. She has not forgotten the Republic, and she wants revenge.

Loyal Dekklis will do anything to save the Republic, and Snow reluctantly agrees to help—until she realizes that “anything” means sacrificing Veiko. Now Snow must decide whether her partner’s life is worth betraying her allies and damning the Republic to war.

Outlaw (Book Two) K. Eason Fantasy Publication Date: 7/12/2016 Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: English and German

Snowdenaelikk never planned to return to the city of Illharek, but that was before the siege in Cardik, before the violent and once-forgotten goddess Tal’Shik came looking for revenge at the head of a Taliri army.

The only people who can save the Republic are Snow, her partner Veiko, and the highborn scout Dekklis. Together they mean to muster the power of the Senate and leverage the arcane knowledge of the Academy’s Archives.

Once in the city, however, they discover the situation is already dire. A rash of disappearances among highborn men and the resurgence of old heresies suggest that Tal’Shik’s godsworn have already infiltrated the city.

When Veiko is added to the ranks of the missing, Snow is done waiting. She brokers a deal with a rival god to get the power she needs to stop Tal’Shik. But Snow has never been good at making bargains, and this deal is going to cost her...

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The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Book One) Meg Elison Science Fiction Publication Date: 10/11/2016 Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Philip K. Dick Award Winner for Distinguished Science Fiction

When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead.

In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power—and the strong who possess it. A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining. To preserve her freedom, she dons men’s clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people as possible. But as the world continues to grapple with its terrible circumstances, she’ll discover a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of independence.

After all, if humanity is to be reborn, someone must be its guide.

The Book of Etta (Book Two) Meg Elison Science Fiction Publication Date: 2/21/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is, women are scarce and childbearing is dangerous…yet desperately necessary for humankind’s future. Mothers and midwives are sacred, but Etta has a different calling. As a scavenger. Loyal to the village but living on her own terms, Etta roams the desolate territory beyond: salvaging useful relics of the ruined past and braving the threat of brutal slave traders, who are seeking women and girls to sell and subjugate.

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Reliquary (Book One) Sarah Fine Fantasy Publication Date: 6/14/2016 Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: English and German

Mattie Carver’s engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale. But when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real—and Ben is hooked. It’s not the stuff of storybooks. It’s wildly addictive, capable of producing everything from hellish anguish to sensual ecstasy almost beyond human endurance.

Determined to find out who took Ben and why, Mattie immerses herself in a shadowy underworld and comes face-to-face with the darkly alluring Asa Ward, a rogue magic dealer, infamous hustler…and her missing fiancé’s estranged brother. Asa has the power to sense magic, and he realizes Mattie is a reliquary, someone with the rare ability to carry magic within her own body, undetected. Asa agrees to help find Ben on one condition: Mattie must use her uncommon talent to assist his smuggling operations.

Splinter (Book Two) Sarah Fine Fantasy Publication Date: 8/2/2016 Page Count: 306 Rights Acquired: English and German

Mattie Carver has relinquished the world of magic, with all its dark temptations. In six weeks, she’ll marry Ben Ward and claim the safe, small-town life she craves. But Mattie’s talents as a reliquary— someone able to smuggle magic within her body—make her a valuable commodity, even to those she trusts the most. Forced out of retirement by a painful betrayal, she must seek the help of the man she’s tried desperately to stay away from: Ben’s estranged brother, Asa.

Asa, a sensor and magic dealer, may have saved Ben months ago, but he’s complicated Mattie’s life beyond imagining. Trailed by lethal mobsters through Chicago’s seamy magical underbelly and an eerie traveling carnival, Mattie struggles to endure the priceless magic she’s holding and her feelings for Asa. Once, she thought she’d chosen her path. Now the only option may be to succumb to the destiny that’s choosing her, and hope she’s strong enough to survive.

Mosaic (Book Three) Sarah Fine Fantasy Publication Date: 11/15/2016 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: English and German

Mattie Carver never thought she’d give up her small-town life to become one half of the best magic- smuggling duo in the business. Until recently, she didn’t even know such a business existed. But as an unusually strong reliquary—able to carry vast quantities of magic in her body, undetected—she’s been pulled into an underworld of organized crime and addictive enchantments. And although she’s determined to keep things professional, her partner, Asa Ward, is a temptation she finds increasingly hard to resist.

Even as their relationship reaches a tipping point, Mattie is wary; Asa already told her he hates cages— literal or otherwise. But when an international black-market magic exchange goes awry, Asa falls into the hands of his enemies. Now, with the man who refuses to be controlled under the command of a ruthless captor, Mattie must decide how far she’s willing to go to rescue him—assuming there’s anything left to save. 10 A Fire Beneath the Skin

A Painted Goddess (Book Three) Victor Gischler Fantasy Publication Date: 1/19/2016 Page Count: 402 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When the gods go to war, who will stand against their divine fury?

In the thrilling conclusion to the A Fire Beneath the Skin trilogy, the enchanted kingdom of Helva faces a nightmarish future of endless bloodshed, and Rina Veraiin—a young warrior-duchess armed with mysterious, magical tattoos—must use her fantastic powers to save her home from eternal war.

As her far-flung friends scour Helva for additional tattoos to increase her formidable abilities, Rina reckons with an enigmatic death priest…the one whose contract grants her extraordinary magic but demands an awful price. When her debt comes due, can Rina make the ultimate sacrifice?

Deities clash and allies succumb as Rina strives to fulfill her obligation and confront her strange and shocking destiny. Becoming an ink mage taxed Rina’s resources to their very limits; now she must become something else, something more, something awesome and terrible.

If she fails, her world will fall.

New Charity Blues Camille Griep Fantasy Publication Date: 4/12/2016 Page Count: 288 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In this intense, postapocalyptic reimagining of the Trojan War epic, two women clash when loyalty, identity, community, and family are all put to the ultimate test.

After a devastating plague, two communities emerge as bastions of survival. One is called the City, and its people scrabble for scraps in the wasteland. The other, New Charity, enjoys the bounty of its hydroelectric dam and refuses City denizens so much as a drop of precious water. When City-dweller Cressyda inherits her father’s ranch within New Charity, she becomes intent on opening the dam to all—no matter the cost.

But when Syd reunites with her old best friend, Casandra, a born seer and religious acolyte, she realizes that her plans could destroy the fragile lives they’ve built in order to survive. What’s more, the strange magic securing the dam’s operations could prove deadly if disturbed. Yet when Syd discovers evidence that her father might have been murdered, she is more determined than ever to exact revenge on New Charity’s corrupt. Pitted against Cas, as well as her own family, Syd must decide how to secure the survival of both

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The Phoenix Descent Chuck Grossart Science Fiction Publication Date: 3/15/2016 Page Count: 370 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The year is 2025. Astronaut Caitlyn “Sif” Wagner and her team emerge from stasis to discover that their Mars mission has gone terribly awry—the crew has run off course in space and, they suspect, in time as well. Their damaged ship returns to an Earth reduced to overgrown cities and blasted terrain. Yet humans have somehow survived, living in caves, foraging at night, returned to a tribal existence. Sif meets Litsa, the fiercest warrior in her tribe, and learns a horrific truth: the planet is overrun with the Riy, a swarm of spore-releasing revenants intent only on spreading their infection.

But even as Sif and Litsa unite in combat, they soon realize that the battle against the Riy is only one stage on which they must fight the war for humanity’s survival.

Untitled Chuck Grossart Science Fiction Publication Date: 5/9/2017 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Brody Quail is ten years old, a fourth grader in Culver, Ohio.

But he’s also fifty-two, a widower living a lonely existence in Joshua, Maine. He’s a high school sophomore in Colorado, and a twenty-six-year-old Vietnam vet in Garland Trail, Nebraska. One person, living four lives. And he doesn’t realize it.

With the start of each new day, Brody assumes one of his four identities, but each one is separate and distinct, walled-off from the others in his mind, four separate identities, each one unaware of the others. This is Brody’s life—his lives, really—until the walls in his mind begin to crack. When his four distinct worlds begin to merge, Brody learns the meaning behind his strange existence, and in doing so, unlocks his earliest childhood memory, one that will change the definition of reality for him... And maybe, for all of us.

Extracted Series

Extracted (Book One) RR Haywood Science Fiction Publication Date: 3/1/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

In 2061, a young scientist invents a time machine to fix a tragedy in his past. But his good intention becomes catastrophic when an early test shows him something unexpected: the end of the world. A desperate plan is formed. Recruit three heroes, ordinary humans capable of extraordinary things, and change the future.

“Mad” Harry Madden is a World War Two legend. He undertook an impossible mission: to plant charges on a heavily defended submarine base and escape with his life. Safa Patel is an elite police officer. Tasked with protecting Britain’s prime minister at all costs, she is on duty when Downing Street is hit by a missile. As armed men storm through the breach, she kills them all. Ben Ryder is just an insurance investigator. But as a young man, he witnessed a gang of five men assaulting a woman and her child. He went to her rescue. And killed all five. Can these three heroes, extracted from their timelines at the point of death, save the world? Stay tuned for Book Two in Fall 2017! 12 Untitled Charlie N. Holmberg Fantasy Publication Date: 8/15/2017 Page Count: 304 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Matrona lives in an isolated village and strives to please her parents by tending their farm and agreeing to marry a neighbor. She knows nothing of the “war” and “snow” of which the local madwoman rambles, and she stifles her desire for the local potter. But when Matrona visits Slava, the tradesman, and finds her entire village painted in the form of dozens of wooden nesting dolls, she can’t resist the urge to open the doll wearing her father’s face. Then her father begins acting strangely, and she realizes that Slava’s dolls are more than they seem. In exchange for restoring her father to his rightful self, the aging Slava extracts a promise from Matrona to take his place as caretaker of the dolls. To do this, Matrona must open her own doll, but to open the dolls is to open the vault of secrets, and she comes to realize the terrible truth: she and her fellow villagers are all prisoners inside their own dolls. Now Matrona must decide if she’ll cow to Slava’s ultimatum and take his place, or fight for a perilous freedom for herself and her entire village.

Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet Charlie N. Holmberg Fantasy Publication Date: 6/28/2016 Page Count: 306 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Maire is a baker with an extraordinary gift: she can infuse her treats with emotions and abilities, which are then passed on to those who eat them. She doesn’t know why she can do this and remembers nothing of who she is or where she came from. When marauders raid her town, Maire is captured and sold to the eccentric Allemas, who enslaves her and demands that she produce sinister confections, including a witch’s gingerbread cottage, a living cookie boy, and size-altering cakes.

During her captivity, Maire is visited by Fyel, a ghostly being who is reluctant to reveal his connection to her. The more often they meet, the more her memories return, and she begins to piece together who and what she really is—as well as past mistakes that yield cosmic consequences. From the author of The Paper Magician series comes a haunting and otherworldly tale of folly and consequence, forgiveness and redemption.

Followed by Frost Charlie N. Holmberg Fantasy Publication Date: 9/22/2015 Page Count: 256 Rights Acquired: All Languages

“Charlie is a vibrant writer with an excellent voice and great world building.” —Brandon Sanderson, author of Mistborn and The Way of Kings

Seventeen-year-old Smitha's wealth, status, and beauty make her the envy of her town—until she rejects a strange man’s marriage proposal and disastrous consequences follow. Smitha becomes cursed, and frost begins to encompass everything she touches. Banished to the hills, hunted by villagers, and chilled to the very core of her soul, she finds companionship with Death, who longs to coax her into his isolated world. But Smitha's desire for life proves stronger than despair, and a newfound purpose gives her hope. Will regrets over the past and an unexpected desire for a man she cannot touch be enough to warm Smitha’s heart, or will Death forever still it?

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The Paper Magician (Book One) Charlie N. Holmberg Fantasy Publication Date: 9/1/2014 Page Count: 226 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German, French, Italian, Spanish, Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Hungarian, Czech, Russian, Azerbaijani, and Thai

Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic...forever.

Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined—animating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic. An Excisioner—a practitioner of dark, flesh magic—invades the cottage and rips Thane’s heart from his chest. To save her teacher’s life, Ceony must face the evil magician and embark on an unbelievable adventure that will take her into the chambers of Thane’s still-beating heart—and reveal the very soul of the man.

The Glass Magician (Book Two) Charlie N. Holmberg Fantasy Publication Date: 11/4/2014 Page Count: 224 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Italian, Spanish, Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Hungarian, Russian, Azerbaijani, and Thai

Three months after returning Magician Emery Thane’s heart to his body, Ceony Twill is well on her way to becoming a Folder. Unfortunately, not all of Ceony’s thoughts have been focused on paper magic. Though she was promised romance by a fortuity box, Ceony still hasn’t broken the teacher-student barrier with Emery, despite their growing closeness.

When a magician with a penchant for revenge believes that Ceony possesses a secret, he vows to discover it…even if it tears apart the very fabric of their magical world. After a series of attacks target Ceony and catch those she holds most dear in the crossfire, Ceony knows she must find the true limits of her powers…and keep her knowledge from falling into wayward hands.

The Master Magician (Book Three) Charlie N. Holmberg Fantasy Publication Date: 6/2/2015 Page Count: 226 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Rights Sold: Italian, Spanish, Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Hungarian, Russian, Azerbaijani, and Thai

Throughout her studies, Ceony Twill has harbored a secret, one she’s kept from even her mentor, Emery Thane. She’s discovered how to practice forms of magic other than her own—an ability long thought impossible.

While all seems set for Ceony to complete her apprenticeship and pass her upcoming final magician’s exam, life quickly becomes complicated. To avoid favoritism, Emery sends her to another paper magician for testing, a Folder who despises Emery and cares even less for his apprentice. To make matters worse, a murderous criminal from Ceony’s past escapes imprisonment. Now she must track the power-hungry convict across England before he can take his revenge. With her life and loved ones hanging in the balance, Ceony must face a criminal who wields the one magic that she does not, and it may prove more powerful than all her skills combined. The whimsical and captivating follow-up to The Paper Magician and The Glass Magician, The Master Magician will enchant readers of all ages. 14 Witching Savannah

The Line The Source (Book One) (Book Two)

J.D. Horn J.D. Horn Fantasy Fantasy Publication Date: 2/1/2014 Publication Date: 6/3/2014 Page Count: 298 Page Count: 353 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Rights Sold: German, French, Italian, Rights Sold: Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Russian, and Turkish and Turkish

Graceful trees and historic buildings fill Savannah, Georgia, but Savannah is considered a southern treasure, a city of beauty beneath the city's southern splendor, its supernatural roots run with a rich, colorful past. Some might even call it magical… deep. The members of local witch families grace the society pages...when they’re not secretly protecting their magical work To the uninitiated, Savannah shows only her bright face and from dark forces. genteel manner. Those who know her well, though, can see beyond her colonial trappings and small-city charm to a world where Savannah resident Mercy Taylor may now be in control of the witchcraft is respected, Hoodoo is feared, and spirits linger. Mercy South’s most powerful family of witches, but she’s struggling to Taylor is all too familiar with the supernatural side of Savannah, master her newfound magic. Pregnant with her first child and still being a member of the most powerful family of witches in the reeling from a heartbreaking betrayal, she just wants to be able to South. Despite being powerless herself, of course. use her supernatural abilities without accidentally destroying dishes or blasting the doors off buildings. Having grown up without magic of her own, in the shadow of her talented and charismatic twin sister, Mercy has always thought But when Mercy's long-presumed-dead mother suddenly returns, herself content. But when a series of mishaps—culminating in the begging Mercy to keep her presence under wraps, the witch death of the Taylor matriarch—leaves a vacuum in the mystical wonders how many secrets her family is hiding...and whom she can underpinnings of Savannah, she finds herself thrust into a mystery really trust. And when the danger around her intensifies to deadly that could shake her family apart…and unleash a darkness the line levels, Mercy knows she must discover the truth behind her family's of Taylor witches has been keeping at bay for generations. magic—before it destroys her.

The Void Jilo (Book Three) (Book Four)

J.D. Horn J.D. Horn Fantasy Fantasy Publication Date: 11/8/2014 Publication Date: 4/26/2016 Page Count: 322 Page Count: 370 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Polish, Russian, and Turkish

An otherworldly energy runs through the city of Savannah, Aged Mother Jilo is wise in the ways of magic…but once upon a betraying its sleepy, moss-cradled charm. The old, beguiling streets time, she was just a girl.1950s Georgia: King Cotton has fallen. look welcoming to most…but certain families know what lurks Savannah is known as the “beautiful woman with a dirty face,” its under their genteel surfaces. Families like Mercy Taylor’s, which stately elegance faded by neglect, its soul withering from racial has the most powerful lineage of witches in the South, know this all injustice and political corruption.Young Jilo—fiercely independent, too well. intelligent, and ambitious, but thwarted by Savannah’s maddeningly genteel version of bigotry—finds herself forced to Mercy and her husband, Peter, are happily preparing to welcome embrace a dark power that has pursued her family for generations, baby Colin into their lives. But their excitement quickly becomes an ancient magic that may prove her salvation…or her undoing. overshadowed by a gruesome discovery: someone has scattered severed limbs throughout the city. After a troubling visit from an Explore the fascinating history of one of the Witching Savannah old foe, Mercy learns dark magic is at play, and someone—or series’ most vivid and beloved characters, as the resourceful and something—wants her and her unborn child out of the picture. To determined Jilo comes of age, strives to master formidable magical uncover the shocking reason why, the amateur witch must face a skills in the face of overwhelming adversity, and forges her strange force beyond her power…or risk losing everything. destiny against the turbulent backdrop of the civil rights struggle in the American South.

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The Legend Kenneth Johnson Science-Fiction Thriller Publication Date: 6/6/2017 Page Count: 496 Rights Acquired: All Languages

On the eve of the new millennium, a down-on-her-luck New York journalist discovers photographic clues hinting at the existence of a mysterious man who has appeared at an impossible sequence of historical events. As her quest to uncover clues to the true nature of this handsome, ageless legend begins to reveal both his curse that plagues him and his immense influence on the course of history, she learns that she is in a three-way race to find him before either a conspiracy by the Catholic Church or a mysterious, primal evil gets to him first.

Toward Yesterday Paul Antony Jones Science Fiction Publication Date: 2/16/2016 Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Languages

What would you do if you suddenly found yourself twenty-five years in the past? For the nine billion people living in the year 2042, it’s no longer a question…it’s a reality.

When a seemingly simple experiment goes disastrously wrong, James Baston finds himself stranded in the past alongside the rest of mankind. Here, the old are young once more, the dead live again, and civilization is in chaos.

With the fate of humanity on the line, James must join a hastily assembled group of scientists, a reincarnated murder victim, and a genius trapped in her six-year- old body to reconcile the earlier mistakes of their future counterparts. The team struggles to prevent global extinction, and along the way they come face-to-face with their past losses, new loves, and a cold-blooded killer. As the team plummets toward a final confrontation, will they be able to undo time’s unraveling in order to save the human race?

16 Pale Queen Series

Pale Queen Rising (Book One) A. R. Kahler Fantasy Publication Date: 10/1/2015 Page Count: 255 Rights Acquired: All Languages

As the royal assassin, Claire is used to moving between the mortal world and the Winter Kingdom. When the queen commands her to kill, Claire does the job and doesn’t ask questions. Her deadly skills and loyalty are soon tested when Claire is sent to the Immortal Circus, one of the many places where “Dream” is harvested from the imaginings of mortals. There she must find the culprit who is causing Dream to mysteriously disappear before the Winter Kingdom’s supply is depleted enough to threaten its very survival.

But when she meets Roxie, a beautiful mortal singer with a strange link to the Dream thieves, Claire quickly recognizes an odd and unexplained connection that may cloud her judgment. As each new clue unveils another secret, Claire finds herself confronting the riddle of her own buried past—and a dangerous illusion that, as part of the Immortal Circus, is just another act in the show.

Cold Dream Dawning (Book Two) A. R. Kahler Fantasy Publication Date: 5/3/2016 Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Though trained as a ruthless and efficient killer, Claire barely survived her last assignment. Still reeling from the summoning of the deadly Pale Queen and Roxie’s betrayal, she’s unprepared for Queen Mab’s next demand: to help uncover a new threat to the kingdom, Claire must hunt down the mortal mother she’s never known.

But Claire’s divided loyalties may be the least of her worries: her mother, the former star of the Immortal Circus, has other enemies—including the Summer King. To save the Winter Kingdom from the Pale Queen’s dark designs, Claire must attempt to awaken her mother’s hidden magic. But even if she succeeds, is there magic potent enough to protect her from the dangers lurking in the treacherous forests of the Wildness—or from the shadows in her own heart?

Black Ice Burning (Book Three) A. R. Kahler Fantasy Publication Date: 10/25/2016 Page Count: 288 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The Summer Kingdom has fallen to the Pale Queen, and it’s Claire’s fault. The Winter Kingdom faces destruction, and it’s her fault. Her mother is dead. Everything is her fault.Once the designated assassin for Queen Mab, Claire is now nothing more than a humiliated mortal, haunted by her own failures. Abandoned by her former allies and stripped of her magic, Claire is banished to the Immortal Circus.

In place of this once-vibrant show now stands an empty husk. Performers who should be tethered to it for eternity are leaving, negating Winter’s last hold on the Dream. Someone is targeting Winter’s power by weakening its contracts—even Claire’s own. And it’s not hard to guess who’s behind it.

Power or no power, contract or no contract, Claire has an obligation to uphold. And with the fate of the worlds hanging in the balance, she takes on the hit she knows will be her last: the Pale Queen.

17 Phoenix Horizon

(R)evolution (Book One) PJ Manney Science Fiction Publication Date: 6/1/2015 Page Count: 544 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Philip K. Dick Award Finalist

Scientist Peter Bernhardt has dedicated his life to nanotechnology, the science of manipulating matter on the atomic scale. As the founder of Biogineers, he is on the cusp of revolutionizing brain therapies with microscopic nanorobots that will make certain degenerative diseases become a thing of the past. But after his research is stolen by an unknown enemy, seventy thousand people die in Las Vegas in one abominable moment.

Peter’s company is torn from his grasp as the public clamors for his blood. Desperate, he turns to an old friend, who introduces him to the Phoenix Club, a cabal of the most powerful people in the world. To make himself more valuable to his new colleagues, Peter infuses his brain with experimental technology, exponentially upgrading his mental prowess and transforming him irrevocably.

As he’s exposed to unimaginable wealth and influence, Peter’s sense of reality begins to unravel. Do the club members want to help him, or do they just want to claim his technology? What will they do to him once they have their prize?

(ID)entity (Book Two) PJ Manney Science Fiction Publication Date: 4/18/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

A year has passed since the conclusion of PJ Manney’s thrilling debut, (R)evolution, and all hell has broken loose.

The United States is splintering. Secessionists and seasteaders are trying the American experiment anew. Power vacuums abound, both globally and within the dissolving United States. As Major Tom begins to understand the global threat that his nemesis Carter Potsdam represents, he realizes that he’ll need to find a body to download his fractured personality into.

And that’s just in the opening pages of this fast-paced, future-forward sequel.

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The Beachhead Christopher Mari Science Fiction Publication Date: 3/21/2017 Page Count: 432 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The human race is mostly dead, and the few survivors are marooned on an alien beach by winged beings they call the Orangemen. Left with limited supplies, a handful of weapons and an assortment of books—including, oddly, many Bibles— the survivors are told to rebuild their race.

Fifty-two years later, these remnants of humanity have built a walled city, sired two new generations and come to believe that what they experienced was what had been foretold in the Book of Revelation. But what really happened will change their understanding of what it means to be human.

Ocean of Storms Christopher Mari and Jeremy K. Brown Science Fiction Publication Date: 12/1/2016 Page Count: 512 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the near future, political tensions between the United States and China are at an all-time high. Then a catastrophic explosion on the moon cleaves a vast gash in the lunar surface, and the massive electromagnetic pulse it unleashes obliterates Earth’s electrical infrastructure. To plumb the depths of the newly created lunar fissure and excavate the source of the power surge, the feuding nations are forced to cooperate on a high-risk mission to return mankind to the moon.

Now, a diverse, highly skilled ensemble of astronauts—and a pair of maverick archaeologists plucked from the Peruvian jungle—will brave conspiracy on Earth and disaster in space to make a shocking discovery.

Ocean of Storms is an epic adventure that spans space and time as its heroes race to fulfill an ancient mission that may change the course of humanity’s future.

19 The Jekyll Revelation Robert Masello Supernatural Thriller Publication Date: 11/8/2016 Page Count: 528 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A spellbinding thriller from the bestselling author of The Einstein Prophecy.

A chilling curse is transported from 1880s London to present-day California, awakening a long-dormant fiend.

While on routine patrol in the tinder-dry Topanga Canyon, environmental scientist Rafael Salazar expects to find animal poachers, not a dilapidated antique steamer trunk. Inside the peculiar case, he discovers a journal, written by the renowned Robert Louis Stevenson, which divulges ominous particulars about his creation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It also promises to reveal a terrible secret—the identity of Jack the Ripper.

Unfortunately, the journal—whose macabre tale unfolds in an alternating narrative with Rafe’s—isn’t the only relic in the trunk, and Rafe isn’t the only one to purloin a souvenir. A mysterious flask containing the last drops of the grisly potion that inspired Jekyll and Hyde and spawned London’s most infamous killer has gone missing. And it has definitely fallen into the wrong hands.

The Einstein Prophecy Robert Masello Science Fiction Publication Date: 8/1/2015 Page Count: 338 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese

As war rages in 1944, young army lieutenant Lucas Athan recovers a sarcophagus excavated from an Egyptian tomb. Shipped to Princeton University for study, the box contains mysteries that only Lucas, aided by brilliant archaeologist Simone Rashid, can unlock.

These mysteries may, in fact, defy—or fulfill—the dire prophecies of Albert Einstein himself.

Struggling to decipher the sarcophagus’s strange contents, Lucas and Simone unwittingly release forces for both good and unmitigated evil. The fate of the world hangs not only on Professor Einstein’s secret research but also on Lucas’s ability to defeat an unholy adversary more powerful than anything he ever imagined.

From the mind of bestselling author and award-winning journalist Robert Masello comes a thrilling, page-turning adventure where modern science and primordial supernatural powers collide.

20 The Shifting Tides

Golden Age (Book One) James Maxwell Fantasy Publication Date: 5/1/2016 Page Count: 466 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The first book in an epic fantasy series by James Maxwell, author of the bestselling Evermen Saga.

The discovery of a strange and superior warship sends Dion, youngest son of the king of Xanthos, and Chloe, a Phalesian princess, on a journey across the sea, where they are confronted by a kingdom far more powerful than they could ever have imagined.But they also find a place in turmoil, for the ruthless sun king, Solon, is dying. In order to gain entrance to heaven, Solon is building a tomb—a pyramid clad in gold—and has scoured his own empire for gold until there’s no more to be found.

Now Solon’s gaze turns to Chloe’s homeland, Phalesia, and its famous sacred ark, made of solid gold. The legends say it must never be opened, but Solon has no fear of foreigners’ legends or even their armies. And he isn’t afraid of the eldren, an ancient race of shape-shifters, long ago driven into the Wilds.For when he gets the gold, Solon knows he will live forever.

Silver Road (Book Two) James Maxwell Fantasy Publication Date: 11/8/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Chloe’s quest to escape the Oracle’s prophecy leads her to a magus with a secret: the eldren are not the only race to use magic in warfare. An ancient power is rediscovered, and a forgotten people will return.

Meanwhile, cursed by his birth, Dion tries to forge a new life at sea, away from both the eldren and his former life in Xanthos, but the one thing he can’t leave behind is his heritage.Two kings on opposite sides of the ocean prepare for war.

The clash of civilizations has only just begun…

21 The Venom Trilogy

Venom and Vanilla (Book One) Shannon Mayer Fantasy Publication Date: 11/1/2016 Page Count: 233 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Successful Seattle baker Alena Budrene doesn’t want to die. But when she’s infected with a lethal virus spread by supernatural beings, her only chance for recovery is to make a deal with the devil—or in this case, a warlock.

Though he saves her life, it looks nothing like the life she once knew—and neither does she. Alena is a new breed of “Supe” no one has ever seen before. Even the supernatural police don’t know what she is. Now exiled to the northern side of the Wall, which marks the divide between humans and Supes, Alena is thrust into a dark and magical new world.

But just as she begins to adjust to all things supernatural, she realizes that her transformation is the least of her worries—and it was no accident. She was chosen…to be killed by a Greek hero trying to make a name for himself once more.

Fangs and Fennel (Book Two) Shannon Mayer Fantasy Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Alena Budrene is not just a gifted Seattle baker—she’s also a supernatural. Having survived the virus that made her transformation necessary and outwitted an attack by a Greek hero, she’s ready to settle down and deal with the challenges of living as a “Super Duper.”

But nothing is easy for a woman who can turn into a giant snake. Threatened by her unprecedented strength, Alena’s enemies team up against her. What’s next on the menu? The duplicitous demigod Theseus—backed by a ruthless vampire gang and the power-hungry goddess Hera—is determined to lure her into a glorious, and rather public, battle to the death.

Now humans, even the ones Alena risks her life to protect, are afraid to acknowledge her existence. And when the friends who once rallied around her begin to fall prey to Theseus’s manipulative schemes, Alena realizes she must act before she loses everything. But will the price of success be too high to pay?

Hisses and Honey (Book Three) Shannon Mayer Fantasy Publication Date: 3/7/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

The third book in the series by bestselling author Shannon Mayer.

22 The Hellequin Chronicles

Promise of Wrath (Book Six) Steve McHugh Fantasy Publication Date: 9/13/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

A powerful sorcerer. A forgotten past. Hellequin is back, and the end is near.

A terrible storm is brewing in London, and Nathan Garrett, the sorcerer known as Hellequin, is the only one who can stop it.

But his enemies have other plans. Harnessing the power of an ancient stone tablet, they cast Nate and his allies into another realm, where a bloody conflict rages between creatures twisted by magic. Meanwhile, with his friends’ lives in danger, Nate must put centuries of differences aside, and place his trust in one of his greatest foes.

Time is running out. Trapped and outnumbered, Nate must use all his wits and power to survive and find his way home before his enemies start a war that could destroy everything he holds close. Welcome to the penultimate chapter of the Hellequin Chronicles.

The Revolutionary Series

Bury the Living (Book One) Jodi McIsaac Fantasy Publication Date: 9/6/2016 Page Count: 285 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Rebellion has always been in the O’Reilly family’s blood. So when faced with the tragic death of her brother during Northern Ireland’s infamous Troubles, a teenage Nora joined the IRA to fight for her country’s freedom. Now, more than a decade later, Nora is haunted by both her past and vivid dreams of a man she has never met.

When she is given a relic belonging to Brigid of Kildare, patron saint of Ireland, the mystical artifact transports her back eighty years—to the height of Ireland’s brutal civil war. There she meets the alluring stranger from her dreams, who has his own secrets—and agenda. Taken out of her own time, Nora has the chance to alter the fortunes of Ireland and maybe even save the ones she loves. In this captivating and adventurous novel from Jodi McIsaac, history belongs to those with the courage to change it.

Stay tuned for Book Two in Winter 2017!

23 Angel in the Whirlwind

Falcone Strike (Book Two) Christopher Nuttall Science Fiction Publication Date: 1/19/2016 Page Count: 416 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Now a celebrated war hero, Captain Kat Falcone is back at the helm of HMS Lightning...and up against near-impossible odds. After an ill-timed outburst almost ends her career, Kat is handed command of a deep-strike mission into enemy space. The objective is to gather intelligence and distract the hostile Theocracy while the Commonwealth prepares its counteroffensive.

The chances for success are slim—and for survival even slimmer.

Armed with a ragtag fleet of outdated starships, a few loyal officers, and a skeleton crew of refugees, Kat knows the Royal Navy expects her to fail. But failure almost certainly means death—or worse, as the Theocracy does not treat prisoners kindly. Pitted against the enemy defenses of her old nemesis Admiral Junayd, there is no room for error. And with a spy hidden aboard her ship, Kat will need more than her wits to survive. Can Kat enter the lion’s den, strike a blow for the Commonwealth, and escape with her life?

Stay tuned for Book Three in Winter 2017!

Disrupted Magic

Midnight Curse (Book One) Melissa F. Olson Fantasy Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Page Count: 270 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Scarlett Bernard is used to cleaning up messes. As a null, a human who cancels out magic around her, Scarlett's job is to make sure supernatural crimes in Los Angeles stay hidden from ordinary people. But on the eve of the Vampire Trials, a two-night tribunal for the supernatural community to air grievances, Scarlett gets a blood-soaked message from her estranged friend, Molly. It seems that Molly has been living with twelve humans—and in one terrible night, she has slaughtered them all. Scarlett rushes to get her old friend out of LA, but she's too late: someone is determined to make sure Molly takes the fall for the massacre. To prove Molly's innocence, Scarlett contacts former LAPD detective Jesse Cruz for help, and together they uncover more secrets than Scarlett could have imagined. But no one—Molly included—wants Scarlett and Jesse to bring the truth to light. To save her friend and unite her community, Scarlett must decide how much she's willing to give up for a friend who once gave up on her.

24 Boundary Magic

Boundary Crossed (Book One) Melissa F. Olson Fantasy Publication Date: May 1, 2015 Page Count: 302 Rights Acquired: All Languages

After her twin sister’s brutal murder, former US Army Sergeant Allison “Lex” Luther vowed to protect her niece, Charlie. So when two vampires try to kidnap the baby, it quickly turns into a fight to the death—Lex’s death, that is.

She wakes up to two shocking discoveries: she has miraculously survived the fight, and baby Charlie is a “null,” gifted with the ability to weaken supernatural forces...and a target for creatures who want to control that power. Determined to guarantee her niece’s safety, Lex makes a deal with the local vampires. She sets out with the mysterious—and undead—“fixer” Quinn to track down whoever’s responsible for the kidnapping, sharpening her newfound magic skills along the way. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous her powers become.

Boundary Crossed is a dark, thrilling journey into a world where the line between living and dead isn’t nearly as solid as it appears...

Boundary Lines (Book Two) Melissa F. Olson Fantasy Publication Date: October 13, 2015 Page Count: 304 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Fitting into the Old World isn’t going very well for Boulder boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther: she may have earned a place in a vampire’s service, but now it seems as if every supernatural creature in town has found a reason to hate her. And when Lex and her partner are assigned to investigate the suspicious disappearance of two vampires during the night of the full moon, they find themselves with more questions than answers.

Was it murder…or mutiny?

The crusade for answers will lead Lex all over the Colorado Old World, from a prison cell for a broken werewolf to a haunted Denver brothel. And when Lex determines the responsible party, the hunt is just beginning: something has been awakened in Boulder, something as old and powerful as it is terrifying. Only the woman with death in her blood can stop what’s coming.

Boundary Born (Book Three) Melissa F. Olson Fantasy Publication Date: 6/21/2016 Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Something wicked is at work in Colorado’s supernatural community. Vampires are being paralyzed or killed with poison…a weapon favored by witches. This offense threatens to break apart the already- fractured alliance between witches and the undead.

The state’s cardinal vampire, Maven, summons boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther to stop the killing before it ignites a war. Lex has barely started investigating when she gets another surprise: the biological father she’s never met arrives on her doorstep. He has answers to all of Lex’s questions about her bloodline, but getting those answers could mean betraying the life she’s already built.

Then the next vampire is poisoned—and this time it’s Maven herself. The new evil that hunts Lex is powerful and ruthless enough to stop the strongest supernatural creature in the state. In order to find such a killer, Lex will have to face down her own birthright and call on every ally—both living and dead. 25 The Rho Agenda Series

The Second Ship (Book One) Richard Phillips Science Fiction Publication Date: 10/2/2012 Page Count: 447 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German and Polish In 1948, an alien starship fell from the New Mexico sky—and immediately vanished behind the walls of the Los Alamos Laboratory. Since that day the US military has endeavored to reverse engineer the ship’s alien technology through top-secret research known only as the Rho Project. Now, decades after the crash, the government is prepared tell all. Or so it claims…

For there is a second ship, hidden for all these years, just out of the military’s reach. And when a trio of students discovers it buried deep inside a remote canyon, they are changed forever. With a single touch, the technology the government has spent billions trying to unlock is uploaded into the minds of three teenagers—who now know the frightening truth about the Rho Project. When the NSA black-ops team of Jack “The Ripper” Gregory and Janet Price come calling, they are thrust into a violent world of secrets and corruption, becoming reluctant soldiers in a war destined to alter what it means to be human.

Immune (Book Two) Richard Phillips Science Fiction Publication Date: 10/30/2012 Page Count: 613 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German and Polish In the final pages of the spellbinding novel The Second Ship, NSA director Jonathan Riles failed to halt the Rho Project’s infiltration of the US government. Now the Project’s alien nano-serum is loosed upon the world, disguised as a miracle cure and leaving too many people—good people—dead. And anyone still alive to challenge the Project won’t be for long: an assassin known only as El Chupacabra is systematically eliminating any and all opposition.

At the top of the hit list is NSA fixer Jack Gregory, along with Heather McFarland and Mark and Jennifer Smythe, the three teenagers who first exposed the Rho Project’s evil agenda. In just a few short months, the trio has seen life as they know it stripped away, trapping them in a confusing new reality where human DNA is modified at an alarming rate. Struggling to understand what they are becoming and on the run for their lives, the teens and their remaining allies must stop the Rho Project before it alters the very fabric of humanity.

Wormhole (Book Three) Richard Phillips Science Fiction Publication Date: 11/20/2012 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German and Polish When the Rho Project’s lead scientist, Dr. Donald Stephenson, is imprisoned for his crimes against humanity, the world dares to hope the threat posed by the Rho Project’s alien technologies is finally over. The world is wrong.

In Switzerland, scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider have discovered a new threat, a scientific anomaly capable of destroying the earth—and only Rho Project technology can stop it. In exchange for a full pardon, Dr. Stephenson agrees to create a wormhole that will send the anomaly into deep space. But his promise masks the alien agenda that brought the Rho Ship to Earth. Now a trio of altered humans, Heather McFarland and Mark and Jennifer Smythe, must infiltrate Stephenson’s wormhole project and stop it, no matter the cost. The ultimate battle has begun, and, this time, mankind cannot afford to lose. The final installment of Richard Phillips’s Rho Agenda trilogy brings the epic tale to an explosive conclusion that will echo long past the final page. 26 Harmony Black Series

Harmony Black (Book One) Craig Schaefer Fantasy Publication Date: 2/1/2016 Page Count: 332 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Harmony Black is much more than your average FBI special agent. In addition to being a practicing witch, she’s also an operative for Vigilant Lock, an off-the- books program created to battle occult threats—by any means necessary. Despite her dedication to fighting the monsters threatening society, Harmony has become deeply conflicted about her job. Her last investigation resulted in a pile of dead bodies, and she suspects the wrong people are being punished for it.

While on a much-needed vacation, Harmony gets pulled back into action. This time, though, she’s gone from solo work to being part of a team. Their target: the Bogeyman, a vicious and elusive figure...and the creature that destroyed Harmony’s childhood.Surrounded by quirky, fascinating characters as dedicated to one another as they are to their new partner, Harmony must learn to trust her team—and a new romantic interest—on a dangerous and deadly mission that conjures up memories she’d much rather forget.

Red Knight Falling (Book Two) Craig Schaefer Fantasy Publication Date: 4/26/2016 Page Count: 338 Rights Acquired: All Languages

FBI agent Harmony Black and her team, Vigilant Lock, face a new type of threat: one from beyond the stars.

They’d always heard the Red Knight was an urban legend: in 1954, three years before Sputnik launched, a mysterious satellite was sighted circling Earth, though no power on the planet had such technology.

But the Red Knight is real, and what’s more, it’s inextricably linked to a supernatural force no one yet understands. Like a moth to a flame, this dark presence collides annually with the airborne satellite. Except this year the Red Knight is on course to crash-land…in Oregon.

Vigilant Lock sets out to find the crash site and secure the remnants before the mysterious power is drawn to Earth. But they soon discover the mission is far from straightforward—and they aren’t the only ones tracking the Red Knight. To stop a deadly occult threat, Harmony and her team must use all their resources: technology and sorcery, science and magic. Fortunately, Harmony has only begun to discover her growing power. Stay tuned for Book Three in Spring 2017!

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Here & There Joshua V. Scher Science Fiction Publication Date: 11/1/2015 Page Count: 634 Rights Acquired: All Languages

It was supposed to be a simple proof of concept. The physics were sound. Over one hundred teleportation experiments had already been successfully performed...Debate rages over whether the Reidier Test’s disastrous outcome resulted from human error, government conspiracy, or sabotage. No one has actual knowledge of the truth. But hidden from the public eye, there exists a government report commissioned from criminal psychologist Dr. Hilary Kahn, chronicling the events that took place.

Dr. Kahn disappeared without a trace. Now her son, Danny, has unearthed and revealed the report, fueling controversy over the details of Reidier’s quest to reforge the fabric of reality and hold his family together. Exposed with little chance of finding his mother, Danny goes underground to investigate. But nothing can prepare him for what he discovers.

In this thrilling saga, a paradigm-shattering feat may alter humanity’s future as quantum entanglement and teleportation collide.

Pathological Wang Jinkang; translated by Jeremy Tiang Science Fiction Publication Date: 12/27/2016 Page Count: 391 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Complex and Simplified Chinese

On the surface, young scientist Mei Yin’s life seems perfect. She runs her own research institute in China, she’s getting married, and she founded an orphanage that helps hundreds of girls. But Mei Yin holds a dark secret—and three vials of “Satan’s Gift,” a deadly smallpox virus leftover from Russian scientific research conducted during the Cold War. She’s determined to find a vaccine, even if that means endangering those she holds dear.

Zia Baj, a terrorist educated in the West, has also obtained Satan’s Gift. But he’s not looking for a cure—instead, he plans to exact revenge and start a war. So he unleashes the virus in an American classroom. At the same time, thousands of miles away, the children of Mei Yin’s orphanage fall ill. Soon authorities realize that this is no ordinary outbreak: it’s the start of an epidemic. How are the two cases linked? And can a worldwide pandemic be stopped?

From award-winning Chinese author Wang Jinkang comes a terrifying look at the future of war.

28 The Kingfountain Series

The Queen’s Poisoner (Book One) Jeff Wheeler Fantasy Publication Date: 4/1/2016 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese

In the first part of a new trilogy from bestselling fantasy author Jeff Wheeler, eight-year-old Owen is sent to live with the hunchback King Severn as payment for his father’s betrayal of the throne.

Disowned and held hostage, Owen finds allies in a disaffected spy, an outspoken girl named Elysabeth Victoria Mortimer, and a mysterious woman known as the Queen’s Poisoner. In order to win over the distrustful king, this motley cast must convince him that young is fountain-blessed, gifted in the magic of the realm. But playing court politics is dangerous business, and allegiances are not always what they seem.

The Thief’s Daughter (Book Two) Jeff Wheeler Fantasy Publication Date: 5/31/2016 Page Count: 368 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese

In the second book of Jeff Wheeler’s Kingfountain trilogy, Owen is now fifteen years old.

No longer facing the threat of imminent execution, Owen thrives as the heir to his father’s sizable inheritance and a possible new power in the realm as a duke in his own right. But peace in the realm is destroyed when an impostor challenges the king’s power and begins a revolt. But Owen is shattered after putting down the rebellion when he must watch his true love marry another, and the king names him the heir of the realm. Torn by his conflicted heart, Owen chooses the king’s path, grieving for the girl he lost and could not win for himself.

The King's Traitor (Book Three) Jeff Wheeler Fantasy Publication Date: 9/6/2016 Page Count: 386 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese

Against all odds, Owen Kiskaddon grew from frightened boy to confident youth to trusted officer in the court of Kingfountain—and watched its regent, Severn Argentine, grow ever more ruthless and power- mad. Robbed of his beloved protector, his noble mentor, and his true love, Owen has anticipated the day when the king he fears and reviles, yet loyally serves, will be toppled. Now, as Severn plots a campaign of conquest, the time has come to take action…and Owen’s destiny demands that he lead the strike.

Ordered to incite war with a neighboring kingdom, Owen discovers its beautiful, reclusive ruler, whose powerful magic might even exceed his own. Together they mount a daring plot to overthrow the corrupt monarch, crown the rightful heir, and defeat the prophesied curse threatening Kingfountain with wintry death. But Severn’s evil is as bottomless as the fabled Deep Fathoms. To keep his ill-gotten throne, he’ll gladly spill the blood of enemies and innocents alike.

Stay tuned for Book Four in Summer 2017! 29 Covenant of Muirwood Series

The Banished of Muirwood (Book One) Jeff Wheeler Fantasy Publication Date: 8/18/2015 Page Count: 357 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In a world full of magic and mystery, eighteen-year-old Maia is the exiled princess of Comoros and rightful heir to the throne. Forced to live as a servant in her enemy’s home, Maia flees her captors and begins a perilous quest to save her people. To survive, she must use magic she has learned in secret— despite the fact that women are forbidden to control it. Hunted by enemies at every turn, Maia realizes that danger lurks within her, too. Her powers threaten to steal not only her consciousness but also her sense of right and wrong. Can she set herself free and save the realm she loves—even if her people have forgotten her? In bestselling author Jeff Wheeler’s fantasy epic, the answer may be only the beginning to Maia’s journey throughout the mystical land of Muirwood.

The Ciphers of Muirwood (Book Two) Jeff Wheeler Fantasy Publication Date: 9/15/2015 Page Count: 400 Rights Acquired: All Languages

From the moment she was banished by her father, the king, Princess Maia journeyed to seek sanctuary at Muirwood Abbey, the epicenter of magic and good in the land. Now safe for the first time since her cruel abandonment, Maia must foster uneasy friendships with other girls training to be Ciphers: women who learn to read and engrave tomes of ancient power, despite the laws forbidding them to do so.

As Maia tries to judge whom to trust, she makes a shocking discovery: her destiny is to open the Apse Veil and release trapped spirits from her world. Then she learns that her father is coming to Muirwood Abbey to celebrate the Whitsunday festival—and Maia’s estranged husband, whom she was forced to abandon, will join him. Torn between deadly political machinations and unstoppable spiritual forces, Maia must channel unknown powers within herself to save her friends, the abbey, and the entire kingdom of Muirwood.

The Void of Muirwood (Book Three) Jeff Wheeler Fantasy Publication Date: 10/27/2015 Page Count: 432 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When banished Princess Maia is captured by her father and threatened with execution, it appears that all is lost...until the people rise in rebellion against their king. Suddenly, the cast-aside royal finds herself crowned the first Queen of Comoros. But enemies appear on all sides as her father’s conniving supporters assemble a new army against the fledgling ruler. While Maia struggles to keep the peace within her own walls, she rushes to form historical alliances with her neighboring kingdoms against an impending invasion of the ruthless Naestors—led by the cruel Corriveaux—who will destroy anyone Maia loves in order to ruin her kingdom and prevent the mastons from regaining power.

Realizing that Muirwood Abbey is once again her only hope for survival, Maia gathers her people there for protection. When she discovers an adversary greater than she’s ever known, she must use all the magic, strength, and wisdom gained from her life’s trials to prevent the Void that would bring destruction to herself, her true love, and the entire kingdom. 30 Legends of Muirwood Series

The Wretched of Muirwood (Book One) Jeff Wheeler Fantasy Publication Date: 1/15/2013 Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German and Italian In the ancient and mystical land of Muirwood, Lia has known only a life of servitude. Labeled a “wretched,” an outcast unwanted and unworthy of respect, Lia is forbidden to realize her dream to read or write. All but doomed, her days are spent toiling away as a kitchen slave under the charge of the Aldermaston, the Abbey’s watchful overseer. But when an injured squire named Colvin is abandoned at the kitchen’s doorstep, an opportunity arises. The nefarious Sheriff Almaguer soon starts a manhunt for Colvin, and Lia conspires to hide Colvin and change her fate. In the midst of a land torn by a treacherous war between a ruthless king and a rebel army, Lia finds herself on an ominous journey that will push her to wonder if her own hidden magic is enough to set things right. At once captivating, mysterious, and magic-infused, The Wretched of Muirwood takes the classic fantasy adventure and paints it with a story instantly epic, and yet, all its own.

The Blight of Muirwood (Book Two) Jeff Wheeler Fantasy Publication Date: 1/15/2013 Page Count: 466 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In The Blight of Muirwood, the second book in the Legends of Muirwood trilogy, Lia finds herself filled with inner turmoil after the great battle of Winterrowd that led to the death of the wicked king and her closest ally. Despite her reservations, Lia is called to be an official protector of Muirwood Abbey and is charged to employ her magic to defend Ellowyn Demont, the lost heir of the fallen kingdom of Pry-Ree. Her duties are put to the test when the Queen Dowager arrives in Muirwood accusing the Aldermaston, the abbey’s overseer, for the king’s death. Amidst the turmoil, battle ensues, and Lia learns of a terrible plague that threatens to cover the land in darkness and death. Atop it all, the magic of the world begins to fail. In a quest to undo the devastation, Lia’s path brings her to a startling revelation that will change her life forever.

The Scourge of Muirwood (Book Three) Jeff Wheeler Fantasy Publication Date: 1/15/2013 Page Count: 353 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When a deadly plague is unleashed in the land of Muirwood, the fate of the world is placed in the hands of a young woman named Lia. Charged to be a magical protector, Lia volunteers to be sent on a desperate quest to rescue the squire Colvin, her love, and his pupil Ellowyn Demont, the alleged heir to the fallen kingdom of Pry-Ree. Still recovering from the injuries of her last adventures, Lia sets off across land and sea warning the kingdom of the oncoming plague. The journey leads her to Dochte Abbey, where her friends are supposedly held. Instead, though, a fallen enemy lies in wait for her, as well as an unbearable new truth. The revelation will force Lia to choose between the lives of her closest friends and her deepest desires...

Fantastically epic and at all times engaging, The Scourge of Muirwood is a monumental finish to the Legends of Muirwood trilogy. 31 Whispers from Mirrowen

Fireblood (Book One) Jeff Wheeler Fantasy Publication Date: 2/5/2013 Page Count: 440 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Tyrus of Kenatos has made it his life’s work to banish the plagues that ravage the kingdoms. Now a prisoner in his own tower, Tyrus has summoned his nephew Annon—a Druidecht possessing innate magic called the fireblood—in the guise of finding a hidden treasure with which to purchase his twin sister Hettie’s freedom. But in reality, Tyrus is using his niece and nephew, and their magic, as an opportunity to escape. And to aid them, he has enlisted the warrior-monk Paedrin. The trio is determined, and along the way they grow to trust each other in order to accomplish their missions.

But the Arch-Rike—ruthless ruler of Kenatos—has learned of these plans, and has sent the fearsome Kishion to destroy all those who oppose him. Now Tyrus and his unwitting allies must face down not only the plague, but this new enemy—and fulfill their quest before a fresh horror is unleashed upon the world…

Dryad-Born (Book Two) Jeff Wheeler Fantasy Publication Date: 2/4/2014 Page Count: 466 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The orphan Phae has kept her innate ability secret since she was young. Not only does she possess the dangerous fireblood, but she can also steal the memories of anyone who looks into her eyes. Phae has no idea that her combination of powers is extraordinary. She is the unwitting key to discovering the secret origin of the plagues...and she is also now a target. The ruthless Arch-Rike of Kenatos has sent his most menacing servant—the Quiet Kishion—to destroy her.

As Phae struggles to wield her powers and escape her pursuers, a team of allies has already been dispatched on a quest to end the plagues. Some face the horrors in the Arch-Rike’s secret lair, while others search for the fabled lost Shatalin temple.

The determined allies must square off against the Arch-Rike, who is ever steadfast in his aim to kill Phae...and let the plagues rage on.

Poisonwell (Book Three) Jeff Wheeler Fantasy Publication Date: 4/21/2015 Page Count: 530 Rights Acquired: All Languages

If there is anything more dangerous than the Plague itself, it is the journey that awaits those sworn to stop it. Tyrus, the renegade magic-wielder exiled from Kenatos, knows this firsthand. His original mission through the Scourgelands met a tragic end, leaving him as the sole survivor.

Now all hope lies with his daughter, Phae, the uniquely gifted Dryad-born who can not only steal memories but also summon the power of the fireblood—and who alone has the power to breach the lost gate of Mirrowen. But first Phae and the comrades who have come to her aid must survive the most dangerous place on Earth: the Scourgelands.

The menacing woods prove every bit as treacherous as reputed. Murder, sacrifice, deception, and an epic battle with a beast ensue. Will Phae reach the land beyond the grasp of the deadly Plague…or will the quest through the Scourgelands end in tragedy once again?

32 Amazon Publishing, the eponymous imprint, publishes biographies, self-help, memoirs, nonfiction and fiction. From short biographies of iconographic figures to the 99U Book Series to Dr. Ruth’s memoir The Doctor is In, Amazon Publishing is home to debut and bestselling authors alike.

33 Selected Titles From The Icons Series: Biographies for the Digital Age Edited by James Atlas

Benazir Bhutto: Favored Daughter Brooke Allen Nonfiction — Biography Publication Date: 1/12/2016 Page Count: 181 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Including interviews with key figures who knew Bhutto and have never before spoken on the record, Benazir Bhutto: Favored Daughter illuminates Bhutto’s tragic life as well as the role she played as the first female prime minister of Pakistan. Born to privilege as the daughter of one of Pakistan’s great feudal families, she was groomed for a diplomatic career and was thrust into the political arena when her father, Pakistan’s charismatic and controversial prime minister, was executed. As prime minister for two terms in the 1980s and 1990s, she then led Pakistan, which was one of the most turbulent and impoverished nations in the world, but she struggled to ward off charges of corruption and retain her tenuous hold on power. She was eventually forced into exile. Bhutto returned to Pakistan in 2007, only to be assassinated by a suicide bomber as her motorcade rode into Karachi for what was intended to be a triumphant return.

St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate Karen Armstrong Nonfiction — Biography Publication Date: 9/22/2015 Page Count: 158 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Dutch, Indonesian, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and UK (English) St. Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty- seven books in the New Testament. But as bestselling author Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate, he also exerted a more significant influence on the spread of Christianity throughout the world than any other figure in history. It was St. Paul who established the first Christian churches in Europe and Asia in the first century, who transformed a minor sect into the largest religion produced by Western civilization, and who advanced the revolutionary idea that Christ could serve as a model for the possibility of transcendence. While we know little about some aspects of the life of St. Paul, such as his upbringing and the details of his death, his dramatic vision of God on the road to Damascus is one of the most powerful stories in the history of Christianity, and the life that followed forever changed the course of the world.

David Lynch: The Man from Another Place Dennis Lim Nonfiction — Biography Publication Date: 11/3/2015 Page Count: 196 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Spanish Rights Sold: Russian

At once a pop-culture icon, cult figure, and film-industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynch’s work is primed to act on our own subconscious, combining heightened, contradictory emotions into something familiar but inscrutable. No less than his art, Lynch’s life also evades simple categorization, encompassing pursuits as a musician, painter, photographer, carpenter, entrepreneur, and vocal proponent of Transcendental Meditation. David Lynch: The Man from Another Place, Dennis Lim’s remarkably smart and concise book, proposes several lenses through which to view Lynch and his work. Lynch himself often warns against overinterpretation. And, accordingly, this is not a book that seeks to decode his art or annotate his life— to dispel the strangeness of the Lynchian—so much as one that offers complementary ways of seeing and understanding one of the most distinctive bodies of work in modern cinema.

34 Location Is (Still) Everything: The Surprising Influence of the Real World on How We Search, Shop, and Sell in the Virtual One

David R. Bell Nonfiction — Business Publication Date: 7/15/2014 Page Count: 672 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Complex Chinese and Simplified Chinese

Conventional wisdom holds that the Internet makes the world flat and reduces friction by erasing the impact of the physical world on our buying habits. But Wharton professor and marketing expert David R. Bell argues that the way we use the Internet is still largely shaped by the physical world we inhabit. Anyone can go online and buy a pair of jeans—but the likelihood that we will do so depends to a significant degree on where we live. The presence of stores nearby, trendy and friendly neighbors, and local sales taxes, among other factors, play a critical role in our decision making when it comes to buying online. Our willingness to search for and consume information also depends on where we live and whom we live next to. In Location Is (Still) Everything, Bell offers a fascinating, in-depth look at online commerce and retailing through his years of research, investing, and advising experience. Entrepreneurs, managers, students, and investors will all benefit from understanding how and why we use the Internet to search, shop, and sell.

The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life Timothy Ferriss Nonfiction — Cookbook Publication Date: 11/20/2012 Page Count: 672 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Czech, Finnish, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian

The 4-Hour Chef isn’t just a cookbook. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure guide to the world of rapid learning. #1 New York Times bestselling author (and lifelong non-cook) Tim Ferriss takes you from Manhattan to Okinawa, and from Silicon Valley to Calcutta, unearthing the secrets of the world’s fastest learners and greatest chefs. Ferriss uses cooking to explain “meta-learning,” a step-by-step process that can be used to master anything, whether searing steak or shooting three-pointers in basketball. That is the real “recipe” of The 4-Hour Chef. You'll train inside the kitchen for everything outside the kitchen. Featuring tips and tricks from chess prodigies, world-renowned chefs, pro athletes, master sommeliers, supermodels, and everyone in between, this “cookbook for people who don’t buy cookbooks” is a guide to mastering cooking and life.

35 The 99U Book Series

Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus & Sharpen Your Creative Mind (Book One) Edited by Jocelyn K. Glei Nonfiction — Business Publication Date: 5/21/2013 Page Count: 211 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Arabic, Complex Chinese, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese

Stop doing busywork. Start doing your best work. Are you over-extended, over-distracted, and overwhelmed? Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven’t accomplished the most important things on your agenda when you leave the office? The world has changed, and the way we work has to change, too. With wisdom from twenty leading creative minds, Manage Your Day-to-Day will give you a tool kit for tackling the new challenges of a 24/7, always-on workplace. Featuring contributions from: Dan Ariely, Leo Babauta, Scott Belsky, Lori Deschene, Aaron Dignan, Erin Rooney Doland, Seth Godin, and more. Plus, a foreword from Behance founder & CEO, Scott Belsky.

Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career (Book Two) Edited by Jocelyn K. Glei Nonfiction — Business Publication Date: 9/24/2013 Page Count: 260 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Arabic, Complex Chinese, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Vietnamese Success isn’t about being the best. It’s about always getting better. Can you step outside your comfort zone? Bounce back from failure? Build new skills? Tapping in to your true potential is no idle endeavor. It demands creativity, dedication, and a whole lot of hustle. With wisdom from twenty-one leading creative minds, 99U’s Maximize Your Potential will show you how to generate new opportunities, cultivate your creative expertise, build valuable relationships, and take bold new risks so that you can utilize your talents to the fullest. Featuring contributions from: Teresa Amabile, Sunny Bates, Michael Bungay Stanier, David Burkus, John Caddell, Ben Casnocha, Jack Cheng, Jonathan Fields, Joshua Foer, Heidi Grant Halvorson, Frans Johansson, and more. Plus, a foreword from Behance founder & CEO, Scott Belsky.

Make Your Mark: The Creative’s Guide to Building a Business with Impact (Book Three) Edited by Jocelyn K. Glei Nonfiction — Business Publication Date: 11/18/2014 Page Count: 260 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, and Simplified Chinese Finally, a business book for makers, not managers. As a creative, you no longer have to take a backseat. In fact, stepping up and embracing entrepreneurship is the fastest route to impact. But where do you start? And what sets the businesses that succeed apart? To find out, we asked the bright minds behind companies such as Google X, Warby Parker, Facebook, O’Reilly Media, and more to share their start-up wisdom. Featuring hard-won advice from twenty leading entrepreneurs and designers, 99U’s Make Your Mark will arm you with practical insights for launching a purpose-driven business, refining your product, delighting your customers, inspiring your team—and ultimately—making something that matters. Featuring contributions from: Will Allen, Rich Armstrong, Warren Berger, Sean Blanda, Neil Blumenthal, Craig Dalton, Aaron Dignan, and more. Plus, a foreword from Behance founder & CEO, Scott Belsky.

36 Sucker’s Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing Kurt Vonnegut Collection Publication Date: 11/20/2012 Page Count: 191 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Bulgarian, Complex Chinese, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish

Available to readers for the first time, Sucker’s Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never-before-published works from Kurt Vonnegut, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Short, sardonic, and dark, these six brief fiction stories and one nonfiction piece are consummate Vonnegut, with piercing satire and an eye for life’s obscene inanity. Also available for the first time is an unfinished science-fiction short story, included in the appendix. These stories trace trivial human lives and mundane desires, which is precisely where Vonnegut’s inimitable perspective as a humanist shines, illuminating his alternating hopeful and dismal outlook, although undoubtedly focusing on the latter. Here, as in his greatest novels, Vonnegut’s writing takes us to the darkest corners of the human soul, and with wit and humor, manages to remind us of our potential to be something greater.

The Doctor Is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life, and Joie de Vivre Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer with Pierre A. Lehu Nonfiction — Advice Publication Date: 6/2/2015 Page Count: 208 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German, Hebrew, and Large Print (English)

The doctor is in! America’s best-loved therapist, Dr. Ruth, is known for her wise counsel on all matters of the heart. Here, she shares private stories from her past and her present, and her insights into living life to the fullest, at any age. Many know Dr. Ruth as a famous and trusted sex therapist, but few people know she narrowly escaped death during the Holocaust, was raised in an orphanage in Switzerland, or that she was a sniper during Israel’s War of Independence. After years spent as a student in Paris, Dr. Ruth came to America dreaming of a new life, though never expecting the dramatic turns that would take place. And at the age of eighty-seven, she is as spirited as ever. Through intimate and funny stories, Dr. Ruth sheds light on how she’s learned to live a life filled with joie de vivre. And she shows readers how they, too, can learn to deal with tragedy and loss, challenges and success—all while nourishing an intellectual and emotional spark and, above all, having fun! Hilarious, inspiring, and profound, The Doctor Is In will change the way you think about life and love, in all their limitless possibilities.

37 Foreign-Language Titles

Titles originally published in French, German, Italian, and Spanish that are available for translation into other languages.

38 French-Language Titles

39 The Moonlight Smile (Le The Simplicity of the sourire du clair de lune) Clouds (La Simplicité des nuages) Julien Aranda Literary Fiction Julien Aranda Publication Date: 12/1/2015 Literary Fiction Page Count: 310 Publication Date: 3/22/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages, Page Count: 280 excluding Korean Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Korean Rights Sold: Italian and Spanish

When Paul Vertune meets a Nazi officer in a field in Britanny, Torn between his ideals and his disillusioned everyday life near he doesn’t yet know that his life will soon change forever. Paris, Bastien does not feel like he’s living—he’s getting by. And the situation is only getting worse when his grandmother Yvonne is Paul’s chance encounter leads him on an adventure around the hospitalized and quickly becomes depressed. Bastien does not know world. And there is the beautiful Mathilde, whom Paul has what to do to help those he loves most. He does not even know loved in secret since his childhood. How can he confess his feelings how to manage his own life. to her and make her love him? One day he discovers correspondence between his grandmother and one of her old friends, Eugénie. Is Eugénie still alive? Does she feel like meeting up with Yvonne? There is only one solution: go there, where everything started, near the Lighthouse of the Whales, on the Isle of Ré. After the success of his first novel, Julien Aranda returns with his favorite topics in this intimate and rebellious book. Following Bastien, depart on a path of love and discovery of the self.

The Theater of Evil Climax (Les Loges du mal) (Klimax)

Enzo Bartoli Lionel Camy Police Procedural Mystery Publication Date: 4/5/2016 Publication Date: 12/1/2015 Page Count: 232 Page Count: 342 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Just minutes before a performance, the actor Albin Clavel is In the aftermath of the earthquake in Christchurch, New found brutally murdered in his dressing room, and the police Zealand, the city is trying to recover. A few days before have no idea why. Soon, however, they discover that he had summer, just as the weather’s beginning to heat up, a female been behaving strangely in recent months...especially since jogger is found brutally murdered in a forest next to the city. the publication of an article recalling the actor’s difficult Detective-Sergeant Henry “Hank” Graffin was suspended after beginnings. his son’s accidental death. However, he receives a surprising visit from Zoe McCoy, his niece, whom he hasn’t seen for years. Enzo Bartoli brings us a dark detective story in stunning realism She received a mysterious e-mail that could be related to the as he invites us to look behind the scenes... murder. A few days later, another woman disappears, but Graffin has a hunch that could help him get back on the scene: the culprit is committing these crimes based on the four seasons. To solve the case, Graffin will have to battle his own demons and contend with colleagues who aren’t exactly his allies: Rosewood, his Boss; Detective-Sergeant Bell, who took his job; and Wagner, police chief of the Bureau of Internal Affairs. Thus begins a race against time to stop a killer who’s as smart as he is sadistic.

40 Gérard Coutard Investigation Series

Copying Isn’t Playing The White Sorcerer, (Copier n’est pas jouer) Book 1 (Le Sorcier blanc) Frédérique Molay Police Procedural Cara Vitto Publication Date: 11/1/2016 Police Procedural Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 7/26/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 224 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: English

Nico Sirsky is head of the homicide squad at 36 quai des Orfèvres. Boutou, Sub-Saharan Africa, 2013: Isidore, a young staff member of When he is put in charge of an investigation into the frozen corpse the large oil company Piborgaz, has mysteriously disappeared. of a small girl found in a Paris square, he knows it won’t be an ordinary case. To avoid a public scandal, the French government calls on negotiator and ex-special forces man Gérard Coutard to lead the When other bodies begin to appear, which seem to be copycat investigation and to bring her home quickly. He joins the expat killings identical to homicides committed by famous serial killers, community in Kodipilou and infiltrates his way into Piborgaz. But Nico understands that he has to move fast to stop an extremely in the humidity of the tropical forest, dreams become haunting, organized and dangerous killer—one who teases by planting clues at the spirits reign supreme, and sorcery is commonplace. The the scenes of his crimes. investigation takes on an unexpected dimension. What if all these murders were the result of a roleplay on a grand The White Sorcerer is a fantastic, breathless thriller. scale? Whose hand is behind it all? Copying Isn’t Playing is the fourth Nico Sirsky mystery from Frédérique Molay.

Rosie Maldonne’s World

Queen of the Hideout, Queen of the Book 2 Masquerade, Book 3 (Rosie se fait la belle) (L’Ombre du zèbre)

Alice Quinn Alice Quinn Woman Sleuth Woman Sleuth Publication Date: 9/6/2016 Publication Date: 11/8/2016 Page Count: 406 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

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Rosie Maldonne thought she hit it big when she stumbled upon an Recently, Rosie’s life is rosy. Free of her debts, she even finds time envelope of cash in Queen of the Trailer Park. But with a nasty flu to take care of herself. But as is often the case with Rosie keeping her laid out, school fees due, and Christmas on the way, Maldonne, the respite is short-lived! she finds herself back in the red. Time to find a real job. When her girlfriend Veronica, stuck in the hospital, calls for help, After weeks of searching, Rosie is losing hope when the man of her Rosie does not hesitate a second. She agrees to fill in for Vero in dreams happens to post a new position: cleaning for an elderly her job as a maid for a renowned psychoanalyst, and also to take in person. Perfect! She lands the job, but the new role brings more her son Leo, a rebellious teenager. At first she thinks she can live than the promise of romance. When orphaned twins appear on her up to the task, but things soon spiral out of control when, following doorstep—desperate and on the run—Rosie agrees to hide them. a misunderstanding, Rosie is mistaken for the psychoanalyst, while Harboring illegal immigrants and a diamond necklace stolen from Leo falls in love with a mysterious young girl who is held captive by the Mafia a year ago is stressful work. Paranoid and seeing the Mafia. suspicious people everywhere, Rosie contemplates fleeing to Amsterdam or seeking help from her new Prince Charming. Rosie may well have more than one trick in her bag, with courage and energy to spare, but the issues seem like they could be too In this hilarious and suspenseful second investigation, Rosie has no much this time... choice but to roll up her sleeves and keep her ever-expanding family from harm.

41 German-Language Titles

42 Jo-Lasker Thrillers

Ghosts The Inner Circle (Der (Geister) innere Kreis)

Jens Bühler Jens Bühler Police Procedural Police Procedural Publication Date: 4/12/2016 Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Page Count: 364 Page Count: 250 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

“The woman lay on the edge of the bathtub. Upper body inside, Lasker saves a woman from committing suicide. However, the lower body outside. It looked as though someone had hung her out mistakes he makes while doing so cost him his new job in the to dry. Blood had collected on the base of the tub and trickled negotiating group. down the drain.” Lasker is asked to an interview with the head of the department, An Armenian refugee looking for the Mafia. A young drug dealer Weiden. Director E wants Lasker to solve the murder of a Serbian hanging around the Frankfurt train station. A policeman and prostitute. For the job, Lasker is allowed to choose three a policewoman who get a hold of six million euros. A chief colleagues to support him in this task. The homicide division commissioner who wants to pay off death with the money. And a already investigating the case is not supposed to know about his sociopath who doesn’t care about any of this. parallel investigation.

A Legacy in Brittany The Estate in Tuscany (Das Erbe der Bretagne) (Das Gut in der Toskana) Margot S. Baumann Women’s Fiction Margot S. Baumann Publication Date: 5/24/2016 Contemporary Romance Page Count: 372 Publication Date: 1/31/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages

On a sunny day in May, Amélie Monfort finds an old diary in her Who could ever love a mortician? mailbox. Who put it there, and why? Twenty-seven-year-old Allegra has little luck with men. Once she Amélie starts reading the diary and finds herself identifying more brings up her profession, they’re turned off. However, being her and more with the unknown diarist and her fate shortly before the parents’ only child, Allegra had seen it as her duty to take over the Second World War. The entries from the past begin to dominate family business in Frankfurt, even though she envisioned her life her life. But who is the author, and what does she have to do with differently. Amélie? When her grandfather in Tuscany suffers a stroke, she agrees to When the painter Matthieu Kaldera appears in front of her door one visit and take care of him. But she soon realizes that this trip has day and demands the diary back, both immediately feel that there nothing to do with her usual family holidays under the Tuscan sun. is a bond between them. They embark on a joint search for the truth and find out that their fate is linked in many ways.

43 Lady Jane Series

The Black Orchid, Book Storm Wind over 2 (Die schwarze Auprèsmont (Sturmwind Orchidee) über Auprèsmont)

Annis Bell Nora Berger Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 3/29/2016 Publication Date: 9/13/2016 Page Count: 372 Page Count: 504 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

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A desperate letter from her best friend sends Lady Jane rushing from Sophie enjoys her studies in Paris. Life is easy and the Second her cozy Cornwall home to the remote reaches of Northumberland. World War is far away. Alison’s frantic plea for help hints that something sinister is going on in the gloomy halls of Winton Park, so Jane braves the misty moors in When her mother unexpectedly dies, everything that seemed the dead of winter to get to her pregnant and bedridden friend. certain before now becomes uncertain. What did her mother conceal from Sophie? What mystery is in the family? Sophie makes A menacing sense of doom grips Jane the moment she arrives at the her way to Munich to search for her own life and finds herself in isolated Victorian estate. Charlotte, the lady of the manor, suffers the midst of the turmoil of war. What ensues is a journey marked mysterious fits and fainting spells, while her husband ignores his by love, death, and friendship—a trip that changes Sophie’s life, family to obsess over his orchid collection and the pursuit of the especially when she meets David, a Jewish painter, and they make elusive and priceless black orchid. When Lady Charlotte’s maid is a breathtaking escape. found dead on the moors, Jane realizes that sickness and greed are not Winton Park’s worst afflictions. Now they have a murder on their hands. Only someone as inquisitive and determined as Lady Jane can uncover the dark secrets that link these events. Can she do it before another life is lost?

The Love of Almond Sleeping Beauty on Blossoms Föhr Island (Mandelblütenliebe) (Dornröschen auf Föhr)

Anja Saskia Beyer Emma Bieling Women’s Fiction Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 9/13/2016 Publication Date: 8/16/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 390 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

When Milla learns that her Spanish grandmother has died, she is Donna has a big dream. She wants to get into the radio business more than surprised. She thought her grandmother had passed and become the host of a radio show. But she also has a handicap: away many years ago. At least that’s what her mother had always she suffers from narcolepsy. claimed. And now this: the funeral is in two days. This disease triggers Donna’s all-day drowsiness, which repeatedly As if her feelings weren’t already messed up enough, Milla had puts her into tricky situations. Of course Donna does not mention wanted to get married in a few weeks. Technically. But this news her condition in her job application. When she is hired by Welle 3, changes her entire perspective: is Paul really her great love? a radio station in the town of Föhr, she not only experiences the beginning of a new and independent life, but also a life full of The mysterious legacy of the grandmother leads mother and confusion, hope, and love. daughter into the narrow streets of old-town Palma de Mallorca and into the forgotten Jewish past of the island. During the island’s almond blossom, the two women finally get closer to one another again, and Milla gets to know Leandro and discovers her own history within the history of her grandmother. But then Paul appears, and Milla must make a decision.

44 Sound of the Tide If Love Tasted Like (Klang der Gezeiten) Chocolate (Wenn Liebe nach Pralinen Emily Bold schmeckt) Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 6/3/2014 Emily Bold Page Count: 264 Contemporary Romance Rights Acquired: All Languages Publication Date: 10/18/2016 Page Count: 300 Rights Sold: English Rights Acquired: All Languages

When the love of her life, and the father of her unborn child, dies Amy Bishop inherits her grandfather’s chocolate factory, and with unexpectedly, Piper’s world collapses. In an ill-advised attempt to it a lot of problems. keep his memory alive, she moves into their dream home—the one that Daniel was working on when he died. Alone and grieving, Piper The “Sugar-Tale-Corporation” threatens to take over the small struggles to carry on and to pull herself out of her spiraling operation, and sends out economic adviser Ryan Scandrik to depression in time for the birth of their baby. enforce rapid changes in the familiar structures of the family business. When Kevin, Daniel’s best friend, offers his support and confesses a long-held love for her, Piper must ask herself some hard questions. Amy opposes the certainly very attractive, but emotionally cold Will she ever be able to let go of the plans she made with Daniel and calculating Scandrik wherever she can. But all her plans to and recover from her heartbreak? Can she overcome the guilt she prevent the company from being taken over by Scandrik’s authority harbors over her blossoming feelings for Kevin? Will she learn to seem hopeless. To make matters worse, she falls in love with this love again? impossible guy. She seeks advice from Kendra, her grandfather’s friend. But what Amy does not know is that even Kendra once sacrificed her love for the company...

Living Nightmare The Man at the Railing (Albleben) (Der Mann an der Reling) Kristina Brahm Psychological Thriller Barbara Brandt Publication Date: 5/10/2016 Women’s Fiction Page Count: 248 Publication Date: 10/11/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A young woman is found unconscious in the woods. At first, she These were important days in the life of Iris—in retrospect, perhaps can’t remember anything except her name: Jennifer Bruchmeyer. the four most important days ever. In any case, they were the kind But that can’t be, for Jennifer Buchmeyer was gruesomely of days that would have their full meaning revealed completely murdered a year ago. And for the investigating officials, Franz only in the years to come. Wendt and his young colleague Carolin Schüler, that’s not the only puzzle. In a nursing home somewhere in France, Iris, now becoming old, once again tells the story of those days in the French summer of The young woman’s name is Esther Neutze, and for years has 1975 when she met Robert Bowman on a crossing from England to suffered from a traumatic psychosis—she mixes up reality and France. She had just brought her sick twin sister to England to visit delusion. What does she know about the murder of Jennifer relatives and was returning to France. When Robert appears in Bruchmeyer? And what has been going on in the clinic Esther front of Iris’s door ten days after crossing and asks for room and Neutze was admitted to? When another murder is committed, the board, a passionate affair begins. case comes to a head. Esther Neutze escapes from the clinic, and everything indicates that she was involved in the murders, and that Iris and Robert’s four days together end when, still full of love and she was on a path to horrible revenge. Time is running out, and desire, they make the painful decision not to live together. Iris when the police finally realize they’ve made a mistake, it seems discovers how significant this decision really was only when she almost too late... learns about the mysterious death of her twin sister and finds missing pictures as well as her own, long-lost diaries while perusing the items of her inheritance.

45 Innocent (Unschuldig) Patrick Burow Thriller Publication Date: 10/4/2016 Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The body of the attractive model Julia is found, her face virtually destroyed with cuts. Apparently she was raped before her death, and the semen found during a DNA analysis turns out to be that of police officer Markus Hoffmann. Although he vehemently denies the deed and can even provide an alibi, he has no explanation how his semen could have gotten into the murder victim other than by the act of raping her, and thus he is sentenced to life in prison for murder. Two years later, law students Florian Hansen and Saskia Cornelius are taking Professor Heckscher’s seminar on misjudgments and decide to prove Hoffmann’s innocence.

Criminal Investigation Department Wattenmeer

Jasper’s Last Flirt (Jaspers letzter Flirt) Ulrike Busch Police Procedural Publication Date: 8/16/2016 Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Surf instructor Jasper Erikson loves three things: his freedom, women, and the sea. One day, his holiday fling, Bele, decides to separate from her husband and leaves the North Frisian mainland to move to Amrum. Her decision triggers more than enthusiasm in Jasper, who is also married. Then there is an attack on Jasper’s life. Jasper survives, but the assassin escapes unidentified. Police chief Kuno Knudsen and his assistant Arne Zander take on the investigation. But Jasper seems to want to take the matter into his own hands...until he again finds himself in mortal danger. This is the second case for the Criminal Investigation Department Wattenmeer, and takes readers into the idyllic, yet sometimes peculiar world of the North Sea island Amrum.

The Stranger on the Ice (Die Fremde auf dem Eis) Bernadette Calonego Woman Sleuth Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Valerie Blaine cannot displace a dark chapter in the history of her family—the violent death of her mother during an Arctic expedition. Her father, who was once a famous hockey player, never wanted to talk about the tragedy. But now, thirty years later, Valerie ends up in the vicinity of the accident site as a tour guide with a group tour. And also in the vicinity of a daring man. However, in the Inuit village of Inuvik, everyone speaks about another death: the body of a young woman found at the edge of the ice road to Tuktoyaktuk. A few days later, Inuit hunters laying in wait for polar bears are fleeing from a huge explosion on the ice of the Arctic Ocean. More disturbing events follow...the local police receive backup forces from the capital, and during the investigation, investigators encounter terrifying secrets.

46 The Secret Healer (Die The Draper’s Daughter heimliche Heilerin) (Die unbeugsame Händlerstochter) Ellin Carsta Historical Fiction Publication Date: 6/9/2015 Ellin Carsta Page Count: 482 Historical Fiction Rights Acquired: All Languages Publication Date: 2/23/2016 Page Count: 384 Rights Sold: English Rights Acquired: All Languages

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A gripping, bestselling historical novel from an author proclaimed A thrilling historical novel by the author of The Secret Healer. to be the German Diana Galbadon. Cologne, 1351: Elisabeth and Stephen Hardenstein are twins, but In the fourteenth century, opportunities for women are limited to they could not be more different. While Elisabeth is inspired by the the home. But spirited young Madlen finds her calling as assistant family business, absorbing everything her father shows her about to the city’s trusted midwife, Clara. Working alongside Clara, the cloth trade, Stephen enjoys a leisurely life and pays little Madlen develops a surprisingly soothing technique and quickly attention to their father’s teachings. Elisabeth recognizes her true becomes a talented healer. vocation as a tradeswoman, and though the odds are stacked against her, she pursues her passion. After Clara’s tragic death, Madlen alone rushes to assist the birth of a local nobleman’s child. But rather than the joy of birth, When the twins’ father suffers a tragic stroke, the tables turn. Madlen walks into an accusation of murder and witchcraft because Suddenly Stephen is interested in running the draper’s shop his of her extraordinary gifts. Forced to flee her own town, she father left behind, and he takes the lead in managing the family establishes a new identity in the home of her aunt. Yet even business. But Elisabeth can’t sit idly by and watch as he makes bad though it endangers her life, Madlen cannot resist the urge to help decisions and accumulates debts. Stephen pushes her to marry as the sick patients who seek out her miraculous treatment. When she soon as possible, even proposing a suitor, but Elisabeth has her own meets handsome Johannes—an investigator hired by the church to ideas about matters of the heart. Are her talents in the art of bring her to justice for sacrilegious acts—she becomes drawn to the negotiation enough to win her both the job of her dreams and the very man who could destroy her. man she truly loves? Will Madlen’s gifts bring about her downfall? Or can love and reason prevail in a time of fearful superstition?

The Secret Healer The Secret Healer The Golden Vine and the Doctor and the Dead (Die (Rebengold) (Die heimliche heimliche Heilerin Heilerin und der und die Toten) Ellin Carsta Medicus) Historical Fiction Ellin Carsta Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Ellin Carsta Historical Fiction Page Count: 350 Historical Fiction Publication Date: 2/28/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Publication Date: 7/19/2016 Page Count: 350 Page Count: 380 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: English

Worms 1395: It’s been four years since the trial Madlen and John continue to live in Cologne. The brothers Albert and Richard Velten, heirs to of the “secret healer.” Madlen is happily Their children Veit and Cecilia are, as was a farm near Krefeld, decide to leave the poverty married to Johannes, and they have two customary, sent away for their apprenticeships. in the region behind and to follow the call of the children. John continues to stand as advocate in the winemaker Schonau. Albert is married to Isabel service of the archbishop. One night there is a and father of three children aged one, three, Through a chance encounter, Madlen meets a late knock on the door of the Goldmann family's and five, while Richard is unmarried. They are traveling doctor who has stopped in Worms on town house with a message for John. He reads also accompanied by Gertrud, the mother of his way to Heidelberg to teach medicine at the the message and calls his wife to get dressed Albert and Richard, who leaves the family farm university. She is enthralled with the man and and to accompany him. Madlen asks him where behind. On their journey over the Rhine, Richard wants to learn as much as possible about the they were going, but John tells her that he is not gets into a heated argument with Johann healing arts this man picked up in the orient. allowed to tell her... Stauber, a fellow who has also acquired a She battles social conventions and her husband’s vineyard with his entire family. Albert takes his jealousy, and makes every effort to begin brother’s side. The clash culminates into a brawl studying with the doctor. in which Albert and Richard lose their lives. In the meantime, the bishop orders Johannes back to Cologne, where a series of murders has taken place claiming the lives of high-ranking personalities. Johannes runs into great danger investigating the murders.

47 Do They Kiss Differently in India? (Küssen Inder anders?) Petra Dalquen Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 4/12/2016 Page Count: 442 Rights Acquired: All Languages

This novel describes the lives of six women who are bound together by friendship. Two of them—Bernarda and Francine—are guarding a secret and have no idea how similar their fate is. During a journey through the archaic, mysterious, and exotic world of the temples and gods of South India, their conflicts erupt. In the end, nothing is the same—for any of the six friends. What do we really know about our friends? How close do they let us get to them? Do they trust us entirely in dire personal need? And can we trust them unconditionally? Do They Kiss Differently in India? is a novel about the power of friendship and the magic of extraordinary love.

A Life Turned Upside Down (Kammerflimmern und Klabusterbeeren) Rafael Eigner Contemporary Fiction Publication Date: 8/9/2016 Page Count: 428 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Benny Brandstätter, an attractive doctor and playboy, no longer understands the world after a long night of drinking. Evidence suggests that a woman named Ricky has stayed with him overnight—but who was the beautiful stranger? His time-consuming and energy-sapping shifts in an emergency walk-in clinic, often featuring bizarre patients, is suddenly becoming an afterthought for him, when his phone lights up and he sees an unexpected message from Ricky. The amateur musician and the real estate agent are caught in an exciting chat affair, which turns Benny’s daily life upside down. But what happens when Ricky suddenly appears before him? Two lost souls hunting for more than a chat brings an unforeseen surprise.

48 Hannes Niehaus Series

Time Heals No Wounds, The Cross of the North: Book 1 (Die Zeit heilt Baltic Sea Crime Novel, keine Wunden) Book 2 (Das Kreuz des Nordens) Hendrik Falkenberg Police Procedural Hendrik Falkenberg Publication Date: 4/21/2015 Police Procedural Page Count: 578 Publication Date: 12/8/2015 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 498

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Freshly trained detective Johannes “Hannes” Niehaus is brand Late summer on a remote stretch of coast: the warm rays of the new to the Criminal Investigation Department. And his partner, sun fall upon a wooden cross enthroned on a hill. unconventional veteran detective Fritz Janssen, isn’t the least bit thrilled to train a rookie. This peaceful scene is the stage for a drama. Blood runs over three nails hammered through the hands and feet of a man. As the When a woman’s body washes up on the nearby shores of the Baltic crucified man slowly opens his eyes and gazes down upon the sea Sea, Hannes gets his first taste of real crime—and a chance to with blurred vision, his body trembles. It is hours before death prove himself. Quickly the investigation pulls him and Fritz into a relieves the man of his suffering. In his second case, the young whirlpool of dangerous, decades-old cover-ups. As the death count policeman and athlete Johannes Niehaus is confronted with cold, rises, the clues begin to lead them back to the Third Reich—and to calculated fanaticism. The search for the culprit has just begun harrowing crimes some people will do anything to keep hidden. when more people are endangered, and time becomes a ruthless opponent for the young investigator. With the dead woman’s beautiful assistant to protect, and a missing girl to find, Hannes navigates an ever-twisting maze of concealed horrors and enduring vendettas. Will he be able to catch the murderer before another innocent life gets caught in the killer’s dark plan?

Stage of Dying, Book 3 Debt’s Legacy, Book 4 (Die Bühne des (Das Erbe der Schuld) Sterbens) Hendrik Falkenberg Hendrik Falkenberg Police Procedural Police Procedural Publication Date: 2/21/2017 Publication Date: 8/23/2016 Page Count: 380 Page Count: 404 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Torches illuminate the beach for a young married couple that has A step into nothingness—and there is no turning back. Adrenaline recently appeared numerous times in the gossip columns of the flows through your veins, while the body is in free fall. But that tabloid press. None of the guests say a word when they’re asked if endorphin-driven feeling of happiness ends abruptly that day. As anyone objects to the marriage. Instead, the echoing sound of a the jumper presses the parachute trigger, the lines flap loosely in fired weapon reverberates across the wedding party. The groom the air. With nothing to stop it, the body crashes toward the tumbles while his white suit turns red at the heart level. ground while the altimeter only shows a few hundred meters to go. A safe landing is hardly feasible, seconds later impossible, and soon In his third case, sports policeman Hannes Niehaus investigates a fatal. There isn’t even time for a scream. popular rock band and its periphery. Several members of the wedding party are suspects. It quickly becomes clear that the At first it seems completely absurd to think that psychology idolized guitarist would not be the only victim. professor Hartkamp’s respected family has come into the crosshairs of a murderer. Only when a dark family secret is revealed does a possible motive begin to emerge. But to solve his fourth case, sports policeman Hannes Niehaus must dig deeply into the past and break through a wall of silence. Stay tuned for the fifth book in the series, which will be released in Fall 2017!

49 Finca Dreams (Fincaträume) Eva-Maria Farohi Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 5/31/2016 Page Count: 284 Rights Acquired: All Languages

For several years now, Marika has lived in Mallorca and has found her home there. She is satisfied with her work as a seamstress, which makes her independent. She does everything for her small handful of friends. A traumatic childhood leaves her very guarded around people, and she does not believe in the stability of feelings. Her heart belongs to the many animals she’s taken into her home. When she meets the successful writer Dean Voss Brick, she at first sees him as the typical superficial career person. Yet he draws her into his spell. Are his feelings for her deeper, or is he just looking for an affair? Finca Dreams is the second volume of the Mallorca trilogy, following Finca Moon. The novel can be read as a stand-alone or as part of the series.

A New Case for Commissaris van Leeuwen Series

And Forgive Us Our Trespasses (Und vergib uns unsere Schuld) Claus Cornelius Fischer Police Procedural Publication Date: 8/30/2016 Page Count: 353 Rights Acquired: All Languages

On the evening of a popular holiday in the Netherlands, a twelve-year-old boy is murdered in Amsterdam. The circumstances make even the police’s blood run cold. Detective Bruno van Leeuwen, who is wrestling with his grief over the recent death of his wife, Simone, takes on the investigation. Little does he know that the key to resolving the case can be found precisely in Simone’s disease...

The Girl with the Silver Beads (Das Mädchen mit der Silberraupe) Claus Cornelius Fischer Police Procedural Publication Date: 11/8/2016 Page Count: 400 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A masked young woman breaks in to the house of an Amsterdam banker at night and shoots his son, his wife, and his wife’s lover. Detective van Leeuwen has to find the perpetrator as well as her motive before she continues on her murderous path. At the same time, an inmate in the Scheveningen Prison takes a hostage and forces the inmate’s release. The hostage is an old friend of Detective van Leeuwen, and thus, he gets on the tail of the escapee. Soon it turns out that these two crimes are not only related, but also connected to another unsolved murder in the past, which at the time had been disguised as suicide. Detective van Leeuwen quickly realizes that these age-old past crimes are the key to solving the cases.

50 Find Me! Good Luck in Small Doses (Finde mich! Glück in kleinen Dosen) Susanne Fletemeyer Contemporary Fiction Publication Date: 6/14/2016 Page Count: 288 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Nearing thirty, Jaromir still has hopes for his breakthrough as a cartoonist, so he moves from one poorly paid graphic job to the next. No wonder that his girlfriend has chosen another boyfriend with better prospects, and left him with his three-legged cat in the tiny attic apartment. And if that wasn’t enough, his landlord now threatens to evict him. Luckily, Jaromir has encouraging friends, with whom he shares a passion that helps him clear his head: geocaching. While doing a GPS-aided search for caches in well-hidden small cans, he finds far more than he had hoped for. His plan to renounce women gets thoroughly shaken up...

Life Is Only a Moment (Das Leben ist nur ein Moment) Heike Fröhling Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 2/9/2016 Page Count: 226 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A novel about Iceland and love that’s stronger than the shadows of the past. In her grandmother’s estate, Isabell finds clues of a puzzling past. She travels to Iceland to find answers. There she gets to know the young Icelander Gabríel, who helps her in her search. Together with him, she keeps finding clues that her grandmother was never the woman she pretended to be, and that the fate of the deceased has shaped her own life down to the present day...

The Tenderness of the Moment (Die Zärtlichkeit des Augenblicks) Heike Fröhling Contemporary Fiction Publication Date: 5/2/2017 Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A young couple stands facing an old man whose one big love has failed due to his overwhelming guilt. Through his meetings with the young couple, the man is able to find his old, great love, and reconcile with the past, while the young couple decides to not end their own relationship as planned and begins to fight for their own love before it’s too late.

51 When Air Disappeared (Als die Luft verschwand) Kiara Francke Fantasy Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Page Count: 429 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When Air Disappeared is a rousing fantasy novel about the power of friendship and the courage to trust in one’s own abilities. In a foreign world, the four elementals of air, earth, fire, and water live in peaceful equilibrium. When the elements of air decide to seize control over earth itself, the human habitat faces great danger. Together with other earth, fire, and water elementals, young Avril leaves her beloved homeland to save the inhabitants of the blue planet. But being among people, Avril and her friends must not only find their way in a world that is alien to them, but must also face opponents who always seem to be a step ahead of them. What Avril does not know: they themselves play a key role in this costly battle.

The Closet on the Beach (Schrank am Strand) Heike Karen Gürtler Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 1/12/2016 Page Count: 232 Rights Acquired: All Languages

On a small North Sea island, Lena seeks distance from her life and the strangling panic attacks with which she has to struggle every day. But what she finds there goes far beyond the help she’d hoped for while being on the secluded island: a mysterious, unnaturally pale boy whose innocent counsel strikes chords within her that had long been silent; and a mysterious message in a bottle and a closet lying on the beach through which Lena plunges into another world. Will she find herself or lose herself in the mysteries of the island?

The Things on Your List (Die Dinge deiner Liste) Mia Hansen Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 6/14/2016 Page Count: 286 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The Things on Your List tells the story of a tragicomic road trip through Europe and a commitment to life and love. Vicky still lives on the farm with her parents and keeps herself afloat with temporary jobs in her rather happy-go-lucky life. She hasn’t seen her old friend Finn since childhood. Finn has made himself a career in the finance department of a Frankfurt insurance company, but fate turns against him. Vicky wants to reunite with Finn and support him in fighting his illness. From a wish list made in their childhood, they chose sixteen wishes to be fulfilled in one year. Thus begins an exciting journey in which not all goes as planned...

52 The Jan Tommen Thrillers

Until the Debt Is Paid, Grave Intent, Book 2 Book 1 (Bis alle Schuld (Vor deinem Grab) beglichen) Alexander Hartung Alexander Hartung Police Procedural Police Procedural Publication Date: 7/15/2014 Publication Date: 5/13/2014 Page Count: 315 Page Count: 289 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: English Rights Sold: English and Italian

A falsely accused detective dives into Berlin’s criminal underworld to prove his innocence. Berlin detective Jan Tommen expected to A killer taunts his prey by placing their names on grave markers. wake up with a hangover—not a murder charge. But a well-known Can Detective Tommen catch him? judge has been brutally killed, and hard evidence places Jan at the crime scene. When disturbing gaps in Jan’s memory make finding Late one night, a man calls the local emergency line. He’s in a an alibi impossible, the case against him looks open and shut. cemetery, and he’s just discovered a freshly dug grave marked with a wooden cross bearing his name. The dispatcher thinks it’s the Faced with life on the inside, Jan flees police custody to take ravings of a drunk—until the police find the man’s body the refuge with an old friend deeply enmeshed in the capital’s seedy next day. underworld. Hampered by a citywide manhunt, Jan soon finds that investigating leads while eluding capture isn’t easy. Before long, What seemed like a morbid prank soon becomes a living nightmare he’s relying on a team of misfits for help, including an icy blonde for Berlin detective Jan Tommen. Recently reinstated to the force medical examiner and a brilliant but reclusive computer whiz. after a harrowing case’s tragic conclusion, Jan enlists his friends— debt collector Chandu, hacker Max, and medical examiner Zoe—to When a lucky break leads Jan to connect the murders to a heinous help. Yet the unconventional team can’t get any closer to finding trafficking ring, the team risks it all to find answers. Meanwhile, the killer, and new open graves keep turning up, each with a the body count continues to rise, and the police department starts promise of murder. Can they find the cunning killer before the to close in. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jan must identify the deadly predictions are fulfilled? true killer—before his time finally runs out.

When All Hope Is A Memory So I Will Not Rest Gone, Book 3 Cold, Book 4 (Die (Ich werde nicht (Wenn alle Erinnerung so ruhen) Hoffnung kalt) vergangen) Alexander Hartung Alexander Hartung Thriller Alexander Hartung Police Procedural Publication Date: 12/6/2016 Police Procedural Publication Date: 3/22/2016 Page Count: 250 Publication Date: 5/26/2015 Page Count: 302 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages #1 on the BILD bestseller list by Alexander A new stand-alone novel from the bestselling Hartung. author of the Jan Tommen Thriller series. The third book in bestselling German author Alexander Hartung's darkly funny, hold-on-to- The fourth case for Jan Tommen and his team. A A man who has lost everything is on a vendetta. your-seat Jan Tommen Thriller series. corpse burned beyond recognition found beneath The love of his life died in a house collapse, the Brandenburg Gate baffles Commissioner because corners had been cut during the Berlin detective Jan Tommen is no stranger to Tommen's team in the Berlin Criminal construction of the house. Who is responsible for the city’s dangerous underbelly. Along with his Investigation Department. Who is behind this it and would it have been possible to prevent it? unconventional team—sarcastic medical brutal act? And why has the offender taken a examiner Zoe, scruffy hacker Max, and shady risk dumping the body of the victim in a public debt collector Chandu—Jan strives to stop killers place? There are no usable traces. before they can up their body count. But with each new case, the detective faces strange The identification of the corpse confirms Jan's terrors, hidden enemies, and the trauma that worst fears that this is just the beginning. comes with the job—all while trying to keep another possible victim from meeting a terrifying Stay tuned for the fifth book in the series, fate. which will be released in Spring 2017!

53 The Darker the Night The Dark City Lights (Je schwärzer die (Die dunklen Lichter Nacht) der Stadt )

Leonie Haubrich Stefan Holtkötter Psychological Thriller Police Procedural Publication Date: 7/12/2016 Publication Date: 12/6/2016 Page Count: 240 Page Count: 280 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Which is worse: when an innocent man is convicted or when a guilty After passing the exam for police commissioner, Sven Maalouf is man goes free? surprised by acting Deputy Chief Constable Koslowski. Maalouf has been ordered to change to homicide. A huge career step. The Lawyer Stefanie Beck must answer this question. Her eighteen-year- offer, however, is a double-edged sword: he is supposed to monitor old female client has been accused of killing her own mother in a his future partner, Rosa Bertram, and is expected to inform frenzy. But the apparent family drama turns out to be a nightmare Koslowski about everything there is to report. Sven Maalouf rejects like no other—with all-powerful opponents who will stop at nothing. this morally. But it is clear: if he rejects the offer, Koslowski will She must act before someone silences her as well. end his career forever. He is trapped.

Rabenblut Serie

A Fairly Weighty Matter Death of a Raven, Book (Ziemlich 2 (Rabentod) schwerwiegend) Nikola Hotel Elizabeth Horn Romantic Suspense Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 4/26/2016 Publication Date: 5/10/2016 Page Count: 418 Page Count: 410 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

If beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder, then maybe Death of a Raven is the second volume in a trilogy. something’s wrong with Clara’s eyes. Unfortunately, what she sees in the mirror, she does not like. Lately, she only sees little Isa and Alexej have escaped the hunters, but their happiness is enthusiasm in the eyes of her husband as well. Significant weight short-lived: on one of their walks through the forest, Isa finds a loss would certainly be one possible solution to the problem. She raven, its heart taken out. Isa’s sense of foreboding turns into tortures herself with only moderately successful diets and gym certainty when she learns that the dead bird actually came from visits, with no lack of self-irony or comic despair, until another Alexej’s constable of ravens. Then Alexej is kidnapped, and with onlooker dramatically changes her situation—more than any of her each passing day he has to endure more torments. To save him, Isa previous efforts had ever been able to. has to ally herself with the man she fears most: Sergius. Together they devise a desperate plan in which each of them has to pay a high price. But they have no choice, as death comes on swift wings...

54 Amber Teardrops The Honey-Sweet Hands (Bernsteintränen) (Die honigsüßen Hände)

Izabelle Jardin Marion Johanning Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 11/17/2015 Publication Date: 2/9/2016 Page Count: 388 Page Count: 490 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

“Don’t be so sentimental! Follow your path, don’t look to the right 1266: In a castle in the Eifel region, young Beatrix is being held or left, and use your training for success!” prisoner by her husband, Arnold von der Ahe. The scrupulous knight, who is only interested in her dowry, lives with his lover. So far, Nicola has lived her life by this motto. As legal adviser to an international company, a brilliant career lies before her. She has One night, Beatrix is able to escape to Cologne. In the up-and- never experienced the kind of deep love that could take her off her coming city, she changes her identity and hopes to start a new life path. Until everything is turned upside down on a business trip to as a baker. She gets to know the rich patrician Daniel Jude and the land of amber, of all things. falls in love with him, but Daniel is also married. When Cologne is shaken by the fighting between enemy civil parties, Beatrix fears Unexpectedly, Nicola gets caught up in a whirlpool of past and being discovered by her husband more than ever. She’s desperately present that causes her to question her life’s motto and take more fighting for her love, and her new life. than just her destiny into her own hands. Amber Teardrops is a novel about a love that overcomes every limit. About leaving and returning, losing and finding. About accident and fate, longing and hope. A story that joins the present with the past to create the future.

Bestseller (Das Leben Lost Lines of Love (Die ist kein Zweizeiler) verlorenen Zeilen der Liebe) Friedrich Kalpenstein Humor Astrid Korten Publication Date: 5/17/2016 Contemporary Romance Page Count: 264 Publication Date: 2/16/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 200 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Alexander is an author, and divorced. He lives in Munich with his An emotional novel full of poetry and love that draws you in and wire-haired dachshund, Leo. Since the publication of his bestseller, keeps you in suspense until the shocking conclusion. he’s been suffering from writer’s block, preventing him from building on his success. He’s been keeping himself afloat by writing Shortly before her wedding, Chloé receives a bundle of letters from cheap novels. her sister, Lilly, who’s been dead two years. These letters told about Lilly’s life and loves, and about the people in the Café de “A single who sets out to find true love”—he wants this to be the Flore in Paris, where Lilly met an influential and charming plot of his new bestseller. Driven by this idea, he plunges himself businessman. Despite the warnings she received, Lilly succumbed into the singles scene. Only for research, naturally. He’s supported to an affair with a married man whose identity she didn’t divulge. by Michaela, a longtime friend and psychologist who sees Alexander She referred to him only as Monsieur Inconnu. But he broke off the as a kind of project. relationship and shattered Lilly’s dreams. She fell apart. Chloé is deeply shaken by Lilly’s letters, and is forced to face the heavy Will Alexander return to his old form and meet the love of his guilt borne by her family, which will also influence her future. life...? Bestseller is a humorous novel about falling in love.

55 Comfort Cookies Series

Cold Milk and Comfort Warm Milk and Comfort Cookies, Book 1 (Kalte Cookies, Book 2 Milch und (Warme Milch und Kummerkekse) Kummerkekse)

Frieda Lamberti Frieda Lamberti Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 3/8/2016 Publication Date: 4/19/2016 Page Count: 190 Page Count: 188 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Ever since Dagmar broke ties with her father, she has gone her own For a long time, the female taxi driver Dagmar and the policeman way. Her life would be more dismal than exciting if it wasn’t for Pit were only good friends and lived beside each other as her neighbor Pit. For a long time, she’s had an eye on the clever neighbors. As they become a couple, and Dagmar dreams of a policeman. But he won’t see her as anything but the girl next door. quick wedding, the shadows of their past reemerge. Is this pure imagination? Are these just coincidences, or is she really in danger? “Why not?” Pit’s grandmother asks herself as well, and decides to Whom can she trust? do something about it. She is firmly convinced that the two were made for each other, and takes it upon herself to help them along. And she’ll do whatever it takes. Just when her efforts seem to be paying off, a closely guarded secret is revealed that forces everyone involved to face their painful pasts.

Alias Nora Parker Not a Single Word (Sterbenswort) Frieda Lamberti Contemporary Romance Siegfried Langer Publication Date: 10/11/2016 Crime Page Count: 180 Publication Date: 5/17/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 292 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Do you find it hard to believe that suddenly, out of the blue, all For the umpteenth time, someone enters Kathrin’s apartment your fellow men could conspire against you ? Then read this story. while she isn’t there. The young mother feels panicked. And when Kathrin’s believed-to-be-dead ex-roommate talks to her daughter Caroline is sure that is precisely what is happening to her at the at kindergarten, Kathrin suspects that something terrible is about moment. Seen from the outside, she leads a perfectly ordinary life. to happen. Will the tragic decision that she and her friends made For years she has been satisfied with her role as a housewife and at that time in the flat catch up with her? Driven by guilt and mother of two adult children alongside her career-driven husband, revenge, a dramatic race against time begins to unfold, and for the Tom, in the suburbs, where everyone knows everyone. What no one first time in her life, Kathrin must relinquish control... knows is that Caroline is an aspiring author who secretly writes romance novels and publishes under the pseudonym Nora Parker. There is only one person who knows her secret: her agent, Judith. She convinces Caroline to give up her anonymity and to face the public. After Caroline’s outing, things come thick and fast, and the suburban idyll is no longer what it used to be.

56 Girls Vacation The Survivors of (Seksi Ürlaub) Sagunto (Die Überlebenden von Jana Leonis Sagunt) Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 4/5/2016 Jonathan Lerros Page Count: 382 Historical Fiction Rights Acquired: All Languages, Publication Date: 8/9/2016 excluding Turkish Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A girls’ vacation in the Mediterranean is on the agenda, or, stated The fourteen-year-old twin siblings Eirene and Kimon experience a more precisely, “girls vücütion.” For “in Turkish, you write almost blessing in disguise as their hometown of Sagunto is completely everything with a ü,” Fulya, who had grown up in Germany, told destroyed by Catharginian troops, and the residents are being her friend Maike. killed or enslaved. But Synbalos, the chief doctor of the Carthaginian army, develops a liking for both and takes them under Maike is excited, not only about seeing a new country, but also his wing. Kimon would do anything to be a surgeon, and Eirene about visiting a Turkish wedding with Fulya. Exactly the place to becomes the personal body servant of the mysterious Dido, owner transform into the woman hiding inside her, Maike feels. For deep of the most distinguished brothel in town. The siblings have only inside, she’s not the somewhat clumsy, naive little girl, but a self- just begun to settle into their new life when they are unwittingly assured femme fatale with an aura of eroticism. Can Kemal, drawn into a murder plot against the military leader Hannibal Fulya’s childhood friend, change her into a genuine “Mediterranean staged by the Romans. queen”? And why is the simpatico Mert, who has explored lonely coves and giant discos with her, suddenly so noticeably distant? A witty novel about love and friendship, and a love letter written to the vacation destination of Turkey. And always in the background: the fictitious Turkish pop song “SeksiSeksi,” which will inspire readers to dance even though they’ve never heard it.

A Safari in Namibia Frau Lehrer Undercover (Kuckucksland) Leni Mai Marco Maler Humor Contemporary Fiction Publication Date: 10/18/2016 Publication Date: 12/13/2016 Page Count: 200 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

After the death of his wife, quirky retiree Karl has not much left in Franziska had known this from the beginning: she should never his life beside gravestone and curbside maintenance. However, he have become a teacher. She moved her consultation hour to break finds out that his wife’s biggest dream—to see a real lion in Africa— time because of time concerns, as she is more interested in the never came true because of him. To make up for it, the old man new Prada summer collection than in the decline of the euro or goes straight to a travel agency. economic crises, and she’s not too worried about student matters of concern. Once in Windhoek, Karl meets the young Namibian Timmy, who had come to the German Democratic Republic as a child to be educated Now she is supposed to go on a school trip to Barcelona, with to become one of his country’s political elite. After the fifteen troublemakers accompanying her who love to say “Chill reunification, however, Timmy had to return to his estranged out!” and who have no interest in school while being in the coolest homeland. Now, without an education and without perspective, he city in the world. And what Franziska really wanted to do is look struggles through his chaotic life. After an problematic initial for her dream man in Barcelona. And sure enough, the chaos won’t contact—both men could not be more dissimilar—a momentous be long in coming—and as Franziska even receives secret letters partnership of convenience develops... from the federal president, she suddenly finds herself in the most precarious mission of her life. Lucky for her that her colleague the It is the beginning of an adventurous safari, a compulsive search phys-ed teacher comes to her aid... for father and son, for wild animals and decent beer, for new beginnings, and home and identity, which soon reminds Timmy that A totally crazy school trip! his bridge to Germany is far from demolished.

57 Butterfly Series Centerstarks

Elena’s Butterfly, Book Kisses in a Lightning 2 (Elenas Storm (Küsse im Schmetterling) Blitzlichtgewitter)

Greta Milán Tanja Neise Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 3/8/2016 Publication Date: 6/7/2016 Page Count: 419 Page Count: 230 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Elena Sommer is happy with her life. For years, she has been caring All newspapers in the world are looking for superstar Darren for her sick brother, Felix, while working as an art dealer in a Jenkins, whose band, Centerstarks, announced their disbanding a respectable gallery. Her everyday life runs like clockwork. few years ago. By chance, fresh-on-the-scene gossip reporter Elisa encounters the charismatic singer in Berlin, and when the two are But Elena’s life is thrown out of balance when Noah Bergström, of starting to get closer, it’s not just Darren’s troubled past standing all people, becomes the gallery’s new star. The impulsive artist in the way. Elisa must choose: career or love? loves to provoke her, and his behavior just gets on her nerves. But soon Elena discovers that Noah has another side, which awakens Kisses in a Lightning Storm is the first of the three-part series long-forgotten feelings in her. As the two get closer, Elena feels in which love has to overcome many small obstacles, more and more confused. misunderstandings, and secrets. Torn between her desire for Noah and her wish to help Felix, Elena does her best to be there for both. But she knows it’s only a matter of time before she’ll have to disappoint one of them.

Neighbors Series

Mia: The Soccer Love Vacationing for Story (Herzrasen—Die Beginners, Book 1 Fußball-Lovestory) (Urlaub für Anfänger)

Bernd Pohlenz Maria Resco Women’s Fiction Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 4/19/2016 Publication Date: 1/5/2016 Page Count: 278 Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Fast paced and funny, Mia: The Soccer Love Story tells the story of The new neighbors rub it in: Katrin has an unfulfilled existence a love that must overcome even the differences between Dortmund with her stoic husband, Paul. and Munich. It is for those who hold a place in their hearts for soccer. While the Hollmanns flaunt their possessions and expensive trips, Katrin has been coasting through the last years of her marriage A huge fan of Bayern is on the way to an away game in with the hand brakes on. To make matters worse, Gaby Hollmann Dortmund with her girlfriends. Shortly before they reach the offers her a cleaning job! She’s had enough. She desperately needs stadium, an attractive Dortmund fan brushes against the young to do something about this gross misjudgment of her person. So she woman’s car with his yellow bicycle. Another victory for the fabricates an exclusive trip to distant Kenya and, lest her fraud be Bavarians? Not at all, for after a visit to the hospital, the exposed, says she’s leaving the day after her neighbors leave on unthinkable happens: between the fronts of opposing soccer clubs, their trip to Miami. a forbidden love is secretly blossoming, which leads to serious complications and sets the entire soccer universe out of balance. But all that glitters with the Hollmanns isn’t gold, either. Why are Even players and board members aren’t spared from the whirlwind they still at home? Why aren’t they sitting on a plane to Florida? of events. There is a regional war, and two worlds collide. What are these snobs trying to hide? Katrin has no plan B, so action is called for—and quick. A turbulent game of hide-and-seek with the neighbors begins. Stay tuned for the next book in the series, which will be released in Fall 2016!

58 Gingerbread Girls

Resist Temptation Heroes, Hearts, and Wedding Cake (Helden, Lina Roberts Herzen, Contemporary Erotic Romance Hochzeitstorten) Publication Date: 1/3/2017 Page Count: 320 Chantal Schreiber Rights Acquired: All Languages Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 7/12/2016 Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Not too long ago Matt was a hip star. But his divorce takes Matt Cleo owns a confectioner company. As “Gingerbread Girl,” she back to where he originally came from: the streets. Penniless and makes sweet art for any occasion. Two blocks down, a call girl without knowing how to go on, he takes the train to Los Angeles. named Louie operates under the same name, which leads to Destitute, and with the firm intention to no longer trust women, unexpected complications—romantic and criminal in nature. The his life seems to be at an impasse. events come thick and fast in Cleo’s life, and there is suddenly a new girlfriend, a new enemy, a lawyer with unexpected charm, and But when he meets the beautiful and rich Kate in a bar, he an undercover investigator. suddenly finds himself with a surprising opportunity. However, Kate’s offer has an immoral component: one million dollars for Conclusion: cake is more powerful than evil, and sweet is the new three months by her side. But can a deal of this kind work without black! investing emotions? After all, Matt and Kate find each other extremely attractive. And besides, Kate seems to have more to do with Matt’s past than he had bargained for. A story unfolds that moves between big money and true love and between deep disappointment and boundless confidence. Their mutually signed contract leads Matt and Kate on an uncertain journey through their emotions, and finally to the core of their identities.

Finnish Snow from Remember Love Yesterday (Finnischer (Erinner dich an Liebe) Schnee von gestern) Babsy Tom Mina Teichert Contemporary Romance Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 3/29/2016 Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Page Count: 264 Page Count: 280 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

After another one of her fiancé’s missteps, Vivien is “kidnapped” Due to adverse conditions, Elena is forced to take a job as a by her three best friends and taken to Finland for New Year’s Eve. waitress in La Esquina to keep her and her drug-addicted, violent The four women will celebrate together, just as they did ten years brother, Stefan, above water. ago, only this time completely without men. Because, back then, one fateful New Year’s Eve resulted in two marriages, a one-night When Stefan brutally beats Elena once again, she falls unconscious stand, and Vivien’s fatal on/off relationship. And now, Vivien; the into the arms of Enrique Martinez, a good-looking, charismatic seemingly perfect politician’s wife, Solja; the trophy educator, diner at the restaurant. He takes her to the hospital, and after she Meike; and the gentle esoteric mom of four, Esther, decide to put starts to recover, Martinez makes her an unethical but lucrative their problems on ice. But thanks to the Finnish snow, and a lot of offer. She’ll be paid one million euros if she will carry his child to champagne and old secrets coming to light, this vacation quickly term. Outraged at first by this absurd proposal, after she has turns into a self-discovery trip of a special kind. calmed down, Elena thinks it over. Will she accept this offer and sell her soul and all she believes in for a life free of care?

59 Love Gone Astray (Verirrte Liebe) Lisa Torberg Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 3/8/2016 Page Count: 222 Rights Acquired: All Languages

This emotion-packed, thought-provoking, and sensually thrilling story takes place before the breathtaking backdrop of Rome, the author’s Italian home city. Dede and Ettore Meneghetti live among the rich, powerful, and beautiful of the Eternal City. Their son completes the happiness of these privileged people, who don’t seem to mind their age difference of twenty years. Quite the opposite: they seem to be the perfect married couple. But behind this facade of an existence envied by many, their life is nothing like the external appearance...they only spend time together when appearing side by side at social events. Privately, they live together in a dream villa permeated by sadness and emotional coldness, sleeping in separate bedrooms. Although they are both suffering, neither broaches the subject with the other. And so the years go by...until one event causes the facade, kept in place at great effort, to crumble.

Bye Bye Naples (Sonnenliebe—Napoli per sempre) Lisa Torberg Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Page Count: 280 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Chiara Eaton is twenty-six and lives in Boston. Her family came from Italy to America. When her dying great-grandmother entrusts her with her diary, she begins to read her adventurous family history, and learns that she must still have relatives in Naples. Chiara promptly leaves her life in Boston—as well as her fiancé—and flies to Italy to find the descendants of her missing grandfather. In her search, she meets the handsome Ari and succumbs to his charm. The next morning she learns his last name: Di Martino. That was also Chiara’s great- grandmother’s last name. Fearing she is related to Ari, Chiara runs off. Will this adventure break her heart?

Jan de Fries

Dog Days in Greetsiel (Hundstage für Greetsiel) Dirk Trost Police Procedural Publication Date: 7/19/2016 Page Count: 428 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The third case for Jan de Fries. The romantic fishing village Greetsiel is groaning under the extremely hot temperatures that even transform the dry beach of Upleward into a true incubator during the so- called dog days. The silt sled race was supposed to be the highlight of this year’s Mudflats World Championship in Upleward. But when Jan de Fries’s race team, Sirius, stumbles upon the remains of a dismembered and burned corpse in the mudflats off the track, the joyous festival comes to a brutal end. But the body found in the mudflats is only the first murder victim of a brutal murderer whose second victim is publicly hanged in front of the guests of a festive Summer Night Ball in Pewsum. Jan de Fries does not believe it when he hears whom the suspect is supposed be, so he starts an investigation of his own. Within a short time, his investigations puts the former lawyer in extreme danger.

60 Love Is Hard to Avoid (Tieffliegende Liebe) Charly von Feyerabend Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 3/15/2016 Page Count: 342 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Fritzi, a frustrated single who has just been given notice, moves in with her friend Anna in Berlin. Unfortunately, Anna winds up in the hospital after an accident, and Fritzi takes over her job as a stylist and takes care of her daughters. Unfortunate, because Fritzi has no clue about children, no parental instincts or style and, due to a name change, is stealing jobs out from under the nose of another stylist: an exceptionally attractive stylist with whom she falls in love. And love is hard to avoid these days...damned hard!

You, Me, and the Colors of Life (Du, ich und die Farben des Lebens) Noa C. Walker Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 12/8/2015 Page Count: 406 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: English

A moving story full of hope, about the power of love, and a life filled with happiness. Janica learned early in life to see each day as a gift, to celebrate it and enjoy it. In her special, life-affirming way, she draws Thomas in and opens the young man’s eyes to the beauty and different colors of life. Thomas falls head over heels in love with the strong young woman, and becomes a part of her exuberant and crazy circle of friends and loving family. But soon the pair has to bear the brunt of destiny.

61 Italian-Language Titles

62 The Night of the Moths Trying Not to Love You (La notte delle Falene) (Tentare di non amarti)

Riccardo Bruni Amabile Giusti Contemporary Mystery Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 12/1/2015 Publication Date: 12/1/2015 Page Count: 248 Page Count: 342 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Rights Sold: English and

Nominated for the Strega Prize Penny is twenty-two years old, orphaned, and living with her ill grandmother, who thinks she’s sixteen. Penny left her dreams 2003. Alice is twenty-five years old and has found the love of and works as a bartender. The one man she dated turned out to her life. She is planning to go away with Enrico and start her be a stalker. “happily ever after.” Then, Alice is found dead, in the middle of the woods. One night, coming back from work, she is convinced that she’s being followed. It turns out to be her new neighbor, Marcus, who 2013. Over the last ten years, Enrico has never gone back to the was just released from prison. He works as security staff in a small seaside town where the love of his life, Alice, was found local club while he waits for his girlfriend to be released. dead. The killer was found immediately, the crazy man of the Penny decides to hire Marcus as a bodyguard to walk her home town. But is he the true killer? Where is the truth hidden? from work. Alice Sebold meets Twin Peaks in this strongly emotional cold case. Love grows between them, but both of them do all they can to Strong passions and deeply hidden secrets reside in the sleepy avoid it... countryside.

Something in Your Eyes It’s a Kind of Magic (C’è qualcosa nei tuoi (È una specie di magia) occhi) Daniela Grandi Amabile Giusti Women’s Fiction Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 3/29/2016 Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Page Count: 244 Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Spanish

The sequel to Trying Not to Love You tells a new story of love and Do you remember the glittery, shiny, crazy-stupid and super-pop redemption: a deep and touching journey into the restless hearts of eighties? And what is going to happen if two grown women in their characters who are so different...yet so alike. fifties make a wish...and find themselves back in the 1980s, young and fresh? Francisca Lopez is a dark angel whose heart is impossible to win. Her past is filled with pain, violence suffered and inflicted, crime, It’s a Kind of Magic is a feel-good comedy full of sparks, shoulder and prison. Plus, one man: Marcus. She shared the darkest side of pads, and pop music. herself with him. But now Marcus has gone; he’s chosen to go after Penny, the sweet girl with pastel streaks in her hair for whom he decided to change his life, and Francisca must now build a new identity for herself. As poetry has been her secret lifeline, Francisco chooses Amherst, Emily Dickinson’s town, as the place to make her fresh start. If the contemporary poetry course at the university is taught by Byron Lord, a young, seductive professor with a distinctly prophetic name, captivated by her “petroleum-blue eyes,” Francisca’s life could really turn around. A strange, delicate relationship develops between them: a tender love that risks being blown away at any moment by both characters’ secrets and by Francisca’s many vulnerabilities.

63 The Contract The Water Lords (L’appalto) (I signori della sete)

Sergio Grea Sergio Grea Mystery Mystery Publication Date: 7/19/2016 Publication Date: 7/26/2016 Page Count: 550 Page Count: 428 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Brilliant attorney Dave’s life was perfect. Until it was turned The last few months were not going well for Nic Morgan. Actually, upside down by the tragic events of September 11, when his you could say they were miserable. career, his friends, and his future plummeted along with the Twin Towers. Nic’s wife, Lucy, the love of his life, died in a car accident at only twenty-eight years old. And, what was worse, she wasn’t alone; Now Dave has one last chance to redeem himself, following the her lover was at the wheel—the most tragic way for Nic to find out negotiation of a contract for a rich and mysterious Russian magnate about the betrayal. To add insult to injury, his personal problems for the Aral Sea. It may seem routine, but behind the apparent are affecting his work, and suddenly, Nic is sent away from San banality hide many risks and many secrets. What interests are Francisco to the Horn of Africa, where he faces a critical situation: hidden under the icy skies of the East? Dave must fight for what conflicts of interests between the English and the French, Islamic matters most: his own life. extremist groups on the rise, and guerrillas. The area is a powder keg, missing just a spark to ignite it. But it’s also an unspoiled The Contract is written with a style and narrative talent land, filled with beauty and natural resources that its people reminiscent of big international names such as Wilbur Smith, Dan cannot access. Brown, and Ken Follett, and imbued with the author’s expertise as a top international manager navigating high-risk situations around Nic understands that this assignment can not only help him the world. extinguish the anger that consumes him, but it can also give his life new meaning. However, Nic has not considered that his noble plans threaten to undermine the interests of some shady, unscrupulous characters who will stop at nothing to protect them.

Farewell Saigon Shards of Truth (Saigon, addio) (Schegge di veritα)

Sergio Grea Monica Lombardi Mystery Psychological Thriller Publication Date: 9/6/2016 Publication Date: 6/28/2016 Page Count: 396 Page Count: 352 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese

Vietnam: Danielle is a small orphan, one of the many lives turned Anything to get her back. Anything to get them both back. upside down by the war. A few days after the war ends, she is adopted by an English official who is in Asia to investigate arms Two women, two friends, Giulia and Livia, are kidnapped one trafficking. He knows that his only hope to give Danielle a bright November evening while coming home from the movies. One of future is to take her overseas, and he manages this thanks to a them managed to escape, but she doesn’t remember a thing—about hasty escape in the frantic hours before the fall of Saigon. the kidnapping or about her past. Her help could be crucial for the police, if only she could manage to piece together the shards of Australia: Danielle, now grown up, has become an alluring woman truth that flash through her mind like lightning. But the face that and an experienced business consultant, and her past seems like she sees in the mirror is still completely alien to her. Investigations just a distant memory. However, a new professional assignment can therefore only start from the woods, the setting of the escape, will bring to light shadows that she thought had been buried and from the thick haze that blocks her memory. There to guide forever, and secrets connected with the life of her adoptive her is Police Commissioner Emilio Arco; Ilaria Benni, a psychic who father—secrets so dangerous that they threaten her happiness can sense people’s fear; and a psychiatrist, involved for reasons and her very survival. that go beyond the professional field. In Shards of Truth, Monica Lombardi skillfully weaves an investigative web full of twists and turns in a psychological thriller that delves into the depths of the human mind.

64 Venetian Series

Venetian Scarlet, Book 1 (Scarlatto veneziano) Maria Luisa Minarelli Historical Mystery Publication Date: 12/1/2015 Page Count: 294 Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

Venice, 1750. The sun rises on a vivid city—full of life, excitement, and industrial work—and on a cruel murder. Venetian judge Marco Pisani will follow the investigation—from noble houses to brothels, from the shipyards to political power palaces—chasing the truth in a world where victims may be killers and justice is sometimes revenge. He is a young widower from a noble family, and he knows that justice and law are not always allies.

Venetian Gold, Book 2 (Oro veneziano) Maria Luisa Minarelli Historical Mystery Publication Date: 8/30/2016 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

1753. It’s one of the last days of Carnival when Sister Maria Angelica, a cloistered nun in Murano, is found brutally murdered in her secret apartment in Venice. While the city is celebrating, with masquerade balls in the palaces and fields, shows in the theaters and nighttime parades, it doesn’t take Judge Marco Pisani long to discover that the religious lady led a double life. With help from his attorney friend Daniele Zen, clerk Jacopo Tiralli, and doctor and pathologist Guido Valentini, Pisani thinks he has identified the culprit. However, instead of the solution, he will have to deal with two other heinous crimes. Nothing seems to link the three crimes except for disappearing money and jewelry and the presence of a gold locket marked with strange symbols. As if that wasn’t enough, Chiara Renier, an engaged businesswoman with clairvoyant abilities, has lost her gift; only grotesque joker masks and a black wall appear to her in her visions...In a city already living on the brink of ruin, taking advantage of its beauty like a courtesan, Pisani seems to have reached an impasse. It’s up to fate and his attention to detail, plus that of Dr. Valentini, to finally put him on the right path and reveal the unpredictable, complex solution. This brings him, however, to the brink of death.

Venetian Curtain, Book 3 (Sipario veneziano) Maria Luisa Minarelli Historical Mystery Publication Date: 10/4/2016 Page Count: 286 Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

It’s the eve of Holy Thursday, 1753, and the San Giovanni Grisostomo Theater in Venice is hosting the premiere of the opera from famous composer Matteo Velluti. Castrato singer Lorenzo Baffo, known as “Il Muranello,” and the beautiful Angela Fusetti, are among those due to perform. However, there is a great commotion backstage: Momo, the theater’s hunchback handyman, has gone missing. And when Marco Pisani, who is watching the show with his friend Dr. Valentini and Daniele Zen, goes to Momo’s house, he finds him on the ground, lifeless. It could be a natural death, but the judge and his friends aren’t convinced. First, Momo was not malformed, as everyone believed: his fake hunchback, fitted with straps, is in fact sitting on a chair. The autopsy will reveal that the deceptive handyman was poisoned. And not only that. Momo was also castrated. In Venice, where the Festa della Sensa celebrations are in full swing, amid lavish costumes and stages, so-called sorcerers and alchemists, courtesans, sopranos, sopranists, and musicians, Marco Pisani finds himself involved in a complex mystery that leads him to Bologna for a most unexpected solution.

65 Riccardo Ranieri Series

As Marks on the Sand, Book 2 (Come tracce sulla sabbia) Federico Maria Rivalta Crime Publication Date: 2/16/2016 Page Count: 268 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A mystery full of humor and theatrics. A series of terrible killings have occurred on colli Euganei in Venice, Italy. What mysterious secret is hidden in Dante’s verse that the killer left at the murder scene? What is the meaning of the letters sent to Sarmeola’s priest? Riccardo Ranieri, brave journalist (and terribly clumsy), will investigate...if he doesn’t lose his cell phone.

The Missing Mark, Book 3 (Il segno mancante) Federico Maria Rivalta Crime Publication Date: 2/16/2016 Page Count: 278 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A new mystery featuring the most unpredictable journalist in Italy. Riccardo Ranieri faces a new enigma. What is the connection between a young girl’s kidnapping and the murder of a jeweler? And will Riccardo be able to remember his luggage?

Blame It on the Tea (Tutta colpa del tè) Marta Savarino Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 12/1/2015 Page Count: 224 Rights Acquired: All Languages

After being abandoned by her fiancé in the nursery after the birth of their son, Luisa decides she will never fall in love again. Half-Irish, she leaves Turin a few days after Viola’s birth and goes to her family home, where she raises Viola with the help of her relatives. But the arrival of David Alexander Hamilton, a former lawyer who works as a gardener and hides a dark and sad past, will force Luisa to question all her convictions...

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67 The Magic of the Forest (El hechizo del bosque) Cathryn de Bourgh Contemporary Fantasy Publication Date: 12/15/2015 Page Count: 250 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Angélica and Roselyn, the daughters of the Count of Tourenne, discover a shortcut to the forbidden forest on Halloween. What began as innocent mischief turns into a nightmare when the terrible witch Catherine and her son, the attractive Knight of Hainut, take them captive. Although the maidens resist at first, they are soon inevitably attracted to the dark side without knowing for certain if they are under a spell. Only fate will reveal the truth. An adventure, a dark knight, a malevolent witch...these are the ingredients of this magical fantasy by De Bourgh.

The Traveler’s Inn (La posada del viajero) Armando Rodera Historical Fiction Publication Date: 12/15/2015 Page Count: 376 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Cantabria, end of the nineteenth century. After the unexpected death of the head of the Abascal family, his widow and children must manage a small travelers’ inn located in the heart of the seaside village of Suances. The arrival of Declan McLister, a wandering Irishman who had recently spent a few years in Cuba, completely disrupts the lives of the Abascal family, especially those of his two single daughters, María and Amaya. The sisters erupt in arguments, jealousy, and misunderstandings—peace and tranquillity are forever lost in their home. However, the real problems arise when the residents of the Abascal home become inadvertently involved in a complex political conspiracy. The Traveler’s Inn is a novel full of romance, adventure, and intrigue.

68 Letters to a Stranger, Book 1 (Cartas a una extraña) Mercedes Pinto Maldonado Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 7/26/2016 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Berta returns to her family home (to which she never wanted to return) to take charge of the estate of her mother, Alberta, a dark and controlling woman who made Berta’s childhood a living hell. Besieged by these memories, Berta decides to free herself from the ghosts of her past by untangling the web of trickery crafted by Alberta and her eldest daughter, and by freeing her last victim, whose unopened letters remain hidden in the attic until she reads them and they reach her heart. Some are not pleased with Berta’s decision, however, and soon she has traveled a trail of deception that may put her life in danger.

Messages from the Lake, Book 2 (Mensajes desde el lago) Mercedes Pinto Maldonado Mystery & Suspense Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the long-awaited sequel to Letters to a Stranger, Berta returns to London to begin anew, still overwhelmed by the aftermath of her mother’s death. Not only does she now know who her mother, sister, and beloved grandmother really were, she has also discovered that she has a nine-year-old niece, and has known the sweetness of an impossible love as captured in the letters of a stranger, a mysterious painter who lives by a lake in the United States and whom she caught a brief glimpse of in Paris. Berta will soon find out that her London routine has lost its meaning, as she cannot forget the painter nor the niece she has left behind. She eventually decides to return to Spain and start from the ground up in order to regain lost time and heal her open wounds. But the danger that followed her in the past returns, waiting to strike its final and definitive blow.

69 Grand Harbor Press offers practical and thought-provoking nonfiction from trusted experts and leaders, including Grammy Award-winning artist Gloria Gaynor, Will Bowen, and Benjamin Shalva.

70 Tanked Nancy Bercaw Nonfiction—Memoir Publication Date: 4/1/2017 Page Count: 215 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Tanked is the memoir of a former national champion swimmer, Nancy Stearns Bercaw, who developed a drinking problem in her late teens. After the Olympic tryouts, she decided to travel the world, searching for a new identity in remote corners of the world, but she encountered increasing internal and external foes. On the shores of the Arabian Sea, Nancy came face to face with her life-threatening drinking problem. Inspired by the Bedouin people and the desert landscape, she found the resolve to go dry for good. Tanked is the story of a swimmer who learns how to live on land—in the most unlikely of places, Abu Dhabi. Nancy’s story explores the social and cultural differences between Muslim and Western societies, and the great positive impact that changing your worldview can have. With a touch of humor and with profound insight, Bercaw shares her story in hopes of shining a light on what it means to love one’s self in a world of competition, judgment, and ever-changing expectations.

Happy Stories!: Real-Life Inspirational Stories from Around the World That Will Raise Your Happiness Level Will Bowen Nonfiction—Self-Help Publication Date: 9/10/2013 Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Complex Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese Rights Sold: Turkish In Happy This Year!, bestselling author Will Bowen shared his practical philosophy for achieving higher levels of happiness. He helped readers understand that the path to happiness is not determined by their circumstances, but by aligning their thoughts, words, and actions to focus on the goal of happiness. Now, through fifty true stories, Bowen shares how people have taken his philosophies to heart—and are becoming measurably happier! We all face adversity, setbacks, and stress in our everyday lives. In Happy Stories!, you will learn from people who have faced various hardships and have chosen to achieve happiness in spite of their circumstances. From a man who discovers happiness from the power of shared laughter to a woman who finds happiness through forgiveness, the stories in this collection inspire, entertain, and teach us remarkable lessons on how we can achieve higher and sustainable levels of happiness in our lives.

Happy This Year!: The Secret to Getting Happy Once and for All Will Bowen Nonfiction—Self-Help Publication Date: 4/9/2013 Page Count: 215 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Complex Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese Rights Sold: Indonesian

Will Bowen—internationally bestselling author of A Complaint Free World and Complaint Free Relationships—proposes that happiness is a self-fulfilling prophecy and encourages us to seek a simple and direct path to a happy life. This is a practical, yet inspirational work that proposes it’s the inner world of our psyches that determines happiness, not outside forces. We have control over our own happiness, and this powerful book offers concrete advice on how to tap into it and nourish it all year round. The author focuses explicitly on the positive ways we can establish a higher set point in our thoughts, speech, and actions, resulting in greater sustainable levels of happiness. Regardless of what the year and your life may bring, we can become measurably and sustainably happier.

71 Look Inside, Trust Within, Believe: The Power of Intuition Molly Carroll Nonfiction—Self-Help & Spirituality Publication Date: 9/12/2017 Page Count: 260 Rights Acquired: All Languages Intuition is one of the most powerful decision-making forces in your possession, so why not tap into it every day to follow its wisdom? This book is about why following your intuition will lead you to the best decisions of your life. It encourages you to ask questions including: what if I made my decisions around my own gut feelings or hunches? Why do I allow my analytical mind to take over my intuitive heart?

A therapist, public speaker, and corporate thought leader for more than twenty years, Molly Carroll has listened to hundreds of stories. What she learned is captured in this book, which covers the following topics associated with intuition:

• What intuition is and why it’s important to live an intuitive life. • How to reflect upon what fears are holding you back from living in your heart versus your head. • Ways to tap into your intuition, understand where in the body intuition lives, and how to listen and create space in your life to experience different levels of intuition. • The importance of meditation and mindfulness practices in regard to listening to your intuition. • How experts and non-experts experience intuition, and how living or not living in their intuition changed, and even sometimes saved, their lives.

The Honor Was Mine: A Look Inside the Struggles of Military Veterans Elizabeth Heaney Nonfiction—Personal Growth Publication Date: 9/6/2016 Page Count: 286 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A young combat veteran hides in his closet under a pile of clothes on bad nights. Another, home for five days, can’t figure out how to talk to his wife. And a commander’s spouse recounts the soul-draining effect of attending nearly one hundred memorial services...

When therapist Elizabeth Heaney left her private practice to counsel military service members and their families, she came face-to-face with unheard-of struggles and fears. Emotions run deeply—and often silently—in the hearts of combat veterans in this eye-opening portrait of the complex, nuanced lives of service personnel, who return from battling the enemy and grapple with readjusting to civilian life.

Presenting the soldiers’ stories—told in their own words—as well as her own story of change, Heaney offers an intimate perspective—not of war itself but of its emotional aftermath. Some of these stories scrape the bone; others are hopeful, even comical. Every one reveals the sacrifices of those on the front lines and the courage, grace, and honor with which they serve.

72 Unwind!: 7 Principles for a Stress-Free Life Sam Bracken and Dr. Michael Olpin, with a Foreword by Dr. Daniel Amen Nonfiction—Self-Help Publication Date: 8/5/2014 Page Count: 194 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Spanish, Dutch, and Czech Rights Sold: Complex Chinese

This book by Michael Olpin, a top-notch stress expert, and Sam Bracken, a no-longer-stressed-out writer, stands out from other books on stress management in one significant way: its “whole-person” approach.

Unwind! is about optimizing your body, heart, mind, and soul, recognizing that any and all of these dimensions of your life affect your anxiety level. It helps you get clear about who you are, as well as your priorities and goals. The authors show you how to take charge of your life and how to make better choices that will prevent stress in the first place. They explore seven key paradigm shifts, from reactive to proactive; unmotivated to inspired; pressured to prioritized; hassled to harmonious; anxious to empathic; defensive to diverse; and tense to tranquil. Delving deep into each of these paradigm shifts, readers learn how to prevent most of the daily stresses people typically experience, by getting at the roots of stressors.

Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, & Organizations Michael K. Simpson, with a Foreword by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith Nonfiction—Leadership & Personal Growth Publication Date: 8/12/2014 Page Count: 152 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Indonesian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese Rights Sold: Thai

To get the best from your employees, you need to be more than a manager. You need to be a coach.

You’re a leader because you possess expertise in your field. You have the training and experience. You understand your business...but can you fully motivate and engage your team? Michael K. Simpson, a senior consultant to FranklinCovey, has spent more than twenty-five years training executives to become effective coaches, and mentoring and guiding leaders and managers to encourage and develop the talent of their people—the most important asset in any organization. In this guide, you will acquire the skills to coach your personnel from the ground up, maximizing their potential on a personal level, as members of the team, and as contributors to the organization as a whole. Transform your business relationships (and your business) with this comprehensive guide for optimizing productivity, profitability, loyalty, and customer focus. Don’t just manage. Energize. Galvanize. Inspire. Be a coach.

Live It!: Achieve Success by Living with Purpose Jairek Robbins, with a Foreword by Adam Braun Nonfiction—Leadership & Personal Growth Publication Date: 9/30/2014 Page Count: 199 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Spanish

Jairek Robbins, decorated performance coach and lifestyle entrepreneur, guides you through his proven, step-by-step process for filling the gap between where you are today and where you want to be. In reassuring and easy-to-understand language, Robbins helps you build a strong foundation for authentic happiness.

Each chapter is strategically designed to engage you with personal reflections and challenges that will encourage you to make immediate improvements to your everyday behavior. Robbins’s uplifting method will give you the tools you need to avoid the distractions in your life and concentrate on the areas that deserve the biggest focus, including health, family, intimate relationships, your professional life, and spirituality.

Robbins leads you toward a life of growth and contribution that will enable you to become the happiest, healthiest, and most fulfilled version of yourself—and inspire you to help others do the same.

73 Spiritual Cross-Training: Searching Through Silence, Stretch, and Song Benjamin Shalva Nonfiction—Self-Help Publication Date: 1/5/2016 Page Count: 160 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Inspiring and refreshingly candid, Spiritual Cross-Training encourages you to trust your own path, grow with an open mind and a light heart, and uncover the truth as you search for your place in the universe.

On a quest for enlightenment, Benjamin Shalva journeyed through the wilds of Tibet and took a pilgrimage to a white-walled monastery in Rhode Island. He wrestled with demons, danced with temptresses, and sang with hundreds of voices under the stars. Now, using the lessons and techniques gained through years of religious exploration and inward reflection, Shalva offers simple and powerful ways to connect with your spiritual self, whether it be in a place of worship or the yoga studio, or even while sitting in traffic, working late at the office, or kneeling in your garden.

In this honest, intimate—sometimes embarrassing and frequently funny—memoir with down-to-earth instruction and guidance, Shalva reveals that you don’t have to be perfect or singularly focused to accomplish deep spiritual work. By cross- training in three simple exercises—silence, stretch, and song—you can strengthen your spiritual muscles and deepen your personal search for meaning.

Ambition Addiction: How to Go Slow, Give Thanks, and Discover Joy Within Benjamin Shalva Nonfiction—Self-Help Publication Date: 11/15/2016 Page Count: 170 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Ambition is a blessing. It is a key motivator driving people to achieve their hopes and dreams. But for many, accomplishment is never enough. In a culture obsessed with fame and celebrity, the burning desire for acclaim, conquest, and domination can be overwhelming—to the detriment of one’s personal life. This is ambition addiction: the all-encompassing yearning for success at any cost.

Self-described ambition addict Benjamin Shalva (Spiritual Cross-Training) has written an insightful and illuminating book for anyone who wants to control that destructive strain of ambition and live with integrity. He identifies the signs and symptoms of ambition addiction, and profiles iconic achievers to help readers identify unhealthy motivations. Then he reveals the five steps to living a fulfilling life of healthy, productive ambition in which grand but elusive fantasies give way to the true happiness of the here and now.

74 A Beautiful Work in Progress Mirna Valerio Nonfiction—Memoir/Motivational Publication Date: 9/26/2017 Page Count: 260 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A Beautiful Work in Progress tells the story of how Mirna Valeria managed to train for long-distance runs as a fat person, a black woman, a working mom, and a wife. This moving memoir reaches out to the underrepresented in the fitness world to spread the message that they too can be active in ways they thought they couldn’t be and achieve a more healthful lifestyle.

A Beautiful Work in Progress is a running memoir whose purpose is fourfold. The first is to give the reader a taste of Mirna Valerio’s personal success in running, and how the sport has essentially changed her life, even without significant weight loss. The second goal is to intertwine specific race and training experiences with the attendant universal life lessons learned. The third goal is to simply share various stories of how Mirna persevered through the doubt and outright denial of others and conquered her own self-doubt to complete multiple marathon and ultramarathon distances. Last, the book demonstrates how long- distance running is really a metaphor for life and its attendant successes, difficulties, and moments of flow.

Chancer: The Exceptional Life of a Service Dog and the Family He Saved Donnie Winokur Nonfiction—Inspirational/Memoir/Pets Publication Date: 7/11/2017 Page Count: 230 Rights Acquired: All Languages

With raw honesty, infectious humor, and deep poignancy, Chancer invites readers to rediscover what it means to be nuzzled by the unconditional love— whether furry or human—found only in family.

Like most newly married couples, Donnie Winokur and her husband Harvey knew launching into parenthood would include huge risks. But after adopting two babies from Russia at the same time, they never imagined the heart-wrenching struggle they would face when raising their son, Iyal. At age four, he was diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), the effects of which may include physical, mental, and behavioral disabilities that last a lifetime. The couple’s existence was defined by Iyal’s condition. And as her family reeled from exhaustion, disillusionment, and gut-wrenching despair, Donnie became increasingly worried about the impact on Iyal’s diminishing self-esteem. Out of her frustration, heartache, and desire to anchor Iyal, Donnie came up with a wild idea: try a service dog.

With a mother’s unwavering tenacity, Donnie persisted; and soon she and her family met Chancer, a gorgeous golden retriever trained specifically for Iyal at 4 Paws for Ability, one of the leading service-dog training facilities in the country. The results were nothing short of miraculous.

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Jet City Comics is Amazon Publishing’s comics and graphic novels imprint. From new comics adapted from bestselling novels to original works, written, produced, sketched, and inked by amazingly talented writers, artists, and creators, Jet City aims to push the boundaries of visual storytelling. Jet City Comics publishes works by bestselling authors George R.R. Martin and Hugh Howey and original works by critically acclaimed writers Joshua Hale Fialkov and Jimmy Palmiotti. Jet City’s comics feature stunning artwork from artists like Bernard Chang, Marcello Maiolo, and Gary Erskine.

76 The Cirque American Series

Girl Over Paris: The Graphic Novel Gwenda Bond and Kate Leth Illustrated by Ming Doyle and Andrew Dalhouse

Publication Date: 11/9/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Available: All Languages

From acclaimed fantasy writer Gwenda Bond (Girl on a Wire, Girl in the Shadows), this four-issue comic book series features a new stand-alone story set within the world of Bond’s exotic, magical Cirque American. Written by New York Times bestselling comic book writer Kate Leth (Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat!, Adventure Time: Seeing Red) and featuring stunning art by acclaimed artist Ming Doyle (The Kitchen, Constantine: The Hellblazer).

After a high-profile tumble, Cirque American’s star wire walker, Jules Maroni, has a lot to prove—and her invitation to an exclusive exhibition in Paris looks to be just the opportunity to put her back on top. Unfortunately, the City of Lights glitters with distractions, including the presence of her first serious boyfriend and a mysterious figure haunting the venue.

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Mayhem and Magic: The Graphic Novel Sarah Fine and Alex de Campi Illustrated by Andrew Dalhouse and Dennis Calero

Publication Date: 10/5/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Available: All Languages

Bestselling author Sarah Fine (Marked, Sanctum) gives hard-boiled noir a magical edge in this stand-alone four-issue comic book adventure—where crime collides with conjuring in the spellbinding world of her Reliquary series. Featuring an action-packed script by Alex De Campi (No Mercy, Grindhouse) and stunning art from Dennis Calero (X- Men Noir).

Freelance thief-for-hire Asa Ward’s latest job is heisting a powerful magic relic from a gangster’s lair. But what should be an easy payday quickly becomes larceny the hard way—when he’s dragged into a three-way crime war where mind- bending, body-racking magic is the most lethal weapon of all. And just when Asa thinks he’s scored, the ruthless kingpin he’s ripping off strikes back...threatening the only life Asa values more than his own.

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King: The Graphic Novel

Joshua Hale Fialkov Illustrated by Marcelo Maiolo and Bernard Chang

Science Fiction Publication Date: 4/27/2016 Page Count: 144 Rights Acquired: All Languages

From critically acclaimed comic book writer Joshua Hale Fialkov (The Bunker, Echoes, and I, Vampire) and superstar artists Bernard Chang and Marcelo Maiolo (Green Lantern Corps, Batman Beyond) comes a postapocalyptic action/adventure comedy.

King just wants what anybody wants: not to get fired, eaten, or forced to mate with a cheetah lady. For Earth’s sole human survivor after the apocalypse, life among Los Angeles’s strange new populace ain’t easy. Working for the LA Department of Reclamation, King gets a lot of crappy jobs going on quests and searching for artifacts from the “old world,” which can range from the mythical (Excalibur!) to the absurd (an iPod shuffle—which, let’s be honest, was a terrible, terrible invention). The commute can be a real pain in the asphalt, too; the 405 freeway is filled with mutants, monsters, mayhem, and tentacled Elder Gods. And that’s all before you hit the horrors of the San Fernando Valley. As the world’s freakish inhabitants battle for supremacy, King searches for the “seed of life,” which may give Earth the second chance it probably doesn’t even deserve.

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79 Frontlines: Requiem Marko Kloos and Ivan Brandon Illustrated by Gary Erskine Science Fiction Publication Date: 8/10/2016 Page Count: 144 Rights Acquired: All Languages

From acclaimed writer Ivan Brandon (Drifter, Viking), this four-issue comic book series features a brand-new, stand- alone story set within the action-packed military sci-fi world of Marko Kloos’s bestselling Frontlines novels. Featuring stunning artwork from Gary Erskine (Star Wars, Dan Dare, Doctor Who, Judge Dredd).

Colonel Soraya Yamin, commander of the Phalanx, a battle-ravaged space control cruiser, engages the “Lankies” in an apocalyptic assault over Mars. The Lankies, a merciless alien species that outguns, outmaneuvers, and outfights humanity at every turn, have been menacing Earth’s colonies. But now they’re suddenly in our Solar System, decimating the NACS fleet and swarming toward Earth itself! Facing insurmountable odds, Soraya must make a fateful choice between her sworn duty and the loved ones she desperately wants to protect…

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Dominion: The Graphic Novel Stuart Moore and Joe Hart Illustrated by Michael Montenat

Publication Date: 1/4/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Available: All Languages

Acclaimed novelist Joe Hart (The Last Girl) brings the engrossing dystopian paranoia of his popular Dominion series to the comics page in collaboration with award-winning comic book writer Stuart Moore (The Zodiac Legacy) and celebrated illustrator Michael Montenat (Clive Barker’s Hellraiser).

In the near future, with the world’s female population on the brink of extinction, teenager Janie Tenner is taken by the sinister National Obstetric Alliance. Desperate to escape and reunite with her missing sister, she finds an unlikely ally: grieving father Tom Vincent, whose own daughter has disappeared.

But will Tom lead Janie out of the darkness to the promised land…or into a fresh new hell on earth?

Sample art 81 The Chronos Files

Time Trial: The Graphic Novel Rysa Walker and Heather Nuhfer Illustrated by Agustin Padilla

Publication Date: 11/9/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Available: All Languages

Bestselling author Rysa Walker (Timebound) takes readers on a time-hopping adventure in this stand-alone series set in her CHRONOS Files world. Written by fan favorite Heather Nuhfer (My Little Pony) and featuring pulse-pounding art from Agustin Padilla (Smallville).

Nineteen-year-old Clio Dunne has lived a life of secrecy. Her world-saving, time-traveling parents have kept a low profile in a boring, small town...but Clio yearns for her own adventure. In the fall of 1931, Clio packs her bags and heads to the big, modern city of Chicago. While following her dreams of becoming a famous illustrator, Clio’s own nascent skills as a time traveler are put to the test. A nasty acquaintance from her parents’ past stumbles upon Clio in an unexpected place—the trial of Al Capone. Now Clio must jump through time to keep the past, present, and future safe.

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Muirwood: The Lost Abbey Graphic Novel Jeff Wheeler, Matt Sturges, and Dave Justus Illustrated by Alex Sheikman and Lizzy John

Fantasy Publication Date: 1/27/16 Page Count: 144 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Told in graphic novel form, Muirwood: The Lost Abbey introduces an all-new chapter in Jeff Wheeler’s Muirwood universe.

Maia, the daughter of the king of Comoros, has been banished, her rank and station taken away. Although magic is forbidden of women in her world, Maia secretly learned the craft...and now her desperate father has sent her on a dangerous quest to save their kingdom. Protected by a hired killer, Maia voyages to another realm—the cursed shores of Dahomey, where an ancient Blight has destroyed all the inhabitants. Maia believes she can restore the deadly lands by using her magic medallion, but if she’s discovered wielding her clandestine power, she will most certainly be hunted down and killed. From renowned fantasy writers Jeff Wheeler, Matthew Sturges (Jack of Fables, House of Mystery), and Dave Justus (Fables: The Wolf Among Us), featuring stunning art by Alex Sheikman (Dark Crystal: Creation Myths) and Lizzy John (Dark Crystal: Creation Myths). Covers by Inaki Miranda (Fairest).

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Lake Union Publishing offers absorbing works of contemporary and historical fiction that make perfect book club picks. With stories that pair perfectly with flip flops or flannels, from lush sagas to laugh-out-loud fare, Lake Union Publishing has a story for every taste, season, and mood, from bestselling and debut authors alike, including Allison Winn Scotch, Catherine Ryan Hyde, Catherine McKenzie, Steena Holmes, and A.J. Banner.

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The Last Woman The Accidental Life of Standing Greg Millar

Thelma Adams Aimee Alexander Historical Fiction Family Life Publication Date: 7/1/2016 Publication Date: 4/26/2016 Page Count: 300 Page Count: 402 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

Two decades after the Civil War, Josephine Marcus, the teenage Lucy Arigho’s first encounter with Greg Millar is far from promising, daughter of Jewish immigrants, is lured west with the promise of but she soon realizes he possesses a charm that is impossible to marriage to Johnny Behan, one of Arizona’s famous lawmen. She resist. Just eight whirlwind weeks after their first meeting, leaves her San Francisco home to join Behan in Tombstone, levelheaded career girl Lucy is seriously considering Greg’s pleas to Arizona, a magnet for miners (and outlaws) attracted by the silver marry him and asking herself if she could really be stepmother boom. Though united by the glint of metal, Tombstone is plagued material. by divided loyalties: between Confederates and Unionists, Lincoln Republicans and Democrats. But before Lucy can make a final decision about becoming part of Greg’s world, events plunge her right into it. On vacation in the But when the silver-tongued Behan proves unreliable, it is South of France, things start to unravel. Her future stepchildren legendary frontiersman Wyatt Earp who emerges as Josephine’s won’t accept her, the interfering nanny resents her, and they’re match. As the couple’s romance sparks, Behan’s jealousy ignites a stuck in a heat wave that won’t let up. And then there’s Greg. His rivalry destined for the history books... behavior becomes increasingly bizarre, and Lucy begins to wonder whether his larger-than-life personality hides something darker— At once an epic account of an improbable romance and a retelling and whether she knows him at all. of an iconic American tale, The Last Woman Standing recalls the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral through the eyes of a spunky heroine who sought her happy ending in a lawless outpost—with a fierce will and an unflagging spirit.

Daughters of the Dragon The Woman on the William Andrews Orient Express Historical Fiction Lindsay Jayne Ashford Publication Date: 6/28/2016 Historical Fiction Page Count: 363 Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 332 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When twenty-year-old Anna Carlson travels from America to a Filled with evocative imagery, suspense, and emotional complexity, Korean orphanage to locate her birth mother, she’s devastated to The Woman on the Orient Express explores the bonds of sisterhood learn the woman is already dead. But just when it seems her search forged by shared pain and the power of secrets. is over, a stranger hands her a parcel containing an antique comb— and an address. Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her That scrap of paper leads Anna to the Seoul apartment of the poor famous detective Hercule Poirot, she can’t neatly unravel the yet elegant Hong Jae-hee. Jae-hee recounts an epic tale that mysteries she encounters on this fateful journey. begins with the Japanese occupation of Korea and China during World War II, when more than two hundred thousand Korean Agatha isn’t the only passenger on board with secrets. Her women were forced to serve the soldiers as “comfort women.” cabinmate Katharine Keeling’s first marriage ended in tragedy, Jae-hee knows the story well—she was one of them. propelling her toward a second relationship mired in deceit. Nancy Nelson—newly married but carrying another man’s child—is As Jae-hee’s narrative unfolds, Anna discovers that the precious desperate to conceal the pregnancy, and teeters on the brink of tortoiseshell comb, with its two-headed ivory dragon, has survived utter despair. Each woman hides her past from the others, against all odds through generations of her family’s women. And as ferociously guarding her secrets. But as the train bound for the its origins become clearer, Anna realizes that along with the comb, Middle East speeds down the track, the parallel courses of their she inherits a legacy—of resilience and courage, love and lives shift to intersect—with lasting repercussions. redemption—beyond her wildest imagination.

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Trail of Broken Wings Fortune’s Daughters Sejal Badani Consuelo Saah Baehr Literary Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 5/1/2015 Publication Date: 4/18/2017 Page Count: 377 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German, Hungarian, Italian, and Polish

Told with forceful honesty, Trail of Broken Wings reveals the In the tumultuous decades of the early twentieth century, two burden of shame and secrets; the toxicity of cruelty and women, compelled by tragic childhood bonds, vie for high stakes in aggression; and the exquisite, liberating power of speaking and love and business. owning truth. Born into one of the wealthiest families in one of the grandest When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer mansions on Long Island, Faith leads a sheltered life in Muttonville. Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she’d fled years before. When her brother dies in World War I, her father is shattered. Faith Since she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, becomes a reminder of all he has lost, and he treats her cruelly. while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life; and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful Born in lower Manhattan to an Irish mother and Chinese father who career. But as these women come together, their various methods deserts the family, Hope roams the streets and has few scruples. of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their When Hope is ten, her mother dies in the fire at the Triangle memories at bay. Shirtwaist Factory. The Aid Society sends Hope to the country to recover in swank Muttonville. Hope gets one look at the sumptuous Buried secrets rise to the surface as their father—the victim of lifestyle and vows never to return to the filth and poverty of her humiliating racism and perpetrator of horrible violence—remains former life. She maneuvers herself into the estate of Faith’s father unconscious. As his condition worsens, the daughters and their and pushes Faith farther from her father’s affections. mother wrestle with private hopes for his survival or death, as well as their own demons and buried secrets. Faith, frustrated and lonely, seeks revenge on Hope, forcing her to return to the desperate life of lower New York. But the crash in 1929 brings the women together again.

The Good Neighbor In the Shadow of A. J. Banner Lakecrest Mystery & Suspense Elizabeth Blackwell Publication Date: 9/1/2015 Historical Fiction Page Count: 206 Publication Date: 2/1/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages, Page Count: TBD Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Rights Acquired: All Languages Czech, Italian, and Turkish

Named by Harper’s Bazaar as a book that could be the next Gone The year is 1928. Kate Moore is a young woman looking for a way Girl. out of the poverty and violence of her childhood. When a chance encounter on a transatlantic ocean liner brings her face-to-face From a phenomenal new voice in suspense fiction comes a book with the handsome heir to a Chicago fortune, she thinks she may that will forever change the way you look at the people closest to have found her escape—as long as she can keep her past concealed. you... After exchanging wedding vows, Kate quickly discovers that Shadow Cove, Washington, is the kind of town everyone dreams something isn’t quite right with her husband—or her new family. As about—quaint streets, lush forests, good neighbors. That’s what Mrs. Matthew Lemont, she must contend with her husband’s Sarah thinks as she settles into life with her new husband, Dr. disturbing past, his domineering mother, and his overly-close Johnny McDonald. But all too soon she discovers an undercurrent of sister. deception. And one October evening when Johnny is away, sudden tragedy destroys Sarah’s happiness. Isolated at Lakecrest, the sprawling, secluded Lemont estate, Kate searches desperately for clues to Matthew’s terrors, which she Dazed and stricken with grief, she and Johnny begin to rebuild suspects stem from the mysterious disappearance of his aunt years their shattered lives. As she picks up the pieces of her broken before. As Kate stumbles deeper into a menacing maze of family home, Sarah discovers a shocking secret that forces her to doubt secrets, she begins to question everyone’s sanity—especially her everything she thought was true—about her neighbors, her friends, own. How far will she go to break free of the Lemonts’ twisted and even her marriage. With each stunning revelation, Sarah must past? ask herself, can we ever really know the ones we love?

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Wreckage When I’m Gone Emily Bleeker Emily Bleeker Mystery & Suspense Mystery & Suspense Publication Date: 3/1/2015 Publication Date: 3/15/2016 Page Count: 305 Page Count: 365 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Rights Sold: French, German, German, Spanish, and Japanese Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Spanish, and Turkish Rights Sold: French, Italian, and Simplified Chinese

Lillian Linden is a liar. On the surface, she looks like a brave Wall Street Journal Bestseller survivor of a plane crash. But she’s been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her Dear Luke, First let me say—I love you...I didn’t want to leave and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the you... South Pacific. Missing for almost two years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media Luke Richardson has returned home after burying Natalie, his darlings overnight. But they can’t tell the real story—so they lie. beloved wife of sixteen years, ready to face the hard job of raising their three children alone. But there’s something he’s not prepared The public is fascinated by the castaways’ saga, but Lillian and for—a blue envelope with his name scrawled across the front in Dave must return to their lives and their spouses. Genevieve Natalie’s handwriting, waiting for him on the floor of their Randall—a hard-nosed journalist and host of a news program—isn’t suburban Michigan home. buying it. She suspects Lillian’s and Dave’s explanations about the other crash survivors aren’t true. And now, Genevieve’s The letter inside, written on the first day of Natalie’s cancer determined to get the real story, no matter how many lives it treatment a year ago, turns out to be the first of many. Luke is destroys. convinced they’re genuine, but who is delivering them? As his obsession with the letters grows, Luke uncovers long-buried secrets In this intriguing tale of survival, secrets, and redemption, two that make him question everything he knew about his wife and everyday people thrown together by tragedy must finally face the their family. But the revelations also point the way toward a future truth...even if it tears them apart. where love goes on—in written words, in memories, and in the promises it’s never too late to keep.

In Farleigh Field Home for Winter Rhys Bowen Rebecca Boxall Mystery & Suspense Family Life Publication Date: 3/1/2017 Publication Date: 10/18/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: All Languages Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

From New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a Serena Meadows and her twin sister, Luna, are identical in sweeping and riveting saga of class, family, love, and betrayal. appearance—but the similarity ends there. Luna always had a mean streak, and as a teenager, her selfishness culminated in an World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord almighty betrayal from which Serena thought she’d never recover. Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and Years later the twins are reunited by tragedy, and Luna is a possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben changed woman. The arrogance and spite of her youth are gone, Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a and at a time when Serena really needs support, Luna sets aside German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near her own life to come to the rescue. But her generosity is not what Lord Westerham’s middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively it seems, and before long she does something so devastating that loves. But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at her past conduct pales in insignificance. Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility. Distraught once more, Serena and her vicar boyfriend, Will, move As Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include to a country parish for a fresh start, but Luna casts a long shadow another member of Pamela’s family, he discovers that some within over their dream of a happy family life. Serena wants nothing to do the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. Can he, with with her sister, but while Luna has the upper hand, it’s impossible Pamela’s help, stop them before England falls? for her to move on.

These twins, torn apart by bad blood, discover that you can’t choose your relatives—and sometimes you can’t escape them either.

87 The Valley Trilogy The Valley The Mountain (Book One) (Book Two)

Helen Bryan Helen Bryan Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 7/19/2016 Publication Date: Coming Soon Page Count: 607 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

The first installment in an epic historical trilogy by Helen Bryan, From bestselling author Helen Bryan comes the next novel in The the bestselling author of War Brides and The Sisterhood, The Valley Valley series, a sweeping trilogy that traces the lives of a group of is a sweeping, unforgettable tale of hardship, tenacity, love, and Virginia settlers and their heirs through 250 years of trials and heartache. triumphs.

Left suddenly penniless, the Honorable Sophia Grafton, a viscount’s In a historically detailed tale stretching all the way to modern orphaned daughter, sails to the New World to claim the only America, love blossoms, friendships are formed, and strength is property left to her name: a tobacco plantation in the remote wilds found in the most unexpected places. of colonial Virginia. Enlisting the reluctant assistance of a handsome young French spy—at gunpoint—she gathers an unlikely Stay tuned for the third book in the Valley Trilogy, The River, group of escaped slaves and indentured servants, each seeking which will be released in 2019! their own safe haven in the untamed New World.

What follows will test her courage and that of her companions as they struggle to survive a journey deep into a hostile wilderness, and eventually forge a community of homesteads and deep bonds that will unite them for generations.

War Brides The Sisterhood Helen Bryan Helen Bryan Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 6/12/2012 Publication Date: 4/30/2013 Page Count: 497 Page Count: 420 Rights Acquired: All Languages, Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: French, German, Rights Sold: Estonian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, Italian, Simplified Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Chinese, Spanish, and Turkish Turkish

An international bestseller with more than one million readers. Both love story and historical thriller, The Sisterhood is an emotionally charged ride across continents and centuries. Five women forge an unlikely bond of friendship during World War II that will change their lives forever. Menina Walker was a child of fortune. Rescued after a hurricane in South America, doomed to a life of poverty with a swallow medal With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy as her only legacy, the orphaned toddler was adopted by an village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: American family and taken to a new life. Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tightening vice of rationing curtails As a beautiful, intelligent woman of nineteen, she is in love, every comfort. Men leave to fight and die. engaged, and excited about the future—until another traumatic event shatters her dreams. Menina flees to Spain to bury her misery As the war and its relentless hardships intensify around them, the in research for her college thesis about a sixteenth-century artist same struggles that threaten to rip apart their lives also bring five who signed his works with the image of a swallow—the same image women closer together. They draw strength from one another to as the one on Menina’s medal. defeat formidable enemies—hunger, falling bombs, the looming threat of a Nazi invasion, and a traitor in their midst—and find But a mugging strands Menina in a musty, isolated Spanish convent. remarkable resilience within themselves to help their friends. Exploring her surroundings, she discovers the epic sagas of five Theirs is a war-forged loyalty that will outlast the fiercest battle orphan girls who were hidden from the Spanish Inquisition and and endure years and distance. received help escaping to the New World. Is Menina’s medal a link to them, or to her own past? Did coincidence lead her to the convent, or fate?

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Show Me a Kindness Winter Men Nancy Brandon Jesper Bugge Kold Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Publication Date: 3/1/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 340 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Danish

Rights Sold: Czech and German

Set at the beginning of the Depression, Show Me a Kindness is a As the dark specter of the Nazis settles over Germany, two wealthy heartbreaking yet hopeful story of two women, both struggling to and educated brothers are suddenly thrust into the rising tide of find a place in the world. war. Winter Men was originally published in Danish and has been translated into English by K. E. Semmel. Marthanne Hendrix, a young woman who has suffered terrible abuse at the hands of her alcoholic mother, leaves her tenement in Karl, a former soldier and successful businessman, dutifully search of a better life. She somehow ends up in Vidalia, Georgia, a answers the call to defend his country, while contemplative small farming town. She’s not sure how she got there, but settles in academic Gerhard is coerced into informing for the Gestapo. Soon for lack of better options. There she finds a home and a job, but the brothers are serving in the SS, and as Hitler’s hateful agenda she can’t escape her troubled past. Experiencing lapses in memory, brings about unspeakable atrocities, they find themselves with she fears she’s going insane. The townspeople begin to avoid her. innocent blood on their hands. Finally, Comfort, a housemaid at her boarding house, explains, “You got two people in you.” In other words, Marthanne has a split Following Germany’s eventual defeat, Karl and Gerhard are personality. haunted by their insurmountable guilt, and each seeks a way to escape from wounds that will never heal. They survived the war Comfort, trying to piece together a life of her own amid poverty and its revelation of systematic horrors, but can they survive the and discrimination, forms a deep bond with Marthanne. Through unshakable knowledge of their own culpability? marriage, motherhood, and a stay in a mental hospital, Comfort and Marthanne remain the closest of friends and confidantes.

The Wall Between In the Light of the Jesper Bugge Kold Garden Literary Fiction Heather Burch Publication Date: 3/21/2017 Family Life Page Count: 240 Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages, Page Count: 319 excluding Danish Rights Acquired: All Languages

The Wall Between was originally published in Danish and will be From the bestselling author of One Lavender Ribbon comes In the translated into English by K. E. Semmel. Light of the Garden, a novel about unearthed family secrets, the enchantment of past loves, and the indelible power of forgiveness. Andreas never knew his father—all his mother, Elizabeth, would tell him is that she returned to Denmark from a communist school in Inheriting her grandparents’ island estate on Florida’s Gulf Coast is East Germany in 1975 pregnant by a man named Peter Körber. a special kind of homecoming for thirty-one-year-old Charity When Andreas learns of his estranged father’s murder, he sets off Baxter. Raised by a narcissistic single mother, Charity’s only sense for Berlin to find out more about his family history. He’s thirty, of a loving home comes from childhood summers spent with suffering from a breakup, and struggling with his PhD thesis, so he Gramps and Grandma. But piercing her fondest memories is her has nothing to lose. With the help of his cousin Bea, Andreas learns sharpest grief—the death of her beloved grandmother, when the roots of his German family and also digs up evidence of his Charity stopped believing in the magical healing power of the father’s role in the Cold War. weeping willow that still casts a shadow on their property.

As Andreas uncovers one detail at a time, alternating chapters Now that Charity has returned, she’s full of longing and regret, show the life of Andreas’s father, Peter Körber, from 1975 until his until she befriends her neighbor Dalton Reynolds, who has come to murder in 2006. In the 1970s he was working as an informer for the Gaslamp Island carrying his own heartache. As other exiles arrive—a Stasi. The fatal turning point in his career was the case of a man great uncle harboring secrets, and a teenage runaway—Charity named Stefan Lachner, who planned to flee East Germany, but begins to reconsider what makes a family. When her own estranged Peter uncovered his plan and arrested him. Years later Stefan is mother shows up in crisis, Charity is challenged to search her heart released from prison as a broken man. He ends up homeless in for forgiveness. But forgiving herself may require a little magic Berlin until the day he recognizes Peter Körber on the street in from the last place she’d expect to find it. 2006 and takes fate into his own hands.

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El Camino Becoming Marta Amanda Callendrier Lorea Canales Chick Lit Literary Fiction Publication Date: 5/16/2017 Publication Date: 2/1/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 236 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Spanish Rights Sold: Polish

Sarah Martin can’t quite bring herself to go to the twenty-year Becoming Marta was originally published in Spanish and has been reunion at Briley High. Back then she was class valedictorian and translated into English by Gabriel Amor. one of the popular girls. Now she’s pushing forty, divorced, and running a small bookstore. But her best friend, Kristen, is not only Thanks to her wealthy and well-connected family, twenty-six-year- insisting Sarah go, but is insisting they first find the missing third in old Marta is used to getting whatever she wants. And what she their senior-high trio—that is, they need to finally find out what wants is a good time. happened to Roxanne. That is, until her father’s wife—the woman who raised her— Sarah’s not so sure she wants to find Roxanne. She knows that becomes ill. Beautiful young Marta is forced to witness her Roxanne’s disappearance just before graduation most likely had to unfaithful, brutish father abandon her adoptive mother in her final do with a betrayal. Hers. But Kristen won’t take no for an answer, moments. After her father’s swift remarriage, Marta is surprised to and even their old pal Jack—now principal of Briley High—is along discover that she is now the sole heir of her late mother’s sizable for the road trip in the coolest ugly car ever (in tribute to estate. For the first time, she can choose to cut ties and establish Roxanne): the El Camino. her true self, apart from her parents, her social standing, and the complications of a life of excess. From the balmy beaches of Mexico Amanda Callendrier’s debut novel is loaded with laughter, tears, to New York City, Marta searches for clues to her unconventional long looks over the shoulder, and southern charm as Sarah journeys heritage, and seeks to shed her family’s tradition of secrecy and back to try to right a wrong that’s twenty years old. betrayal as she finds her own way.

The House by the Lake From a Paris Balcony Ella Carey Ella Carey Romance Romance Publication Date: 3/29/2016 Publication Date: 10/11/2016 Page Count: 258 Page Count: 298 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Slovak and Slovenian

Alternating between 1930s Europe and the present, The House by Heartbroken and alone, Boston art curator Sarah West is grieving the Lake illuminates the destiny of a family caught in the tumult the recent deaths of her parents and the end of her marriage. of history. Ultrasensible by nature, she’s determined to stay the course to get her life back on track. But fate has something else in mind. While Anna is content with her well-ordered life in San Francisco. But her cleaning out her father’s closet, she finds a letter from the famous world is turned upside down when her beloved grandfather, Max, Parisian courtesan Marthe de Florian, dated 1895. The subject? reveals a startling secret: Anna is part of an aristocratic family who Sarah’s great-great-aunt Louisa’s death. Legend has it Louisa lost everything during World War II. What’s more, Max was forced committed suicide...but this letter implies there’s more to that to leave behind a precious item more than seventy years ago in story. their estate in old Prussia. It’s now his ardent wish that Anna retrieve it. Determined to learn the truth, Sarah, against her nature, impulsively flies to Paris. There she’s drawn into the world of her Anna burns with questions as she heads for Germany: What flatmate, the brilliant artist Laurent Chartier. As she delves deep memento could be so important to her grandfather? And why did he into the glittering Belle Époque to unravel the mystery, Sarah finds keep their history hidden? As she searches for answers, she finds that her aunt’s story may offer her exactly what she needs to open herself drawn to Wil, a man who may hold the key to unlock the up to love again. mystery. Together they discover that her family’s secrets are linked with an abandoned apartment in Paris, and these secrets go Following Sarah in the present day and Louisa in the 1890s, this deeper than she ever imagined. moving novel spans more than a century to tell the stories of two remarkable women.

90 Helen of Sparta Series By Helen’s Hand Daughter of a Thousand (Book Two) Years

Amalia Carosella Amalia Carosella Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 5/10/2016 Publication Date: 2/21/2017 Page Count: 450 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

With divine beauty comes dangerous power. Greenland, AD 1000. More than her fiery hair marks Freydís as the daughter of Erik the Red; her hot temper and fierce pride are as Helen believed she could escape her destiny and save her people formidable as her Viking father’s. And so, too, is her devotion to from utter destruction. After defying her family and betraying her the great god Thor, which puts her at odds with those in power— intended husband, she found peace with her beloved Theseus, the including her own brother, the zealous Leif Eriksson. Determined to king of Athens and son of Poseidon. forge her own path, she defies her family’s fury and clings to her dream of sailing away to live on her own terms, with or without the But peace did not last long. Cruelly separated from Theseus by the support of her husband. gods, and uncertain whether he will live or die, Helen is forced to return to Sparta. In order to avoid marriage to Menelaus, a New Hampshire, 2016. Like her Icelandic ancestors, history powerful prince unhinged by desire, Helen assembles an array of professor Emma Moretti is a passionate defender of Norse suitors to compete for her hand. As the men circle like vultures, mythology. But in a small town steeped in traditional values, her Helen dreams again of war—and of a strange prince, meant to steal cultural beliefs could jeopardize both her academic career and her her away. Every step she takes to protect herself and her people congressman father’s reelection. Torn between public expectation seems to bring destruction nearer. Without Theseus’s strength to and personal identity, family and faith, she must choose which to support her, can Helen thwart the gods and stop her nightmare honor and which to abandon. In a dramatic, sweeping dual from coming to pass? narrative that spans a millennium, two women struggle against communities determined to silence them, but neither Freydís nor Emma intends to give up without a fight.

Burying the The Bloom Girls Honeysuckle Girls Emily Maine Cavanagh Emily Carpenter Family Life Mystery & Suspense Publication Date: 3/14/2017 Publication Date: 4/26/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Gripping and visceral, this unforgettable debut delves straight into Adult sisters Suzy, Cal, and Violet Bloom receive the unexpected the heart of dark family secrets and into one woman’s emotional news of their father’s death. Each of the sisters is at a crossroads. journey to save herself from a sinister inheritance. Suzy, who recently came out as a lesbian, is unexpectedly pregnant. Cal is drowning under the mounting pressure of family Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature life, her daughter’s peanut allergy, and her work as a lawyer. And death—and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into Violet, a part-time poetry professor, is sleeping on a friend’s couch young Althea’s ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She’ll after a messy and regrettable breakup. find you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you find her. The sisters journey to Maine to bury their father. While there, they Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to must confront the allegations that shattered their family nearly her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with twenty years earlier, when their father, a respected teacher, was her estranged, ailing father. While Althea doesn’t expect him, or accused of sexual misconduct with students. her politically ambitious brother, to welcome her with open arms, she’s not prepared for the chilling revelation of a grim, long-buried As secrets finally come to light, the sisters must face the truth family secret. Fragile and desperate, Althea escapes with an old about their father or risk losing all they hold dear. flame to uncover the truth about her lineage. Drawn deeper into her ancestors’ lives, Althea begins to unearth their disturbing history...and the part she’s meant to play in it.

91 Pineapple Cay Stories A Drop of Ink Sunbaked (Book One) Megan Chance Junie Coffey Historical Fiction Chick Lit Publication Date: 1/3/2017 Publication Date: 5/9/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

A richly imagined, emotionally nuanced tale of passion, ambition, Nina bought a house on the Internet. On a sunny Caribbean island inspiration, and redemption from the critically acclaimed, award- she’d never heard of before. At about two o’clock in the morning, winning author of Bone River. after too many glasses of red wine, and a few hours after her cheating husband cleared out. She was on a plane to Pineapple Cay Penniless and disgraced, Adelaide Wentworth is feeling rather a week later. desperate. With nothing left to lose, she and her sister, Louisa, flee to Lake Geneva with Adelaide’s lover, the infamous poet Things go well, at first. Nina’s new hometown is the charming Julian Estes. There, Louisa hopes to persuade Bayard Sonnier— village of Coconut Cove, with its narrow lanes lined with candy- celebrated writer and her former lover—to advance Julian’s career. colored houses, and gardens overflowing with tropical flowers. Her He is their last hope for salvation. next-door neighbor is the handsome Ted Matthews, owner of a fishing lodge. At the Villa Diodati—the place that inspired the writing of Frankenstein sixty years earlier—Louisa plots to rekindle her affair But local big shot Barry Bassett has his eye on Nina’s cozy little with Bayard, while Adelaide hopes to restore her fading love for beach cottage, with the aim of tearing it down to build condos. Julian by being the muse he needs. And then Barry’s obnoxious wife, Tiffany, goes missing, along with a priceless emerald necklace. Suddenly Nina finds herself sitting But soon, secrets are revealed, passions ignited, and hidden talents across from the chief of police, wondering how her daydream of discovered. Adelaide begins to imagine a different life. Confused, easy living in the islands got so far offtrack so quickly. she turns to Giovanni Calina—Bayard’s assistant and a man with his own secrets and deep resentments—and the two form a dangerous Stay tuned for the second book in the series, which will be alliance. No one leaves unscathed. released in Summer 2017!

Love in an English Crimes Against a Book Garden Club

Victoria Connelly Kathy Cooperman Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 3/14/2017 Publication Date: 3/28/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

One home. One garden. Two families. After putting up with her demanding boss for seven years, Sarah quits her high-profile LA law-firm job in a hissy fit only to find that The Jacobs family has lived at Orley Court for generations. But, she cannot afford the fertility treatments for which she finally has when Vanessa Jacobs is widowed and left to manage the property, time. Meanwhile, Sarah’s old college roommate, Annie, a onetime she finds costs spiraling out of control. In order to stay in their chemist turned suburban hausfrau, receives a devastating one-two beloved home, she and her daughters will have to sell part of it punch: learning that her young son is mildly autistic and that his off—a decision that drives a wedge between Vanessa and her therapy is mind-blowingly expensive. mother-in-law. Desperate for cash, the friends decide to engage in some The new owners of the north wing are Laurence Sturridge and his “progressive income redistribution” (fraud). With the help of father, Marcus. Both of them long for an escape: Laurence from the Annie’s booze-addled mother, Chloe, they make an exorbitantly monotony of his city career; Marcus from the grief of losing his overpriced antiaging cream and sell it to the ladies of La Jolla—San wife. Could the beauty of Orley Court offer them a new start? Diego’s richest enclave.

As the two families embark on a challenging new chapter over the Their customers are a mixed bunch. There’s Priscilla, the arrogant, course of a glorious English summer, secrets are revealed and self-appointed leader of La Jolla’s in crowd; Valerie, an aging relationships tested. But, as Orley Court begins to weave its magic beauty frantic to find her place after her husband tosses her aside; over them, will it be love, above all, that brings the two families and Kim, an at-home mom who misses her old teaching job and the together? man her husband used to be. To draw in these wealthy queen bees, Annie adds a secret, oh-so-illegal ingredient to her face cream, one that changes everyone’s lives in unexpected ways. Now, if only Annie and Sarah can stay out of jail...

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While You Were Mine The Whiskey Sea Ann Howard Creel Ann Howard Creel Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 4/1/2016 Publication Date: 8/23/2016 Page Count: 301 Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

While You Were Mine paints a vivid portrait of 1940s New York and Running rum, she’ll risk her life—and her heart. tells an enchanting tale of the nature of love and trust. Motherless and destitute, Frieda Hope grows up during Prohibition Everything she loved could so easily be lost. determined to make a better life for herself and her sister, Bea. The girls are taken in by a kindly fisherman named Silver, and The end of World War II should have brought joy to Gwen Mullen. Frieda begins to feel at home whenever she is on the water. When But on V-J Day, her worst fear is realized. As celebrating crowds Silver sells his fishing boat to World War I veteran Sam Hicks, gather in Times Square, a soldier appears on her doorstep to claim thinking Sam would be a fine husband for Frieda, she’s outraged. Mary, the baby abandoned to Gwen one year earlier. Suddenly But Frieda manages to talk Sam into teaching her to repair boat Gwen is on the verge of losing the child she has nurtured and loves engines instead, so she has a trade of her own and won’t have to dearly. marry.

With no legal claim to Mary, Gwen begins to teach Lieutenant John Frieda quickly discovers that a mechanic’s wages won’t support McKee how to care for his child, knowing that he will ultimately Bea and Silver, so she joins a team of rumrunners, speeding into take Mary away. What starts as a contentious relationship, dangerous waters to transport illegal liquor. Frieda becomes swept however, turns into something more, and Gwen must open her up in the lucrative, risky work—and swept off her feet by a heart to learn that love means taking chances. handsome Ivy Leaguer who’s in it just for fun.

As danger mounts and her own feelings threaten to drown her, can Frieda find her way back to solid ground—and to a love that will sustain her?

An Uncertain Season Letting In Light Ann Howard Creel Emma Davies Historical Fiction Romance Publication Date: 8/22/2017 Publication Date: 6/14/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 338 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Following a deadly Texas storm in 1900, three young women’s lives Rowan Hill means many things to many people, but to Ellie Hesketh come together in ways that none of them could have imagined. it represents new beginnings. Putting her life back together after a breakup is going to take time, but the crumbling country estate—as Grace lives a life of luxury. She’s pretty, talented, and engaged to much in need of TLC as she is—seems the perfect place to do it. a wonderful young man. But after she reveals a family secret, Grace’s mother sends her to the back alleys of Galveston to work But Ellie is not the only person for whom Rowan Hill is a refuge. among the poor. What begins as punishment, however, turns into There’s Will, damaged and complicated, whose secrets almost much more. Will she choose a conventional life or unconventional nobody knows. And Finn, his brother, who’s finally decided to stop love? running from his own past. As Ellie is drawn further into saving the estate, she can’t help but try saving the brothers, too—and she’s Etta has a wild beauty and personality. To thwart a scandalous sure she knows just how to go about it. The trouble is, she’s been romance, her mother sends her to stay with her cousin Grace and accused of meddling before... aunt Bernadette. Beguiled by their lavish lifestyle, she schemes to stay in Galveston and marry well. But surprisingly, she finds no one By turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, this story of friendship, as compelling as her formidable aunt. Etta’s admiration ultimately forgiveness, and unexpected romance reveals the lies we tell to leads to her downfall. Will she be banished once again? hide dark secrets—and what can happen when we let in a little light. The Girl, fourteen years sold and mute, has managed to avoid institutionalization since the storm took her family. To soothe her loneliness, she walks the seawall. Unintentionally, she becomes known as “Miss Girl,” and must find a way to escape those who would expose and harm her. Will her mistaken identity save her?

93 The Midwife Series The Survivor’s Guide to Our Own Country Family Happiness (Book Two)

Maddie Dawson Jodi Daynard Family Life Historical Fiction Publication Date: 10/25/2016 Publication Date: 2/23/2016 Page Count: 386 Page Count: 444 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Italian

Three women, three lives, and one chance to become a A love affair tests a new nation’s revolutionary ideals. family...whether they want to or not. In 1770s Boston, a prosperous merchant’s daughter, Eliza Boylston, Newly orphaned, recently divorced, and semiadrift, Nina Popkin is lives a charmed life—until war breaches the walls of the family on a search for her birth mother. She’s spent her life looking into estate and forces her to live in a world in which wealth can no strangers’ faces, fantasizing they’re related to her, and now, at longer protect her. thirty-five, she’s ready for answers. Meanwhile, the last thing Lindy McIntyre wants is someone like Nina bursting into her life, As the chaos of the Revolutionary War tears her family apart, Eliza announcing that they’re sisters and campaigning to track down finds herself drawn to her uncle’s slave, John Watkins. Their love their mother. She’s too busy with her successful salon, three leads to her exile in Braintree, Massachusetts, home to radicals children, beautiful home, and...oh yes, some pesky little anxiety John and Abigail Adams; and Eliza’s midwife sister-in-law, Lizzie attacks. Boylston. But even as the uprising takes hold, Eliza can’t help but wonder whether a rebel victory will grant her and John the most But Nina is determined to reassemble her birth family. Her search basic of American rights. turns up Phoebe Mullen, a guarded, hard-talking woman convinced she has nothing to offer. Gradually sharing stories and secrets, the three women make for a messy, unpredictable family that looks nothing like Nina pictured...but may be exactly what she needs. Nina’s moving, ridiculous, tragic, and transcendent journey becomes a love story proving that real family has nothing to do with DNA.

The Midwife Series Dark Star Pretty Little World (Book Three) Elizabeth LaBan and Jodi Daynard Melissa DePino Historical Fiction Family Life Publication Date: 4/25/2017 Publication Date: 1/17/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Dark Star is about those to whom the American Revolution did not “A skilled, funny, and highly engaging examination of family, love, apply: slaves, and those who dared to love them. and marriage...This book is a win.” —Meg Mitchell Moore, author of The Admissions In order to live with the man she loves, Eliza Boylston must renounce America and seek freedom elsewhere. There, she and her On a cozy street in Philadelphia, three neighboring families have husband, a former slave, raise a son. Fifteen years later he returns become the best of friends. They can’t imagine life without one to America from Barbados. A light-skinned black boy, he “passes,” another—until one family outgrows their tiny row house. In a bid to and only a few intimate friends know the truth. stay together, a crazy idea is born: what if they tear down the walls between their homes and live together under one roof? And so an experiment begins.

Celia and Mark now have the space they need. But is this really what Celia’s increasingly distant husband wants? Stephanie embraces the idea of one big, happy family, but has she considered how it may exacerbate the stark differences between her and her husband, Chris? While Hope always wanted a larger family with Leo, will caring for all the children really satisfy that need?

Behind closed doors, the families strive to preserve the closeness they treasure. But when boundaries are blurred, they’re forced to question their choices...and reimagine the true meaning of family.

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The Memory of Us Before the Rain Falls Camille Di Maio Camille Di Maio Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 5/31/2016 Publication Date: 5/16/2017 Page Count: 402 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: French

Julianne Westcott was living the kind of life other Protestant girls The author of The Memory of Us returns with a lush new Historical. in prewar Liverpool could only dream about: old money, silk ball gowns, and prominent young men lining up to escort her. But when Told in alternating chapters between a present-day reporter’s she learns of a blind-and-deaf brother, institutionalized since birth, investigative—but very personal—journey, and a woman’s the illusion of her perfect life and family shatters around her. sentencing to a 1940s Texas prison, the story unfolds layer by layer. Before the Rain Falls reveals the origin of a mysterious While visiting her brother in secret, Julianne meets and befriends “weeping” portrait in a small-town church. Kyle McCarthy, an Irish Catholic groundskeeper studying to become a priest. Caught between her family’s expectations, Kyle’s devotion to the Church, and the intense new feelings that the forbidden courtship has awakened in her, Julianne must make a choice: uphold the life she’s always known or follow the difficult path toward love.

But as war ripples through the world and the Blitz decimates England, a tragic accident forces Julianne to leave everything behind and forge a new life built on lies she’s told to protect the ones she loves. Now, after twenty years of hiding from her past, the truth finds her—will she be brave enough to face it?

Deliver Her At Wave’s End Patricia Perry Donovan Patricia Perry Donovan Mystery & Suspense Mystery & Suspense Publication Date: 5/1/2016 Publication Date: 8/15/2017 Page Count: 352 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

On the night of Alex Carmody’s sixteenth birthday, she and her When her estranged mother wins a Jersey Shore bed-and-breakfast best friend, Cass, are victims of a terrible car accident. Alex in a lottery and heads east to claim the prize, Faith Sterling fears survives; Cass doesn’t. Consumed by grief, Alex starts cutting her mother has fallen victim to yet another scam. Their visit to the school and partying, growing increasingly detached. The future B and B confirms her suspicions. Wave’s End is not as advertised— she’d planned with her friend is now meaningless to her. it’s nowhere near the beach, it’s sorely in need of an overhaul, and its finances are shaky. But despite Faith’s attempts to dissuade her Meg Carmody is heartbroken for her daughter, even as she’s mother, Connie Sterling is determined to try her hand at running desperate to get Alex’s life back on track. The Birches, a boarding the inn. school in New Hampshire, promises to do just that, yet Alex refuses to go. But when Meg finds a bag of pills hidden in the house, she A frustrated Faith heads back to Brooklyn, dreading the havoc her makes a fateful call to a transporter whose company specializes in mother’s proximity will wreak on her well-ordered and successful shuttling troubled teens to places like The Birches, under strict life. She doesn’t have to wait long. When a supersized hurricane supervision. Meg knows Alex will feel betrayed—as will her pummels the East Coast, Faith reluctantly agrees to return and estranged husband, who knows nothing of Meg’s plans for their help her mother run Wave’s End...temporarily. But just as inn life daughter. settles into a comfortable rhythm, a grievous secret about Wave’s End surfaces, threatening the inn’s future and fraying the already- When the transport goes wrong—and Alex goes missing—Meg must fragile mother-daughter bonds. face the consequences of her decision and her deception. But the hunt for Alex reveals that Meg is not the only one keeping secrets.

95 A Day at the Office The Marvelous A Christmas Day at the Misadventures of Ingrid Office Winter Matt Dunn JS Drangsholt Romance Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 10/11/2016 Publication Date: 3/1/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Norwegian

A briskly plotted, bittersweet, and witty novel in the vein of In the follow-up to Matt Dunn’s A Day at the Office, this year’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette, The Marvelous Misadventures of Christmas party should be a night to remember—but for five of Ingrid Winter was originally published in Norwegian and will be Seek Software’s employees, it might be one they’d sooner forget. translated into English by Tara F. Chace. With her new billionaire boss in town, Sophie’s determined to swap Ingrid Winter is desperately trying to hold it all together. A the No-Jobs she meets on Tinder for her very own Steve Jobs. But neurotic Norwegian mother of three small children and an will looking like a million dollars be enough to kick-start a Fifty overworked literature professor with an overactive imagination, Shades adventure? Ingrid feels like her life’s always on the brink of chaos. A ring in his pocket and dressed to kill, Calum’s planning to get Her overzealous attempt to secure her dream house has strained down on one knee. Though if Mia doesn’t say yes, he’s not sure her marriage. She’s repeatedly reprimanded for eye rolling in he’ll ever get back up. faculty meetings. Petulant PTA parents want to drag her into a war over teaching children to tie their shoes. And a persistent salesman Julie’s got a surprise for Mark—though it’s something she’s not even keeps warning her of the potential dangers of home intrusion. sure she wants. Meanwhile, Mark’s got another choice to make: the love of his life, or the opportunity of a lifetime? Forced to join an academic mission to Saint Petersburg to promote international cooperation, Ingrid finds herself at a crossroads while With his job on the line, and the ex who broke his heart back on drinking too much cough syrup. Will this trip push her into a the scene, Nathan’s day is becoming a nightmare. But he’s about to Siberian sinkhole of existential dread or finally give her life some meet the woman of his dreams. balance and direction?

Berlin Calling The Good Widow Kelly Durham Lisa Steinke and Liz Fenton Historical Fiction Mystery & Suspense Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Publication Date: 5/2/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Irish-American Maggie O’Dea is bright, beautiful and resourceful— A fast-paced work of women’s suspense by the dynamic book and she hates the English. It’s the summer of 1938 and Maggie is blogging duo, Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke, as well as the published studying in Heidelberg when she meets the dashing Kurt Engel, a authors of the bestselling books Your Perfect Life, The Status of All German soldier. Maggie agrees to follow Kurt to Berlin provided he Things, and the forthcoming The Year We Turned Forty. helps her find a job. Maggie lands a position as assistant to Clive Barnes, an obese and often-intoxicated Englishman known over the Jacqueline “Jacks” Morales’s world is upended when police officers airwaves as “Lord Lyon.” Barnes broadcasts Nazi propaganda to his knock on her door and tell her that her husband James is dead. But homeland each evening. when they tell her his body was found in a Jeep in Maui, she has a lot of questions—her husband had told her he was on business trip. Erich Greinke is an American who’s been fighting alongside the In Kansas. And when, two weeks later, she learns that that the Germans in Spain’s civil war. He’s recruited by World War I hero body of a twenty-two-year-old waitress named Dylan was also “Wild” Bill Donovan to report on developments in the German found nearby, and that this woman was sharing her husband’s hotel capital. Erich quickly identifies Maggie as an opportunity to room, Jacks realizes she may not have known her husband at all. penetrate Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels’ inner circle. As Europe plunges into the abyss of world war, Maggie starts to So, when Dylan’s fiancé, Nick shows up at her door, with questions question the guidance she receives from the Ministry and begins to of his own and a plea that they travel together to Maui to find realize she has fallen victim to the very propaganda she has helped answers, Jacks decides to go. Her protective sister and best friend, create. Beth worries about her safety and mental health, but Jacks knows that the only way to find closure is to get to the bottom of who the Caught between her conscience and the Gestapo’s tightening man she called her husband really was. noose, Maggie walks a deadly tightrope as she navigates between love and loyalty, survival and discovery.

96 The Redcliffe Sisters Breaking and Holding Take Me to Your Heart Judy Fogarty Again (Book Two) Family Life Marius Gabriel Publication Date: 8/2/2016 Historical Fiction Page Count: 368 Publication Date: 7/12/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Languages

For Patricia Curren, the summer of 1978 begins with a devastating Tensions between three sisters, divided by life and love, are about discovery: an unfamiliar black pearl button in the bed she shares to spill over into all-out conflict. This is the second title in the with her controlling husband, Jack. Seeking the courage to end her Redcliffe Sisters series, and follows on from Wish Me Luck As You desolate marriage, Patricia spends a quiet summer alone on Wave Me Goodbye. beautiful Kiawah Island. But when she meets Terry Sloan, a collegiate tennis player trying to go pro, their physical attraction It is 1942 and the world is at war. The eldest of the Redcliffe sparks a slow burn toward obsession. sisters, Isobel, impulsive and ideological, strives to make herself heard in a world distracted by violence. But her ambitious new Once Patricia and Terry share closely guarded secrets from their path is strewn with obstacles, not the least of which is a private pasts, they want more than a summer together. But their love soon scandal that threatens to become public. Optimist Chiara has had fractures, as a potential sponsor takes an unusually keen interest in to grow up fast, to set aside teenage dreams and make way for the Terry—both on court and off. And when single, career-driven Lynn unexpected realities of adulthood—but who can she count on for Hewitt arrives, other secrets must surface, including the one help? Meanwhile, Felicity has challenges of a more spiritual nature: Patricia has kept from Terry all summer. will her journey of self-discovery lead her away from the convent she thought was her calling? An intimate portrait of the folly of the human heart, Breaking and Holding explores buried truths that are startlingly unveiled. Separated by distance and war, Isobel, Chiara, and Felicity must What’s left in their wake has the power not only to shatter learn to confront life’s challenges with passion, strength—and lives...but to redeem them. unity. Because family is the tie that binds tightest of all.

The Vow Another Day Gone Felicity Goodrich Eliza Graham Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Publication Date: 4/12/2016 Publication Date: 11/22/2016 Page Count: 274 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

It happens in the chill of a September night, 1939: their small Coventry, 1939. Days before the outbreak of World War II, a Polish village is raided and burned to the ground. Anna, a devoutly terrorist bomb explodes on a busy street, killing and maiming Catholic teenager, watches as her friend is shot and as her father is innocent civilians. A man is hanged on the evidence given by a dragged off for conscription in the German army. young witness. As time goes on, the witness doubts her recollection of events, but her testimony has already had far-reaching Szymon, the young village priest, stands silently with his consequences. parishioners as their church is ransacked and torched. Anna clings to him—her dear friend and confidant—and by some luck, the More than sixty years later, in the wake of the 7/7 London Germans spare them. bombings, Sara returns to her childhood home to find that her sister, Polly, missing for nearly twenty years, has finally come back Five Septembers later, Anna and Szymon still cling together, now too. Why now—and where has she been? The sisters grew up under amid the turmoil of war. Though Anna dreads her engagement to a the fierce protection of their nanny, Bridie, herself haunted by a local ruffian, and Szymon fears for his father’s life back home, the family secret. And there are other secrets Bridie has kept from the two find solace in their friendship. two girls she brought up as her own. Polly’s return sets in motion events that will stretch the women’s fragile bond to its breaking But when the Soviet army comes to “liberate” them, Anna endures point. an unspeakable atrocity, and Szymon suffers his own tragedy. Now bound even more tightly by the sorrows they carry, they face a Set against three generations of violence and retribution, Another choice: honor the vows they’ve made to others, or risk everything Day Gone reveals the enduring consequences of a single mistaken for the chance at salvation in each other. memory.

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The Happiness in The Memory of Between Butterflies Grace Greene Grace Greene Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 1/31/2017 Publication Date: 7/4/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

An emotional drama about friendship, family, and becoming the A glorious, heartwarming, tear-jerking story about the secrets we woman you want to be, reminiscent of novels by Karen White, keep, the decisions we make, the family we want, and one Dorothea Benton Frank, Mary Alice Monroe, Susan Mallery, and woman’s personal transformation. Catherine Ryan Hyde. Deep in beautiful, woodsy, rural Cub Creek Virginia, a toddler is Sandra thought she would be happy if she did everything right. left on a woman’s porch; and the woman (Hannah) raises that child as her own. No one suspects because the girl is about the same age When her marriage to Trent Hurst fails for the second time, Sandra as the child Hannah lost a year or so earlier. The girl (Ellen) grows runs away, desperate to leave her unhappiness and mistakes up, and as she’s about to graduate from high school, the fathers of behind. But they find her again at Cub Creek, Virginia, where she is each of those children appear on the scene. If the truth comes out, house-sitting in beautiful forest country. There, through restoring a it will expose the choice Hannah made sixteen years earlier, and garden, and after meeting a few special neighbors, Sandra finds the lies she’s told since—that Ellen isn’t the baby originally born to the answers she’s been needing her whole life—that being nice her, but rather someone else’s child left on her porch. Hannah lost isn’t a guarantee of anything, that you can’t live the dreams of her infant daughter, Ellen, seventeen years earlier, and was given a others, and that you can choose to be happy. second chance. But every act will bear fruit, and every choice yields a result. Will Hannah lose her daughter all over again?

Miramont’s Ghost In the Blue Hour Elizabeth Hall Elizabeth Hall Historical Fiction Mystery & Suspense Publication Date: 2/1/2015 Publication Date: 11/1/2016 Page Count: 335 Page Count: 316 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

Reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, this hauntingly Elise Brooks dreams of a car accident on an icy road. Weeks later, atmospheric tale is inspired by historical research into the real-life her beloved husband, Michael, is killed in just such a crash. Now, Miramont Castle in Manitou Springs, Colorado. overcome with grief and uncertainty, Elise believes his spirit may be following her in the form of a raven, trying to tell her something Miramont Castle, built in 1897 and mysteriously abandoned three from beyond the grave. years later, is home to many secrets. Only one person knows the truth: Adrienne Beauvier, granddaughter of the Comte de Desperate to understand the signs, Elise embraces both the Native Challembelles and cousin to the man who built the castle. American wisdom she grew up with and the world of psychics and seers. So when a tarot-card reader suggests she take a journey to Clairvoyant from the time she could talk, Adrienne’s visions show the mysterious address found in Michael’s old jacket, she embarks her the secrets of those around her. When her visions begin to on a cross-country trek to follow the clues. reveal dark mysteries about her own aristocratic French family, Adrienne is confronted by her formidable aunt Marie, who is Accompanied by Tom Dugan, an engineer and scientist who does determined to keep the young woman silent at any cost. Marie not believe in psychics, mediums, or the hoodoo “conjure woman” wrenches Adrienne from her home in France and takes her to they encounter on the road, Elise navigates the rituals and omens America, to Miramont Castle, where she keeps the girl isolated and of the spirit world in an attempt to unravel the mystery of her imprisoned. Surrounded by eerie premonitions, Adrienne is locked husband’s message. in a life-or-death struggle to learn the truth and escape her torment.

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From Sand and Ash Daughter of Sand and Amy Harmon Stone Historical Fiction Libbie Hawker Publication Date: 12/1/2016 Historical Fiction Page Count: 384 Publication Date: 12/1/2015 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 332 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Italy, 1943—Germany occupies much of the country, placing the When Zenobia takes control of her own fate, will the gods punish Jewish population in grave danger during World War II. her audacity?

As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family Zenobia, the proud daughter of a Syrian sheikh, refuses to marry but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the against her will. She won’t submit to a lifetime of subservience. two find themselves falling in love. But the church calls to Angelo, When her father dies, she sets out on her own, pursuing the power and despite his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the priesthood. she believes to be her birthright, dreaming of the Roman Empire’s downfall and her ascendance to the throne. Now, more than a decade later, Angelo is a Catholic priest and Eva is a woman with nowhere to turn. With the Gestapo closing in, Defying her family, Zenobia arranges her own marriage to the most Angelo hides Eva within the walls of a convent, where Eva discovers influential man in the city of Palmyra. But their union is anything she is just one of many Jews being sheltered by the Catholic but peaceful—his other wife begrudges the marriage and the birth Church. of Zenobia’s son, and Zenobia finds herself ever more drawn to her guardsman, Zabdas. As war breaks out, she’s faced with terrible But Eva can’t quietly hide, waiting for deliverance, while Angelo choices. risks everything to keep her safe. With the world at war and so many in need, Angelo and Eva face trial after trial, choice after From the decadent halls of Rome to the golden sands of Egypt, agonizing choice, until fate and fortune finally collide, leaving Zenobia fights for power, for love, and for her son. But will her them with the most difficult decision of all. hubris draw the wrath of the gods? Will she learn a “woman’s place,” or can she finally stake her claim as Empress of the East?

Mercer Girls The Saturday Evening Libbie Hawker Girls Club Historical Fiction Jane Healey Publication Date: 5/10/2016 Historical Fiction Page Count: 432 Publication Date: 2/21/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

It’s 1864 in downtrodden Lowell, Massachusetts. The Civil War has Based on an inspiring true story. taken its toll on the town—leaving the economy in ruin and its women in dire straits. That is, until Asa Mercer arrives on a For the young women living in Boston’s North End in 1908, the peculiar, but providential, errand: he seeks high-minded women Saturday Evening Girls Club is an escape from the drudgery of daily who can exert an elevating influence in Seattle, where there are life. For Caprice, Ada, Maria, and Thea, it’s the one time each ten men for every woman. Mail-order brides, yes, but of a certain week the friends can be together. They support each other’s caliber. dreams and help each other navigate romances and family clashes, cultural prejudices, loss and heartbreak. Through it all, one thing is Schoolmarmish Josephine, tough-as-nails Dovey, and pious certain—they could not get through it without their friendship, and perfectionist Sophronia see their chance to exchange their bleak the Saturday Evening Girls Club. prospects for new lives. But the very troubles that sent them running from Lowell follow them to the muddy streets of Seattle, and the friendships forged on the cross-country trek are tested at every turn.

Just when the journey seems to lead only to ruin, an encounter with a famous suffragist could be their salvation. But to survive both an untamed new landscape and their pasts, they’ll need all their strength—and one another.

99 The Girl’s Series Smart Girl Saving Abby (Book Three) Steena Holmes Rachel Hollis Family Life Publication Date: 5/31/2016 Chick Lit Page Count: 274 Publication Date: 1/26/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 266 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Brilliant designer Miko Jin is a hopeless romantic. She’s spent most USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Steena Holmes of her life falling in love over and over again...with the men she brings us an unforgettable story of one woman’s courage and love. finds in the pages of her favorite novels. All children’s-book illustrator Claire Turner ever wanted was to be When Miko meets Liam Ashton, it’s love at first sight. At least, for a mother. After six years of trying to conceive, she and her her. Sure, the two of them are polar opposites, and yes, he seems husband, Josh, have finally accepted that she will never be to be dating someone new each week. But Miko knows what true pregnant with a child of their own. love is and that you can’t rush it—after all, what she lacks in real- world experience, she makes up for in book smarts. With novels as Yet once they give up hope, the couple gets the miracle they’ve her guide, and her best friends by her side, she knows she can get been waiting for. For the first few months of her pregnancy, Claire Liam to love her back. But just like any good romance novel, fate and Josh are living on cloud nine. But when she begins to has a few plot twists in store. Will Miko get her own happy ending? experience debilitating headaches, blurred vision, and even Will she find the strength to stand up for what she deserves even if fainting spells, the soon-to-be mother goes to the doctor and it means breaking her own heart? receives a terrifying diagnosis. Since any treatment could put their unborn baby’s life at risk, the Turners must carefully weigh their limited options. And as her symptoms worsen, Claire will have to make an impossible decision: save her own life, or save her child’s?

Abby’s Journey The Daughter of Union Steena Holmes County Literary Fiction Francine Thomas Howard Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Historical Fiction Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 8/1/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 433 Rights Acquired: All Languages

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Steena Holmes Fourteen years after the end of slavery, Lord Henry Hardin and his offers a tender and heartfelt exploration of parental love and a wife, Lady Bertha, enjoy an entitled life in Union County, Arkansas, daughter’s longing for connection in the sequel to Saving Abby. until he faces a devastating reality: Bertha is unable to bear children. If Henry doesn’t produce an heir, the American branch of Twenty-year-old Abigail Turner has only known her mother, Claire— his family name will die out. So, Henry, desperate to preserve his who died shortly after she was born—through letters, videos, aristocratic family lineage, does the unthinkable. postcards, and journals. Abby’s father, Josh, has raised his precious daughter himself, but his overprotectiveness has become stifling. When Salome, a former slave and Henry’s mistress, gives birth to a Abby longs to strike out on her own and see the world after a white-skinned, blue-eyed daughter, Henry orders a reluctant Lady childhood trapped indoors: she suffers from bronchopulmonary Bertha to claim the child as their own...allowing young Margaret to dysplasia, which means a case of the sniffles can rapidly escalate pass into the white world of privilege. into life-threatening pneumonia. As Margaret grows older, unaware of her true parentage, But when Abby’s doctor declares her healthy—for now—her devastating circumstances threaten to shroud her in pain and grandmother Millie whisks her away to Europe to visit the Christmas shame...but, then, ultimately, in revelation. Despite rumors about markets her mother cherished, and chronicled in her travel Margaret’s true identity, Salome is determined to transform her journals. Despite her father’s objections, Abby and Millie embark daughter’s bitter past into her secure future while Henry goes to on a journey of discovery in which Abby will learn secrets that extraordinary lengths to protect his legacy. Spanning decades and force her to reevaluate her image of her mother and come to a generations, marked by tragedy and redemption, this unforgettable more mature understanding of a parent-child bond that transcends saga illuminates a family’s fight for their name, for survival, and death. for true freedom.

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Allie and Bea Say Goodbye for Now Catherine Ryan Hyde Catherine Ryan Hyde Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 5/23/2017 Publication Date: 12/13/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 364 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde returns On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for abandoned animals. with an unforgettable story of finding friendship—and even a kind The solitude allows her to avoid the people and places that remind of family—in the most unexpected of places. her of the past. Not that any of the townsfolk care. In 1959, no one is interested in a woman doctor. Nor are they welcoming Calvin and When Bea, a widowed woman in her seventies living in a mobile- Justin Bell, a newly arrived African American father and son. home park with her ancient cat, gets cheated out of her meager life savings by a man who claims to be from the IRS, she winds up When Pete Solomon, a neglected twelve-year-old boy, and Justin feeling that the universe owes her something. She takes to the road bring a wounded wolf-dog hybrid to Dr. Lucy, the outcasts soon find in her mobile home, driving along the California coast, cheating refuge in one another. Lucy never thought she’d make connections everybody she meets out of anything she can. That is, until she again, never mind fall in love. Pete never imagined he’d find meets Allie, an idealistic fifteen-year-old who is going through a friends as loyal as Justin and the dog. But these four people aren’t life shake-up of her own. allowed to be friends, much less a family, when the whole town turns violently against them. Both of Allie’s parents have been arrested for tax fraud, and she’s been sent to a group home for girls where life is unbearable. It only With heavy hearts, Dr. Lucy and Pete say good-bye to Calvin and gets worse when, fleeing with another girl, she winds up in the Justin. But through the years they keep hope alive...waiting for the hands of a sex trafficker. Luckily, Allie manages to escape, and world to catch up with them. runs right into Bea’s mobile home and...life.

Allie and Bea are oil and water, but they gradually come to a new understanding of each other and, in fact, of the world.

Leaving Blythe River Ask Him Why Catherine Ryan Hyde Catherine Ryan Hyde Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 5/24/2016 Publication Date: 12/8/2015 Page Count: 322 Page Count: 333 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to The stunning and emotional story of a young soldier’s unthinkable search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not act...and the bonds of a sister and brother’s love. only is he small, scrawny, and skittish but he’s barely speaking to the man after a traumatic betrayal. Yet when his father vanishes Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when their from their remote cabin and rangers abandon the rescue mission, older brother ships off to Iraq. When Joseph returns, uninjured, suddenly it’s up to Ethan to keep looking. Angry or not, he’s his only three and a half months later, Ruth is happy he is safe but also father’s only hope. deeply worried. How can it be that her courageous big brother has been dishonorably discharged for refusing to go out on duty? Aubrey With the help of three locals—a fearless seventy-year-old widow, can’t believe that his hero doesn’t have very good reasons. a pack guide, and a former actor with limited outdoor skills—he heads into the wild. The days that follow transform Ethan’s world. Yet as the horrifying details of the incident emerge, Joseph Hail, punishing sun, swollen rapids, and exhausting pain leave him disappears. In their attempts to find him, Ruth and Aubrey discover wondering if he’s been fooled yet again: Is his father out here at he has a past far darker than either of them could imagine. But all? As the situation grows increasingly dire, Ethan realizes this even as they learn more about their brother, important questions quest has become about more than finding his dad. remain unanswered—why did he betray his unit, his country, and now his family? Joseph’s refusal to speak ignites a fire in young From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story of Aubrey that results in a disastrous, and public, act of rebellion. nature revealing human nature—the trickiest terrain. Navigating an unforgiving landscape, Ethan searches himself for the ability to The impact of Joseph’s fateful decision one night in Baghdad will forgive his father—if he finds him alive. echo for years to come, with his siblings caught between their love for him and the media’s engulfing frenzy of judgment.

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Worthy The Language of Hoofbeats Catherine Ryan Hyde Family Life Catherine Ryan Hyde Publication Date: 6/2/2015 Family Life Page Count: 325 Publication Date: 12/9/2014 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 344 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German and Large Print (English)

They might’ve been a family. Winner of a Rainbow Award

Virginia finally had the chance to explore a relationship with Aaron From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story of the when he asked her on a date. She had been waiting, hoping that heartbreak and healing power of family. New to a small town, the widower and his young son, Buddy, would welcome her into Jackie and Paula envision a quiet life for their kids: a young their lives. But a terrible tragedy strikes on the night of their first adopted son and two teenage foster children, including the kiss, crushing their hopes for a future together. troubled Star. However, they quickly butt heads with their neighbor, Clementine, who disapproves of their lifestyle and is Nineteen years later, Virginia is engaged, though she has not incensed when Star befriends her spirited horse, Comet. Haunted forgotten Aaron or Buddy. When her dog goes missing and it comes by past tragedy and unable to properly care for Comet, Clem to light that her fiancé set him loose, a distraught Virginia breaks nevertheless resents the bond Star soon shares with the horse. off the engagement and is alone once again. A shy young man has When Star disappears with Comet, the neighbors are thrown found the missing pet, and although he’s bonded with the animal, together—far too close together. But as the search for the pair he answers his conscience and returns the dog. Before long, wears on, both families must learn to put aside their animosity and Virginia and the young man discover a connection from their pasts confront the choices they’ve made and the scars they carry. that will help them let go of painful memories and change their lives forever. Plumbing the depths of regret and forgiveness, The Language of Hoofbeats explores the strange alchemy that transforms a group of people into a family.

Take Me With You When I Found You Walk Me Home Catherine Ryan Hyde Catherine Ryan Hyde Catherine Ryan Hyde Family Life Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 7/22/2014 Publication Date: 4/23/2013 Publication Date: 4/23/2013 Page Count: 363 Page Count: 410 Page Count: 374 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Languages, excluding Languages, excluding English outside of USC English outside of USC English outside of USC

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August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been An exquisite, emotional tale of the unexpected Since their mother’s sudden death, sixteen-year- sober since his nineteen-year-old son died. Every bonds that nothing in life can break. old Carly and her eleven-year-old sister, Jen, year he’s spent the summer on the road, but have been walking and hitchhiking across the making it to Yellowstone this year means While duck hunting one morning, childless, Southwest trying to find Teddy, the closest thing everything. The plan had been to travel there middle-aged Nathan McCann finds a newborn they have to a family. Carly desperately hopes with his son, but now August is making the trip abandoned in the woods. To his shock, the Teddy will take them in and save them from with Philip’s ashes instead. An unexpected twist child—wrapped in a sweater and wearing a tiny going into foster care—and forgive them for the of fate lands August with two extra passengers knitted hat—is still alive. To his wife’s shock, lies told by their mother. for his journey, two half orphans with nowhere Nathan wants to adopt the boy…but the child’s else to go. grandmother steps in. Nathan makes her But when the starving girls get caught stealing promise, however, that one day she’ll bring the food on a Native American reservation, their What none of them could have known was how boy to meet him so he can reveal that he was journey gets put on hold. While the girls work transformative both the trip—and the bonds that the one who rescued him. off their debt, Carly becomes determined to develop between them—would prove, driving travel onward—until Jen confesses a terrible each to create a new destiny together. Fifteen years later, the widowered Nathan secret that leaves both sisters wondering if they discovers the child abandoned once again—this can ever trust again. time at his doorstep. Named Nat, the teenager has grown into a sullen delinquent whose Set against the backdrop of the American grandmother can no longer tolerate him. Nathan Southwest, Walk Me Home and its resilient agrees to care for Nat, and the two engage in a heroines will inspire readers and renew their battle of wills that spans years. Still, the older faith in recovery and redemption. man repeatedly assures the youngster that, unlike the rest of the world, he will never abandon him—not even when Nat suffers a trauma that changes both of their lives forever.

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His Kidnapper’s Shoes Toby Maggie James David Johnson Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 11/15/2016 Publication Date: 7/26/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Daniel is my son. He has always been mine. And he always will be. From the bestselling author of The Tucker Series comes a heartwarming story about finding yourself with the help of a furry On some level deep inside, Laura Bateman knows something is friend. Symphony Nelson has weathered more than her share of wrong. That her relationship with her son is not what it should be. hardships—in part, thanks to the faithfulness and affection of her That it is based on lies. adopted puppy, Toby. Her formerly chaotic life seems to be settling down, until a peaceful walk in the woods leads Symphony But bad things have happened to Laura. Things that change a and Toby to the reclusive cabin of Caleb Showalter, who knows person. Forever. more about her past than he’s telling.

For twenty-six-year-old Daniel, the discovery that his mother is not When an old friend resurfaces and expresses his affection, who he thought comes close to destroying him. As his world turns Symphony warily longs for love, and it is Toby that nudges her upside down, he searches for sanity in the madness that has toward pursuing a reconnection. But when violence strikes at the become his life. Daniel is left with nothing but questions. Why did hands of her possessive boyfriend, Symphony’s trust is shattered Laura do something so terrible? Can he move past the demons of once again. his childhood? Just when Symphony’s faith in humanity seems lost, Toby is injured And the biggest question of all: can he ever forgive Laura? in the woods, and she has no choice but to reach out to Caleb for help. Together, they face their fears and lost trust head-on. If they can save Toby, they might be able to let go of the past and to believe in the goodness of others—and themselves—once again.

A Tangled Mercy The Mutual Admiration Society Joy Jordan-Lake Historical Fiction Lesley Kagen Publication Date: 10/3/2017 Family Life Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 2/1/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Set in Charleston, South Carolina, with its centuries-old mansions, From the New York Times bestselling author of Whistling in the haunting beauty, cultured sophistication, and its savage past, A Dark comes an unforgettable novel that illuminates the sweet and Tangled Mercy tells the story of a floundering young Harvard brittle bonds of family, the tenderness of growing up, the graduate student researching the tumultuous events surrounding an heartbreak of longing for what we’ve lost, and the poignancy of 1822 slave revolt, and finding herself in the process. finding love.

Based on real events, and in the vein of Tara Conklin’s The House Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Theresa “Tessie” Finley, she’s in Girl, Kathleen Grissom’s The Kitchen House, and Sue Monk Kidd’s over her head. After hearing a scream and catching a glimpse of a The Invention of Wings, A Tangled Mercy heralds the arrival of a mysterious man carrying a body beneath the flickering streetlights new voice in the world of blockbuster book-club fiction. in the cemetery behind her house, Tessie adds solving a murder case to her already quite full to-do list.

Tessie has elected herself president of the crime-stopping Mutual Admiration Society—as if dealing with her “sad madness” over the tragic drowning of her beloved father; showering tender loving care on her “sweet but weird” younger sister, Birdie; and staying on the good side of their hard-edged mother weren’t enough. With partner in crime Charlie “Cue Ball” Garfield, Tessie and Birdie will need to dodge the gossips in their 1950s blue-collar neighborhood. A rich and charming tour de force, The Mutual Admiration Society showcases Lesley Kagen’s marvelous storytelling talents.

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A Beautiful Poison Fat Fridays Lydia Kang Judith Keim Historical Fiction Family Life Publication Date: 7/11/2017 Publication Date: 11/8/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Set just before the Gilded Age gave way to the hedonistic pleasures When Sukie’s husband shacks up with her Pilates instructor, her of the 1920s, A Beautiful Poison is perfect for fans of Caleb Carr’s domestic drama becomes the talk of her small Georgia town. The Alienist and Lindsay Faye’s The Gods of Gotham. Friends from her married life prove fickle, and Sukie hides at home, terrified of encountering the town gossips at the grocery A Beautiful Poison centers on a group of privileged young store. Betsy, Sukie’s neighbor, invites her to join “Fat Fridays,” a Manhattanites, raised within the confines of high-society. When weekly gathering at a local café where the women order whatever members of their circle start dropping, one by one, is it by the they crave—no calories counted. Over sausage pizza and sage deadly ravages of the flu or by the hand of someone who wants to advice, Sukie gets a grip on her new life and learns to love her see all of them dead? Rather than wait to find out who will die freedom. next, amateur chemist Allene Cutter, her childhood friend Birdie Wexler, and Jasper Jones, an assistant toxicologist at Bellevue Judith Keim’s warm, funny novel offers moving glimpses into each Hospital, join forces to find out whether their friends are being of the five women’s very different lives. As they struggle to deal killed off by nature or a murderer. Their quest takes them into the with cruel exes, frustrating families, and forbidden love, the tenements of Lower Manhattan, the parlors of the Upper East Side, women offer one another the kind of friendship that is as rich and and the dank morgues throughout the city, before a delicious twist nurturing as their Friday feasts. brings them closer to home than they ever suspected the perpetrator could be.

Southlea Bay Series Sassy Saturdays The Rejected Writers’ Book Club (Book One) Judith Keim Family Life Suzanne Kelman Publication Date: 11/29/2016 Chick Lit Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 3/29/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 274 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

Tiffany Wright never planned to become a torch singer, much less Librarian Janet Johnson is puzzled when she is invited—and a pregnant and single one. It was only with the help of her Fat practically dragged—to her first meeting of the Rejected Writers’ Fridays luncheon group of strong women—counting their blessings, Book Club. This quirky group of women would much rather not their calories—that she found the courage to leave Beau, her celebrate one another’s rejected manuscripts over cups of tea and once wonderful husband destroyed by drug addiction. slices of lemon cake than actually publish a book. But good friends are exactly what Janet needs after moving to the small town of Now those same women are her supportive audience at Sassy Southlea Bay, Washington. Saturdays, the enchanting evenings when Tiffany belts out ballads at a local club. Things heat up when Kevin Bascombe—tall, dark, Just as the ladies are about to raise a teacup to their 500th and exceedingly handsome—moves in next door...and turns out to hundredth rejection letter, they receive bad news that could be both Beau’s new business partner and Tiffany’s literal savior in a destroy one member’s reputation—and disband the group forever. storm. And when tragedy strikes, Tiffany and Kevin find themselves To save the club, Janet joins her fellow writers on a wild road trip on the same side of a legal battle, while Tiffany must summon the to San Francisco in search of the local publisher who holds the key strength to stand up to her domineering in-laws or risk an to a long-buried secret. As they race to the finish line, they’ll face unbearable loss. their fears—landslides, haunted houses, handsome strangers, ungrateful children—and have the time of their lives. With blue martinis as their talisman, the Sassy Saturdays friends, each facing familial challenges of her own, unite in support, finding Stay tuned for the next book in the series, which will be hope in friendship, sisterhood, laughter—and colorful cocktails. released in Summer 2017!

104 I Wish You Happy Closer Home Edenland Kerry Anne King Kerry Anne King Wallace King Family Life Family Life Historical Fiction Publication Date: 6/27/2017 Publication Date: 3/22/2016 Publication Date: 5/24/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 322 Page Count: 466 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Rae doesn’t do relationships. Her therapist says When Lise Redding’s estranged sister, country- Born a slave, Bledsoe had never left Our Joy she lacks a dimmer switch—she’s either full pop star Callie Redfern, is killed during a plantation, and a daring escape offers his only intensity on or off—and lately she’s opted for publicity stunt, the small-town music teacher is chance for liberty. On the run he encounters off. Everything changes the day she collides with dragged from her quiet life into the spotlight. Alice, an Irish indentured servant, committing a bicycle, then bonds with Kat, the cyclist, while what appears to be an act of murder as she keeping her alive. Rae feels guilty and Lise hadn’t spoken with Callie in ten years, ever burns down a shack in the Great Dismal Swamp responsible, but when a note turns up indicating since Callie’s betrayal split them apart, so she’s of North Carolina. the accident was intentional, Rae ends up shocked to discover that she’s inherited her opening her home—and her life—to Kat. At first sister’s massive estate. Not only that, but Lise is Faced with the threat of capture, Bledsoe and Kat is a welcome change from Rae’s usual empty now the guardian of her sixteen-year-old niece, Alice become reluctant allies. An epic tale routine, and she thinks this is her chance to Ariel, to whom she’s practically a stranger. unfolds as their quest for freedom pulls them build the sort of friendship she’s never had. Rae Overwhelmed by grief and new responsibilities, from swamp to city, from North Carolina to even begins dating Cole, the attractive crisis Lise thinks things couldn’t get worse. But Virginia. Somewhere between injustice and loss, worker responsible for Kat’s case. overnight she becomes the paparazzi’s latest they discover a hidden place that seems an obsession. Suddenly she and her longtime friend Eden, where their bond and love are forged. Intent on fixing Kat’s life and making her happy, Dale are plastered over the front pages of the Rae sets out to uncover the events that led to tabloids. Desperate to escape both the media But the Confederate army is on the march the accident. When she locates her friend’s and her memories, Lise sets off with Ariel on a and soon tramples their tenuous freedom. estranged husband and forces a meeting search for the girl’s father. Yet instead of Separated, they are cast into fates they never between the two, she opens a Pandora’s Box of granting Lise a reprieve, the quest brings her imagined. Through it all, the hope of deliverance emotions that sweeps all of them toward face-to-face with long-buried secrets. Only by drives them onward, and the memory of their change. Rae must find the balance she’s been learning to forgive will she be able to find her Edenland remains, burning bright against the seeking and learn to embrace relationships in all way back home. darkness of slavery and the American Civil War. their varied complexity in order to move into the larger life that has always been waiting for her.

Rosa’s Gold The Sugar Men Ray Kingfisher Ray Kingfisher Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 8/9/2016 Publication Date: 8/9/2016 Page Count: 320 Page Count: 306 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Nicole Sutton’s world has been turned upside down. Sixteen and Sixty-four years ago, Susannah Morgan managed to flee the horrors suffering the fallout from a devastating family tragedy, she is of the Holocaust. But the memories of that childhood ordeal have forced to move away from her London home to the quiet town of proven impossible to sweep away. Henley—and a new life she never wanted or expected. For most of her new life spent settled in sleepy North Carolina, the In the dusty cellar of her strange new house, Nicole stumbles upon flashbacks have been a lonely obsession—one she has hidden from a worn old journal left behind by a previous occupant. Inside, her family, and about which her heart is torn. Because for all the through the eyes of a soldier named Mac, she finds herself drawn pain and the cruelty of those terrible years, she harbors sweet into a brutally honest memoir of the horrors of war and Auschwitz— memories, too, of unexpected friends who risked their own lives in and of the life and love Mac had to leave behind. order to save hers. As Susannah’s time on earth draws to a close, her innermost thoughts of those long-gone days become questions— The more Nicole reads, the more she is able to make sense of her ones that demand answers. own troubles, because Mac’s story is so much more than a journal: it is the story of a family fighting for survival in the darkest days of Against the wishes of her children, Susannah returns to Germany humanity, of hope in the face of persecution. And then there’s the and the scene of unspeakable crimes. There she will come face-to- buried gold... face with the Holocaust’s terrible, wretched legacy, and will finally make peace with the ghosts of her past.

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Love in Exile The Restaurant Critic’s Wife Ayşe Kulin Historical Fiction Elizabeth LaBan Publication Date: 6/14/2016 Family Life Page Count: 386 Publication Date: 1/5/2016 Rights Acquired: English, Spanish, Page Count: 314 German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese Rights Acquired: All Languages

The bestselling author of Last Train to Istanbul returns with a People magazine included The Restaurant Critic’s Wife on their tale of love defying all boundaries. Love in Exile was originally Great New Fiction list and hailed it as “thoroughly entertaining.” published in Turkish and will be translated into English by Kenneth Dakan. Lila Soto has a master’s degree that’s gathering dust, a work- obsessed husband, two kids, and lots of questions about how exactly Sabahat, a beautiful young Muslim woman, is known in her family she ended up here. for her intelligence, drive, and stubbornness. She believes there is more in store for her life than a good marriage and convinces her In their new city of Philadelphia, Lila’s husband, Sam, takes parents to let her pursue her education, rare for young Turkish his job as a restaurant critic a little too seriously. To protect his women in the 1920s. But no one—least of all Sabahat herself— professional credibility, he’s determined to remain anonymous. Soon expects that in the course of her studies she will fall for a his preoccupation with anonymity takes over their lives as he tries to handsome Armenian student named Aram. limit the family’s contact with anyone who might have ties to the foodie world. Meanwhile, Lila craves adult conversation and some After precious moments alone together, their love begins to relief from the constraints of her homemaker role. With her patience blossom. Try as she might to simplify her life and move on, Sabahat wearing thin, she begins to question everything: her decision to get has no choice but to follow her heart’s desire. But Aram is pregnant again, her break from her career, her marriage—even if Christian, and neither family approves. leaving her ex-boyfriend was the right thing to do. As Sam becomes more and more fixated on keeping his identity secret, Lila begins to With only hope to guide their way, they defy age-old traditions, wonder if her own identity has completely disappeared—and what it cross into dangerous territory, and risk everything to find their way will take to get it back. back to each other.

The Girl Who Fought Very Like a Queen Napoleon Martin Lake Linda Lafferty Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 1/26/2016 Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Page Count: 402 Page Count: 444 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: English and German

From bestselling historical author Linda Lafferty comes a sweeping The king’s favor was her sanctuary—until his desire turned story straight out of Russian history. Tsar Alexander I and a dangerous. courageous girl named Nadezhda Durova join forces against Napoleon. Alice Petherton is well practiced at using her beauty and wits to survive in the court of King Henry VIII. As the king’s favorite, she It’s 1803, and an adolescent Nadya is determined not to follow in enjoys his protection, but after seeing the downfall of three of his her overbearing Ukrainian mother’s footsteps. She’s a horsewoman, wives, she’s determined to avoid the same fate. Alice must walk a not a housewife. When Tsar Paul is assassinated in Saint Petersburg fine line between mistress and wife. and a reluctant and naive Alexander is crowned emperor, Nadya runs away from home and joins the Russian cavalry in the war She finds a powerful protector in Thomas Cromwell, and Alice has against Napoleon. Disguised as a boy and riding her spirited every reason to believe she will continue to enjoy a life of wealth stallion, Alcides, Nadya rises in the ranks, even as her father begs and comfort at court...until she puts everything at risk by falling in the tsar to find his daughter and send her home. love with a Frenchman, Nicholas Bourbon.

Both Nadya and Alexander defy expectations—she as a heroic When Cromwell is executed, Alice loses her only ally and flees to fighter and he as a spiritual seeker—while the battles of Austerlitz, France. There she hopes to live in peace with Nicholas. But Alice is Friedland, Borodino, and Smolensk rage on. lured into a perilous game of treason, and peace doesn’t last long. Will Alice get back the life and love she’s fought for? Or will she In a captivating tale that brings Durova’s memoirs to life, from lose herself to the whims of a capricious monarch? bloody battlefields to glittering palaces, two rebels dare to break free of their expected roles and discover themselves in the process.

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The Promise Kitchen The Welcome Home Peggy Lampman Diner Family Life Peggy Lampman Publication Date: 8/16/2016 Family Life Page Count: 396 Publication Date: 10/17/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

This heartwarming and lyrical tale reminds us that family isn’t Following The Promise Kitchen and echoing books by Barbara necessarily whom you’re related to—it’s whom you invite to your O’Neal and Susan Mallery comes a heartwarming, charming novel table. The Promise Kitchen contains twenty delightful recipes. about family, food, and friendship.

Shelby Preston, a young single mother, is at a crossroads. She feels suffocated by her hardscrabble life in rural Georgia and dreams of becoming a professional chef. Lord knows her family could use a pot of something good.

In Atlanta, Mallory Lakes is reeling from a bad breakup. The newspaper food columnist is also bracing for major changes at work that could put her job at risk. Determined to find the perfect recipe for how to reinvent herself, she gets involved in the growing farm-to-table movement. But an emotional setback threatens to derail everything she’s worked for.

Shelby and Mallory couldn’t be more different. But through their shared passion for food, they form an unlikely friendship—a bond that just might be their salvation.

Always and Forever Wives of War Soraya Lane Soraya Lane Romance Historical Fiction Publication Date: 7/26/2016 Publication Date: 3/21/2017 Page Count: 274 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Lisa and Matt can’t believe their luck. They have a dream house An historical women’s fiction set in World War II about three and a dream marriage, and very soon they’ll have a dream family, women who travel from London to Normandy, working in a field too. But life is rarely that simple. When their beautiful life is hospital that serves the injured soldiers, as well as spending time rocked by tragedy, they are forced to make an unbearable choice. on an ambulance train. Told from the point of view of three Suddenly the future they’ve built together looks fragile and characters, Wives of War depicts the power of friendship and love exposed. during the brutality of war.

With aching hearts and their love on the line, they set off on a road trip through the stunning California landscape, hoping that time— and distance from the life they thought perfect—will help them start again. Matt is desperate not to lose Lisa, but as they confront their grief in different ways, he may have lost her already.

Where there is love, there ought to be strength, but this love has been tested to its limits. Have they endured too much heartbreak for one couple to take? Or will a journey down memory lane put them back on the road to love, hope—and each other?

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The Halo Effect Paper Boats Anne LeClaire Dee Lestari Mystery & Suspense Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 3/21/2017 Publication Date: 3/21/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Indonesian

In the vein of Everything We Keep meets Dennis Lehane, this A quirky, charming love story written in glittering, quotable prose, masterful psychological suspense and family drama bursts with an for fans of Sugar, Flat-Out Love, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, eerily haunting atmosphere. and Norwegian Wood. Paper Boats was originally published in Indonesian and will be translated into English by Tiffany Tsao. The murder of his fifteen-year-old daughter, Lucy, nearly destroys the artist Will Light. Certainly it is damaging his marriage to Sophie. Kugy is a dreamer, small and quiet, criticized for being messy, but Lost in grief and rage (his daughter’s killer has not been found), he she weaves fairy tales into the everyday and longs to become a dreams of revenge. With his marriage in crisis (Sophie has moved storyteller. When she goes away to college, she meets Keenan, who out), he secludes himself in his attic studio and returns to painting. could be the perfect match for her. He’s a painter, and though he When the local priest, Father Gervase, appears one day offering Will can’t quite explain to her why he has created each work, she sees a commission to paint a series of saints for a new cathedral, Will in him a kindred spirit. Their love story is funny, warm, and decides to use the people of Port Fortune as his models, unaware that charming, written with sparkling language that inspires readers to one is the person who murdered Lucy. believe in true love.

Also lost in grief is Rain, Lucy’s best friend. When her parents learn she is cutting herself, they send her to therapy. Her brother, Duane, becomes one of Will’s models until he is suspected of having a role in Lucy’s death. In search of the truth, Rain puts herself in danger.

The Halo Effect unfolds with grace and an escalating sense of urgency until Lucy’s killer is brilliantly, surprisingly, revealed.

Forgotten Women Broken Angels Freda Lightfoot Gemma Liviero Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 9/6/2016 Publication Date: 4/26/2016 Page Count: 384 Page Count: 466 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

It is 1936, and Spain is on the brink of civil war. Across Europe, A Nazi doctor. A Jewish rebel. A little girl. Each one will fight for young men are enlisting in the International Brigade to free their freedom—or die trying. Spanish brethren from the grip of fascism, leaving sisters and lovers at home. Imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto, Elsi discovers her mother’s desperate attempt to end her pregnancy and comes face-to-face But not all women are content to be left behind. In Britain, with the impossibility of their situation. Risking her own life, Elsi Charlotte McBain and Libby Forbes, friends from opposite sides of joins a resistance group to sabotage the regime. the class divide, are determined to do what they can; in Spain, Rosita García Díaz, fiercely loyal to her family and country, cannot Blonde, blue-eyed Matilda is wrenched from her family in Romania stand by and watch. Three brave women, inspired by patriotism, and taken to Germany, where her captors attempt to mold her into idealism, love and even revenge, dare to go into battle against the perfect Aryan child. Spirited and brave, she must inspire hope tradition and oppression. in the other stolen children to make her dreams of escape a reality. Tying them all together is Jo, Libby’s granddaughter. Five decades later she travels to Spain, hoping to make sense of a troubling Willem, a high-ranking Nazi doctor, plans to save lives when he letter hidden among her grandmother’s possessions. What she takes posts in both the ghetto and Auschwitz. After witnessing learns will change all their lives forever. unimaginable cruelties, he begins to question his role and the future of those he is ordered to destroy. Deceit, heartbreak, and a long-standing fear of reprisals must all be overcome if the deeds of the forgotten women are to be While Hitler ransacks Europe in pursuit of a pure German race, the properly honored. lives of three broken souls—thrown together by chance—intertwine. Only love and sacrifice might make them whole again.

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Broken Pieces All the Breaking Waves Kathleen Long Kerry Lonsdale Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 7/19/2016 Publication Date: 12/6/2016 Page Count: 284 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Destiny Jones is doing just fine on her own, thanks. From her From the bestselling author of Everything We Keep comes a thriving one-woman carpentry business to the loving support of her gripping tale of long-buried secrets, the strength of forgiveness, small-town community, Destiny has constructed a life as sturdy and and the healing power of returning home for good. polished as her best cabinets. Twenty years ago, Destiny’s world collapsed when her mother died and her father, Albert, abandoned After a harrowing accident tore her family apart, Molly Brennan his daughter to pursue acting in New York. His devastating exit fled from the man she loved and the tragic mistake she made. taught Destiny a lesson in self-reliance that has kept her safe—and alone—ever since. Twelve years later, Molly has created a new life for herself and her eight-year-old daughter, Cassie. The art-history professor crafts Now Albert Jones is back, begging for a second chance. Destiny jewelry as unique and weathered as the surf-tumbled sea glass she suspects he’s simply staging another performance, starring himself collects, while raising her daughter in a safe and loving as the prodigal father. Should she act on her misgivings? Or listen environment―something Molly never had. But when Cassie is to her inner child, who still yearns for a family? When Albert plagued by horrific visions and debilitating nightmares, Molly is divulges a shocking secret, Destiny’s life will again be turned forced to return to the one place she swore she’d never move back upside down. to―home to Pacific Grove.

Kathleen Long’s warm, wise novel reveals that the armor that has A riveting exploration of love, secrets, and motherhood, All the protected us in the past is often the very thing we must shed to Breaking Waves is the poignant story of a woman who discovers she fully live and love. must confront her past, let go of her guilt, and summon everything in her power to save her daughter.

Everything We Keep What We Leave Behind Kerry Lonsdale Kerry Lonsdale Mystery & Suspense Mystery & Suspense Publication Date: 8/1/2016 Publication Date: 7/4/2017 Page Count: 306 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Wall Street Journal Bestseller The sequel to Everything We Keep picks up six months from where its predecessor left off. What We Leave Behind tells the story from Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the perfect recipe for the perfect life: the dual perspectives of James Donato and Carlos Dominguez. marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents’ restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes In a last-ditch effort to stop his trade-laundering half brother hell- in a boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. bent on destroying the family business and his relationship with his Instead of walking down the aisle on their wedding day, Aimee is at fiancée, Aimee Tierney, James Donato makes a life-altering James’s funeral—one that leaves her more unsettled than at peace. mistake. He chases Phil Donato to the Emerald Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, only to wake up with six and a half years missing from his As Aimee struggles to reconstruct her life, she delves deeper into life. He doesn’t recall confronting Phil, or anything about the hours James’s disappearance. What she uncovers is an ocean of secrets leading up to their fateful meeting. All he has is a bullet trail on his that make her question everything about the life they built hip, a reconstructed face due to the injuries he suffered, and his together. And just below the surface is a truth that may set Aimee bother’s word that Phil tried to murder him. free...or shatter her forever. Disoriented and overwhelmed, James returns to the United States A luminous debut with unexpected twists, Everything We Keep and struggles to put his life back together. Another riveting and explores the devastation of loss, the euphoria of finding love again, suspenseful novel, What We Leave Behind offers readers of and the pulse-racing repercussions of discovering the truth about Everything We Keep the opportunity to learn the other side of the the ones we hold dear and the lengths they will go to protect us. story.

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The Second First The Tea Planter’s The Tea Planter’s Time Daughter (Book One) Bride (Book Two) Elisa Lorello Janet MacLeod Trotter Janet MacLeod Trotter Romance Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 11/15/2016 Publication Date: 6/21/2016 Publication Date: 6/21/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 450 Page Count: 434 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: English, Languages Portuguese, Chinese, Portuguese, Chinese, German, Spanish, and German, Spanish, and Japanese Japanese

Novelists Jonathan Moss and Sage Merriweather Lush, green, fragrant: the Indian hills of Assam When Sophie is suddenly orphaned at the should be a perfect match. They share not only are full of promise. But eighteen-year-old age of six, she is taken from her parents’ tea the same publisher but also a deep friendship Clarissa Belhaven is full of worry. The family tea plantation, the only home she has ever known, full of mutual respect and encouragement. plantation is suffering, and so is her father, still to be raised halfway across the world in But when an ill-fated attempt at taking their grieving over the untimely death of his wife; Scotland. relationship to the next level fails in spectacular while Clarissa’s fragile sister, Olive, needs love fashion, it appears as though that once- and resourceful care. As the years pass and her exotic childhood treasured bond is doomed for good. becomes a distant memory, adventurous Sophie Beautiful and headstrong, Clarissa soon attracts finds refuge in her friendship with her kind, shy One year later, however, the duo gets a chance the attention of young, brash Wesley Robson, a cousin, Tilly. It is no surprise when the girls to salvage their relationship when Jonathan rival tea planter. Yet before his intentions follow each other to India to embark on new invites Sage on a do-over road trip from Phoenix become fully clear, tragedy befalls the adventures, new lives, and new loves. to Tacoma—the same trip that ended before it Belhavens, and the sisters are wrenched from began the year before. their beloved tea garden to the industrial streets But the reality of 1920s India is far removed of Tyneside. from their dream: the jungles are too humid, Reeling from the sudden death of her estranged and the breathtaking tea gardens too remote. father, Sage finally agrees, and the two embark A world away from the only home she has ever And among the stifling beauty, intrigue abounds; on a journey that will change their lives forever. known, Clarissa must start again. Using all her while Sophie struggles with affairs of the heart, As the pair moves ever closer to the truth about means, she must endure not only poverty but Tilly, alone in a difficult world, delves into the their feelings, both Jonathan and Sage have to jealousy and betrayal, too. Will the mystery of Sophie’s parents’ deaths. As the past decide what they really mean to each other...or reappearance of Wesley give her the link to her begins to darken their friendship, will long-held risk losing it all. old life that she so desperately craves? Or will a secrets shatter everything they’ve ever striven fast-changing world and the advent of war for? extinguish hope forever? Stay tuned for the third book in the series, which will be released in December 2016!

A House for Happy The Copenhagen Affair Mothers Amulya Malladi Amulya Malladi Romance Literary Fiction Publication Date: 10/3/2017 Publication Date: 6/1/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 316 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

A stunning new novel—full of wit and warmth—from the bestselling Bestselling author Amulya Malladi returns with her seventh novel, author of The Mango Season. full of the culture-rich, heart-filled characters she is known for.

In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs—a loving Sanya has been married to the seemingly perfect man, Harry, for husband, a career, and a home—but the one thing she wants most twenty years. An Indian by ethnicity but an American by passport— is the child she’s unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha Sanya has spent her life trying to be the good wife, good mother, doesn’t have much—raising two children in a tiny hut, she and her and good employee while not losing her identity completely. Harry, husband can barely keep a tin roof over their heads—but she wants in the meantime, has been climbing the corporate ladder, indulging a better education for her gifted son. Pressured by her family, Asha his love for money and power and an assortment of lovers. reluctantly checks into the Happy Mothers House: a baby farm where she can rent her only asset—her womb—to a childless couple Exiled to Copenhagen for a year where Harry is buying an IT overseas. To the dismay of friends and family, Priya places her company, and with their eighteen-year-old daughter finally out of faith in a woman she’s never met to make her dreams of the nest and back in the States, Sanya examines her life, her motherhood come true. marriage, and herself for the first time in a long time. Inconveniently, she also falls madly in love with Anders Ravn, Together, the two women discover the best and the worst that Harry’s nemesis and the man whose IT company her husband is India’s rising surrogacy industry has to offer, bridging continents trying to buy. High Copenhagen society, a white-collar crime, an and cultures to bring a new life into the world—and renewed hope affair with a married man, a scorned wife (or two), a friendly to each other. kidnapping, and a not-so-friendly showdown...it’s enough to tear apart the life Sanya thought she had settled into, but now sees she had settled for.

110 Redemption Series

Saving Sara Rescuing Rose The Grave Tender (Book One) (Book Two) Eliza Maxwell Nicola Marsh Nicola Marsh Mystery & Suspense Romance Romance Publication Date: 4/11/2017 Publication Date: 8/1/2016 Publication Date: 10/4/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 306 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

When Sara Hardy inherits a cottage in the small Rose Mathieson knows the only way is up. It has At ten years old, Hadley Dixon’s life changed town of Redemption, Connecticut, it is just the to be. She’s made some mistakes in her life, but forever. Since those few tragic weeks, she’s break she needs to draw a line under her past— almost losing her son is a wake-up call. More tried to keep the past buried, but old bones have to begin again, on her own. than that, it’s a call to action. It’s time to start a way of resurfacing. Grown now, Hadley can’t again. hide any longer: haunted by a boy who never Sara never thought she’d be starting over. She made it home; a woman who sings in moonlight was married, successful, and the mother of a The town of Redemption, Connecticut, seems to and dances in flames; and the strange, scarred beautiful girl. But the life she thought was on offer exactly what she craves: a quiet, stable recluse who watches it all from the shadow of the right path has taken a series of wrong turns… life for her and her six-year-old son, Olly. But the pines, the time has come for Hadley to pay Meanwhile, Jake Mathieson has a lot on his Redemption has changed since she last saw it—or for her sins. plate. Still reeling from a tragedy for which he perhaps it’s just Rose who has changed. Her feels responsible, he finds himself unexpectedly reputation precedes her now, and not everyone They say the truth will set you free, but caring for his six-year-old nephew. In is happy to see her back. sometimes it extracts a terrible price along the desperation, he comes to Redemption to enlist way. Is it a price Hadley’s willing to pay? the help of his aunt Cilla, a widow with demons Caden Shoreham is, though. Rose’s childhood of her own. neighbor, a preacher’s son, and now the pillar of The Grave Tender is a darkly moving tale with a the community, he’s embarking on an ambitious southern gothic feel. Jake is intrigued by Cilla’s cautious new new path of his own. He had always hoped they neighbor. Like him, Sara is desperate to put the might end up more than friends, but Rose past behind her but not quite sure how to begin. Mathieson isn’t quite what his parents and Can Redemption offer either of them a second friends had in mind for him. chance to find hope and happiness—perhaps even to take a risk on new love? Everyone deserves a chance—but has Rose used all her chances up?

A Scattered Life Easily Amused The Long Way Home Hello Love Karen McQuestion Karen McQuestion Karen McQuestion Karen McQuestion Family Life Family Life Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 8/10/2010 Publication Date: 9/21/2010 Publication Date: 5/1/2012 Publication Date: 9/16/2014 Page Count: 267 Page Count: 300 Page Count: 337 Page Count: 264 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German, Polish, and Turkish Rights Sold: German and Turkish Rights Sold: German, Korean, Polish, and Rights Sold: German, Korean, Spanish, Turkish and Turkish

In the vein of Anne Tyler, Jodi Picoult, Breezy and fun, Easily Amused serves as In this humorous, heartwarming, and “An enchanting, impossible-to-put- and Alice Munro, A Scattered Life is a gentle, amusing reminder that love bittersweet novel, four women bound down novel about big hearts and McQuestion’s satisfying debut. can often be found in the place we by chance take the trip of a lifetime. second chances.” —Claire Cook, USA least expect—under our very noses. Today bestselling author of Must Love Free spirit Skyla Plinka has found the For Wisconsinites Marnie, Laverne, and Dogs love and stability she always wanted in When twenty-nine-year-old Lola Watson Rita, life isn’t working out so well. her reliable husband, Thomas. Settling unexpectedly inherits a rambling house Each is biding time, waiting for A year after the death of his wife, in to her new roles as wife and mother, in the suburbs, she thinks it just may something better, something to Christine, Dan is barely holding on. But she finds life in rural Wisconsin be the cherry on a banner year. After transport them out of what their lives one thing gets him through the long, satisfying, but she can't seem to all, she’s happily single, with fabulous have recently become. And then lonely nights; and that is his cherished suppress her growing sense of friends and her dream job working at a there’s Jazzy: bubbly, positive, and dog, Anni. When she is stolen from his restlessness. Her only reprieve is her popular magazine. Life is perfect—until happy even though she hears voices of front yard, Dan and his daughter, friendship with her neighbor Roxanne, her new neighbors make her their new the departed. Brought together by a Lindsay, are devastated. Meanwhile, in who has five kids and a life in constant “project,” a heartbroken high school chance meeting, the women decide to another part of town, Andrea Keller is disarray. Much to the dismay of her friend crashes indefinitely at her house, join Marnie on a road trip from recovering from the heartbreak of a mother-in-law, Audrey, Skyla takes a and her younger sister announces she’s Wisconsin to Las Vegas, where she messy divorce. After she rescues a part-time job at the local bookstore getting married...on Lola’s thirtieth intends to reunite with Troy, the boy defenseless dog from an abusive and begins to rediscover her voice, birthday. Suddenly Lola’s not so keen she raised as her own—and whom she’s tenant, her life changes in ways she independence, and confidence. on her newfound domestic bliss. But been separated from since her never could have anticipated. Dan and Throughout one pivotal year in the life when she meets handsome, mysterious boyfriend’s death. Little do they know Andrea cross paths again and again, of Skyla, Audrey, and Roxanne, all Ryan Moriarty, Lola dares to hope she’s that as the road trip unfolds, so will only to keep missing each other and the three very different women will learn found the perfect guy to add a little their lives—in directions they never opportunity of a lifetime. what it means to love unconditionally. spice back into her life. anticipated.

111 Who We Were Before Been in Love Before Leah Mercer Bryan Mooney Family Life Romance Publication Date: 10/1/2016 Publication Date: 7/12/2016 Page Count: 266 Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: English, German, Rights Acquired: All Languages French, Italian, and Spanish

Zoe knows that it wasn’t really her fault. Of course it wasn’t. But if The Macgregor brothers—Robert, Eian, and Ryan—are all recently she’d just grasped harder, run faster, lunged quicker, she might widowed and forced to live together in Ryan’s beach house in sunny have saved him. And Edward doesn’t really blame her, though his Florida. To get them to reengage with the world, Ryan’s daughter, bitter words at the time still haunt her, and he can no more take Mary Kate, signs them up for dance lessons and insists that each them back than she can halt the car that killed their son. find a partner in time for her wedding.

Two years on, every day is a tragedy. Edward knows they should Robert, the eldest of the brothers, rediscovers an old friend who take healing steps together, but he’s tired of being shut out. For brings the spark back to his life. Eian, a former professional Zoe, it just seems easier to let grief lead the way. baseball player, takes another swing at love with the widow of his best friend. Ryan, the doctor in the family, hopes his beautiful new A weekend in Paris might be their last hope for reconciliation, but dance instructor can put the spring back in his step. But Mary mischance sees them separated before they’ve even left Gare du Kate’s fiancé is a member of the rival Campbell clan, and as the Nord. Lost and alone, Edward and Zoe must try to find their way wedding approaches, joyful anticipation turns into a heated family back to each other—and find their way back to the people they rivalry. were before. But is that even possible? Together, the Macgregor brothers will dance their way through first -date jitters and plenty of wrong moves as they try to save the wedding—and restart their lives.

Sweet Lake Novels Sweet Lake The Comfort of Secrets (Book One) (Book Two)

Christine Nolfi Christine Nolfi Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 2/28/2017 Publication Date: 7/18/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Lifelong female friendships. Small-town second chances. In the vein of Susan Mallery’s Blackberry Island and Mischief Bay series comes the second book in the Sweet Lake series. Island Linnie Wayfair knows just how many people are counting on her. Breeze is full of the feel-good, uplifting charm of The Quaker Café But knowing doesn’t make her doing any easier. and the heartwarming fun of The Bette Davis Club, filled with family lost, found, and forgiven; true-blue friendship; and finding Everyone in Sweet Lake, Ohio, wants her to muster all her business your way home again. sense and return the Wayfair Inn to its former glory. Her parents hope she’ll forgive her scoundrel of a brother and reconcile the Cat Romero believes in keeping life simple. Find the perfect man family. The eccentric Sweet Lake Sirens want her to open the inn— before her ovaries shrivel like raisins. Hang on to her sweet (and and her heart—to new possibilities. And her hilarious lifelong free) digs at the historic Wayfair Inn until customers begin friends Jada and Cat are dropping none-too-subtle hints for her to returning. And prove to best friends that she doesn’t have cotton ignite a romance with Daniel Kettering, the sexy attorney who’s candy between her ears. To that end, Cat hires Adworks. She’s been pining for her for years... certain the Columbus ad agency, owned by an old college buddy, will bring to life the marketing plan she’s devised for The Wayfair. Now a shocking turn of events will open old wounds and upend the world Linnie has carefully built. She has to make changes quickly— What she doesn’t expect are her feelings about Adwork’s Ryan and the results, though not entirely what she expected, might be DiAngelo, a green-eyed devil as dashing as he is acerbic. Although what she’s been yearning for all along. Ryan initially chafes at being saddled with a marketing campaign in Nowhere, Ohio, he’ll soon discover small-town life brings with it the protection of community and the love of a quirky young woman, if only he has the courage to believe.

112 All the Good Parts Life and Other Near- Loretta Nyhan Death Experiences Family Life Camille Pagán Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Romance Page Count: 338 Publication Date: 11/1/2015 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 254 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German and Simplified Chinese

At thirty-nine, Leona Accorsi is broke, single, back in school, and From critically acclaimed author Camille Pagán comes a hilarious living in her sister Carly’s basement. She’s perfectly content being and hopeful story about a woman choosing between a “perfect” quirky Auntie Lee to Carly’s four children. That is, until Leona’s life and actually living. doctor tells her that if she wants to have a child, she’d better do it now. Leona does want a baby. She always has, but the Libby Miller has always been an unwavering optimist—but when her circumstances have never been right. Now she has a huge decision husband drops a bomb on their marriage the same day a doctor to make: face motherhood on her own, or risk missing out on its delivers devastating news, she realizes her rose-colored glasses rewards. have actually been blinding her.

Unfortunately, she’s let her romantic life go stagnant. She barely With nothing left to lose, she abandons her life in Chicago for the even knows any single men. She has just a few prospects: a clear waters and bright beaches of the Caribbean for what might be Vietnam vet and partial amputee, his intimidating son, the sweet her last hurrah. Despite her new, sunny locale, her plans go awry but troubled man who tutors her niece, and a fellow nursing when she finds that she can’t quite outrun the past or bring herself student she’s never actually met. to face an unknowable future. Every day of tropical bliss may be an invitation to disaster, but with her twin brother on her trail and a As Leona discovers more about each one, she realizes any of them new relationship on the horizon, Libby is determined to forget could be the right man for the job. The more important question is, about fate. Will she risk it all to live—and love—a little longer? has she become the right woman?

Forever Is the Worst In the Light of What We Long Time See

Camille Pagán Sarah Painter Family Life Mystery & Suspense Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Publication Date: 3/8/2016 Page Count: 318 Page Count: 330 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

From acclaimed author Camille Pagán comes a wry, heartfelt Brighton, 1938: Grace Kemp is pushed away by the family she has exploration of love and loss. shamed. Rejected and afraid, she begins a new life as a nurse. But danger stalks the hospital, too, and she’ll need to be on her guard When struggling novelist James Hernandez meets poet Louisa “Lou” to avoid falling into familiar traps. And then there are the things Bell, he’s sure he’s just found the love of his life. There’s just one she sees... problem: she’s engaged to his oldest friend, Rob. So James toasts their union and swallows his desire. Strange portents that have a way of becoming real.

As the years pass, James’s dreams always seem just out of reach— Eighty years later, Mina Morgan is brought to the same hospital he can’t finish that novel, can’t mend his relationship with his after a near-fatal car crash. She is in terrible pain but recalls father, can’t fully commit to a romantic relationship. He just can’t nothing. She’s not even sure who to trust. Mina also sees things move on. But after betrayal fractures Lou’s once-solid marriage, others cannot, but now, while in the hospital, her visions are she turns to James for comfort. clearer than ever...

When Lou and James act on their long-standing mutual attraction, Two women, separated by decades, are drawn together by a shared the consequences are more heartbreaking—and miraculous—than space and a common need to salvage their lives. either of them could have ever anticipated. Then life throws James one more curveball; and he, Rob, and Lou are forced to come to terms with the unexpected ways in which love and loss are intertwined.

113 The Buried Book Star Sand D. M. Pulley Roger Pulvers Mystery & Suspense Literary Fiction Publication Date: 8/23/2016 Publication Date: 5/1/2016 Page Count: 412 Page Count: 206 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Japanese

A new suspense novel from the author of The Dead Key. In 1958, a diary is found in a cave on the small Japanese island of Hatoma. Alongside it are the remains of three people. When Althea Leary abandons her nine-year-old son, Jasper, he’s left on his uncle’s farm with nothing but a change of clothes and a The journal reveals the story of Hiromi, a sixteen-year-old girl Bible. who’d grown up in the United States before living in Japan in the midst of World War II. One day, while collecting star sand—tiny star- It’s 1952, and Jasper isn’t allowed to ask questions or make a fuss. shaped fossils—Hiromi finds two army deserters hiding in the seaside He’s lucky to even have a home and must keep his mouth shut and cavern—one American, one Japanese. The soldiers don’t speak the his ears open to stay in his uncle’s good graces. No one knows same language, but they’ve reached an agreement based on a where his mother went or whether she’s coming back. Desperate to shared hope: to cause no more harm and survive. Hiromi resolves to see her again, he must take matters into his own hands. From the care for the men—feeding them and nursing their ailments—despite farm, he embarks on a treacherous search that will take him to the the risk that, if caught, she’ll die alongside them as a traitor. But squalid hideaways of Detroit and back again, through tawdry when a fourth person joins in on their secret, they must face a taverns, peep shows, and gambling houses. threat from within. The diary abruptly ends, leaving everyone’s fate a mystery. As he’s drawn deeper into an adult world of corruption, scandal, and murder, Jasper uncovers the shocking past still chasing his Decades later, in 2011, a young female university student decides mother—and now it’s chasing him, too. to finally determine who died in that cave and who lived. Her search will lead her to the lone survivor—and bring closure to a gripping tale of heroism at a time when committing to peace was the most dangerous act of all.

A Quaker Café Novel Finding Heather Home to Cedar Branch Alison Ragsdale Brenda Bevan Remmes Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 10/11/2016 Publication Date: 1/19/2016 Page Count: 378 Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Heather Forester is losing her grip on reality. She turns up at the From Brenda Bevan Remmes comes the follow-up to the bestselling airport to meet her pilot husband, Brett—and then she remembers: novel, The Quaker Café. he’s not coming back. Brett died months ago, leaving her lost in the crippling, confusing maze of widowhood. After a betrayal ends in tragedy, Katy seeks refuge from her abusive husband, Hank, in her quiet hometown of Cedar Branch, Now alone with her seven-year-old twins, Heather craves the North Carolina. Taking up residence on the old family farm and support of her mother and brother, who are halfway across the landing a job at the local Quaker Café, she hopes to leave her world in Scotland. But when she moves her fractured family to her troubled past behind. homeland, their lives change in ways she never could have anticipated. At the café, Katy finds allies, kind people willing to protect her and offer advice. There’s the gracious owner who insists that manners As her children struggle to fit in to their new home, family, and prevail, the no-nonsense cook who tackles life with a cast-iron school, Heather also wrestles with the painful truth that she has frying pan, a Yankee transplant who doesn’t bow to convention, become a stranger in her own hometown. and a shrewd southern lawyer who sees a chance for Katy to profit from her predicament. But when Hank discovers her whereabouts, Surrounded by the rugged, breathtaking beauty of the Isle of Skye’s Katy’s newfound peace is broken. As a heated standoff involving rocky coastline, velvet moors, and lush forests, Heather must face Hank, local and federal law enforcement, and the media ensues, challenges old and new as she puts her life back together and how far will the Cedar Branch community go to avert violence and learns the healing power of family. save lives?

114 The Girl From Krakow Autumn in Oxford Alex Rosenberg Alex Rosenberg Historical Fiction Mystery & Suspense Publication Date: 9/1/2015 Publication Date: 8/30/2016 Page Count: 454 Page Count: 426 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, and Polish

It’s 1935. Rita Feuerstahl comes to the university in Krakow After being blacklisted for having communist sympathies as a intent on enjoying her freedom. But life has other things in store— student twenty years before, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Tom marriage, a love affair, a child, all in the shadows of the oncoming Wrought escapes America’s Cold War climate to teach at Oxford. war. When the war arrives, Rita is armed with a secret so enormous There, he falls in love with Liz Spencer, a beautiful married that it could cost the Allies everything, even as it gives her the will woman. When Liz’s husband is pushed in front of a train in the to live. She must find a way to keep her secret and also to survive London Underground, Tom is immediately arrested for the murder. amid the chaos of Europe at war. Living by her wits among the Scotland Yard is convinced it has its man, as he had means, motive, Germans as their conquests turn to defeat, she seeks a way to and opportunity. prevent the inevitable doom of Nazism from making her one of its last victims. Can her passion and resolve outlast the most powerful Certain of his innocence, Liz hires a young solicitor, Alice evil that Europe has ever seen? Silverstone, to defend Tom. But they discover that Tom’s former secret work as an American spy made him a number of powerful In an epic saga that spans from Paris in the 1930s and Spain’s civil enemies. Russian intelligence, British counterespionage, and even war to Moscow, Warsaw, and the heart of Nazi Germany, The Girl the FBI all may have reason to frame him. If Liz and Alice can find from Krakow follows one woman’s battle for survival as entire out who is behind the murder, they stand a chance of freeing Tom, nations are torn apart, never to be the same. but doing so puts all their lives at risk.

Love in Provence Beauty and Attention I Promise You This Liz Rosenberg (Book Three) Historical Fiction Patricia Sands Publication Date: 10/25/2016 Romance Page Count: 223 Publication Date: 5/17/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The riveting story of one brave young woman’s struggle to free Suddenly single after twenty-two years of marriage, the calm of herself from a web of deceit. Katherine Price’s midlife has turned upside down. Seeking to find her true self, she took a chance on starting over. A year later, she For misfit Libby Archer, social expectations for young women in is certain of this: she’s in love with Philippe and adores his idyllic Rochester, New York, in the mid-1950s don’t work. Her father has French homeland, where he wants her to live with him. died, leaving her without parents, and her well-meaning friends are pressuring her to do what any sensible single girl must do: marry a But all that feels like a fantasy far removed from Toronto, where passionate, persistent hometown suitor with a promising future. she’s helping her friend Molly, hospitalized after a life-threatening Yet Libby boldly defies conventional wisdom and plans to delay accident. Staying in her childhood home full of memories, marriage—to anyone—by departing for her uncle’s Belfast estate. In Katherine wonders: Is she really ready to leave everything behind Ireland, Libby seeks not only the comfort of family but also greater for an unknown life abroad? And if all her happiness lies with opportunities than seem possible during the stifling McCarthy era at Philippe, will it last? Can she trust in love again? home. Searching her heart, Katherine finds the pull of the familiar is Across the Atlantic, Libby finds common ground with her brilliant, stronger than she thought. An unexpected meeting with her ex—the invalid cousin, Lazarus, then puts her trust in a sophisticated older first time since his cruel departure—and a stunning declaration of woman who seems to be everything she hopes to become. Fraught love from an old flame spur her introspection. with betrayal and long-kept secrets, as well as sudden wealth and unexpected love, Libby’s journey toward independence takes turns With sunlit backdrops and plot twists as breathtaking as the she never could have predicted—and calls on courage and strength beaches of Antibes, author Patricia Sands brings her trilogy about she never knew she had. second chances to a provocative and satisfying close.

115 North of Here In Twenty Years Laurel Saville Allison Winn Scotch Literary Fiction Family Life Publication Date: 3/1/2016 Publication Date: 7/1/2016 Page Count: 271 Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

The sounds of unexpected tragedies—a roll of thunder, the crash of Glamour Best Reads of Summer Selection metal on metal—leave Miranda in shock amid the ruins of her An Us Weekly Trending Title broken family. Five former friends revisit their shared past to discover who they As she searches for new meaning in her life, Miranda finds quiet were then...and how far they have grown from who they hoped to refuge with her family’s handyman, Dix, in his cabin in the dark be. forests of the Adirondack Mountains. Dix is kind, dependable, and good with an ax—the right man to help the sheltered Miranda heal— Twenty years ago, six Penn students shared a house, naively but ultimately, her sadness creates a void even he can’t fill. certain that their friendships would endure—until the death of their ringleader and dear friend Bea splintered the group for good. Now, When Darius, the handsome idealist from her distant past, turns mostly estranged from one another, the remaining five reluctantly up, he offers Miranda a chance to do meaningful work at The gather at that same house on the eve of what would have been Source, a secluded property filled with his nature worshippers. Bea’s fortieth birthday. Miranda feels this charismatic guru is the key to remaking her life, but her grief and desire for love also create an opportunity for his But along with the return of the friends come old grudges, deception. And in her desperate quest to find herself after losing unrequited feelings, and buried secrets. almost everything, Miranda and Dix could pay a higher price than they ever imagined. Reunited in the place where so many dreams began, and bolstered by the hope of healing, each of them is forced to confront the past.

Between Me and You It Is Well Allison Winn Scotch James D. Shipman Romance Historical Fiction Publication Date: 6/27/2017 Publication Date: 11/1/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch returns Jonathan Beecher, a middle-aged widower and small-town store with her newest page-turning Women’s Fiction. owner, has never asked for much. But lately, all too much is being asked of him. The bombing of Pearl Harbor plunges America into Praise for In Twenty Years: World War II and deeply fractures Jonathan’s own family. His “Scotch hits a grand slam with this novel...With wonderfully eldest son, a civilian contractor, is trapped on a Japanese-occupied fleshed-out, relatable characters, this is an absolute must-read island in the Pacific. Jonathan’s feckless younger son ignores his that lovers of women's contemporary fiction will devour in one father’s pleas to stay home and joins the army. And his bright, sitting.”—Library Journal, Starred Review devoted daughter, who Jonathan hoped would go to college, elopes with a brutally abusive man instead. “Told from five vastly different perspectives of characters who are deeply developed and relatable in their flawed ways, this novel Jonathan has always met adversity with quiet faith, but as his captures the nostalgia many feel for the friendships and simple emotional and financial losses accumulate, so do his doubts. In the nature of youth...Heartfelt...Well written and memorable.”—RT midst of his pain, Sarah, a widow herself, emerges as a kind, Book Reviews compelling friend. Powerfully drawn to Sarah, Jonathan struggles to remain true to his late wife. James D. Shipman’s tender, wise “Allison Winn Scotch is the ultimate beach read. If you plan to sink novel examines the paradox of human suffering: how irrevocable your toes into the sand and need a fab book to kick back with...this loss, if we are willing to let it, begets spiritual gain. is the one.”—Parade

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Lift and Separate Pass the Brownies Marilyn Simon Rothstein Marilyn Simon Rothstein Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 12/1/2016 Publication Date: 12/12/2017 Page Count: 303 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Marcy Hammer’s life has been turned upside down. Her husband, In the vein of Mary Kay Andrews, Jennifer Weiner, and Nancy the head of a global brassiere empire, didn’t think twice about Meyers, comes the hilarious, heartwarming follow-up to Lift and leaving her after thirty-three years of marriage for a 32DD lingerie Separate. model. Now Harvey the Home-Wrecker is missing in action, but Marcy’s through thinking about what a cliché he is. What she needs Pass the Brownies features Marcy Hammer, a protagonist with now is a party-size bag of potato chips, a good support system, and chutzpah, as she navigates postdivorce life, adult children who rely a new dress. on her more than ever, and her own brand of sassiness through life’s pitfalls and triumphs. Striking out on her own is difficult at first, but Marcy manages to find traces of humor in her heartbreak. Even while devastated by Harvey’s departure, she still has her indomitable spirit and her self- respect. She has no intention of falling apart either, even when her adult children drop a few bombshells of their own, and she discovers a secret about her new, once-in-a-lifetime friend. Life may be full of setbacks, but by lifting herself up by her own lacy straps, Marcy just may be able to handle them all.

Finding Libbie One Wrong Turn Deanna Lynn Sletten Deanna Lynn Sletten Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 9/6/2016 Publication Date: 6/27/2017 Page Count: 331 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Poring over a dusty hatbox of photographs in her grandmother’s When his estranged wife, Jess, has a terrible accident leaving her closet, Emily Prentice is shocked to discover her father was lying in a coma, Clay Connors returns to his family to care for his married to his high school sweetheart before meeting her mother. two daughters. Clay has been separated from his family for almost two years; and his eldest daughter, Maddie, is resentful over his In the summer of 1968, Jack and Libbie fall in love under the spell being away. Sadly, his youngest, Jilly, barely remembers him. of their small town, untouched by the chaos of the late sixties. Though Libbie’s well-to-do parents disapprove of Jack’s humble Clay’s reasons for being gone now seem trivial and self-serving in family and his aspiration to become a mechanic, she marries Jack a the light of their family’s tragedy. The past washes over Clay as the year after they graduate high school. But soon their happiness memories of what led up to their separation envelop him, and his crumbles as Libbie’s mental state unravels, and she is drawn to future hangs in the balance over whether or not his wife will wake alcohol and drugs. Despite his efforts to help her, Jack loses the up. Can they be a family again, or is he too late? woman he loves and is forced to move on with his life.

Now that Emily’s mother has passed away, Jack is alone again, and Emily grows obsessed with the beautiful woman who had given her father such joy. Determined to find Libbie, Emily pieces together the couple’s fragmented past. But is it too late for happy endings?

117 The Daughters of Mad Love Palatine Hill Nick Spalding Phyllis T. Smith Chick Lit Historical Fiction Publication Date: 12/6/2016 Publication Date: 2/16/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 412 Rights Acquired: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish Rights Acquired: All Languages

Two years after Emperor Augustus’s bloody defeat of Mark Antony Can two people who have never met make a marriage work? and Cleopatra, he triumphantly returns to Rome. To his only child, Popular dating site Sociality thinks so, and is marrying London lad Julia, he brings an unlikely companion—Selene, the daughter of the Adam to California girl Jessica to prove it. conquered Egyptian queen and her lover. What better way to show that your “love algorithms” work than to Under the watchful eye of Augustus’s wife, Livia, Selene struggles put two complete strangers together in an expensive publicity to accept her new home among her parents’ enemies. Bound stunt? But, as livewire Jess and lazybones Adam quickly discover, together by kinship and spilled blood, these three women—Livia, just because a computer says you’re the perfect match, it doesn’t Selene, and Julia—navigate the dangerous world of Rome’s ruling make it so! elite, their every move a political strategy, their most intimate decisions in the emperor’s hands. Two million Sociality subscribers and the media are following the happy couple’s progress, and they have to make a go of it or they’ll Always suppressing their own desires for the good of Rome, each lose everything, look like idiots, and destroy Sociality’s reputation. must fulfill her role. For astute Livia, this means unwavering But can the mismatched pair, who seem to be constantly at each fidelity to her all-powerful husband; for sensual Julia, surrender to other’s throats, put their differences aside and work their way into an arranged marriage and denial of her craving for love and the each other’s hearts? pleasures of the flesh; for orphaned Selene, choosing between loyalty to her family’s killers and her wish for revenge. Can they Nick Spalding, bestselling author of Fat Chance and Bricking It, will survive Rome’s deadly intrigues, or will they be swept away by the make you cry with laughter at this story of marital warfare— perilous currents of the world’s most powerful empire? complete with sinking boats, badly aimed flatulence, well-aimed tennis balls, and some very suggestive pastry.

Sisters One, Two, Three Life Unexpected Nancy Star J.A. Stone Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 1/1/2017 Publication Date: 10/18/2016 Page Count: 354 Page Count: 358 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

After a tragic accident on Martha’s Vineyard, keeping secrets Corey Bennett knows how to handle loss: she buries her grief, just becomes a way of life for the Tangle family. With memories locked as she buried her loved ones. After losing her parents to a tragic away, the sisters take divergent paths. Callie disappears, Mimi car accident and then her husband to cancer, Corey has focused all keeps so busy she has no time to think, and Ginger develops a her attention on her career—first in law school and then on the lifelong aversion to risk that threatens the relationships she holds partner track at a prestigious Atlanta law firm. When her boss most dear. insists she take a vacation, Corey balks. But two weeks on the Florida Gulf Coast, where she reconnects with Tripp, a childhood When a whispered comment overheard by her rebellious teenage friend, prove to be profoundly rejuvenating. daughter forces Ginger to reveal a long-held family secret, the Tangles’ carefully constructed web of lies begins to unravel. Upon Torn between her workaholic patterns and a new urge to nurture, the death of Glory, the family’s colorful matriarch, and the return Corey starts to question all her past choices. What does she want of long-estranged Callie, Ginger resolves to return to Martha’s her life to be? And is she brave enough to say yes to love again? Vineyard and piece together what really happened on that calamitous day when a shadow fell over four sun-kissed siblings J.A. Stone’s graceful, big-hearted novel about one woman’s rebirth playing at the shore. Along with Ginger’s newfound understanding reveals that sometimes the greatest courage is required for the come the keys to reconciliation: with her mother, with her sisters, simplest act: choosing your own path. and with her daughter.

At turns heartbreaking, humorous, and hopeful, Sisters One, Two, Three explores not only the consequences of secrets—even secrets kept out of love—but also the courage it takes to speak the truth, to forgive, and to let go.

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Evelyn, After Call to Juno Beneath a Scarlet Victoria Helen Stone (Book Three) Sky Mystery & Suspense Elisabeth Storrs Mark T. Sullivan Publication Date: 11/1/2016 Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Page Count: 258 Publication Date: 4/19/2016 Publication Date: 4/11/2017 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 544 Page Count: TBD Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: English, Languages Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

Evelyn Tester is sleepwalking through her “An elegant, impeccably researched exploration Accomplished thriller writer Mark T. Sullivan has suburban life—until a late-night phone call of early Rome...Elisabeth Storrs weaves a penned an unforgettable World War II Historical, startles her awake. Her husband, a prestigious wonderful tale!” —Kate Quinn, author of The for readers of Anthony Doerr and Kristin Hannah. psychiatrist, has been in an accident. And he Empress of Rome saga isn’t alone. Young Pino Lella is thrust into the role of Four unforgettable characters are tested during unlikely hero during the last two tumultuous Suddenly Evelyn’s world isn’t as tidy as she a war between Rome and Etruscan Veii. Caecilia years of World War II. Pino, a typical Italian thought. And in the midst of it all is Juliette, not has long been torn between her birthplace of teenager, dreamed of girls and the kind of life only her husband’s secret lover but also his Rome and her adopted city of Veii. Yet faced he saw in movies, but the horrors of war forced patient. If news of the affair were to get out, it with mounting danger to her husband, children, him to grow up at seventeen. When the bombs would ruin more than just Evelyn’s marriage. and Etruscan freedoms, will her call to destroy reached his town, his family urged him to enlist, Although it’s a bitter pill for Evelyn to swallow, Rome succeed? Pinna has clawed her way from and he found himself embedded as an Allied spy protecting her family means staying silent—even prostitute to the concubine of the Roman deep inside the German High Command. Working if, as she begins to discover, the night of the general Camillus. Deeply in love, can she exert as a chauffeur and interpreter to a mysterious accident has consequences far more dangerous her own power to survive the threat of exposure Nazi general who sat at Hitler’s left hand, Pino than the unmasking of an affair. by those who know her sordid past? Semni, a became an integral part of the underground servant, seeks forgiveness for a past betrayal. railroad that smuggled Italian Jews over the Alps But the more Evelyn learns about Juliette’s Will she redeem herself so she can marry the to Switzerland and to safety. But when he meets picture-perfect life—complete with a handsome, man she loves? Marcus, a Roman tribune, is traditional hometown girl, Anna, he falls head unsuspecting husband—the more she yearns for tormented by unrequited love for another over heels and risks everything to be with her. revenge…and satisfaction. Her growing obsession soldier. Can he find strength to choose between Despite her fears, she finds a way to help him— fuels her rage, burning away her complacency. his cousin Caecilia and his fidelity to Rome? and their strength of their bond fuels their What will be left of her after it flames out? bravery. Who will overcome the treachery of mortals and gods?

Crooked Little Lies Faultlines Barbara Taylor Sissel Barbara Taylor Sissel Mystery & Suspense Mystery & Suspense Publication Date: 8/1/2015 Publication Date: 9/6/2016 Page Count: 391 Page Count: 304 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Italian

On a cool October morning, Lauren Wilder is shaken when she It’s the phone call every parent dreads: in the middle of the night, comes close to striking Bo Laughlin with her car as he’s walking Sandy Cline learns that her twenty-year-old son, Jordan, has been along the road’s edge. A young man well known in their small town in a car accident. Her nephew, Travis, was also in the car, along of Hardys Walk, Texas, Bo seems fine, even if Lauren’s intuition with Travis’s girlfriend. All three are alive—but barely. The car was says otherwise. Since the accident two years ago that left her brain smashed against a tree along a remote and winding road, beautiful in a fragile state, she can’t trust her own instincts—and neither can but deadly, in their rural Texas Hill Country town. her family. Then Bo vanishes, and as the search for him ensues, the police question whether she’s responsible. Lauren is terrified, not In the wake of the car crash, the close-knit family is tested like of what she remembers but of what she doesn’t. never before. Jenna, Travis’s mother, blames Jordan—as well as her sister, Sandy—after reports surface that Jordan had been Unable to trust herself and unwilling to trust anyone else, driving. As the young adults struggle to survive, tension between Lauren begins her own investigation into the mystery of Bo’s their parents escalates. But when trust is broken and a shocking disappearance. But the truth can prove to be as shocking as any lie, family secret is exposed, it creates a perfect storm of harrowing and as Lauren exposes each one—from her family and her friends— consequences. Rumors in the small town spread like wildfire. When she isn’t the only one who will face heart-stopping repercussions. details of the accident are questioned, Sandy and Jenna wonder if their family has been destroyed beyond repair.

As always, there’s much more to the story...if the family is to survive, they will have to come together to confront the terrible truth and overcome their pain. But are some betrayals unforgivable?

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The Undesirables Mrs. Saint and the Chad Thumann Defectives Historical Fiction Julie Lawson Timmer Publication Date: 10/18/2016 Family Life Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 8/1/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

In the winter of 1941 to 1942, Leningrad is under siege, and Karen Praised by Jodi Picoult, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and Christina Baker Hamilton, a seventeen-year-old American musician, finds herself Kline, up-and-coming women’s fiction star Julie Lawson Timmer trapped and struggling to survive. Throughout the city, people are returns with her third novel. dying of starvation and frostbite, and Karen knows that if she doesn’t escape immediately, she will share their fate. If she has At a crossroads, Markie’s life is turned upside down by an all- any hope of leaving Russia and reuniting with her fiancé, Bobby, in around unreliable ex-husband. Forced to confront her surprisingly New York, she must do the impossible: cross enemy lines and then fierce commitment to her own denial, her divorce, and her stow away. economic fall from grace—which Markie is desperate to hide—she and her moody and petulant teenage son, Jesse, rent a modest On her harrowing journey, Karen encounters Petr, a young home where she intends to lick her wounds and embrace isolation. conscripted Russian soldier. She isn’t sure she can trust him—he is But the fates have aligned, and Markie finds herself the focus of equally wary of her. But as the two join forces in order to stay her mysterious, imperious, and exceedingly nosy new European alive, an unexpected romance takes root. landlady’s agenda, a “project,” which needs fixing.

Now, as Karen gets closer to the reality of escape, she has a choice In this captivating and richly layered novel, Timmer brings into to make: will she return to a safe life in America with Bobby, or brilliant color two women from vastly different backgrounds and remain in war-torn Russia with Petr? eras, who are ultimately connected by their humanity, interior needs, and secrets. Markie’s journey to become whole again—to let down her guard and start anew—captivates as it plays out against her mission to understand who the seemingly intact Mrs. Saint really is.

Time and Regret Sister of Mine M.K. Tod Sabra Waldfogel Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publication Date: 8/16/2016 Publication Date: 3/22/2016 Page Count: 368 Page Count: 482 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

When Grace Hansen finds a box belonging to her beloved When two Union soldiers stumble onto a plantation in northern grandfather, she has no idea it holds the key to his past—and to Georgia on a warm May day in 1864, the last thing they expect is to long-buried family secrets. In the box are his World War I diaries see the Union flag flying high—or to be greeted by a group of freed and a cryptic note addressed to her. Determined to solve her slaves and their Jewish mistress. Little do they know that this place grandfather’s puzzle, Grace follows his diary entries across has an unusual history. towns and battle sites in northern France, where she becomes increasingly drawn to a charming Frenchman—and suddenly aware Twelve years prior, Adelaide Mannheim—daughter of Mordecai, the that someone is following her... only Jewish planter in the county—was given her own maid, a young slave named Rachel. The two became friends, and soon they Through her grandfather’s vivid writing and Grace’s own travels, a discovered a secret: Mordecai was Rachel’s father, too. picture emerges of a man very unlike the one who raised her: one who watched countless friends and loved ones die horrifically in As the country moved toward war, Adelaide and Rachel struggled battle, one who lived a life of regret. But her grandfather wasn’t to navigate their newfound sisterhood—from love and resentment the only one harboring secrets, and the more Grace learns about to betrayal and, ultimately, forgiveness. her family, the less she thinks she can trust them. Now, facing these Union soldiers as General Sherman advances nearer, their bond is put to the ultimate test. Will the plantation be spared? Or will everything they’ve lived for be lost?

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Crow Hollow Michael Wallace Historical Fiction Publication Date: 6/1/2015 Page Count: 345 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In 1676, an unlikely pair—a young Puritan widow and an English spy—journeys across a land where greed and treachery abound.

Prudence Cotton has recently lost her husband and is desperate to find her daughter, captured by the Nipmuk tribe during King Philip’s war. She’s convinced her daughter is alive, but cannot track her into the wilderness alone. Help arrives in the form of James Bailey, an agent of the crown sent to Boston to investigate the murder of Prudence’s husband and to covertly cause a disturbance that would give the king just cause to install royal governors. After his partner is murdered, James needs help, too. He strikes a deal with Prudence, and together they traverse the forbidding New England landscape looking for clues. What they confront in the wilderness—and what they discover about each other—could forever change their allegiances and alter their destinies.

Victoria Crossing Michael Wallace Historical Fiction Publication Date: 5/17/2016 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Driven from Ireland during the potato famine in 1851, Protestant Victoria MacPherson and Catholic Maeve O’Reilly find themselves thrown together aboard a Manhattan-bound ship. They arrive in New York City with only a small purse of silver and the promise that Maeve’s brother will find them there. But he’s nowhere to be found, and a scam artist cons the girls out of their savings, leaving the two destitute in the tenements of Lower Manhattan.

As the women claw their way up from seamstresses earning pennies a day to proprietresses starting their own shop, their success is endangered by the city’s corruption and a disgraceful secret that Victoria has been keeping from Maeve. Jealous rivals, religious prejudice, and the shocking revelation of Victoria’s shameful past threaten to reduce the women to rags. But will their strength, courage, and spirit be enough to help them survive and thrive once again?

Where We Fall Rochelle B. Weinstein Family Life Publication Date: 4/19/2016 Page Count: 306 Rights Acquired: All Languages

By all accounts, Abby Holden has it all. She’s the mother of a beautiful teenager and the wife of a beloved high school football coach. And all it took to achieve her charmed life was her greatest act of betrayal.

Coach Ryan can coax his team to victory, but he can’t seem to make his wife, Abby, happy. Her struggles with depression have marred their marriage and taken a toll on their daughter, Juliana. Although this isn’t the life he’s dreamed of, he’s determined to heal the rifts in his family.

Chasing waterfalls and documenting their beauty has led photographer Lauren Sheppard all around the world. Now it has brought her back home to the mountains of North Carolina—back to the scene of her devastating heartbreak.

For the first time in seventeen years, a trio of once-inseparable friends find themselves confronting past loves, hurts, and the rapid rush of a current that still pulls them together...

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The Things We Wish When We Were Worthy Were True Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Mystery & Suspense Mystery & Suspense Publication Date: 7/25/2017 Publication Date: 9/1/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In an idyllic small-town neighborhood, a near tragedy triggers a A thunderous, fiery crash—and the responding sirens—are heard series of dark revelations. throughout the small town of Worthy, Georgia (population 4,162) late one Friday night in October, shortly after the Worthy Wildcats From the outside, Sycamore Glen, North Carolina, might look like add another win to their season. The citizens of Worthy—a town the perfect all-American neighborhood. But behind the white united by football, family, and faith—later learn that the crash picket fences lies a web of secrets that reach from house to house. involved three cheerleaders and another student, a boy accused of racing his new Dodge Charger and causing the horrific tragedy. But Up and down the streets, neighbors quietly bear the weight of their did he? own pasts—until an accident at the community pool upsets the delicate equilibrium. And when tragic circumstances compel a This tragic event polarizes the town as accusations spin, allegiances woman to return to Sycamore Glen after years of self-imposed are formed and torn, and secrets emerge. At the center of this banishment, the tangle of the neighbors’ intertwined lives begins moving story are four women grappling with loss, regret, shame, to unravel. and lies. Each deals with the accident differently, handling the emotions—and consequences—as best they can as rumors spread, During the course of a sweltering summer, long-buried secrets are tensions run high, and fissures appear throughout this close-knit revealed, and the neighbors learn that it’s impossible to really town. know those closest to them. But is it impossible to love and forgive them?

The Perfect Son Echoes of Family Barbara Claypole White Barbara Claypole White Family Life Family Life Publication Date: 7/1/2015 Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Page Count: 398 Page Count: 414 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Italian

From a distance, Felix Fitzwilliam, the son of an old English family, Sometimes the only way through darkness is to return to where it is a good husband and father. But, obsessed with order and routine, began. he’s a prisoner to perfection. Disengaged from the emotional life of his North Carolina family, Felix has let his wife, Ella, deal with Marianne Stokes fled England at seventeen, spiraling into the manic their special-needs son by herself. depression that would become her shadow. She left behind secrets, memories, and tragedy: one teen dead; and her first love, Gabriel, A talented jewelry designer turned full-time mother, Ella is the badly injured. Three decades later she’s finally found peace in the family rock...until her heart attack shatters their carefully North Carolina recording studio she runs with her husband, Darius, structured existence. Now Harry, a gifted teen grappling with the and her almost-daughter, Jade...until another fatality propels her chaos of Tourette’s, confronts a world outside his parents’ control, back across the ocean to confront the long-buried past. one that tests his desire for independence. In her picturesque childhood village, the first person she meets is As Harry searches for his future, and Ella adapts to the limits of her the last person she wants to see again: Gabriel. Now the village failing health, Felix struggles with his past and present roles. To vicar, he takes her in without question, and ripples of “What if?” prevent the family from being ripped apart, they must each bend reverberate through both their hearts. As Marianne’s mind with the inevitability of change and reinforce the ties that bind. unravels, Jade and Darius track her down. Tempers clash when everyone tries to help, but only by finding the courage to face her illness can Marianne heal herself and her offbeat family.

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Little A is the literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry imprint of Amazon Publishing. From compelling novels, short story collections, and poetry collections to riveting memoirs and narrative nonfiction, Little A publishes titles that compel, challenge, and excite. Little A publishes critically acclaimed and award-winning writers like A.L. Kennedy, Matthew Salesses, Harold Schechter, and Ben Greenman, and talented debut authors like Eileen Curtright, David Hopson, and Viet Dinh.

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124 Halsey Street Naima Coster Literary Fiction Publication Date: 10/3/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

A powerful family drama from debut author Naima Coster.

Set against the backdrop of rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, Halsey Street charts a young woman’s return to her deteriorated family, the renewal of a neighborhood, and her struggle to live on the verge of change. In many ways, it is a love letter to Brooklyn, the old and the new.

Penelope Grand has been away from her home in Bed-Stuy for five years. She reluctantly returns to care for her disabled father, the once-legendary Ralph Grand, whose health has been failing since his record store closed and was replaced by an upscale health-food store. Penelope, an artist, refuses to live in her childhood home on Halsey Street—it reminds her too much of her mother, the beautiful, cruel, and enigmatic Mirella, who abandoned her family in New York for her native Dominican Republic five years earlier. Instead, Penelope rents a room from the Harpers, an affluent family new to the neighborhood. Between her attraction to the handsome young husband, her friendship with his lonely and precocious nine-year-old daughter, and the characters of her past, Penelope struggles to envision a new life, and a new identity, in a place she once called home.

In Brooklyn brownstones, on side streets of New York City, as well as in mountain shacks and the seaside estates of the Dominican Republic, Halsey Street weaves a story of memory and misunderstanding, the inexorable bonds of family, and the deeply human need to belong—to a place and to one another.

The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska Eileen Curtright Literary Fiction Publication Date: 12/1/2015 Page Count: 250 Rights Acquired: English and German

“Curtright’s debut novel is screamingly funny...Midwestern pragmatism meets lusty debauchery in this lively tale of parenting in a small town.” —Kirkus Reviews

There are no secrets in a small town. For someone like Rebecca, that can get awkward.

Rebecca Meer’s hometown of Ward, Nebraska, is small—so small she can’t even sneak home after a drunken girls’ night without running into at least three people she knows. But she has bigger problems than her reputation. The head doctor at her fertility clinic is losing his mind, and his wild behavior could cost them the business. Her supersuccessful ex-boyfriend has blown back into town and somehow become her son’s fifth-grade teacher—now her son is asking awkward questions about the end of their relationship. Rebecca can’t even run the PTA’s annual food drive without getting mixed up with criminals.

In Eileen Curtright’s astute comedy, we see just how far a stressed-out single parent will go to be the “perfect” mother.

125 After Disasters Viet Dinh Literary Fiction Publication Date: 9/1/2016 Page Count: 284 Rights Acquired: All Languages

One of The Millions’s “most anticipated” books for the second half of 2016.

“Make shelf space for Dinh’s stupendous debut, which is bound to appear on this year’s lists of award nominations and best-of compilations.” —Booklist, Starred Review

Beautifully and hauntingly written, After Disasters is told through the eyes of four people in the wake of a life-shattering earthquake in India. An intricate story of love and loss weaves together the emotional and intimate narratives of Ted, a pharmaceutical salesman turned member of the Disaster Assistance Response Team; his colleague Piotr, who still carries with him the scars of the Bosnia conflict; Andy, a young firefighter eager to prove his worth; and Dev, a doctor on the ground racing against time and dwindling resources. Through time and place, hope and tragedy, love and lust, these four men put their lives at risk in a country where danger lurks everywhere.

O. Henry Prize–winning author Viet Dinh takes us on a moving and evocative journey through an India set with smoky funeral pyres, winding rivers that hold prayers and the deceased, and the rubble of Gujarat, a crumbling place wavering between life and death. As the four men fight to impose order on an increasingly chaotic city, where looting and threats of violence become more severe, they realize the first lives they save might be their own.

I Wore My Blackest Hair Carlina Duan Poetry Collection Publication Date: 11/14/2017 Page Count: 64 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In I Wore My Blackest Hair, Fulbright Grant and Edna Meudt Memorial Award recipient Carlina Duan delivers a haunting debut collection of poetry. With humor and bite, Duan’s autobiographical poems tackle racism in America, ancestry and history, and the complexities of burgeoning womanhood. They explore difficult truths with grace and earnestness.

I Wore My Blackest Hair is an honest portrait of a girl in between—identities, places, and desires—and her question of how to belong. A bilingual speaker of Mandarin Chinese and English who was raised in the Midwest, Duan moves seamlessly from the personal to the imaginative to the universal, heralding a bold new necessary voice.

Actors Anonymous James Franco Literary Fiction Publication Date: 10/15/2013 Page Count: 295 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German, Italian, Turkish, and UK (English) The actors in James Franco’s brilliant debut novel include a McDonald’s drive-through operator who spends his shift trying on accents; an ex-child star recalling a massive beachside bacchanal; hospital volunteers and Midwestern transplants; a vampire-flick starlet who discovers a cryptic book written by a famous actor gone AWOL; and the ghost of River Phoenix. Then there’s Franco himself, who prowls backstage, peering out between the lines—before taking the stage with fascinating meditations on his art, along with nightmarish tales of excess.

“Hollywood has always been a private club,” he writes. “I open the gates. I say welcome. I say, Look inside.”

Told in a dizzying array of styles—from lyric essays and disarming testimonials to hilariously rambling text messages and ghostly footnotes—and loosely modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous’s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Actors Anonymous is an intense, wild ride into the dark heart of celebrity.

126 A Small Revolution Jimin Han Literary Fiction Publication Date: 5/16/2017 Page Count: 207 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In this powerful, page-turning debut, Jimin Han deftly shows that revolutions— whether big or small, in the world or of the heart—can have an impact that lasts through time and spans the oceans.

On a beautiful Pennsylvania fall morning, a gunman holds college freshman Yoona Lee and three of her classmates hostage in the claustrophobic confines of their dorm room. The desperate man with his finger on the trigger—Yoona’s onetime friend, Lloyd Kang—is unraveling after a mysterious accident in Korea killed his closest friend, Jaesung, who was also the love of Yoona’s life.

As the tense standoff unfolds over twelve hours, Yoona is forced to revisit her past, from growing up in an abusive household to the upheaval in her ancestral homeland to unwittingly falling in love. She must also confront the truth about what happened to Jaesung on that tragic day, even as her own fate hangs in the balance.

Through scenes of political upheaval and protests in South Korea, spirited conversations in cramped teahouses, and the quiet moments that happen when two people fall in love, A Small Revolution is a moving narrative brimming with longing, love, fear, and—ultimately—hope.

The Eagle Tree Ned Hayes Literary Fiction Publication Date: 5/1/2016 Page Count: 272 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese

Informed by the author’s experience teaching young people with autism, The Eagle Tree is a rare and important story about the power of a single ponderosa pine told in the voice of a fourteen-year-old autistic boy.

March Wong knows everything there is to know about trees and forest ecology. The only thing he likes better than reading about trees is climbing them, which he does every day, much to his mother’s well-founded anxiety—for he recently injured himself so badly in a fall that the Department of Social Services is considering removing him from his home. When he learns that the Eagle Tree, a monolithic ponderosa pine near his Olympia, Washington, home, will be cut down before he’ll be able to climb it, March panics, and he must enlist the aid of an unlikely group of supporters ranging from his mother and uncle, to his classmates and quarrelsome next-door neighbor, to save it. But even if March can save the Eagle Tree, will he ever be able to climb it if his mother loses custody?

Intertwining themes of humanity and ecology, The Eagle Tree eloquently explores what it means to be part of a family, a society, and the natural world that surrounds and connects us.

127 All the Lasting Things David Hopson Literary Fiction Publication Date: 3/1/2016 Page Count: 318 Rights Acquired: All Languages

David Hopson’s All the Lasting Things is a beautiful, moving family portrait that explores the legacy we all stand to leave—in our lives, in our work—and asks what those legacies mean in a world where all the lasting things do not last.

The Fisher family of Alluvia, New York, is coming undone. Evelyn spends her days tending to her husband, Henry—an acclaimed and reclusive novelist slowly losing his battle with Alzheimer’s. Their son, Benji, onetime star of a 1980s sitcom called Prodigy, sinks deeper into drunken obscurity, railing against the bit roles he’s forced to take in uncelebrated regional theater. His sister, Claudia, tries her best to shore up her family even as she deals with the consequences of a remarkable, decades-old secret that’s come to light. When the Fishers mistake one of Benji’s drug-induced accidents for a suicidal cry for help, Benji commits to playing a role he hopes will reverse his fortune and stall his family’s decline. Into this mix comes Max Davis, a twentysomething cello virtuoso and real-life prodigy, whose appearance spurs the entire family to examine whether the secrets they thought were holding them all together may actually be what’s tearing them apart.

City of Spies Sorayya Khan Literary Fiction Publication Date: 9/12/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

City of Spies is a coming-of-age drama set in Pakistan in the late seventies. This was a period of intensifying anti-American sentiment, one that reflects the core of today’s geopolitics. The story follows a young Dutch-Pakistani schoolgirl attending the American School in Islamabad who is torn by conflicting cultural loyalties as she struggles to make sense of her turbulent world.

Aliya Shah is best friends with Lizzy, a classmate at the American School of Islamabad and the daughter of a US diplomat. After a hit-and-run accident takes the life of a young boy related to Aliya’s family, Aliya secretly discovers that Lizzy’s mother is the driver. The ensuing events unfold over thirty tumultuous months in Pakistan’s history that include a military coup d’état, the trial and hanging of former prime minister Bhutto, and finally, a deadly attack on the US Embassy in Islamabad.

The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves James Han Mattson Literary Fiction Publication Date: 10/10/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves is a raw and moving literary novel about guilt and grief in the digital age. The novel tells the story of a small-town high school shooting from the perspectives of six people with differing relations to the perpetrator, one of whom has only communicated with the shooter via a gay chat site. Through a unique combination of first-person narrative and chat-room messages, James Han Mattson shows how the Internet plays a role in communication by fueling the characters’ feelings of both connection and disconnection. At the same time, as the story unfolds, the author masterfully unveils Ricky’s deep and unrequited love for his victim and his utter inability to properly channel his overwhelming and confusing emotions.

“In The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves, six intertwining narratives form a blistering tapestry of love, loss, and tragedy, remind us that sexual identity remains a ferocious struggle for many small-town youths. In his remarkable debut, James Mattson both enthralls and horrifies, using the backdrop of a high school shooting to illustrate grief and longing in the age of digital communication.” —T. Geronimo Johnson, author of Welcome to Braggsville (William Morrow), National Book Award Nominee

128 Intrusion Mary McCluskey Literary Fiction Publication Date: 7/1/2016 Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Hungarian

“This novel raises comparisons to Gone Girl and some of the other recent stories about characters who aren't who they seem, but McCluskey's beautiful prose elevates it above most of them... Haunting and lyrical, understated and true.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

A loving couple, grieving the loss of their son, finds their marriage in free fall when a beautiful, long-lost acquaintance inserts herself into their lives.

Kat and Scott Hamilton are dealing with the hardest of losses: the death of their only child. While Scott throws himself back into his law practice in Los Angeles, Kat is hesitant to rejoin the workplace and instead spends her days shell-shocked and confused, unable to focus.

When an unwelcome face from Kat’s past in England emerges—the beautiful and imposing Sarah Cherrington—Kat’s marriage is thrown into a tailspin. Now wealthy beyond anything she could have imagined as a girl, Sarah appears to have everything she could need or want. But Sarah has an agenda, and she wants one more thing. Soon Kat and Scott are caught up in her devious games and power plays.

Against the backdrops of Southern California and Sussex, in spare and haunting prose, Mary McCluskey propels this domestic drama to its chilling conclusion.

The Practice House Laura McNeal Historical Fiction Publication Date: 2/28/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Laura McNeal’s novel is a monumental love story that is, like Aldine McKenna herself, deeply human and truly unforgettable.

Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna lives with her sister and aunt in small-town Scotland in 1929. The girls are mostly stuck at home completing their aunt’s chores, utterly bored. When Aldine’s sister meets an American Mormon missionary and moves to New York with him, Aldine makes the trip as well, with the promise of a job.

Feeling restless and out of place living with her sister and brother-in-law, Aldine answers an advertisement soliciting a teacher for a one-room schoolhouse in rural Kansas. What she doesn’t realize is that in the Midwest, farms have already begun to fail. Schools don’t have enough money either to pay or house teachers, so Aldine must live with the family of the married man who advertised for a new teacher: Ansel Price. But just as Aldine begins to settle into her new life in the Great Plains, she and Ansel fall in love despite their best intentions, and Aldine’s future is suddenly put in jeopardy.

129 North Haven Sarah Moriarty Literary Fiction Publication Date: 5/30/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

In Sarah Moriarty’s North Haven, four adult siblings (and one significant other) cope with grief over the loss of their parents, and anxiety about the future, trying to help and not hinder one another in the process.

Having just lost both of their parents, the siblings must now contend with their inheritance of the family's sprawling summer house on the Fox Island Thoroughfare in Maine, as they try to make sense of, and peace with, inheritances of a more emotional kind. North Haven is what you might get if you crossed Susan Minot’s bittersweet valentine to North Haven, Maine, Evening, with the explorations of “siblinghood” redefined that Dave Eggers gave us in his own first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

We’re All Damaged Matthew Norman Literary Fiction Publication Date: 6/1/2016 Page Count: 284 Rights Acquired: All Languages

“A smart, funny, and surprisingly emotional tale about letting go and moving on.” —Kirkus Reviews

Andy Carter was happy. He had a solid job. He ran 5Ks for charity. He was living a nice, safe Midwestern existence. And then his wife left him for a handsome paramedic down the street.

We’re All Damaged begins after Andy has lost his job, ruined his best friend’s wedding, and moved to New York City, where he lives in a tiny apartment with an angry cat named Jeter that isn’t technically his. But before long he needs to go back to Omaha to say good-bye to his dying grandfather.

Back home, Andy is confronted with his past, which includes his ex, his ex’s new boyfriend, his right-wing talk-radio-host mother, his parents’ crumbling marriage, and his still-angry best friend.

As if these old problems weren’t enough, Andy encounters an entirely new complication: Daisy. She has fifteen tattoos, no job, and her own difficult past. But she claims she is the only person who can help Andy be happy again, if only she weren’t hiding a huge secret that will mess things up even more. Andy Carter needs a second chance at life, and Daisy—and the person Daisy pushes Andy to become—may be his last chance to set things right.

130 Rummage Ife Chudeni A. Oputa Poetry Collection Publication Date: 8/29/2017 Page Count: 65 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In an astounding debut poetry collection, Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Lambda Literary fellow Ife Chudeni A. Oputa presents a relentless but subtle portrait of one young woman’s journey toward self-discovery.

Oputa’s poems explore the eternal themes of the human condition—nature, origin, memory, shame, identity, desire, mortality—with sensitivity and specificity. They illuminate the ways that her characters inflict and experience pain, and how we must face our shame in order to grow. No voice is blameless, no person is exempt. Divided into four sections, the collection reads as a life cycle of emotional metamorphosis: girlhood and sexuality, trauma, relationships, and grief.

Rummage is a wildly courageous and lyrical book, full of music, metaphor, and the power of memory.

Midair Kodi Scheer Literary Fiction Publication Date: 8/1/2016 Page Count: 226 Rights Acquired: All Languages

“Anyone appreciative of dark stories will fly through Midair.” —The Huffington Post

“I had a secret: I wanted to leave the earth in a spectacular fashion. Specifically, by leaping from the Eiffel Tower.” So begins this provocative coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl bent on self-destruction and revenge during a trip to Paris. Girls meets Lord of the Flies, Midair explores friendship, sex, and despair in the City of Light.

It’s the summer of 1999, the end of a millennium. In the mind of Nessa Baxter, a girl from rural Illinois, Paris is the remedy for all her woes. The death of her beloved brother and the betrayal by her classmate Kat has left Nessa bereft and doubtful about her future. She plans to exact revenge on Kat during their renegade French Club trip. Along with classmates Whitney and Kiran, the four girls embark on a series of misadventures in Paris. As part of her plan, Nessa starts a game of Truth or Dare that spirals out of control.

A suspenseful psychological drama, Midair is the story of a young girl’s descent into darkness and the secrets we keep, even from ourselves.

“Midair is a wonderful, quick read that thoroughly shocks readers with an unexpected ending.”—New York Daily News

131 The King of Taksim Square Emrah Serbes Contemporary Fiction Publication Date: 1/1/2016 Page Count: 362 Rights Acquired: English, Italian, and Spanish

From bestselling author Emrah Serbes comes a hilarious, poignant story of a teen’s struggle to find his place and launch his sister’s star amid Turkey’s real-life fight for freedom. The King of Taksim Square was originally published in Turkish and has been translated into English by Mark David Wyers.

Seventeen-year-old Çağlar is just another apathetic teenager—except when it comes to his sister, Çiğdem, who he believes is the world’s most beautiful and brilliant nine-year-old. Determined to display her genius, Çağlar grooms Çiğdem’s talent into a perfect Michael Jackson impersonation and pursues a sure route to fame: YouTube.

Tragically, Çağlar’s efforts are sabotaged by a little incident internationally known as the Taksim riots. Now it seems that everyone’s too busy watching the people’s uprising unfold to click on Çiğdem’s video. That leaves Çağlar only one recourse: he will have to use the riots to his advantage. After all, who wouldn’t want to watch a child doing the moonwalk against the backdrop of political unrest? But as Çağlar strives to showcase his sister, he finds himself pulled into the heart of the uprising and discovers that he may just have talent of his own.

This Is the Night Jonah C. Sirott Literary Fiction Publication Date: 11/1/2015 Page Count: 366 Rights Acquired: English and German

In a world at war, four youths try to determine what’s really worth fighting for. For more than twenty years, the Homeland has been immersed in a brutal, unwinnable war. Young men are drafted and sent to fight in a faraway jungle. Those who come back are scarred in body and mind. Lance, two weeks shy of turning eighteen, has watched his older brothers leave and his mother fall apart when they fail to return. He’s never imagined a different future for himself—until he meets an idealistic young woman named Lorrie and impulsively flees town with her.

In Western City North, on the edge of the Homeland, Lance and Lorrie move in to the same building as Benny and Joe, two friends up for induction. Along with Alan, a young runaway, they frantically evade Registry agents intent on tracking down draft dodgers. With induction day looming and paranoia rampant, the only way for any of them to stay free is to uncover the truth about their uncertain world— and the forces seeking to control it. Jonah C. Sirott’s breathtaking debut is about hope, survival, and the challenge of pushing past the limits our world draws around us.

Grave of Hummingbirds Jennifer Skutelsky Literary Fiction Publication Date: 1/1/2016 Page Count: 206 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Conjuring shades of Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, or even Neil Gaiman, Grave of Hummingbirds is a mesmerizing novel of dreams and demons, beauty and blood. In a country that keeps secrets and buries sins, a stranger learns the price of both.

In the remote Andean village of Colibrí, a boy discovers what appears to be the body of an angel. But in the face and wounds of the dead, winged woman, Dr. Gregory Moreno sees something even more disturbing: an uncanny resemblance to his beloved late wife that cannot be mere chance. And in American anthropologist Sophie Lawson, still more echoes of the doctor’s lost love stir...igniting the superstitions of the townspeople, and an elusive killer’s deepest desires and despair.

When Sophie vanishes, her son and Dr. Moreno must navigate the streets, politics, and mysteries of a place where tortured ghosts and strange omens exist side by side with mortals both devout and corrupt. But they may need nothing less than a miracle to save Sophie from sacrifice at the altar of a madman’s twisted passion.

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The Oddfits (Book One) Tiffany Tsao Literary Fantasy Publication Date: 2/1/2016 Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Eight-year-old Murgatroyd Floyd doesn’t fit in—not as a blue-eyed blonde living in Singapore, not in school, and certainly not with his aloof expatriate parents, who seem determined to make his life even harder. Unbeknownst to him, there’s a reason why he’s always the odd boy out: he is an Oddfit, a rare type of human with access to the More Known World, a land invisible to most people. Yet unfortunate circumstances keep Murgatroyd stranded in the Known World, bumbling through life with the feeling that an extraordinary something is waiting for him just beyond reach.

Seventeen years later, that something finally arrives when a secret organization dedicated to exploring the More Known World invites Murgatroyd on a mission. But as the consummate loser begins to grow into the Oddfit he was meant to be, the Known World becomes bent on exterminating him. For once in his underachieving life, will Murgatroyd Floyd exceed expectations and outsmart those trying to thwart his stupendous destiny?

The More Known World (Book Two) Tiffany Tsao Literary Fantasy Publication Date: 8/29/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Murgatroyd Floyd joined the Quest to set out on the most wonderful adventure of his life. But the greatest adventures are also the most dangerous. When several Questians go missing and rumor spreads through the More Known World that a tribe of native savages is responsible for the disappearances, Murgatroyd sets out to investigate.

In the long run, the villains are vanquished and the heroes have won—but Murgatroyd begins to wonder whether he really is the hero. As with the worlds, there is more to the Quest than what initially meets the eye. But undisclosed, its truths may prove too terrible to bear.

Kings of Broken Things Theodore Wheeler Historical Fiction Publication Date: 8/15/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: English and German

A powerful literary debut, Kings of Broken Things follows two young immigrants as they come of age in the years leading up to the Omaha Race Riot of 1919. Tensions are high. Wounded soldiers are returning from war, but their jobs have been filled by black migrants from the south; prohibition is looming; and a ruthless political machine wields enormous power, manipulating the unrest and corrupting thousands. Karel Miihlstein and Jake Strauss are just boys when they land in Omaha, but each is in search of something greater than himself—and in this pursuit, they are caught in a political scheme to incite a race riot and a lynching, and find themselves at the heart of a singular historical moment and one of America’s most tragic episodes.

“Set during the Red Summer, Kings of Broken Things perfectly encapsulates both the frailty and darkness of the volatile period that saw the end of World War I, the shift from an agrarian to industrial society, Heartland baseball, and the brutal lynching of Will Brown that led to the Omaha Race Riot. Powerful and resonant, this book’s relevance, in the context of today’s concerns, cannot be overstated.” —Julie Iromuanya, author of Mr. and Mrs. Doctor

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134 Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders that America Forgot Michael Arntfield Nonfiction—Narrative Publication Date: 11/7/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the fall of 1967, eighteen-year-old Christine Rothschild moved from the famed Windy Cindy to the University of Wisconsin in the so-called Mad City—the hippie college town of Madison, Wisconsin.

By final exams, Christine would be dead, horrifically murdered on campus on her way to Sunday School. In the following years, seven more women will be murdered and mutilated on or near the university campus—all cases unsolved. With a Midwest city left reeling and a police force bewildered, linking the slayings to the work of a fictional local ripper dubbed the “Capital City Killer,” Christine’s roommate Linda Tomaszewski knew better. She hit the road to begin a dark odyssey, committing the rest of her life to finding—and catching—Christine’s real murderer.

Soon discovering that Christine wasn’t his first victim, Linda would begin a desperate game of cat and mouse with a serial killer no one but her ever went looking for, and who until now, no one ever knew existed. Following a series of cryptic clues left by the killer’s own mother—clues hidden in the pages of a children’s book she penned to warn others—Linda would make it her life’s work to make sure he never killed again. All the while, back in Madison, the murders carry on...and on.

The Riots Calvin Baker Nonfiction—Political Publication Date: 6/6/2017 Page Count: TBD

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The summer of 2017 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the urban riots that tore many of America’s cities apart, and led residents into violent conflict with police over issues of brutality and discrimination. Nowhere did those battles rage with more intensity than in Newark, where twenty-six deaths and millions of dollars in damage set the city on a long-term course of disaster and recovery. The Riots will tell the story of how far we have—and haven’t—come as a country in the intervening half century. Through on-the -ground reporting and thoughtful commentary, Calvin Baker will turn a novelist’s eye onto the root causes of the urban crisis set into motion by the riots, and measure the movement forward and backward in the intervening years, through the prism of Newark’s experience.

A Marriage in Dog Years Nancy Balbirer Nonfiction—Memoir Publication Date: 8/8/2017 Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A Marriage in Dog Years is a memoir about a once-happily married woman searching for answers after losing her husband and their beloved dog in the same year. Nancy Balbirer’s eleven-year-old dog, Ira, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given just days to live. Nancy’s marriage to her husband is also eleven years old—and the puppy had been their wedding gift to each other, their first brush with parenthood. As it happens, Ira will go on to live twelve more months, but just as unexpectedly, those will also be the last of the marriage. Nancy is about to lose her two best friends.

During their final tentative walks, Nancy reflects on the experiences they’ve all shared over the last dozen years, from the casual daily miracles to the major milestones that make up a family history. A Marriage in Dog Years explores the lengths to which we’ll go to keep love alive, and the power that surrender has to make us stronger, better people.

135 The Age of Daredevils Michael Clarkson Nonfiction—Narrative Publication Date: 10/1/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

At the dawn of the twentieth century, a small but determined band of barrel jumpers risked their lives in one of the world’s most wondrous waterfalls. Only a few survived.

By turns a family drama and an action-adventure story, The Age of Daredevils chronicles the lives of the men and women who devoted themselves to the extraordinary sport of jumping over Niagara Falls in a barrel—a death-defying gamble that proved a powerful temptation to a hardy few.

Internationally known in the 1920s and ’30s for their barrel-jumping exploits, the Hills were a father-son team of daredevils who also rescued dozens of misguided thrill seekers and accident victims who followed them into the river. The publicity surrounding the Hills’ spectacular feats ushered in tourism, making Niagara Falls the nation’s foremost honeymoon destination, but ultimately set Red Hill Jr. on a perilous path to surpass his father’s extraordinary leaps into the void.

Like the works of Jon Krakauer and David McCullough, The Age of Daredevils explores the primal force of fear and the thirst for adventure that drive humans to the brink of death to see if they can somehow escape.

You Have the Right to Remain Innocent James Duane Nonfiction—Political Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Page Count: 154 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police—especially if you are innocent and wish to stay out of trouble with the law. In this timely, relevant, and pragmatic new book, he expands on that presentation, offering a vigorous defense of every citizen’s constitutionally protected right to avoid self-incrimination. Getting a lawyer is not only the best policy, Professor Duane argues, it’s also the advice law-enforcement professionals give their own kids.

Using actual case histories of innocent men and women exonerated after decades in prison because of information they voluntarily gave to police, Professor Duane demonstrates the critical importance of a constitutional right not well or widely understood by the average American. Reflecting the most recent attitudes of the Supreme Court, Professor Duane argues that it is now even easier for police to use your own words against you.

This lively and informative guide explains what everyone needs to know to protect themselves and those they love.

“Well-informed, scary, sobering, and sure to tick off police officers and prosecutors even as it contributes to keeping innocent people out of jail.” —Kirkus Reviews

136 Emotional Rescue Ben Greenman Nonfiction—Pop Culture Publication Date: 8/1/2016 Page Count: 250 Rights Acquired: All Languages

“Reading Emotional Rescue is like peeking into a stranger’s playlist when he’s not around, and then talking to him about it when he is around. Music is the kind of thing that should be felt, discussed, and digested, and Ben Greenman does that here—all the while making the case that pop music (all kinds of it, from hip-hop to country, from power-pop to blues) teaches us everything we know about human relationships. I have always known how much he cares about pop music, and now I know why.” —Questlove

What songs have made up your life’s sound track? Which have captured your every mood and deepest sentiments? Pop music, like no other form of entertainment or art, is capable of articulating our feelings, desires, joy, and pain. In a few soul-grabbing minutes, artists from every genre—from Little Richard to Lou Reed, Willie Nelson to Wu-Tang Clan, Sly and the Family Stone to the Rolling Stones—can help us understand our place in our own lives.

This collection of short, sharp essays by New York Times bestselling author Ben Greenman (Mo’ Meta Blues), organized around a thematic playlist of songs, serves as a reminder of the lyrical power of songwriting and the sonic ability of pop to capture the human experience. Greenman’s wit, insight, and honesty are as sweet and satisfying as the hits (and the deep cuts) at the center of each essay.

The Blue Period Luke Jerod Kummer Nonfiction—Narrative Publication Date: 10/10/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

The Blue Period will explore a crucial turning point in art history through a portrait of the great artist, Pablo Picasso, as a very young man.

At the dawn of the twentieth century—before Paris became a hotbed of artistic expression, and long before Pablo Picasso’s groundbreaking work in cubism began—the young artist, barely an adult, came to Paris from Barcelona and began painting models, and interacting with them. He and another painter shared an apartment and studio, and quickly became involved with a young woman they’d both painted. The love triangle that evolved eventually led to the suicide of Picasso’s friend, a death that plunged the nineteen-year-old Picasso into a deep depression. From that emerged what art historians now call “The Blue Period,” thought by many to be a reference to his palette, but in fact encompassing the early, dark mood that beset Picasso—until true love saved him at last, and led to the Rose Period that first brought him fame.

137 Hemingway Didn’t Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations Garson O’Toole Historical Publication Date: 4/11/2017

Page Count: 400 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Everywhere you look, you’ll find viral quotable wisdom attributed to icons ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Mark Twain, from Cicero to Woody Allen. But more often than not, these attributions are false.

Garson O’Toole—the Internet’s foremost investigator into the dubious origins of our most repeated quotations, aphorisms, and everyday sayings—collects his efforts into a first-ever encyclopedia of corrective popular history. Containing an enormous amount of original research, this delightful compendium presents information previously unavailable to readers, writers, and scholars. It also serves as the first careful examination of what causes misquotations and how they spread across the globe.

Using the massive expansion in online databases as well as old-fashioned gumshoe archival digging, O’Toole provides a fascinating study of our modern abilities to find and correct misinformation. As Carl Sagan did not say, “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

Garson O’Toole has researched the origins of familiar quotations for years at www.quoteinvestigator.com. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Slate, USA Today, and many other publications.

138 The Sky Below Scott Parazynski Nonfiction—Memoir Publication Date: 7/11/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Inside the helmet of a NASA legend.

Astronaut Dr. Scott Parazynski was raised in the shadow of the Apollo program, where his father, a rocket scientist and engineer, worked. In The Sky Below, his intimate memoir, he offers a rare portrait of NASA from the inside. As an era of moon missions transitioned to the era of the space shuttle, space station, and Mars research, Parazynski flew five missions to outer space and conducted seven spacewalks in his seventeen-year career. Mission highlights include a global ozone mapping mission on STS-66, leading the first joint US-Russian spacewalk during STS-86 while docked to the Russian space station Mir, and serving as Senator John Glenn’s crewmate and personal physician during STS-95.

In October 2007, Parazynski famously led the spacewalking team on STS-120, a highly complex space station assembly flight. His spacewalk was regarded by many as one of the most challenging and dangerous ever performed. He is the only astronaut to have climbed Mount Everest, which he achieved in 2009 after a near-death injury on his first attempt the year before.

The Sky Below is an unparalleled opportunity to viscerally feel what it’s like to train for—and deploy to—a home in zero gravity, while also portraying a passionate astronaut’s engagement with the challenges of Earth and the destiny of love.

Not Coming Soon to a Theater Near You Neal Pollack Nonfiction—Memoir Publication Date: 2/16/2016 Page Count: 55 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In a novella-length portrait of the author as a Hollywood dad, semilegendary writer Neal Pollack humorously recounts his failed attempts to transform his family into a multiplatform media brand.

After an encouraging call from a film and TV agent in Los Angeles, happily married and once-almost-bestselling author Neal Pollack plunges through the slightest of openings to pursue the modern American dream: fame. He uproots his family— including his wife, Regina, a painter with whom he shares a pact to always honor each other’s artistic pursuits—and moves to California.

What follows is a funny and ultimately moving account of ridiculous bad timing and luck. In a monumental first step, Pollack accidentally options his life rights to a major film studio. From afar he watches as his new hipster-parenting memoir, Alternadad, garners actual vitriol from the national press. The Writer’s Guild goes on strike as soon as Pollack becomes a member, and—in his breakthrough moment—he stands before the head of comedy development at HBO to deliver his pitch…and forgets what he has to say.

Not Coming Soon to a Theater Near You is a lighthearted look at one man’s ill-fated worming into the heart of Hollywood, the Silver Lake School District, and Los Angeles at large, but it also reveals a darn good marriage under significant duress.

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140 St. Helena Vineyard Novels

Kissing Under the Mistletoe Summer in Napa Autumn in the Vineyard Be Mine Forever From the Moment We Met (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) (Book Four) (Book Five) Marina Adair Marina Adair Marina Adair Marina Adair Marina Adair Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 10/16/2012 Publication Date: 5/14/2013 Publication Date: 10/29/2013 Publication Date: 1/21/2014 Publication Date: 6/1/2014 Page Count: 309 Page Count: 340 PageRights Count: Acquired: 326 All Languages PageRights Count: Acquired: 297 All Languages Page Count: 321 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German Regan Martin stopped believing in When Alexis “Lexi” Moreau caught Hallmark film adaptation to be For Trey DeLuca, the idea of settling After years of designing her family’s Christmas miracles six years ago her husband, Jeff, sampling the sous released in Fall 2016! down was entirely unsettling. As grand wineries (and a few not-so- when she lost everything—her house, -chef’s more intimate wares in their VP of sales for his family’s wine grand closets on the side), Abby her job, and her impeccable New York restaurant, she ran—all the Frankie Baudouin has a hundred company, he’s never in any one DeLuca knows she has what it takes reputation in the wine industry— way back to her hometown of St. reasons not to trust Nate DeLuca. city—or with any one woman—for to be an award-winning interior after she fell in love with a man she Helena, California. Six months later, First, he’s a DeLuca. Second, he long, which is how he likes it. But designer. Newly single, Abby lands had no idea was married. Then Regan Lexi has no husband and no kissed her—in front of the entire when family obligations keep him the career opportunity of a lifetime gets a chance for a fresh start in the restaurant. But she does have a town—and then never called. Oh, temporarily grounded in his and refuses to let anything—or Napa Valley. With her dream job, three-step plan: First, convert her and he’s after her land. Sorrento hometown, he finds the perfect anyone—stand in her way. And that dream home, and her daughter grandmother’s bakery into her Ranch is Frankie’s last chance to distraction. She’s sweet, gorgeous, includes St. Helena’s most enrolled in a wonderful new school, dream bistro. Second, ignore prove to her family—and to herself— and sexy as hell...only her life irresistible contractor. she starts wondering if holiday Grandma’s matchmaking attempts. that she has what it takes to be an screams commitment. wishes really do come true. And third, avoid Marco DeLuca, award-winning winemaker. And she A former NFL star, Jack “Hard her ex’s commitment-phobic, will stop at nothing to ensure Between raising her son and Hammer” Tanner now spends his But she soon tumbles back down to distractingly sexy best friend. her success—even if it means struggling to keep her dance school days doing contract work for the earth when she learns that her new playing nice with the starched, afloat, Sara Reed has her hands full. beautiful women of St. Helena—and boss is none other than Gabe DeLuca, In school Lexi was off-limits for sophisticated, and oh-so-sexy Italian. Dance students she needs—a steamy, his nights doing off-the-books the scorned wife’s brother. Gabe Marco. After all, she was his buddy’s tangled-sheets cha-cha with a self- projects in their bedrooms. Yet the wants nothing more than home- girl. But she’s still as smart and as For Nate, Sorrento Ranch is more admitted commitment-phobe? Not more time he spends with Abby, the wrecking Regan Martin out of his life, gorgeous—and apparently as immune than just soil and grape vines; it was going to happen. But sparks fly as more he longs to fix her broken his sister’s world, and his family’s to his charms—as she used to be. his father’s dream—a dream Nate is the town prepares for a big heart. Soon, sparks fly. But when business. Mostly, he wants the lush determined to make a reality. So Valentine’s Day gala... Jack’s dream job comes calling, he beauty out of his head. when he finds himself forced to faces a tough choice. cohabitate with a Baudouin, Nate is surprised to discover that chaos could be so much fun.

Heroes of St. Helena Series

Need You for Need You for Need You for Mine Keeps (Book One) Always (Book Two) (Book Three) Marina Adair Marina Adair Marina Adair Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 3/3/2015 Publication Date: 10/13/2015 Publication Date: 3/29/2016 Page Count: 290 Page Count: 288 Page Count: 304 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

When it comes to caring for the furry residents Emerson “Emi” Blake dropped out of culinary Every red-blooded male in St. Helena wants of St. Helena, California, groomer and pet school to care for her ailing mother, but she has Harper Owens...as a friend. Despite her efforts rescuer Shay Michaels can handle anything. bigger dreams than running St. Helena’s most at seduction, Harper seems to be destined to Humans are another story, though—especially popular pita cart. First on the menu: upgrade to end up alone. The only guy with a knack for Deputy Jonah Baudouin. He’s the town’s a gourmet food truck. A new part-time job as a unleashing her inner vixen is firefighter and resident superhero: upright, uptight, and personal chef will definitely provide the funds, resident rule-breaker Adam Baudouin. Agreeing jaw-droppingly gorgeous, even when he’s but it also forces her into close contact with her to a faux-mance could help him secure a investigating complaints about Shay’s beloved one and only one-night stand, Dax Baudouin, promotion—and save her family’s lingerie shop, foster animals. And that spells danger for Shay, who’s daring her to try a second taste. the Boulder Holder. But playing with fire has a free spirit who can’t risk trusting the wrong consequences. Especially when the flame comes person again. Former Army Ranger Dax has a clear mission: courtesy of St. Helena’s own Five-Alarm come home, get healed, and get gone. Yet Emi’s Casanova... Jonah and Shay have been circling each other tough-girl exterior and hidden soft side are ever since she came to town, and he’s running even harder to resist than her mouthwatering None of Adam’s quick-and-easy hookups out of reasons to not kiss her senseless. But this baklava. After years of battles, he knows better have prepared him for a connection this deputy is a straight shooter with his eye on the than to try and rescue anyone—not that she’ll let extraordinary. There’s more to the milk-and- sheriff’s badge. He can’t afford to get involved him get close enough to try. Truth is, Dax is cookies art teacher that he’d love to explore. with Shay, a chaos magnet with luscious curves starting to think that Emi’s the one person who But first he has to convince her to trust the who’s liable to turn his career—and his life— can save him...if he can just persuade her to town’s most notorious playboy. Even tougher— upside down. He enforces laws. She breaks give him another shot. he’ll have to trust himself to be the real-life them—repeatedly. Keeping her out of trouble is hero this warm and sexy woman deserves. becoming a full-time job...and it’s one he hopes is never going to end.

141 Sequoia Lake Novels It Started with a Kiss (Book One) Marina Adair Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 1/31/2017 Page Count: 284 Rights Acquired: All Languages

With a kidney transplant behind her, Avery Adams is determined to channel her inner adventurer and explore everything life has to offer. Only problem is, the closest she’s ever come to a real-life adventure was sixth-grade science camp. So to seize the summer in her rustic Sierra Nevada town, she takes a job as a guide at the local adventure lodge. But Avery doesn’t realize her biggest challenge will register at six- plus feet of rugged good looks and alpha-male charm.

As a member of the Sequoia Elite Mountain Rescue team, Tyson Donovan has made a life out of cheating death and rescuing weekend warriors from the treacherous terrain. “The world is my home” is more than just a motto; it’s what scares off women who would otherwise try to tie him down. When his dad’s health lands the family’s adventure lodge in serious danger of going up in flames, Tyson moves home— and quickly remembers why he left. Until he meets Avery, the irresistible new guide who makes him want to stay.

Tyson gives the inexperienced Avery a lesson in romance that her books could never teach her. And with her undeniable spirit for life, Avery shows Tyson the healing power of love. But with one misstep, everything comes crashing down, and they’ll both have to take the biggest leap of all—into the kind of adventure that lasts a lifetime. Stay tuned for the next two books in the series, which will be released in Fall 2017!

Red River Valley Novels

It’s In His Heart (Book One) It’s In His Touch It’s In His Smile It’s In His Arms (Book Four) Shelly Alexander (Book Two) (Book Three) Shelly Alexander Contemporary Romance Shelly Alexander Shelly Alexander Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 7/7/2015 Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 1/3/2017 Page Count: 304 Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 11/3/2015 Publication Date: 6/14/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 320 Page Count: 306 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

She has a secret. He has a scandal. And There’s nothing that Angelique Miranda Cruz isn’t just the best darned Lorenda Lawson has built a safe, they both have an attraction they can’t Barbetta can’t handle, no illness she waitress in town anymore; she’s Red sheltered life for her two young sons deny. can’t recover from, not one item on River’s newest innkeeper. But first, since their father was killed in action her outrageous bucket list that she she has to find the contractor who’s several years ago. She has a beautiful Ella Dennings is furious. Soaking wet, can’t conquer—not even alligator disappeared with her life savings so she cottage and a support network of muddy, and furious. All she wants is to wrestling! But after discovering her can start renovations. Not so easy for a family and friends. No one in Red River enjoy a quiet summer retreat in her fiancé in a less-than-professional woman who never depends on anyone, suspects that her marriage to Cam was Red River Valley cabin. Maybe she can position with their perky assistant, especially a man. And when a gorgeous ever less than perfect. Nobody, that is, finish healing after the death of her even tough-as-nails Angelique needs a old flame shows up, the fire between except the gorgeous ex-SEAL who’s husband, Bradley. Maybe she can even break. Her law firm sends her to Red them is reignited and threatens to send shown up after a long absence: Cam’s finish writing that third book in her River to work on a case that should be her dreams up in smoke. notorious twin brother, Mitchell. anonymously written bestselling series. a piece of cake. Until she meets her But when she arrives at the cabin in a sexy neighbor, Blake Holloway...one of Acclaimed environmental architect Mitchell Lawson was a teenage rebel raging rainstorm, who does she find the proprietors who will lose everything Talmadge Oaks returns home to Red who fled Red River after the local holed up there but Cooper Wells, if Angelique wins. River on family business. When an watering hole burned down, choosing Bradley’s sexy best friend—a man unforeseen snag keeps him in Red River the military over jail. Now he has a capable of seducing women within On opposite sides of a legal battle— longer than expected, he finds himself new mission: making amends with the seconds—and a man Ella has never with a pair of Angelique’s silk undies entangled in the renovations of his late town and his sheriff father for his hell- liked. ending up in Blake’s hands—undeniable grandmother’s Victorian inn. Handy raising days, while resisting the woman chemistry swirls between them. with a hammer, he offers to help the he’s always wanted. beautiful new owner...

142 The Shattered Series

Shattered Trust A Ruthless The Wingman (Book Two) Proposition Natasha Anders Magda Alexander Natasha Anders Contemporary Romance Romantic Suspense Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 3/1/2017 Publication Date: 3/8/2016 Publication Date: 1/26/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 268 Page Count: 328 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

From USA Today bestselling author Magda All that glitters may lead right to his heart... He’s the wingman she never knew she wanted... Alexander comes the steamy sequel to Shattered Virtue. The last thing Cleopatra Knight expects on her The youngest of three daughters, Daisy McGregor business trip to Tokyo is to fall into bed with her has never stood out among her sisters. The Before top criminal-law attorney Trenton Steele arrogant, irresistibly hot boss, Dante Damaso. veterinarian is not sexy like Daffodil, and her asks his intern, Madrigal Berkeley, to move in It’s a mistake—a steamy, mind-blowingly acerbic wit prevents her from being sweet like together, his phone rings. His mentor has satisfying mistake. But a few nights of passion Dahlia. Yet, Daisy has made a pretty good life for been arrested for the murder of Madrigal’s with the superwealthy bad boy prove to have herself. So what if she’s going stag to Dahlia’s grandfather, who everyone believed had long-term effects when Cleo’s world is wedding under a cloud of pity and snide remarks? committed suicide. Unable to turn down his unexpectedly turned upside down. Daisy knows who she is, and she’s content. friend’s plea, Trenton takes on his defense, even though it may tear Trenton and Madrigal apart. Dante has cultivated an enviable, jet-setting That is, until sexy Mason Carlisle saunters over lifestyle: beautiful women, exotic destinations, during Dahlia’s hen party to strike up a Despite the turn of events, Madrigal continues and luxury without limits. He’s not looking conversation—and spark a sizzling attraction. her investigation into her parents’ long-ago to be domesticated, and certainly not by his homicides. When she discovers that Trenton has assistant—even though he can’t get her out Mason never wanted to be the wingman tasked kept significant information from her, she bars of his mind. Still, he knows he has both the with entertaining Daisy while his brother made a him from her search—if not from her bed. As responsibility and the financial means to help move on the untouchable Daffodil. When the their passion gets hotter and their love grows Cleo. plan fails and the deceit is revealed, Mason feels deeper, her investigation jeopardizes the life of ten times worse. Surprisingly, Daisy refuses to someone close to her. Someone who may pay the Though Cleo has no interest in Dante’s money, wallow in the rejection. Instead, she comes up ultimate price of Madrigal’s relentless pursuit of her lack of prospects gives her little choice but with a way to use this unfortunate encounter to the truth. to accept his help. But living under the same her advantage. Mason soon learns how different roof, Dante discovers he wants more, and if Cleo Daisy is from his typical one-night stands, with a Stay tuned for the third book in the series, lets down her guard, she just might find what ploy that will ultimately alter both of their lives. which will be released in Fall 2017! her heart’s wanted all along.

Billionaire Aviators Series

Turbulent Intentions Turbulent Desires (Book One) (Book Two) Melody Anne Melody Anne Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 8/9/2016 Publication Date: 11/8/2016 Page Count: 274 Page Count: 282 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

The Armstrong brothers are wealthy, wild-at-heart bad boys—until ER nurse Lindsey Helm used to be strong. Then a late-night attack their father’s will demands they prove themselves and marry in at the hospital nearly killed her and left two close colleagues dead. order to inherit their fortune. Now Lindsey has retreated from the world. She knows she needs to move on, but every hint of danger seems threatening—including a Eldest brother Cooper channels his reckless spirit into becoming certain sexy flyboy who’s determined to show Lindsey what she’s CEO of his own airline. The only thing better than the adrenaline missing. But falling for F-18 pilot Maverick Armstrong is a risk she rush of flying is his one-night stand with a stunning stranger. At can’t afford... first he doesn’t recognize the fiery barista he clashes with years later at an airport coffee shop. But when Stormy Halifax turns up Maverick knows that fear can eat away at the soul, and he won’t as his new house sitter, Cooper knows she’s his Cinderella. And he leave Lindsey to that fate. She needs someone to reach her and to doesn’t just want her in his mansion. He wants her back in his bed. remind her of the exhilaration and unbelievable passion of being touched. He’ll help her heal, and then he’ll walk away. He has to Stormy can’t believe she’s living under Cooper’s roof. Gorgeous and walk away. Because Maverick swore he would never fall in love and arrogant, he’s convinced she’ll surrender again—and he’s right. But never marry. But this is a rescue operation, and Maverick will stay just as Stormy is succumbing to a world of pleasure, her trust is the course—even if things get hazardous. Even if saving Lindsey shattered. And the biggest challenge Cooper has ever faced will be means surrendering his heart in the process... proving he wants Stormy, now and forever, for all the right reasons. Stay tuned for the third book in the series, which will be released in Spring 2017!

143 Rumors Series Rumors (Book One) Revealed (Book Two) A.C. Arthur A.C. Arthur Romantic Suspense Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 12/30/2014 Publication Date: 10/27/2015 Page Count: 267 Page Count: 239 *Rights Acquired: All Languages *Rights Acquired: All Languages

Her death tore them apart. Will solving her murder bring them When Nathan Hamilton was accused of killing Landy Connor just back together? weeks before their college graduation, he lost everything—his friends, his reputation, and the love of his life, Tenile Barnes. For Best friends Landy, Tenile, Nicole, Nathan, Justin, and Kareem ten long years, the murder has remained unsolved, nothing but were the golden children of Tanner University. Their paths were false leads and dead ends. Desperate to bring Landy’s killer to set: doctors, lawyers, business moguls, they were going to light the justice and win back Tenile’s heart, Nathan starts his own world on fire. Then, two weeks before graduation, Landy was investigation. But the first break in the case comes at a high price: murdered—and Nathan was blamed. Though he was never charged, Landy’s old roommate, Nicole, is kidnapped...possibly by the same vicious rumors drove him from town, and the circle of friends person who killed Landy. broke. Nathan and his old friends comb through every memory, every Ten years later, Nathan is back in Tanner, determined to clear his photograph, and every trace of evidence for clues about who killed name. He’s asking questions no one wants answered, and soon Landy then, and who has taken Nicole now. As they separate fact rumors threaten to divide the community once more. Everyone in from vicious rumor and piece together what really happened that this small town is keeping big secrets—especially Landy’s old night, they discover that the truth is darker and more twisted than friends—and someone is willing to kill to keep their darkest deeds they ever imagined. The killer is close, waiting in the shadows, buried... ready to strike again.

In the shocking sequel to Rumors, will the friends finally reveal Landy’s killer...or will Nicole be the next to fall?

*These titles have been published by Alloy Entertainment under its Powered by Amazon imprint. It Had to Be Novels

It Had to Be Fate It Had to Be Them (Book Three) (Book Four) Tamra Baumann Tamra Baumann Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 4/12/2016 Publication Date: 10/11/2016 Page Count: 288 Page Count: 266 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Falling for a bad-boy rock star is the last thing single mother Casey Kline Grant has traveled the world for more than a decade to avoid Anderson-Bovier should do. Embroiled in a custody battle with her going back home—and to make sure she doesn’t see Ben, her ex, Casey is fighting to raise her boys in their quaint Colorado former fiancé. But her mother’s recent health troubles make it hometown—a secret haven for celebrities. But when it comes to impossible for Kline to stay away. She plans to check on her mom, her hotel’s newest guest, Casey can’t connect the dots. Is Zane avoid Ben, and then get back on the road again. But the quirky Steele the out-of-control rocker plastered all over the media, or town locals of Anderson Butte, a private little celebrity hideaway the captivating man with a killer smile who’s charming her and her in the picturesque mountains of Colorado, have a very different two boys? plan.

Zane has a good reason for letting the world believe the worst of Ben Anderson, the town’s handsome and beloved doctor, once him—and that’s a secret he’s sure he can never share...until he broke Kline’s heart for reasons he’s never explained. When he meets Casey. After years of having fans fall at his feet, he’s found figures out her mother’s scheme to trick her into coming home, he the one woman who brings him to his knees. Casey is beautiful and enlists the meddling townspeople’s help to make things right again intriguing—and thoroughly justified in not trusting him one bit, with Kline. Then Ben plans to win her back. But as the former especially with her family at stake. But the only way to be together flames come face-to-face, old wounds ache, hurtful secrets is to convince her to take a chance on him, on fate, and on their emerge, and sparks fly with the heat between them that’s never crazy, unexpected love. cooled. Will the truth be enough to heal two broken hearts, or will it keep them apart forever?

144 Sterling Canyon Series

Secretly Hers Unexpectedly Hers (Book Two) (Book Three) Jamie Beck Jamie Beck Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 6/21/2016 Publication Date: 2/21/2017 Page Count: 290 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

On her thirty-first birthday, hopeless romantic Kelsey Callihan has By day, bashful wallflower Emma Duffy works with her mother all but given up on happily ever afters, which is why she agrees to at their family’s antiquated bed-and-breakfast. By night, she a risqué proposition from Sterling Canyon’s notorious playboy, discreetly pens erotic romance. Naturally she’s delighted when backcountry skier Trip Lexington. After all, every girl needs a little her mother books the entire inn to a former professional fun, and with Trip, there are no mixed signals or risks of a broken snowboarder-in-training for the month of November. But pleasure heart. And if his tips can help her land a husband in the process, all turns to panic when that guest is Wyatt Lawson, the man with the better. whom she’d shared a secret one-night stand three years ago in Aspen. Worse, Wyatt’s sponsor has a film crew documenting Trip couldn’t be happier with his secret, no-strings fling with sweet every move of his comeback. Emma’s only saving grace—he doesn’t and sexy Kelsey until she calls it quits after meeting a man she remember her, and if she has her way, he never will. believes could share her dream of marriage and family. His jealousy turns to outrage when he discovers that the man is his When Wyatt arrives in Sterling Canyon for several weeks of estranged half brother and lifelong rival. intensive training, the last tumble he expects to take is falling for a girl, especially a shy one like Emma. Unlike groupies and other Now Trip must decide whether the fire in his gut is due to sibling phonies with their hidden agendas, she isn’t using him—or so he rivalry, or something much more dangerous...like love. believes until the film crew stumbles across his starring role in her secret work. Wyatt’s comeback run can withstand a fall or two, but can his heart recover from this crash and burn?

St. James Series

Worth the Trouble Worth the Risk (Book Two) (Book Three) Jamie Beck Jamie Beck Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 2/23/2016 Publication Date: 11/1/2016 Page Count: 322 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

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Cover girl Cat St. James’s picture-perfect life is anything but When Jackson St. James decided that six weeks in Vermont’s Green flawless. Luckily, she’s a master of hiding the truth from the Mountains would help him get his life together, he didn’t anticipate camera. Relying on that skill, she conceals her latest secret from replacing his craving for whiskey with a craving for his alluring new her family while attending her brother’s wedding. Her only trouble landlord, Gabby. Now, instead of prioritizing his sobriety and the now is Hank Mitchell—the soft-spoken carpenter she’d once resolution of the lawsuit threatening his business, he’s making brushed aside. Seeing him at the reception underscores her private excuses to spend time with the spunky young landscaper whose heartache and ignites unwelcome longing, which she promptly candor is more than a little addictive. drowns in champagne. Gabby Bouchard refuses to let her pill-popping mother and Hank is no stranger to sacrifice, having set aside his own ambitions unreliable baby daddy turn her into a cynic, so she doesn’t fight to take care of his family. One thing he won’t forsake is his pride, her attraction to her enigmatic new tenant. Although Jackson’s which Cat already wounded once. But when the maddening smile rarely reaches his eyes, his generosity and dependability beauty’s reckless behavior forces him to rush to her rescue, he sets make her willing to overlook his demons. But once she convinces in motion a series of events that leads Cat to make a business him to give in to temptation, Gabby’s jealous ex threatens to proposal granting him his dream job. disrupt the life she has built for herself and her son.

When Cat and Hank mix business with pleasure, promises and With so much at stake, Gabby and Jackson must decide if love is secrets unravel, and each must decide if and what they’ll surrender worth the risk. for love.

145 Jewel Novels

The Sapphire Affair The Sapphire Heist (Book One) (Book Two) Lauren Blakely Lauren Blakely Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 7/12/2016 Publication Date: 8/16/2016 Page Count: 222 Page Count: 208 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Seduction hotter than stolen jewels in this new series from the New Keep your lover close and your enemy closer... York Times bestselling author of Big Rock. After giving in to a fiery night of passion, island adventurer Steph Bounty hunter Jake Harlowe knows how to track a criminal. So Anderson and bounty hunter Jake Harlowe are back to square one. when a group of swindled shareholders hire him to trail their With millions in stolen jewels at stake, it’s hard for Steph not to former CEO, Jake expects a quick trip to the Cayman Islands to question her new partner’s true motives—no matter how sexy he close another case. Until a devastatingly beautiful woman gets in might be. Jake is hungry for more of Steph, but he can sense her the way. growing mistrust, which only fuels his own doubts. Worse, there’s undeniable evidence that someone else is now after the jewels— Steph Anderson is visiting the Caymans for a rock-climbing and dive and that they are both in real danger. trip—or so she tells Jake. She’s really trying to find out whether or not her stepfather embezzled money from his company. The last Fighting against their magnetic attraction is a distraction these two thing Steph needs is the distraction of a sexy, charming man whose can’t afford. In order to survive, they’ll have to pull off one more kisses drive her wild. heist—and trust each other with something even more precious than jewels: their hearts. Soon, the pair discover they’re after the same target—and millions in jewels. While Jake can’t be certain Steph isn’t working for her stepfather, and Steph can’t be certain Jake isn’t after the diamonds for himself, they can agree the heat between them is intense, and neither can deny the passion for long.

Starting Over Something More Than Barbie Bohrman This Contemporary Romance Barbie Bohrman Publication Date: 1/19/2016 Contemporary Romance Page Count: 226 Publication Date: 4/26/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 210

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Single mom Vanessa Holt has a daughter she loves, a supportive Katy Lewis has it all: a sports-reporting job she loves, a great family, and her art. Having given up on finding true love—if that roommate, and two brothers who, while nosy, always have her even exists, which she doubts—she’s content to put romance on the back. But when Conner Roberts, Katy’s unrequited first crush, back burner. But not everyone agrees. Those nearest and dearest suddenly shows up—and shows interest—after nine years, she are ready to see Vanessa let down her long blonde hair and have reverts to a sweaty, panicked sixteen-year-old once more. some fun. And if trying to read Conner’s signals isn’t tough enough, Katy’s To put their grumbling to rest, Vanessa agrees to go on a date with heart is sending some mixed messages of its own. When a beautiful the next man who asks. Luckily for her, that man is Cameron blonde coworker starts pursuing Katy’s boss, Dylan Sterling—her Thomas, her daughter’s extremely handsome science teacher. longtime mentor and friend—she realizes she may have a problem She’d felt a spark of chemistry the first time she’d laid eyes on with that. A reunion with Conner is what she’s dreamed of for so him. Now she’s ready to lay a whole lot more on the sexy bachelor. long...so why can’t she stop thinking about Dylan?

But just as things get hot, they also get heavy. When the man who For the first time ever, Katy must fact-check her heart. Should she broke Vanessa’s heart reappears, her old doubts and fears about go after the guy she thought she always wanted or see if there’s love rush to the surface. Will her fresh start with Cameron be over something more with the one who’s been there all along? before it’s barely begun?

146 Champions of Rome Series The Inheritance Series

The Gladiator’s A Dangerous Tryst Temptation (Book Three) Jennifer D. Bokal Danielle Bourdon Historical Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 2/9/2016 Publication Date: 2/2/2016 Page Count: 270 Page Count: 240 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

With her standing in Roman society already on shaky ground, Taking readers from the carefree beaches of California to the Fortunada must be careful with her reputation. After her faithless politically volatile villages of Nepal, A Dangerous Tryst proves that husband cast her aside and married another, the devoted mother of nothing fans the flames of passion quite like a healthy dose of two wasn’t eager to let another man fill her bed—until she met danger. Baro, Rome’s reigning gladiatorial champion. It’s in his strong arms that she finds true pleasure and, to her delight, love. Madalina Maitland is on the run again—and this time, it’s personal. Abducted by men who believe she knows more than she’s telling When her champion proposes marriage, pledging to make her about the two remaining stone-dragon figurines, Madalina is taken family his own, it seems fate has finally smiled on Fortunada. But to an exotic yet isolated locale...where she discovers she’s not the her fortune takes a turn when her former husband resurfaces, only hostage. The stakes are higher than ever as Madalina’s daring demanding to take their children as is his right. escape plan turns into a rescue mission.

With Baro having already sacrificed his career for their love, Meanwhile, her boyfriend is already hot on her trail. Private throwing away his title in a bid to break free of his contract, how security specialist Cole West, along with his loyal brothers, will can she tell him that the price of her sacrifice—her children—is too travel to the ends of the earth to rescue Madalina—or die trying.In high? Will love triumph, allowing Fortunada both her champion and this sexy, thrilling conclusion to Danielle Bourdon’s Inheritance her family, or must she walk away from the man who’s given up all series, Madalina and Cole realize survival isn’t just about evading for her? the bad guys. Any hope for a peaceful life hinges on tracking down the artifacts at the heart of the conspiracy and returning them to their rightful owner.

If You Can’t Take The Lullaby Sky The Barefoot the Heat Carolyn Brown Summer Melissa Brown Contemporary Romance Carolyn Brown Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 9/13/2016 Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 2/16/2016 Page Count: 300 Publication Date: 1/3/2017 Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English) Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

Whitney Bartolina gets what she wants. At just After seven years of misery and abuse, it’s all New York Times bestselling author Carolyn thirty-four, she’s worked her way up from over—Hannah O’Malley is officially divorced. Brown returns with a heartbreakingly hilarious mailroom coordinator to casting director at a Hallelujah! It’s like every Christmas in her life novel about three women who had nothing in major Los Angeles television network, and has all rolled up into one glorious day. Not only does common, except their husband. had a string of steamy flings, most recently with Hannah get to keep her grandmother’s spacious movie star Nolan Rivera. But when two of the old house, but she has full custody of her sparky Leaving one widow behind is unfortunate. contestants she casts on a new reality cooking five-year-old daughter. All Hannah has to do now Leaving three widows behind is just plain show turn out to be as talented in the bedroom is put the past behind her. despicable. Oil heiress Kate Steele knew her not- as they are in the kitchen, Whitney may have so-dearly departed husband was a con man, but finally bitten off more than she can chew. And now that she’s free, she wants to make a she’s shocked that Conrad racked up two more difference. With the help of her warm, close- wives without divorcing her first. The only Conducting auditions across the country and knit circle of friends—including her high school remnant of their marriage she plans to keep is looking for a bit of fun after Nolan, Whitney finds crush, Travis Wilson—Hannah begins turning her their cabin in Bootleg, Texas. Unfortunately, it in Chicago with Charlie Hutchins, a deliciously home into a safe house for other women who’ve she’s not the only woman with that idea. handsome British rugby-player-turned-chef endured the pain she’s known. But even as life whose spicy Szechuan beef is only the start of his and laughter return to Hannah’s home, she’s Fiery Jamie wishes Conrad were still alive—so sizzle. Then, in Montana, close encounters with haunted by the memory of her dangerously she could kill the scoundrel herself. But for their sexy but mild-mannered cowboy and unstable ex. With a second chance at love on the daughter’s sake, she needs that property. As restaurateur Wes Rancourt leave her mouth horizon, Hannah must face down her past in does Amanda—twenty-eight, pregnant, and watering for more. order to let the sunshine back into her life. still weeping over the loss of her true love. On a broiling July day, all three arrive in Back in LA for filming, Whitney soon finds herself Bootleg...with a dogged detective right behind caught in a love square with Charlie, Wes, and who’s convinced that at least one of them Nolan, who’s stopping at nothing to win her conspired to commit murder. A summer filled back. Will she jeopardize her career by mixing with revelations, quirky neighbors, and barefoot business with pleasure, or can she turn up the evenings on the porch offers three women the heat without getting burned? chance to make the journey from enemies to friends; and claim a bright, new beginning.

147 Trillium Bay Novels Highland Surrender Hold On My Heart Tracy Brogan Tracy Brogan My Kind of You Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance (Book One) Publication Date: 12/4/2012 Publication Date: 6/25/2013 Tracy Brogan Page Count: 369 Page Count: 226 Contemporary Romance Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Publication Date: 4/11/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Sold: Italian and Rights Sold: German Japanese Rights Acquired: All Languages

2013 ©Desert Rose RWA® Golden Quill Award To build a future, sometimes you have to tear Winner—Historical Romance down the past... Award-winning, bestselling author Tracy Brogan— To seal a fragile truce, Fiona Sinclair’s brothers Chicago event planner Libby Hamilton can turn whose work has been translated into several trade her in marriage to their sworn enemy. any bland setting into a dramatic venue—but languages—launches a new, heartwarming, Though devastated by their betrayal, she has when she abruptly loses her job, and her fair- romantic-comedy series. little choice in the matter, for if she refuses, her weather boyfriend moves to another state, Libby innocent young sister must take her place. The suddenly finds herself back in the tiny town she Wild child Emily Callaghan returns to her spirited Fiona is willing to sacrifice her freedom grew up in. Worse than that, her father wants Northern Michigan home after a long absence. to protect her kin, but she vows never to help transforming an old schoolhouse into a Now divorced with a preteen daughter, she’s surrender her heart. vintage ice cream parlor, and Libby must trade determined to show her family and the town in her power suits for power tools. that’s she’s grown up into a responsible adult As the eldest son of a clan chief, Myles Campbell and a great mom. Falling in love isn’t part of is accustomed to having his own way. But when Widowed restoration specialist Tom Murphy the plan, but then again, she never did follow the king of Scotland commands he wed a can rebuild just about anything—except the the rules. defiant Highland lass instead of a French shattered relationship he shares with his teenage mademoiselle, Myles must obey his royal duty. daughter. Hired by Libby’s father, Tom isn’t Meeting his bride for the first time on their interested in sharing the details of his personal wedding day, he is pleased to discover the lass is life with beautiful, spunky Libby. He just wants a beauty, but she quickly proves she’d just as to get the job done. But she is tenacious—and soon kill him as kiss him. sexy—and it doesn’t take long before she breaks down his walls, builds up his hope, and gets a When two such warrior spirits collide, sparks fly, hold on his heart that won’t igniting a fiery passion that strains against the let go. bonds of family honor, clan loyalty—and the ultimate surrender—love.

Bell Harbor Novels

Crazy Little Thing The Best Medicine Love Me Sweet Jingle Bell Harbor: A Novella Tracy Brogan Tracy Brogan Tracy Brogan Tracy Brogan Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 10/23/2012 Publication Date: 5/13/2014 Publication Date: 1/20/2015 Publication Date: 10/20/2015 Page Count: 341 Page Count: 321 Page Count: 306 Page Count: 111 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Dutch, Estonian, French, Rights Sold: French, German, Italian, and Rights Sold: French and German German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish Korean, Spanish, and Turkish 2015 RITA® Finalist for Contemporary Wall Street Journal Bestseller As assistant buyer for the world’s Wall Street Journal Bestseller Romance: Long second-largest Christmas store, Kelsey 2013 RITA® Finalist for Best First Book Delaney Masterson isn’t looking for Parker feels like a holiday harlot. She’s 2013 ©Desert Rose RWA® Golden Quill Everyone in Bell Harbor thinks career- fame. Yes, she has famous parents and contractually obligated to promote the Award Winner—Single Title Romance minded plastic surgeon Evelyn Rhoades a reality TV show, but she’s not the yuletide season. All. Year. Long. And needs a husband. Everyone, that is, wild-child celebrity the paparazzi have it’s taking a toll on her spirit. But when If Sadie Turner is good at anything, it’s except for Evelyn...sort of. Even if painted her to be. Until...The Scandal. her clueless, self-absorbed boyfriend putting stuff in order. So when she finds she did want a husband (which she When an old boyfriend releases a goes on their long-anticipated romantic her “perfect” life in disarray, she hopes doesn’t...most of the time), she’d private video, Delaney’s name becomes vacation—without her!—Kelsey is a summer vacation at her aunt’s lake never let something as intangible as every comedian’s favorite punch line. beyond disappointed to find herself house will help her piece it back fate determine whom she marries. No, To escape the media, she sneaks away tromping through the Bell Harbor snow together. She wants to relax, reboot, if she’s going to find someone to spend to Bell Harbor, Michigan—during the instead of lounging on a tropical beach. and heal the wounds left by her her life with, she’ll do it scientifically: worst winter in fifty years. When bad cheating ex-husband. And that requires with a carefully crafted list of criteria weather, missing money, honky-tonk Drew Hampton is considered quite time away from men. All men. Or so she and an Internet dating site. But when musicians, and Elvis impersonators a catch among the Bell Harbor thinks. As summer blazes on, the life intoxicated, lawbreaking Tyler Connelly throw cameraman Grant Connelly and bachelorettes, but when his high school Sadie is trying so hard to simplify only crashes into her life by way of a stolen Delaney together on an unexpected dream girl, Kelsey Parker, shows up at becomes more complicated—but maybe Jet Ski, unruly emotions defy common road trip, emotions get all shook up. his grandfather’s Christmas-tree lot a little chaos is just what Sadie needs to sense. They know only fools fall in love, but complaining about her love life, he get her life back in order. they can’t help falling. decides it’s long past time to get her under the mistletoe himself.

148 Forgotten Files Series

The Shark (Book One) The Dollmaker Mary Burton (Book Two) Romantic Suspense Mary Burton Publication Date: 5/24/2016 Romantic Suspense Page Count: 366 Publication Date: 11/15/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 352

Rights Acquired: All Languages

At the grisly murder scene of a teen prostitute, Virginia state Dr. Tessa McGowan had never seen anything quite like it. But the trooper Riley Tatum’s past roars back to haunt her. When she mutilated bodies on her exam table tell a stunningly macabre was a teenage runaway, she was kidnapped, drugged, and left tale: someone with a twisted mind is kidnapping women and unconscious on the streets. She has no memories of what altering their faces to resemble real, life-size dolls. As a forensic happened, only strange recurring dreams of two men playing cards. pathologist, it’s her job to aid the agent leading the case—even if that agent is her estranged husband. Former FBI agent Clay Bowman, Riley’s old flame, is Shield Security’s newest member. He’s plagued by the unsolved case of a Twelve years ago an unspeakable tragedy destroyed Dakota Sharp’s serial killer nicknamed the Shark who murdered girls as part of a world. Haunted by the ghosts of his past, he’s devoted himself to sadistic poker game. Only one girl survived. With the Shark now capturing killers. His only regret is that it cost him Tessa. Now, as bent on evening that score, Clay has a chilling suspicion: Riley is the Dollmaker case brings them together—and raises his suspicions the girl who escaped the Shark’s deadly amusement—and she is his that he’s crossed paths with this deranged psychopath before—they next prey. may just have their second chance. But it seems Dakota’s not the only one who wants to make Tessa his own... As the Shark gets ready to play his hand, can Riley and Clay stop him—or will this killer finally claim the one who got away? She may be the Dollmaker’s next target, but Tessa has no intention of winding up as another toy on his shelf. Can she and Dakota stop this ghastly killer before his next deadly playdate? Stay tuned for the third book in the series, which will be released in Spring 2017!

Not Quite Series

Not Quite Dating (Book One) Not Quite Mine (Book Two) Not Quite Enough Not Quite Forever (Book Four) Not Quite Perfect (Book Five) (Book Three) Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Catherine Bybee Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 11/13/2012 Publication Date: 5/7/2013 Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 11/4/2014 Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Publication Date: 10/8/2013 Page Count: 259 Page Count: 302 Page Count: 322 Page Count: 332 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 316 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Dutch, French, German, Rights Sold: Dutch, German, Italian, Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German and Turkish Italian, Spanish, and Turkish and Turkish Rights Sold: German and Turkish

From New York Times, USA Today, Gorgeous hotel heiress Katelyn Monica Mann has made it her life’s Romance author Dakota Laurens Mary Kildare knows how to read and Wall Street Journal bestselling “Katie” Morrison seems to have it work to save lives. After an believes that happily ever afters people. It’s both why she makes a author Catherine Bybee comes the all. But when she crosses paths with earthquake and tsunami hit the exist only between the covers of her great therapist and why she refuses first novel in the delicious Not Quite Dean Prescott—the only man she’s shores of Jamaica, she volunteers sexy novels. But to her surprise, she to trust the average bachelor. series. Waitress and single mom ever loved—at her brother’s her trauma skills with Borderless finds a real-life hero when she meets Staying fiercely independent has Jessica “Jessie” Mann is practical to wedding, Katie realizes there’s a Nurses. Calculating and methodical, a handsome emergency-room doctor. been her primary relationship a fault. Even if she had time to gaping hole in her life. After the Monica creates order out of The outspoken author feels an strategy—until wealthy playboy pilot date, which she doesn’t, she’d be ceremony, she gets an even bigger whatever chaos she finds. instant and intense attraction to Dr. Glen Fairchild reappears in her life. determined to provide her son with a surprise: a baby girl left on her Walt Eddy, and the feeling is mutual. After a yearlong, teasing tug-of-war, more secure upbringing than the one doorstep. Determined to keep the That is, until she finds the When the globe-trotting doctor pulls Mary and Glen test the waters of she had—and that would mean a newborn until she learns who her perpetually barefoot, impossibly a disappearing act on Dakota, she’s attraction, only to find that their husband with big bucks. When Jack mother is, Katie has her hands full masculine Trent Fairchild. No one prepared to write him off...until physical chemistry runs deeper than Morrison—a sexy-as-sin, seemingly and doesn’t need Dean snooping can pin him down. No, really. He’s a fate brings a blindsiding twist to her flirtation. broke customer with a cowboy hat around...especially when his pilot and manages a small fleet of story. and a seductive grin—tries to flirt presence stirs feelings she thought choppers on his adopted island At first, a bicoastal romance suits with her, she shoots him down. She were long gone. home. Hopelessly drawn to one Still scarred from a past tragedy, them both—especially since Glen can doubts a carefree dreamer like Jack another, they manage to slip away Walt may have disappeared on whisk Mary away on one of his can provide the financial stability Dean Prescott knows Katie is lying to from the wreckage to get a little Dakota, but now he’s determined to company’s planes. But no matter she needs. Yet with Christmas just him about the baby. He shouldn’t closer. And they get a lot closer than win her back. Yet between Dakota’s how close they get, they’re still weeks away, and Jessie not wanting care what the woman who broke expected when aftershocks from the doubts and two sets of meddling three thousand miles apart. And to spend it alone, the charming his heart is up to...and he most earthquake trap them in their own parents, can the once-blissful couple when Mary’s life is threatened, Glen Texan is proving hard to resist. certainly shouldn’t still be aching for life-or-death scenario. Paradise has finally create the bright, loving realizes the one luxury he doesn’t her. Yet Dean can’t ignore the need brought them together. Now will it future they desperately want? have is time. Can he close the to protect Katie... tear them apart? distance between them before it’s too late?

149 Most Likely To Novels

Doing It Over (Book One) Catherine Bybee Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 4/19/2016 Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Voted Most Likely to Succeed, Melanie Bartlett ended up anything but. The down-on-her-luck single mom wants a complete do-over—is that too much to ask? With her family long gone from River Bend, strong, independent Mel is as surprised as anyone to end up in the quaint small town she once called home. But with her friends Jo and Zoe by her side, and a comfortable room at Miss Gina’s quirky bed- and-breakfast, she just might have turned the corner on a new life.

Wyatt Gibson never liked the big city. River Bend suits the ruggedly handsome builder just fine. Wyatt knows he’s home, even if that means being charmed by the appearance of Melanie and her spunky, adorable daughter. Is Wyatt’s calm devotion—even amid a coming storm—enough to convince Mel she may have found a home to call her own, a family that never leaves, and a true love to last a lifetime?

Staying For Good (Book Two) Catherine Bybee Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 1/24/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Zoe Brown may have been voted Most Likely to Never Leave River Bend, but the paper-thin walls and suffocating air of her family’s double-wide trailer were not what she wanted for her life. Other than BFFs Melanie and Jo, the only thing that kept Zoe sane during high school was her boyfriend, Luke.

She didn’t just leave, she escaped—turning her back on the shame of her black-sheep siblings and imprisoned dad. Now a celebrity chef in Dallas, she can afford all the things she never could have growing up. But when she returns to rustic, ruggedly beautiful River Bend, Zoe has to face all that she abandoned—including Luke.

While Luke was a refuge for Zoe in the past, he knows they inhabit totally different worlds now. Anchored by his parents and his job as a mechanic in his father’s shop, Luke never felt the urge to leave River Bend—until Zoe’s return.

But when the two rekindle their old flame, Zoe is forced to make the hardest decision of her life: remain in River Bend and confront her past before it destroys her, or say good-bye to everyone she’s ever loved...again, this time for good.

Making It Right (Book Three) Catherine Bybee Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 5/9/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Catherine Bybee—whose work has been translated into twelve languages—culminates her intimate, emotional trilogy about three best friends, second chances, and one small town.

Making It Right follows Jo, voted Most Likely to End Up in Jail in high school. Her father was town sheriff, so she rebelled for a very good cause. But now an adult, Jo is hell-bent on solving her father’s mysterious death when she becomes town sheriff herself. Will she let go of her single-minded mission to let love in?

150 Weekday Brides Series

Wife by Wednesday Married by Monday Fiancé by Friday Single by Saturday (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) (Book Four) Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 2/12/2013 Publication Date: 3/19/2013 Publication Date: 8/13/2013 Publication Date: 1/7/2014 Page Count: 206 Page Count: 306 Page Count: 341 Page Count: 315 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Spanish and Portuguese Spanish and Portuguese Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, German, Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, German, Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, German, Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Slovenian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Slovenian, Thai, and Turkish Slovenian, and Thai Slovenian, Thai, Turkish, and Large Print Thai, and Turkish (English) Wall Street Journal Bestseller Karen Jones: The petite blonde married Carter Billings: Sandy-blond hair and a Hollywood star, yet she’s the one who Wall Street Journal Bestseller Hollywood good looks, Carter could Gwen Harrison: The daughter of an spends every day playing the part of a have any woman he wants. When he English duke came to America to take happy wife. A year ago, she agreed to Blake Harrison: Rich, titled, and makes his bid for governor of over her sister-in-law’s matchmaking wed a famous actor to defuse rumors charming...and in need of a wife by California, he knows he must settle business. But just because she’s the about his personal life. Now, her Wednesday. Blake turns to Sam Elliot, down and become a family man. His boss doesn’t mean she can’t fantasize divorce sits just around the corner, who isn’t the businessman he expected. choice for a running mate between the about making her own perfect match along with a five-million-dollar payout. Instead, Blake is faced with beautiful sheets: matchmaker Eliza Havens. with bodyguard Neil MacBain. Will the However, as she prepares to exit her and feisty Samantha Elliot. enigmatic man who haunts her dreams fake marriage gracefully, her drop- Eliza Havens: Eliza’s happy that her cost her more than she bargained for? dead-gorgeous brother-in-law walks Samantha Elliot: Owner of match- best friend has a wealthy, adoring through the door...and into her heart. making firm Alliance and not on the husband. It’s the husband’s best Neil MacBain: The retired Marine can’t marital menu...that is, until Blake friend—sexy, dashing Carter Billings— deny the effect blue-blooded Gwen has Zach Gardner: Dark-haired, blue-eyed offers her ten million dollars for a one- that drives her crazy. No man has ever on his troubled soul or his battle- hunk Zach crashes Michael and Karen’s year contract. The money will really squabbled with Eliza this much...or hardened body. But as a client, Gwen is fancy one-year anniversary party, help with her family’s medical bills. It made her heart race this fast. Matching off-limits—until a threat from Neil’s determined to meet the wife his was a marriage contract that planned couples is how she earns a living, but past returns...and Gwen is caught in brother hid from their family. But for everything...except falling in love. long-held secrets mean getting married the crossfire. Now to keep her safe he sparks fly the moment he and Karen isn’t an option. Until now. will risk it all: his career, his life...and see each other. his heart.

Taken by Tuesday Seduced by Sunday Treasured by Thursday Untitled (Book Eight) (Book Five) (Book Six) (Book Seven) Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: Coming Soon Page Count: 9/19/2017 Publication Date: 8/12/2014 Publication Date: 4/14/2015 Publication Date: 8/18/2015 Page Count: 309 Page Count: 320 Page Count: 370 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, Hungarian, Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, Indonesian, Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, Indonesian, Indonesian, Portuguese, Slovenian, and Portuguese, Slovenian, and Thai Slovenian, and Thai Thai Wall Street Journal Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller Acclaimed author Catherine Bybee— Wall Street Journal Bestseller whose work has been translated into Meg Rosenthal: Matchmaker by day, Gabriella Masini: She’s a woman twelve languages—continues her New Judy Gardner: College graduate Judy realist by night, Meg is not about haunted by her past, with the scars to York Times, USA Today, and Wall stands ready to conquer the world...if to get swept away by a handsome prove it. An elite matchmaker at Street Journal bestselling Weekday she can get a job. Hoping to transition businessman in a designer suit. She’s Alliance, something doesn’t add up Brides series with a new spin-off about from aspiring architect to famous come to a secluded resort to evaluate with her latest client: a billionaire bad wealthy weddings, divorces, and get- architect, she moves to LA. But it’s the private island’s potential for her boy with his own secrets. When Gabi back-togethers. hard for Judy to focus on work when agency, not to ogle its owner. But refuses to be his temporary wife, the sexy bodyguard she fell for last there’s something about the magnetic Hunter forces her hand with an offer summer keeps showing up in her life man that’s hard to resist. she can’t refuse. But marriage to a man and leaving her breathless. like that could never last...or could it? Valentino Masini: A successful and sexy Rick Evans: With his hard body, green businessman, Valentino is used to Hunter Blackwell: He has a secret eyes, and easy smile, Rick could have having the finer things in life. Yet he’s reason to settle down, and he thinks any woman he wants. But the Marine- never wanted someone the way he Gabi will fit the bill perfectly. But turned-bodyguard only has eyes for wants Meg, who’s stirring up a when their marriage becomes Judy and her spitfire attitude. hurricane of trouble in his heart. dangerous, Hunter must decide how far to take his vow...

151 Sinful Brides Series

The Rogue’s Wager The Lady’s Hand (Book One) (Book Two) Christi Caldwell Christi Caldwell Historical Romance Historical Romance Publication Date: 10/25/2016 Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Page Count: 336 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

London, 1821. Lord Robert Dennington, the Marquess of Westfield, From USA Today bestselling author Christi Caldwell comes the has long reveled in the freedom afforded him as the ducal heir. He second book in the Sinful Brides series. Following the romances of knows he must someday do right by the Somerset line, but he’s in the men who run one of the most notorious, successful gaming hells no hurry to give up his carefree existence. in London, The Lady’s Hand is the scandalous sequel to The Rogue’s Wager. Helena Banbury is a bookkeeper in a gentleman’s gambling club, adept at analyzing numbers and accounts. She’s never belonged among the nobility on the gaming-hell floors, but neither does she feel completely herself among the men who run the Hell and Sin Club, despite the fact that they are family. The once-illiterate girl from the streets wants more than the gilded walls her protective cage can offer.

When Robert mistakenly enters her chambers one night, Helena is forced out of her predictable life and thrust into the glittering world of Society. Will the charms of the marquess prove more perilous than any danger she ever knew on the streets?

Lone Star Burn Series

Taken Home Taking Charge (Book Three) (Book Four) Ruth Cardello Ruth Cardello Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 4/5/2016 Publication Date: 10/25/2016 Page Count: 234 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Playboy Mason Thorne is nothing short of complicated. Though he Lucy Albright never wanted her family’s Texas ranch, but now it’s was a movie star at a young age, his life took a downward spiral in foreclosure. She’s already lost so much she can’t bear the when he turned to drugs after losing his mother. He cleaned up his thought of losing one more thing. Lucy learned the hard way not to act and became a senator, but still keeps his distance from most accept help from a man when there are strings attached, so she’ll everyone—including his own father. There are plenty of women do whatever it takes to save the ranch on her own terms—even if around, but most are gone by morning. that means launching an online business marketing high-tech sex toys. Twenty-five-year-old Chelle Landon thinks she must be the last virgin in Texas. She’s worried if she doesn’t remedy it soon, she’ll Ranch manager David Harmon has a reputation for being a cowboy stay one forever. She attends yet another small-town wedding with a heart of gold. Even if she refuses his help, down-and-out where the last single man her age is officially off the market, until Lucy is the kind of woman he’ll do anything to protect. And while sexy politician Mason Thorne appears. He’s the answer to her David may not know much about Lucy’s naughty side business, that prayers, if one can pray for something that decadent. won’t stop a cowboy from doing something he’s set his mind to.

He needs a cover story, not another lover. Chelle’s on a mission to With the ranch threatened by a scheming neighbor, Lucy can’t help lose her virginity, no matter what. Will he break her heart or will but keep David around. Their attraction may be undeniable, but she heal his? will the spark between them burn her entire future to the ground?

152 The Bourbon Street Boys

Wrong Place, Right Wrong Question, Right Time (Book Two) Answer (Book Three) Elle Casey Elle Casey Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 5/10/2016 Publication Date: 8/23/2016 Page Count: 370 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Jenny’s single-parent life revolves around her kids and her job, As a member of the Bourbon Street Boys private-security firm, which means that hours of Animal Planet and strings of computer Antoinette “Toni” Delacourte is one strong woman, but despite her code are about all she has time for. Not that Jenny’s looking for reputation for being tough as nails, she is haunted by her past adventure or romance—she’s the type of woman who believes in mistakes. Now they’re catching up to her, and throwing her for a playing it safe. loop.

When Jenny is called upon to do some consulting for the Bourbon Ten years ago, Toni kissed Lucky, her brother’s best friend. Street Boys—a New Orleans private-security firm—she knows she Worried it would break apart the group she’d come to see as should stay away. They conduct surveillance on known criminals family, she walked away—straight into the arms of Charlie, and an and put themselves in harm’s way pretty much every day, so “No” abusive relationship. is the obvious answer...Problem is, there’s a guy on the team with a body to die for and a dimple that just won’t quit luring Jenny in, For the past decade she’s tried to keep her feelings for Lucky tempting her to throw all caution to the wind. platonic—he’s her friend, her colleague, and he’s got his own past to deal with. Free of Charlie but unable to shake his memory, Toni Will Jenny take the risk, or will she do what she’s always done— finds herself feeling vulnerable, and unable to deny her attraction play it safe and wait for the right time? to Lucky any longer.

She’s always thought that kiss was her first mistake, but now she’s wondering whether the real mistake was running away.

Frozen Until Harry L.A. Casey L.A. Casey Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 4/19/2016 Publication Date: 7/19/2016 Page Count: 274 Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Neala and Darcy have loved to hate each other since they were Coming home is hard for Lane. Hard because her beloved uncle kids. Forced together, will they be naughty—or can they play nice? Harry has died suddenly, but also because of him. Kale.

There’s one must-have toy this Christmas, and Neala Clarke has Kale Hunt has been her best friend since childhood. But it was told her niece, Charli, she’ll get it for her. Never mind that she’s never that simple. He was Lane’s reason for leaving home and got less than a week, and it looks like everywhere is sold out. She’s moving to New York. Seeing him with someone else, in love with promised Charli a Fire Princess doll—and Neala is a woman of her someone else, shouldn’t have hurt. But it did. It really, really did. word. So she upped sticks and left, started a new life, and cut herself off from her past. Darcy Hart is a people-pleaser. So when his adorable six-year-old nephew, Dustin, asks for a particular doll at the last minute, he But now she’s back, and all the feelings are right there. As if she says yes. Luckily for Darcy, there’s one left in stock at the local toy had never left. store. Unluckily for Darcy, he’s not the only person who wants it— and his rival is the one woman who’s immune to his charms. Emotions are running high, and tragedy has a funny way of bringing people together. But is Lane reading the signs right? Are they still This can’t possibly end well for both of them...can it? just friends, or is there something more?

153 A Lavender Island Novel

The Kiss on Castle Road Love on Lavender Island (Book One) (Book Two) Lauren Christopher Lauren Christopher Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 1/1/2016 Publication Date: 6/7/2016 Page Count: 336 Page Count: 354 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Natalie has always been the fun Grant sister: the one with the What’s worse than Paige Grant getting stuck in a window while constantly packed suitcase and the zest for life. But this carefree breaking in to her late grandmother’s Lavender Island ranch? Being existence is wearing on her. When her oldest sister, Olivia, invites discovered—and saved—by next-door neighbor Adam Mason. The her to Lavender Island for three months, Natalie jumps at the Grants and Masons haven’t exactly been friendly in recent decades, chance to look after her niece, prove she’s not irresponsible, and despite Paige’s teenage crush on handsome, standoffish Adam. But take a much-needed vacation from men. the down-on-her-luck actress now needs more than saving: she wants to use part of Adam’s property to pull off a dramatic Her “mancation” takes an unexpected turn when she spots a group wedding for her idol, screen legend Dorothy Silver, in exchange for of sick sea lions and calls on microbiologist Elliott Sherman for a movie role that could make her dreams come true. help. Elliott is everything Natalie is not—quiet, studious, and geeky. Yet there’s a simmering sexiness under those glasses that Adam has been struggling with emotional and financial burdens she’s quick to notice. And Elliott finds himself taken with her inherited from the recent death of his father. Yet he reluctantly gorgeous free spirit. Despite their chemistry, outside forces agrees to help Paige prepare the ranch for the wedding. As they threaten to keep them apart—including a secret Natalie has never continue to spend time together, sparks fly. But Paige is troubled shared. Can the allure of Lavender Island and its quirky residents by a secret that could ruin any hopes they have for a future open her heart and lead her to lasting love? together. When fire destroys the land that holds the key to both their dreams—and the secrets they carry make tensions run even hotter—can love rise from the ashes on Lavender Island?

An Echoes of the Heart Novel

His Darling Bride Even the Score (Book Three) Beth Ehemann Anna DeStefano Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 9/6/2016 Publication Date: 4/26/2016 Page Count: 322 Page Count: 338 Rights Acquired: All Languages

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Bethany Darling doesn’t kiss men at first sight...until she falls into Single dad Andy Shaw loves his job as a sports agent, with one the arms of a handsome cowboy bartender. exception: it doesn’t leave him much time for his kids. No parent likes being sidelined, so Andy decides to hire someone to share the A mysterious stranger, Mike helps scare off Bethany’s obnoxious ex- workload. But when one of the hottest agents in the industry boyfriend. Mike’s touch feels like coming home. But Bethany’s so applies, Andy knows that this deal is definitely trouble. not interested. Between stalled-out dreams of becoming a painter, troubles reconnecting with her sprawling foster family, and the Danicka Douglas works her butt off, but being an attractive woman happy chaos of her sister’s upcoming wedding, Bethany’s already in in a testosterone-heavy industry isn’t exactly a cakewalk. She over her head. But each time she and Mike stumble across each guards her professional reputation fiercely, which means no other in small-town Chandlerville...sparks fly. crushing on her gorgeous boss. But the more they ignore that sexy little spark, the more it sizzles... A famous photographer hiding under a Stetson, Mike Taylor recognizes Bethany as a kindred artistic spirit. Together they Just when it looks like romance might be in the game plan, Dani is rekindle her passion for painting—and she inspires him in threatened by a stalker with dark intentions. To keep her safe, unexpected, undeniable ways. Then when Mike’s own past Andy must cross the line between professional and very threatens to tear apart his present, Bethany becomes his safe place personal...because this time, he’s playing for keeps. to turn.

Can these two wandering souls finally trust their hearts? Or will they run from the forever love they never expected to find?

154 Callahan & McLane Series

Vanished (Book One) Bridged (Book Two) Spiraled (Book Three) Targeted (Book Four) Kendra Elliot Kendra Elliot Kendra Elliot Kendra Elliot Romantic suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 6/17/2014 Publication Date: 2/10/2015 Publication Date: 6/2/2015 Publication Date: 6/7/2016 Page Count: 337 Page Count: 306 Page Count: 305 Page Count: 352 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English) Wall Street Journal Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller Daphne du Maurier Award Winner 2015 Overall Daphne du Maurier After a congressman’s tortured body is All Detective Mason Callahan wanted Award Winner found dangling from a Portland bridge, FBI Special Agent Ava McLane solves was a quiet fishing trip with the guys to the FBI joins the Oregon State Police to crimes; she doesn’t witness them. unwind before Halloween. Until he When an eleven-year-old is abducted investigate the case—and FBI Special When she’s trapped in a mall without finds the body of his boss, Denny on her way to school, the FBI doesn’t Agent Ava McLane, still recovering from her weapon as a shooter picks off Schefte, near their cabin. Now all he waste a moment, sending agents to a bullet wound, hunts the twisted killer victims, she hides with a wounded teen wants is to catch the sadist who slit scour the area and embedding Special alongside the man who captured her and prays for her survival. Denny’s throat and covered his face Agent Ava McLane with the distraught heart, police detective Mason Callahan. with a mask. Mason was the last person family. In the eye of the storm is local But that’s only the beginning...An to see him alive and will stop at detective Mason Callahan, whose life is But once a third body appears and all epidemic of mass shootings has swept nothing to find his friend’s murderer. crumbling to pieces—he’s related to the evidence points to a serial killer, the across Oregon. The young shooters victim, and his longtime confidential public furiously clamors for answers— terrify the public, committing random When the FBI learns of the mask left at informant has just been murdered. and the couple’s relationship grows murders before taking their own lives. the scene, they realize they have a Both he and Agent McLane hole up in fractured under the pressure. Ava and The task force assembled to solve the serial killer on their hands—one who is the victim’s family home. Every second Mason search in the past for clues that case—which includes Ava’s boyfriend, targeting cops. They assign the case to counts in a kidnapping case, and the predict the future. And when Ava’s detective Mason Callahan—remains Special Agent Ava McLane. Barely stakes keep rising the longer the girl is mentally ill twin spins out of control, stumped. And on top of this chaos, recovered from her own nearly fatal missing. As Ava and Mason struggle the FBI agent who battles monsters Ava’s troubled twin sister reappears, injury and her sister’s attempted to hold the family together in their every day wonders if she shares her throwing Ava’s already-tumultuous life suicide, Ava hopes she’s ready to chase darkest hour, the two investigators find sister’s self-destructive streak... into a tailspin. another killer. themselves drawn to each other.

Bone Secrets Series

Hidden (Book One) Chilled (Book Two) Buried (Book Three) Alone (Book Four) Known (Book Five) Kendra Elliot Kendra Elliot Kendra Elliot Kendra Elliot Kendra Elliot Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 7/17/2012 Publication Date: 8/14/2012 Publication Date: 3/26/2013 Publication Date: 1/7/2014 Publication Date: 1/19/2016 Page Count: 388 Page Count: 349 Page Count: 362 Page Count: 352 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: French, German, Rights Sold: German, Italian, and Rights Sold: Czech, German, and Rights Sold: German and Norwegian Rights Sold: Norwegian Italian, Norwegian, Simplified Norwegian Norwegian Chinese, and Spanish

Award-winning, bestselling author As a forensic nurse on a search-and- 2014 Daphne du Maurier Award RT Magazine 2014 Reviewers’ Wall Street Journal Bestseller Kendra Elliot unites in-depth rescue team, Brynn Nealey Winner Choice Finalist—Best Romantic forensic knowledge with a passion braves a dangerous blizzard to International Thriller Writers 2014 Suspense In Known, Kendra Elliot leads for thrillers in this steamy and find the survivors of a plane crash Thriller Award nominee—Best Suspense Magazine Best of 2014 readers on a dangerous, twisting gripping tale. in the Cascade Mountains. Paperback Original Novel journey of two lives forever One rainy night in the woods, Dr. changed by a fiery snowstorm in Eleven years ago, the Co-ed Joining her is Alex Kinton, a Eighteen years ago, Chris Jacobs Victoria Peres is called to the site the mountains. Slayer murdered nine female former US marshal. Alex lies his walked out of the forest, the lone of a haunting crime scene. Six students on the Oregon State way onto Brynn’s team to find the survivor of a school busload of beautiful young girls—all in white After a snowstorm in the Cascade University campus. Lacey Campbell man who killed his brother—and children who’d vanished two dresses and arranged in a circle— Mountains, Chris Jacobs discovers barely escaped his attack, but lost then administer his own brand of years before. His memory was have been left for dead. Only one two things he never expected to her best friend, whose remains were vigilante justice. But once the gone, his body beaten and girl, fighting for her life at a see: the charred shell of a cabin, never found. As the sole surviving team members reach the plane’s emaciated. Today, the sad nearby hospital, has survived the and Gianna Trask and her sixteen- victim, Lacey helped send the serial wreckage, they discover everyone remains of the missing children carnage. Victoria and the police year-old daughter huddled in an killer to prison for life. Now, the aboard has perished...except for have been discovered, along discover that the disturbing SUV, having barely escaped from witnesses from a decade ago are the man Alex is hunting. Alex will with evidence that they were arrangement of the bodies—as their burning vacation rental. being murdered one by one. All the do whatever it takes to track his held captive for years. But meticulous as it is mysterious—is Still scarred from a childhood evidence points to the Co-ed Slayer target through the vast, snowy investigative reporter Michael straight from the pages of a ordeal, Chris knows there’s as the culprit—only, he’s dead. So wilderness. Brody’s brother is still missing. decades-old cold case. something sinister about the who’s the killer? And is Lacey next in scene—the stench of burned flesh. line to die?

155 Rogue Winter Novellas

Tracks of Her Tears Dead in Her Tracks Melinda Leigh Kendra Elliot Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 11/10/2015 Publication Date: 11/17/2015 Page Count: 99 Page Count: 99 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the first thrilling Rogue Winter novella, sleepy little Solitude, On Christmas morning, Solitude, Oregon, unwraps murder... Oregon, wakes up to another deadly threat. This wasn’t how police chief Zane Duncan expected to spend his County investigator Seth Harding intends to spend the holidays with first Christmas with fellow officer and girlfriend, Stevie Taylor. But his newly reconciled family, but a few days before Christmas, a when a local motel calls in the discovery of a dead body, the homicide thwarts his plan. Seth arrives at the scene and makes a couple’s holiday takes a grim turn. This is the second murder in painful discovery: the victim is his brother-in-law’s girlfriend. Her Solitude within the week, despite the fact that their primary apartment has been ransacked, and her toddler left motherless. To suspect is already in custody. Together, Zane and Stevie must face make matters worse, Seth’s brother-in-law, Bruce, is missing. With a disturbing truth—their small town may be harboring two killers. Solitude locked in a rare, deadly deep freeze and the temperature plummeting, the residents launch a desperate search. As their investigation digs deep into the backgrounds of newcomers and longtime residents alike, Zane and Stevie also struggle to Seth calls his wife, social worker Carly Taylor, to take the case so adjust to life under the same roof. Even if the stress of homicides the little girl doesn’t get lost in the foster-care system. With the and cohabitation doesn’t bring an end to the couple, the murderer holidays near, Carly brings the child home with them to celebrate lying in wait just might. Christmas. But when the Taylor farm is also trashed, Seth and Carly must race against time—and against a paralyzing winter storm—to find Bruce and catch a killer in the first pulse-pounding sequel to the Rogue River novellas.

Rogue River Novellas

On Her Father’s Grave Gone to Her Grave Her Grave Secrets Walking on Her Grave (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) (Book Four) Kendra Elliot Melinda Leigh Kendra Elliot Melinda Leigh Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 10/7/2014 Publication Date: 10/21/2014 Publication Date: 11/4/2014 Publication Date: 11/18/2014 Page Count: 100 Page Count: 97 Page Count: 93 Page Count: 100 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In a small town like Solitude, Oregon, In Solitude, Oregon, everyone has There are no secrets in a small town— The electrifying conclusion to the keeping a secret can be murder. secrets...and some will kill to keep until someone has one worth dying for. Rogue River novellas. them. Stevie Taylor had left her sleepy Local cop Stevie Taylor and Police Chief The sleepy town of Solitude, Oregon, hometown for a more exciting life. But When she believes a teen is falsely Zane Duncan have startling new proof has turned into ground zero for a turf after her police-chief father passes accused of drug dealing, social worker that a deadly street drug is expanding war between the manufacturers and away, the LAPD cop returns to Solitude Carly Taylor takes on a high-risk case its grip on their small town: a skull distributors of a lethal new drug. When and signs on as a patrol officer, hoping and her estranged husband—the found on the banks of the Rogue River a teenage witness disappears, social to heal from her loss...and from the detective in charge of the has two bullet holes in the back. Still worker Carly Taylor must find him horrific things she’s seen in the city. investigation—to prove the boy caught up in the excitement of their before he’s silenced permanently. innocent. A deadly new designer drug new relationship, Stevie and Zane are In Solitude, everyone knows everyone has taken hold of her small rural determined to track down the drug’s Investigator Seth Harding wants to keep else’s business—and to Stevie’s dismay, hometown of Solitude, Oregon, and source before more lives are lost. Carly, his estranged wife, out of harm’s local gossip soon ties her to the new Carly is determined to find the real way, but she refuses to let his concern police chief and a man from her past. dealer and clear the teen’s name. But Then one death strikes especially close keep her from doing her job. When one Tragedy then shakes up the small town the deeper she digs into the case, the to home, leading to heartache and of her young charges vanishes, Carly when a teenager dies after taking a more danger she unearths, until confusion for Stevie. She and Zane gets pulled even deeper into the deadly strange new drug. someone decides it’s time for Carly to must hunt down the deadly killer—but case, and Seth knows he must help move on...permanently. are they the predators, or the prey? her...even if it leads them right into the criminals’ crosshairs.

156 Rogue Vows Novellas

Death and Her Devotion Burned by Her Devotion Kendra Elliot Melinda Leigh Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 10/25/2016 Publication Date: 11/1/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the first Rogue Vows novella, Zane and Stevie are about to get In the second Rogue Vows novella, the town of Solitude, Oregon, an unexpected wedding present...and it’s a deadly one. will learn that good TV makes for terrible reality.

It should be the happiest weekend of Officer Stevie Taylor’s life. When Chase Ryan, a popular crime-TV star, turns up dead, the She’s finally going to marry Police Chief Zane Duncan and live entire town of Solitude is shaken—but the show isn’t over yet. The happily ever after in Solitude, Oregon. But all wedding plans grind confessed murderer is violently abducted on the way to the county to a halt when a dead body is found at a nearby campground. A jail, and now Detective Seth Harding must find both the killer and vacationing A-list TV actor has been murdered...and all hell is the kidnapper. about to break loose. Seth’s investigation unearths unsavory secrets from the celebrity’s When it comes to a celebrity murder, everyone has a motive—and life that incriminate a cast of suspects: Chase’s family, his sleazy everyone wants a piece of the action. As news media and paparazzi agent, and a fanatical stalker with a troubled thirteen-year-old swarm their sleepy town, Stevie and Zane must dig deep to daughter. When that same teen disappears from her temporary untangle a web of lies, dirty little secrets, and betrayals—and foster home, Seth’s wife, social worker Carly Taylor, is drawn into uncover the killer. But the closer they get to the truth, the the search. deadlier their investigation becomes. And if they don’t act quickly, “’Til death do us part” may come sooner than they thought. Dodging paparazzi and peril, Seth and Carly track the girl. But as they get closer to uncovering the truth, the abductor sets the stage for a chilling finale...

Mercy Kilpatrick

A Merciful Death Breath of Malice (Book One) Karen Fenech Kendra Elliot Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 6/14/2016 Publication Date: 1/17/2017 Page Count: 242 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

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FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick has been waiting her whole life A gripping novel of romantic suspense from USA Today bestselling for disaster to strike. A prepper since childhood, Mercy grew up author Karen Fenech. living off the land—and off the grid—in rural Eagle’s Nest, Oregon. That is, until a shocking tragedy tore her family apart and forced FBI Special Agent Paige Carson hoped she’d be able to start a new her to leave home. Now a predator known as the Cave Man is life in small-town South Carolina. But when a senator’s sister is targeting the survivalists in her hometown, murdering them in their murdered and a blank postcard is left next to the body, Paige homes, stealing huge numbers of weapons, and creating federal realizes that a killer from her past has found her—and is sending suspicion of a possible domestic-terrorism event. But the crime- her a very personal message. scene details are eerily familiar to an unsolved mystery from Mercy’s past. From the moment he hired her, FBI Special Agent in charge Sam McKade knew Paige was hiding something. Prompted by this recent Sent by the FBI to assist local law enforcement, Mercy returns to threat, she finally opens up: one year ago, she caught the eye of Eagle’s Nest to face the family who shunned her while maintaining suspected serial killer Todd Thames. Now he’s come back to pull the facade of a law-abiding citizen. There, she meets police chief her into his game, whether she wants to play or not. Truman Daly, whose uncle was the Cave Man’s latest victim. He sees the survivalist side of her that she desperately tries to hide, As the danger increases, Paige and Sam give in to their growing but if she lets him get close enough to learn her secret, she might attraction, and he vows to protect her no matter the cost. But the not survive the fallout... murderer will stop at nothing to get to his intended prey, and the strong arm of the law—and the shelter of her new love—may not be Stay tuned for the next book in the series, which will be enough to save her. released in Spring 2017!

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About That Fling Let It Breathe Now That It’s You Tawna Fenske Tawna Fenske Tawna Fenske Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 9/1/2015 Publication Date: 3/22/2016 Publication Date: 9/6/2016 Page Count: 321 Page Count: 306 Page Count: 314 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

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In this laugh-out-loud-funny contemporary Forbidden fruit can be downright intoxicating. Talented chef Meg Delaney hasn’t spoken to her romance, beautiful Jenna McArthur’s perfect cheating ex-fiancé, Matt Midland, for two years. match is smart, sexy, and witty—and perfectly Vineyard manager Reese Clark is determined to Ditching him at the altar after blurting out “I off-limits. bring her family’s Oregon winery into the big can’t” instead of “I do” would sour any leagues, and she knows building a new tasting relationship. But now, just as Meg is finally As the top PR person for the Belmont Health room and event pavilion is her ticket there. ready to bury the hatchet, she learns closure is System, bright, beautiful Jenna McArthur knows Having her ex-husband’s best friend—and her permanently off the menu. And the kicker? how to spin bad news and make it sound good. secret college crush—turn up to head the Matt’s brother, Kyle, is back in her life, stirring But when her adorable Aunt Gertie—a secret construction project, however, doesn’t pair well up feelings that are equal parts guilt and lust. romance writer—urges Jenna to embrace her with her plans. Between her nauseating lovebird wild side, Jenna tumbles into bed with Adam parents; her motorcycle-riding, pot-growing Meg was the best thing that never happened to Thomas, a guy she’s just met, for a fun and grandfather; and her pet alpaca, fond of head- Kyle. He couldn’t make a move on his brother’s fantastic one-night stand. Too bad Adam is the butting groins, Reese has more than enough girlfriend—even if Matt didn’t value her nearly one guy who’s totally off-limits. There aren’t chaotic characters in her life. enough. The situation is even more complicated enough clever words in the world to spin the now that Meg’s bestselling aphrodisiac cookbook story in a way that won’t wreck Jenna’s closest Back in college, Clay Henderson was more likely has spawned a legal battle with the Midlands. friendship or destroy her job. to be sprawled over a bar than building one. But Maybe he should stay away. But love, like even if the new clean-living Clay has matured as family, plays by its own rules. And the one With the irresistible Adam always around her at deliciously as an oak-aged chardonnay, he’s still woman he shouldn’t want might be the only one work, wearing an aura of temptation like a off-limits. As Reese’s well-laid plans for the who’s perfect for him. fabulous cologne, Jenna has to hold tight to her winery crumble like bad cork, Clay the newly senses to avoid falling for him. Will he take her sober gentleman is sweet enough to rescue to the heights of pleasure again—or will their Reese from a wardrobe malfunction and still attraction destroy everything she’s worked for? spicy enough to play “I Never” with her. Can he overcome his past rep to offer her a love too heady to ignore?

Bad Boy Royals Series Prairie Hearts Series Royally Bad (Book One) Whispers on the Wind Nora Flite (Book Five) Contemporary Romance Caroline Fyffe Publication Date: 3/7/2017 Historical—Prairie Western Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 8/30/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 370

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Wedding planner Sammy Sage agreed to oversee a trip down the A straitlaced bookseller and a rowdy trail guide fight their ill-suited aisle. Instead, all she saw was the inside of a jail cell. And it was attraction in Book Five of the Prairie Hearts series by USA Today irresistible—and dangerous—Kain Badd’s fault. bestselling author Caroline Fyffe.

He was the inked-up, smooth-talking prince of her dreams. He was Wyoming Territory, October 1883 also a boatload of trouble. As the baddest of the Badds, it was right there in his name—and in his family connections to the criminal Tabitha Canterbury came to Logan Meadows with one goal: to open underworld. But she didn’t learn about that until after his sister’s the bookshop she’s always dreamed of having. In a town full of wedding was raided by police. And after she’d spent one illiterate cowboys, though, making the Storybook Lodge a success is unforgettable night in his bed. easier said than done. And things get more complicated when the saloon next door gets a new co-owner, and Tabitha finds herself Now all Sammy wants to do is forget it ever happened. To forget falling for the wrong sort of man... that Kain ever happened. But when she’s targeted by a rival gang, one challenging his family for control, she has no choice but to put After a lifetime guiding settlers across the prairie, Hunter Wade herself back into his extremely capable hands. isn’t looking to stay put in Logan Meadows. But as a partner in the Bright Nugget saloon, he’s determined to turn a profit—and if that Sammy trusts Kain to keep her safe. She’s just not sure she can puts him in competition with Miss Hoity-Toity Canterbury, that’s trust herself to resist temptation... fine. Even if she is beautiful, and clever...and always ready with a witty retort.

Can these two stubborn souls come together—or will pride keep them apart?

158 Bad Habit Series Texas Rose Ranch Novels

Make Me Sin Texas Rose Forever Texas Rose Always J.T. Geissinger (Book One) (Book Two) Contemporary Romance Katie Graykowski Katie Graykowski Publication Date: 1/12/2016 Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Page Count: 400 Publication Date: 3/15/2016 Publication Date: 11/29/2016 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 258 Page Count: TBD Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

Chloe Carmichael’s life feels pretty sweet— Everything’s bigger in Texas, and that goes Justus Jacobi loves three things: her seven-year- she’s both maid of honor and florist for her best double at the Texas Rose Ranch, home to the old son, landscape design, and the man she sees friend’s A-list wedding, things are getting serious Rose family through five generations of toil, only once a year. For the past twelve years, with her boyfriend, and her flower shop is about sweat, and scandal. they’ve spent a surreal week together, but to get a spread in a national magazine. But it all Justus has never considered their relationship quickly turns sour whenever the best man, From the moment CanDee McCain is hired to anything but a dream—especially since they’ve Bad Habit drummer A.J. Edwards, shows his write a history of the Roses’ empire, she’s never exchanged their real names. But when face...his handsome, unforgettable face. A.J. is bowled over by tall, sexy Cinco Rose. True, the Justus comes to the Texas Rose Ranch to work, everything Chloe doesn’t want: tattooed, selfish, man initially mistakes her for a stripper, but he fantasy becomes reality fast... and all-around bad news. So why can’t she stop certainly puts the man in manly. For the first thinking about him? time since her cheating ex left, stealing her Houston “Rowdy” Rose is an award-winning novel-in-progress in the process, CanDee is vintner, the second son in the Texas Rose Ranch Goody Two-Shoes Chloe isn’t exactly A.J.’s type, ready to have a little fun. dynasty...and the keeper of a secret that, if either, but the chemistry between them is discovered, would make him an outsider in his undeniable. A.J. will be the first to say he isn’t a No woman has ever made Cinco feel both so at own family. If they knew where he went the first saint, but there’s something he’s not saying— ease and so turned on. Since his divorce, he’s week of every September, it would throw into something that would devastate Chloe. The only preferred a saddle and solitude to risking his question his reputation—reserved, cautious— way he can protect her is to push her away, but heart again. Yet something draws him to the revealing an unbridled artistic side he’d rather the drummer finds he needs her now more than fast-talking, leggy redhead. CanDee’s not just keep hidden. ever. When a wedding-day confrontation reveals sweet; she’s smart and brave, too. But her secrets they’re both hiding, will Chloe and A.J. research is uncovering long-buried secrets that But that side of Rowdy is all Justus knows— ever find their rhythm again? could jeopardize everything the Roses prize until now. As they rekindle their passionate most—and destroy a love that’s just begun to relationship in the real world, they learn what Stay tuned for the next two books in the bloom. their lives look like outside of a once-a-year series, which will be released in Spring and romance—and whether love can survive a reality Fall 2017! check.

Quarry Road Series Wager of Hearts Series

After You Were All the Lies We The All-Star Antes Gone Tell (Book One) Up (Book Two) Alexis Harrington Megan Hart Nancy Herkness Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Publication Date: 3/21/2017 Publication Date: 5/31/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Page Count: 354 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

A new novel from the award-winning, bestselling The first book in the new Quarry Road series “No strings, no rings.” That’s Luke Archer’s author of the Powell Springs series. from New York Times and USA Today bestselling motto. As the champion quarterback for the author Megan Hart. New York Empire—not to mention a self-made Julianne Boyce’s first love went to prison for billionaire—Luke has given up on serious killing her husband in a barn fire. After serving They were inseparable as teens, but a tragic loss relationships. Women only want him for one his sentence, Mitchell Tucker is back to claim sent them spiraling in different directions, thing: the thrill of being with a superstar. And what only Julianne can give him—her making reckless decisions and running from their he likes it that way, too. But when his best forgiveness. And he intends to get it. grief. Now, reunited by another death twelve friend announces he’s retiring from football to years later, the four friends who were as close spend time with his wife and kids, Luke feels like as family must face the things they sacrificed, he’s missing out on something much bigger than the things they can’t have, and the things they his career. truly desire. The assistant concierge in Luke’s luxury high- Stay tuned for the next book in the series, rise, Miranda Tate fled her family’s dairy farm to which will be released in Spring 2017! come to the bright lights of New York City. She works hard to move up and sends her spare earnings home to her brother. When she and Luke meet, there’s an instant sexual attraction that turns steamy quickly, but they’re in completely different leagues. Could Miranda be just the woman Luke needs to win the most important game of his life?

Stay tuned for the third book in the series, which will be released in Spring 2017!

159 Graveyard Falls Series

All the Pretty Faces All the Dead Girls (Book Two) (Book Three) Rita Herron Rita Herron Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 3/29/2016 Publication Date: 11/22/2016 Page Count: 370 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Josie DuKane is on shaky ground. Having narrowly escaped the When a violent storm hits Graveyard Falls, it unearths the notorious Bride Killer, she penned a tell-all memoir that dug up a unimaginable: skeletons of teenage girls, each dressed in white and town’s dark past. Now the book is being made into a movie, and holding a candle. It’s clear to FBI agent Beth Fields that this is the Josie must visit the very place that will trigger an avalanche of work of a long-standing killer—but could it be the one she escaped unwanted memories—Graveyard Falls. On the heels of her arrival, years ago? She has no memory of the man who held her captive and she receives a gruesome photograph of a dead woman with talon murdered her friend. But even though someone was jailed for the marks carved into her face. And worse, Josie just might be the crime, she’s always feared that the real killer is still out next victim. there...waiting and watching.

Torn between guilt, justice, and revenge, Special Agent Dane Ian Kimball never believed his stepfather was guilty of Beth’s Hamrick will do anything to find the man who brutally murdered his kidnapping or the slaying of two local girls. Now Graveyard Falls’s sister. When he realizes the recent tragedies in Graveyard Falls sheriff, Ian is determined to catch the true perpetrator. And when bear an uncanny resemblance to her death, he volunteers to more young women go missing, he realizes he needs Beth’s help. spearhead the investigation. But doing so means teaming up with She is nothing like Ian expected, and everything he desires. But if Josie. they have any hope of finally ending the killer’s reign of terror, Beth and Ian will need to put everything aside—including their past, Nothing prepares him for the feelings the beautiful, tough woman their mistrust, and their growing attraction... evokes. As the body count rises and the suspect pool widens, Josie and Dane must put aside their growing attraction to run down the killer who devastated both their lives.

The Montana Sky Series Paradise, Idaho Series

Mystic Montana Turn Me Loose Take Me Back Sky (Book Six) (Book Three) (Book Four) Debra Holland Rosalind James Rosalind James Historical—Prairie Western Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 6/28/2016 Publication Date: 5/17/2016 Publication Date: 2/28/2017 Page Count: 290 Page Count: 366 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

A caravan driven at breakneck speed through Rochelle Marks is working hard to build a name Hallie Cavanaugh’s late father just left her the hills of Montana is the least of Magdalena for herself that has nothing to do with her pinup- millions of reasons to stay away from Jim Baxter’s concerns. Evicted from her home, and girl curves. She’s made mistakes in the past, and Lawson, deputy sheriff of Paradise, Idaho, and due to soon give birth, the Gypsy woman is now she’s trying to stop her little sister, Stacy, the man who broke her heart fourteen years forced to follow her husband, Oswald, a drunk from making worse ones. Rochelle’s done with ago. Hallie has worked hard for independence, and abusive miner who hopes to find work in a being nothing more than someone’s good time. but she can’t dismiss a massive inheritance, neighboring town. Even if that someone is the one-night stand who even if she has to follow her father’s turned her life upside down before vanishing— manipulative terms to get it. How hard can it be Despite calling Sweetwater Springs home, and who’s just arrived in Paradise, Idaho, to spend six months back in Paradise—and not wealthy banker Caleb Livingston clings to his looking to pick up where they left off. sleep with her old flame? elitist East Coast ways. While this may have brought him prestige, he’s missed out on Tech mogul Travis Cochran’s hard-won new Former Army Ranger Jim just wants to do his romance at every turn. priorities have brought him to town as a job, raise his daughter...and resist the gorgeous, university lecturer, but he’s come for something redheaded reminder of his bad-boy past. Their When Caleb’s buggy collides with the Baxters’ else, too: the smart, sassy, gorgeous woman one unforgettably hot night together had major caravan, Oswald is instantly killed, and Maggie who’s been in his head for months. When Stacy’s consequences, and now there’s a fortune and a goes into labor. Caleb manages to keep his guilt choices draw her big sister into a web of down- family legacy at stake. But when Hallie is and terror at bay long enough to make her home crime and cold-blooded murder, Travis’s threatened amid a storm of uncovered secrets comfortable and deliver her baby, a harrowing mission gets a whole lot more urgent. Now and conflicted loyalties, protecting her becomes and ultimately endearing experience. Can convincing Rochelle to trust him isn’t just about more than a duty: it’s a deeply personal fight Maggie—now stranded with her newborn child— winning her back. It may be the only way to Jim’s heart won’t let him lose. learn to trust again? Will Caleb overcome his keep her alive... sense of obligation and highbrow conceit to open his heart to lasting love?

160 Wildwood Series The Cross Creek Series

Forbidden Fling Wild Kisses Crossing Hearts (Book One) (Book Two) (Book One) Skye Jordan Skye Jordan Kimberly Kincaid Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 7/26/2016 Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Page Count: 315 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Delaney Hart has come a long way from her wild Newly divorced, Avery Hart returns home Hunter Cross has no regrets. Having left his youth, dating tattooed bikers at her father’s bar, to Wildwood eager to take on her dream football prospects behind the day he graduated The Bad Seed. But when his death pulls her back opportunity and transform her family’s dive bar high school, he’s happy to carry out his legacy to Wildwood, California, she must stay to into her own bakery. The contractor for hire on his family’s farm in the foothills of the renovate the dive he left her. And also face the isn’t just a master with his hands—he’s big, Shenandoah. But when a shoulder injury puts lies and secrets that sent her running ten years built, and wears a tool belt like nobody’s him face-to-face with the high school before. business. Despite being an ex-con, Trace Hutton sweetheart who abandoned town—and him— is irresistible. Too bad he’d never go for twelve years ago, Hunter’s simple life gets a lot When Wildwood’s chief building inspector, Ethan someone as inexperienced as Avery. more complicated. Hayes, shows up on the property, Delaney doesn’t recognize him. The last thing he wants Trace needs to focus on the job at hand, not Emerson Montgomery has secrets. Refusing to to do is save the bar where his cousin died in a daydream about smearing icing all over the sexy divulge why she left her job as a hotshot brawl. But the good boy from her past is all too baker...and licking it off. This job is the key to physical therapist for a pro football team, she willing to remind her of the bad girl she used to getting his construction company back on its struggles to readjust to life in the hometown she be. And one night of passion leaves them both in feet after his time in prison. Besides, no one left behind. The more time she spends with a compromising position. deserves a fresh start more than Avery, and she Hunter, the more Emerson finds herself wanting certainly won’t get that with him. to trust him with the diagnosis of MS that has The last place Ethan should be is in Delaney’s turned her world upside down. bed. Guilt, family pressure, and plans for a After a delectable night of passion (and pie), brewpub of his own make shutting down The Bad Trace craves something more. But he’ll be But revealing secrets comes with a price. Can Seed his top priority...until his feelings for damned if he’ll let his checkered past crush her Hunter and Emerson rekindle their past love? Or Delaney interfere. Because her future depends dreams. And as Avery starts to realize how Trace will the realities of the present—and the trust on the success of the bar’s renovation and his fulfills more than just her physical needs, she that goes with them—burn that bridge for good? dreams are rooted in its failure, their forbidden struggles with whether to let her history decide romance may be destined for heartbreak. her future, or explore the wild new possibilities of forever...

Good Hope Novels

Christmas in Good Summer in Good Be Mine in Good Hope (Book One) Hope (Book Two) Hope (Book Three) Cindy Kirk Cindy Kirk Cindy Kirk Contemporary Romance Contemporary Small Town Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 12/1/2015 Publication Date: 6/28/2016 Publication Date: 1/31/2017 Page Count: 302 Page Count: 286 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Ami and Beck would rather forget the past, but A widow at twenty-six, Primrose Bloom returns Celebrated hairstylist Marigold Bloom knows how this Christmas of love is one to remember. to idyllic Good Hope, Wisconsin, with her two to tease beauty out of chaos...until her own life rambunctious young boys, seeking the beauty of becomes untamable. After losing her prestigious Amaryllis “Ami” Bloom’s cheerful smile greets the lakeside landscape and the comfort of home. job in Chicago, Marigold returns home to Good everyone in Good Hope, Wisconsin. But her After the loss of her husband and her job, all Hope, Wisconsin. But her plan to lay low and merry facade hides a dark secret she won’t ever she’s looking for is peace. consider her next move is complicated by an forget. Still, she throws herself into celebrating unexpected blast from the past. Christmas—and convinces her handsome, and Prim is resolved not to date again until her boys stubborn, new neighbor to join her. are in college, but her will starts crumbling Sheriff Cade Rallis has never forgotten the whenever she’s around her former high school blissful weekend he spent with the irresistible Beckett Cross, however, is determined not to debate partner, Max Brody—who just happens to Marigold in Door County. Seeing her again is a celebrate the holidays. He moved to Good Hope live in the charming cottage next door. Max has like a one-two punch to his heart, and he knows to leave behind reminders of how he’d had it reservations of his own about giving love a he can’t lose her a second time. all...and lost everything. But it’s hard to resist second chance and is determined to keep his adorable Ami, the designated keeper of the distance. But when the two pair up to work on Marigold never meant for her stay in Good Hope small town’s holiday traditions, when she asks the town’s Fourth of July celebration, the to be permanent, and she certainly never meant for help with the Twelve Nights celebrations. fireworks over Green Bay aren’t the only sparks to fall for Cade. As Valentine’s Day approaches And Ami has a hard time resisting Beck’s soft flying. and her dream job beckons, will Cupid’s grip on southern drawl and gentle eyes. Will a Christmas Marigold be strong enough to keep her in Good miracle give them a second chance at love and Are Prim and the small-town boy she left behind Hope? Or will the lure of fame and fortune in the the hope to heal both of their hearts for good? perfectly wrong for each other...or perfectly big city prove impossible to resist? right?

161 A Turtle Island Novel

Ransomed Jewels On the Rocks Laura Landon Kim Law Victorian Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 5/3/2016 Publication Date: 1/12/2016 Page Count: 306 Page Count: 304 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

With her husband’s dying words, “My marchioness has it,” the Sassy tomboy Ginger Atkinson would rather be captaining a deep- Marchioness of Huntingdon is thrown into a nightmare of intrigue sea fishing boat than baking pies, yet she still wishes she had a man and danger. But even those who are holding her brother ransom to bake for. Sure, the pretty redhead is happy running her late can’t force her to do the impossible—hand over a necklace she father’s Turtle Island ferry business, but everyone in the world is doesn’t have. finding love except her. Stuck on the wrong side of thirty, she’s trying to accept singlehood by building a dream home—for one. Major Samuel Bennett believes the newly widowed Lady Claire Huntingdon is a traitor. He intends to get the necklace he’s In high school, Carter Ridley loved to sneak off with his good friend convinced she has, before sending her to the gallows. But when he Ginger to watch the sun rise over the ocean. But after graduation, meets the captivating widow, he discovers that nothing is as it his path took a different route—one that, unlike Ginger’s, did get seems. him the spouse and house of his dreams. At least, until a scandal shattered everything. Claire knows she can’t trust anyone, but she isn’t given a choice when Major Bennett arrives, demanding she give him the necklace. Running from his heartbreak, Carter returns to Turtle Island, where And it isn’t until she’s forced to put her life in his hands that she he discovers that Ginger is all grown up. His teenage friend has realizes it isn’t only her life she’s in danger of losing—but her heart become the woman he’s always wanted. But will Carter’s pain as well. scare him away from a chance at happiness? Or can he be the loving partner Ginger’s been looking for?

The Wildes of Birch Bay

Montana Rescue Montana Mornings (Book Two) (Book Three) Kim Law Kim Law Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 8/23/2016 Publication Date: 2/28/2017 Page Count: 302 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Championship bull rider Nick Wilde is the face of Montana Pro The Wilde siblings’ cherry farm in Birch Bay, Montana, can feel like Rodeo, with all the acclaim and fans he can handle. But is that more of a burden than a blessing, but it’s the glue that’s held the enough? Contemplating his next career move, he’s come home to six of them together in the wake of their mother’s death. It’s here his family’s cherry orchard—and to his childhood crush, helicopter that they’re learning to heal and grow, each finding love while pilot Harper Stone. But Harper’s not quite the sexy, badass girl he working through their own personal struggles. once lusted after. Recently widowed, she’s broken in two. Wanting to help her move on, Nick finds himself aching for the kind of Award-winning author Kim Law combines rich emotional stability he never had as a child. storytelling with sexy, steamy romance to create deeply satisfying novels of love and family. Come along as compelling couples True love comes once if you’re lucky, and Harper already had her overcome conflict and challenges with courage, humor, and shot. An accident took her husband eighteen months ago and left off-the-charts chemistry. only pain and guilt in his place. Now Nick is waking up her body and heart to everything she might still have to gain...or lose. A second chance is more than she thinks she deserves. But with a man like Nick doing the persuading, maybe it’s time to try.

162 Scarlet Falls Series

Hour of Need Minutes to Kill Seconds to Live (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 12/9/2014 Publication Date: 6/30/2015 Publication Date: 6/28/2016 Page Count: 338 Page Count: 336 Page Count: 348 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

2015 Daphne du Maurier Award Finalist 2015 Golden Leaf Award Finalist Wall Street Journal Bestseller

While fighting in Afghanistan, Major Grant After corporate attorney Hannah Barrett tries— Wildlife biologist Mac Barrett avoided his Barrett receives devastating news: his brother and fails—to stop a kidnapping in Vegas, she hometown of Scarlet Falls for years—too many and sister-in-law have been murdered in Scarlet can’t shake the haunting image of the terrified bad memories. But when he receives the news Falls, the sleepy suburb of Grant’s youth. young girl she couldn’t save. She tells herself that his father is dying, he rushes home only to Emotionally scarred from war, the career soldier that a visit to her hometown in Scarlet Falls discover he’s too late. Shaken, Mac retreats to returns home on emergency leave to temporarily could be a welcome distraction. But soon, his remote cabin seeking peace and solace. care for his orphaned nephew and niece. But Hannah realizes the kidnappers have all the info Instead, he crashes his jeep to narrowly avoid when someone tries to kidnap the kids and their they need to track her every move. And when running over the naked body of a woman lying in teenage babysitter, Grant knows it’s not a chilling e-mails about the victim appear in her the road. Even more disturbing, when he regains random act...and neither were the murders. inbox, it’s frighteningly clear that what consciousness, the body is gone. happened in Vegas has followed her home. Already devastated by her neighbors’ violent Police detective Stella Dane wants to believe deaths, Ellie Ross is shattered by the attempted Eight months after a terrible family tragedy, Mac, even if his story about the vanishing body abduction of her teenage daughter, so she Hannah turns to Detective Brody McNamara once seems far-fetched. But when Mac’s description desperately turns to Grant for help. As they again. Brody is eager to help, though he’s matches the missing woman she’s been navigate a deadly search for the truth, they embroiled in the investigation of a brutal searching for, it raises a disturbing question: struggle with growing feelings for each other and murder. But the closer they work together, the how does a dead body disappear? Grant’s impending return to Afghanistan. But stronger their feelings grow...and the more they time is running out. The killer is growing bolder stand to lose when two seemingly unrelated, but Mac and Stella will have to work together to find by the hour, and Ellie and Grant must find him equally deadly, cases collide. the answer and catch a psychotic kidnapper—and before the children become his next victims. quickly. The killer has a deadly message to send, Minutes to Kill is the pulse-racing second novel and the case is about to become personal... Bestselling author Melinda Leigh delivers another in bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s Scarlet Falls gritty mystery simmering with spine-tingling series. passion in this first Scarlet Falls novel.

She Can Series

She Can Run (Book One) She Can Scream (Book Three) She Can Hide (Book Four) She Can Kill (Book Five) Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 11/28/2011 Publication Date: 9/17/2013 Publication Date: 3/18/2014 Publication Date: 12/8/2015

Page Count: 327 Page Count: 359 Page Count: 333 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: French 2012 International Thriller Award Winner of the 2014 Golden Leaf From the moment Officer Ethan Hale Cristan Rojas just wants to raise his Nominee for Best First Novel Award pulls Abby Foster from icy waters, he daughter in peace. But after twelve senses there’s more to her than years on the run from a South Elizabeth was a young widow with In one moment, high school teacher meets the eye. Abby has no memory American cartel, he learns that even two small children when she met and single mother Brooke Davenport of the accident that submerged her the quiet town of Westbury, Congressman Richard Baker. interrupts a vicious assault, saves a car in the frozen river. Three years Pennsylvania, has hidden dangers. Handsome and wealthy, with a young woman’s life, and attracts the ago, Abby was kidnapped and Although he can’t shake the feeling sparkling public image, Richard attention of a serial killer. abandoned in a well for a week. The he’s under surveillance, Cristan’s seemed like the perfect man to botched police investigation nearly attraction to Sarah Mitchell grows, as provide the security Beth and her Sixteen years ago, Brooke lost her killed her. Abby had moved to the do his concerns that his secret past kids were craving. But when she roommate to a brutal murder. Now mountains of Pennsylvania for a could jeopardize anyone who gets uncovers a dangerous secret about she teaches women’s self-defense, fresh start, but when it becomes too close to him. her new husband, Beth realizes he still trying to heal from the guilt and clear that this car crash wasn’t an will go to any lengths—even murder— grief that plague her. Convinced the accident, she knows the violence Sarah is ready to start her life over to keep it. After barely escaping predator knows his victims and is from her past has caught up with with her children, a new job, and a with her life, she and her children stalking his prey online, she is her. But Abby’s former assailant was budding romance. Her newfound flee. They eventually make their determined to find him before he convicted and imprisoned, so who happiness is threatened when her way to a secluded estate in the strikes again. Her brother’s friend, else wants her dead? ex-husband becomes increasingly Pennsylvania countryside, where Luke has the computer expertise to violent—and she soon learns her ex Beth dares to hope she has found a help. But Brooke’s unexpected Ethan uncovers a fresh string of isn’t the only person stalking her. safe place at last... desire for Luke complicates her murders tied to Abby’s past. To protect Sarah and his daughter, investigation, and her fixation with Someone is trying to kill her, and Cristan must shine a light into the A sexy, satisfying debut, packed with the case provokes a deadly reaction this time the stalker seems darkest recesses of his nightmarish enough suspense and romance to get from the killer. determined to finish the task. past. Stay tuned for the next book in even the tamest heart racing! the series, She Can Die!

163

Midnight Exposure Midnight Betrayal Midnight Obsession Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 8/21/2012 Publication Date: 9/2/2014 Publication Date: 1/3/2017 Page Count: 315 Page Count: 336 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Rights Sold: German

2013 Daphne du Maurier Award Finalist Curator Dr. Louisa Hancock left behind Maine Louisa Hancock thought she was safe…but and her troubled past for Philadelphia and a job there’s a new killer in town. Point, click, die. at a prominent museum. Just when it seems that Louisa’s new life is safe from her dark secrets, When a mysterious package lands on Louisa When two hikers disappear, their hometown in the body of a museum intern is found—the victim Hancock’s doorstep, the Philadelphia museum Maine blames the blinding storms. But the truth of a brutal and baffling murder. Louisa realizes curator can hardly anticipate the nightmare is far more sinister. Unaware of the danger, this is no random crime. And when another that’s about to envelop her. The package is tabloid photographer Jayne Sullivan follows an intern goes missing, the abduction is linked to addressed to her father—an expert in Viking anonymous tip to find the most reclusive the only man who has ever tempted Louisa’s culture—and inside is a ninth-century sword, a sculptor in the art world. Instead, she finds sexy heart—Conor Sullivan, the sexy owner of a Philly chilling thank-you note, and photos of two dead handyman Reed Kimball—and a small town full of sports bar. Louisa’s past has taught her to be bodies in a tableau evoking a Nordic funeral. The fatal secrets. wary, but her heart refuses to believe Conor is gruesome images match a recent crime scene. guilty. But before the police can investigate the killer’s Five years ago, Reed buried his homicide- connection to Louisa’s father, Ward Hancock detective career along with his wife. But when a Now Conor and Louisa must dodge a police vanishes. hiker is found dead, the local police chief asks investigation—and their growing desire—as they Reed for help. Why was a Celtic coin found race to find the real killer before another girl Sports-bar owner Conor Sullivan wants nothing under the body? And where is the second hiker? turns up dead. But trusting Conor could be more than to spend his life with Louisa. Devoted Avoiding the media, Reed doesn’t need a deadly, especially as the evidence against him and protective, he refuses to leave her side after murder, a missing person, or a nosy mounts...and as a merciless killer targets Louisa her father’s disappearance. When a troubled photographer. Then Jayne is attacked, and her as the next victim. young boxer he’s been coaching is suspected of courage is his undoing. Reed must risk the murders, Conor is pulled in even deeper. everything to protect her and find a cunning Desperate, Louisa and Conor take it upon killer. themselves to find her father, but soon another ritualistic slaying makes it clear there’s a Viking- obsessed serial killer on the loose. And he has a new target: Louisa.

Mirror Lake Novels

This Loving Feeling Can’t Stop Loving You (Book Three) Miranda Liasson Miranda Liasson Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 12/6/2016 Publication Date: 7/19/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Samantha Rushford’s future looks bright: the high school art When it comes to her heart, Arabella D’Angelo has moved on—even teacher is getting ready to leave Mirror Lake and move to Boston though she still lives in Mirror Lake, Connecticut, a little tourist with her ambitious boyfriend, and she hopes a diamond ring is just town with a long memory for mistakes. Ever the dutiful daughter of around the corner. But her past still has a hold on her—especially a cantankerous widower who holds grudges, Bella has spent the the bittersweet memory of her rebellious ex, who kissed her past twelve years raising her younger brother and making a name passionately before he left town without a word. for herself as a successful psychologist. Now, when she isn’t counseling a lonely-hearts club for senior women, she’s humoring Since then, Lukas Spikonos has parlayed his rebel ways into life as her matchmaking girlfriends. Bella resists the romancing of their an up-and-coming recording artist. When he shows up for a surprise blind dates, yet her friends hope she’ll fall for a local and scrap gig at the high school prom, Sam is more dumbstruck than plans for a fresh start in Chicago. starstruck—he used the words of a poem she wrote about their breakup to create a number one hit. But Lukas hasn’t returned just Then, just before Bella’s thirtieth birthday, her first love, Roman to impress students; he’s facing some real-life responsibilities and Spikonos, returns to Mirror Lake. When he moves next door to her needs Sam’s help. But she has her own unresolved issues about the family’s garden-center business to run his grandparents’ orchard, it life she wants to lead. Will the music—and the pull of true love and stirs up gossip—and a tempest of passions—just in time for pumpkin family—put their hearts back in harmony? harvest. As Roman and Bella once again get caught up in a swirl of desire and heartache, not to mention her overprotective father’s fury, Mirror Lake will soon find out whether the Italian hometown beauty and her unforgettable Greek god can stand a second chance.

164 Lake Haven Novels

Suddenly in Love Suddenly Dating (Book One) (Book Two) Julia London Julia London Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 4/5/2016 Publication Date: 11/8/2016 Page Count: 306 Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Mia Lassiter is thrilled to finally put her artistic skills to use If only Lola Dunne had the time—and the courage—she’d write her working for her aunt’s interior-design shop in her hometown of East novel, and maybe even start dating again. When her friend offers Beach. While renovating an old mansion overlooking stunning Lake the use of her summer home overlooking Lake Haven, Lola sees the Haven, she encounters a scruffy but attractive man named chance to focus on herself for a change, and she eagerly accepts. Brennan—the owner’s son. She doesn’t realize this sexy recluse is actually Everett Alden, the world-famous rock star in hiding who’s Engineer Harry Westbrook is waiting for his ship to come in. But it’s nursing his own artistic and personal crises. not happening soon enough for his girlfriend, who’s left him for good...again. To nurse Harry’s heartache, his pal extends an invite As their personalities clash, tension simmers between the to his lake house in East Beach. struggling artist and jaded musician, and their time spent alone together in the gorgeous old house only serves to turn up the heat. When it turns out that Harry’s and Lola’s friends are a divorcing, Soon, Mia and Brennan’s creative passions boil over to inspire not-on-speaking-terms couple sparring over the same house, the passions of another kind...But reality comes crashing in when Mia’s strangers find themselves accidental (and reluctant) roommates for celeb-obsessed cousin discovers Brennan’s true identity—and the summer. They agree to make the best of it, even posing as a reveals it to the world. As paparazzi swarm the mansion, Brennan is couple to mingle among East Beach’s well-heeled crowd. But the thrust back into his rock-star lifestyle. Will Mia lose her soul mate ruse is starting to feel real—and romantic. Are they brave enough just when she’s finally found him? Can their love survive the glaring to reveal their feelings before the summer nights turn cold? spotlight?

The Novels of Loch Moigh The Haneys Series

The Highlander’s Vow What You Do to Me (Book Four) (Book One) Barbara Longley Barbara Longley Historical Highlander Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 4/12/2016 Publication Date: 11/1/2016 Page Count: 290 Page Count: 260 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

On the eve of her wedding, Sky Elizabeth, the earl of Fife’s eldest Whether it’s repairing a home or taking care of clients’ other daughter, learns of her betrothed’s murderous plot against her. As needs, Twin Cities handyman Sam Haney is in demand from his she flees, Sky falls through a mysterious portal in time, landing at mostly female clientele. Despite Sam’s lothario reputation, love the feet of a twenty-first-century American knight. isn’t part of his portfolio. He’s built a lot of walls in his time, but the one that’s surrounded his heart ever since the death of his Struan, the bastard son of the Earl of Sutherland, escaped death parents is his most solid yet. through time’s portal once. Recognizing what has befallen the frightened woman, he vows to protect her even while Sky, with a Haley Cooper has had enough heartache for a lifetime. Her high trace of fae blood in her veins, senses his resentment. school sweetheart up and moved to Indonesia—alone—just two weeks before their wedding. Her mother thinks it’s time for Haley Despite their growing attraction, Sky’s determined to find a way to move on and contracts Sam to work on Haley’s wreck of a home to avert a clan war. Though he cannot deny his desire, house—and anything else, if he’s got the notion. Struan fears that helping her return to the past will surely lead to his demise. As the two work together, passion ignites and an Sparks fly and passion ignites. But Haley isn’t into Sam’s love-’em- unbreakable bond forms—but will it be enough to sustain them and-leave-’em act. She wants something more. Fixing a house is through the perils they’ll face in the past? Can their love have a one thing, but for this handyman, building a relationship will need future? a whole different set of skills.

Stay tuned for the second book in the series, which will be released in Spring 2017!

165 Heart of the Storm Series

The Sweetest Chase Kissing Mr. Right Sharla Lovelace Michelle Major Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 2/23/2016 Publication Date: 10/1/2015 Page Count: 402 Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: All Languages, Rights Acquired: All Languages excluding Italian

Photographer Quinn Parker is getting married in a month, and she’s Kendall Clark has always dreamed of anchoring the national news. almost happy about it. Even though her mother is planning the The dedicated Denver journalist has worked hard to earn more whole wedding. Even though she’s secretly had the hots for than her fluff-piece reporting job. When she’s asked to star in an Simon Chase forever. But he’s her best friend’s brother and her on-air dating show to increase her station’s ratings, she initially coworker...off-limits even if she were single. So she’s marrying the refuses...until she learns that participating will give her a shot at a man who should be her perfect match—and that’s that. national news-desk position in New York. But nothing prepares Kendall for the dating show’s popularity—or for the laughable dates Simon Chase’s life revolves around his family’s storm-chasing she’s forced to endure on camera. business. The meteorologist of the bunch, he’d rather be out in the weather than reporting it—especially if Quinn Parker is along to To complicate matters further, she’s falling hard for Tyler Bishop, photograph the run. He’s been hiding his crush on her for a long the handsome scientist hired to consult on her first big news story. time, and it’s only intensified. But she’s marrying someone else— Ty soon finds himself equally smitten with Kendall and sets out to and that’s that. prove he’s her Mr. Right. But is there room in his quiet life for a woman with such a public image? And when Kendall’s integrity is Or is it? When a Chase family wedding sets the stage for body questioned, will she choose her dream job or her dream man? temperatures to rise and the pressure of Quinn’s impending wedding to build, a new reality breaks. Quinn and Simon discover their affections have been mutual all along. When the gathering storm of their attraction finally reaches its peak, will it leave their lives in shambles? Or will they find shelter in each other?

Recipe for Kisses Tell Me Again Michelle Major Michelle Major Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 2/2/2016 Publication Date: 10/18/2016 Page Count: 256 Page Count: 266 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Chloe Daniels doesn’t need a man—after escaping a marriage gone As a teenager, Samantha Carlton used a career in modeling to bad, she guards her heart as closely as the details of her past. So break free from her painful childhood—walking away from her when hot-tempered celebrity chef Ben “the Beast” Haddox storms reckless twin sister, an alcoholic mother, and the boy she loved. into her struggling toy store, Chloe is determined not to be drawn Yet she never outran the guilt of abandoning her family. When the in by his broad shoulders...or baby-blue eyes. past shows up on her doorstep in the form of her late sister’s daughter, Sam opens her home and her heart to the girl she never In his hometown, Ben’s culinary career is almost as famous as his knew existed. But it’s not so easy to face the man she left bad-boy rep. He’s out to prove to naysayers he’s a success by behind... opening a new restaurant—and the only thing standing in his way is Chloe’s store. But before he has a chance to convert her space into Sam had shattered Trevor Kincaid’s heart, and he’d sought comfort his signature eatery, she cooks up a plan to show him that her shop in her sister’s arms. But he’d pledged to shield his daughter, is worth saving. Grace, from the drama that followed the Carlton women. Now Grace has tracked down Sam, and Trevor is forced to deal with the As things start to sizzle between them, Chloe must figure out how one woman he wanted to forget. to avoid getting burned. Can she trust herself to love again, or has she jumped out of the frying pan and into desire? History has a way of repeating itself, and the sparks between Sam and Trevor reignite an old flame. But as much as Sam wants a new future, is walking away again easier than risking her heart for a second chance at love?

166 A Gentleman of Worth Series Red-Hot SEALs Novels

A Rake Reformed Forged in Smoke (Book Six) (Book Three) Shirley Marks Trish McCallan Regency Romance Paranormal Romance Publication Date: 9/6/2016 Publication Date: 7/19/2016 Page Count: 224 Page Count: 396 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Frederick Worth, the Earl of Brent, is out of luck. He’s gambled Faith Ansell could never be mistaken for an action hero. The away a considerable fortune, and London’s creditors are in pursuit. scientist is content in her lab, working with her team on life- Rather than return to Faraday Hall and risk his father’s displeasure, changing discoveries. But when a mysterious organization captures he flees to his property in the remote north. Only Penshaw Manor her colleagues, she’s forced to flee for her life with SEAL Team 7. isn’t quite the safe, comfortable haven he expects. Lieutenant Seth “Rawls” Rawlings, ST7’s corpsman, hasn’t been Freddie is horrified to discover that not only is the property in an himself since a near-death experience in the Sierra Nevadas. He’s alarming state of disrepair, but “the Earl of Brent” is loathed by tense and distracted, and the team caught him arguing with tenants and neighbors alike. Forced to conceal his true identity, he himself—loudly. Despite his erratic behavior, Rawls is the only one finds himself enjoying this small circle of society, even as he falls Faith feels comfortable confiding her life-threatening secret in. for the lovely—if oftentimes infuriating—Miss Rosalind Harris. But Rawls has a secret of his own: his wasn’t the only spirit to Now he’s tempted to bid farewell to his rakish ways and become return to the physical plane when he was resuscitated. At first, the true lord of Penshaw Manor. But first, Freddie must prove his Rawls assumed the “ghost” he saw and heard meant he was having worth to Miss Rosalind—and to himself—before anyone discovers a complete mental breakdown. But the apparition soon becomes who he really is... convincingly real, and what’s more, he may be the key to the conspiracy looming over them. Rawls had better act quickly, because ST7’s race to save their reputations—and Faith’s life—is on. Stay tuned for the fourth book in the series, which will be released in Spring 2017!

Blackstone Dynasty Series Boot Creek Series

Filthy Rich (Book One) Every Yesterday Raine Miller Nancy Naigle Contemporary Romance Contemporary Small Town Publication Date: 11/15/2016 Publication Date: 8/30/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 288 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Billionaire Caleb Blackstone lives in the glamorous world of wealth Megan Howard used to be a successful painter—but that was a long and success, with every material luxury. But the moment he sees time ago. These days she’s struggling to move forward, convinced Brooke Casterley, none of that matters. Caleb is filled with a raw, her heart is permanently broken after her last relationship and undeniable need he can’t ignore...for a girl who is so completely grief stricken over the loss of her father. She holds tight to her different from everything and everyone he’s ever known. father’s most cherished possession: a 1958 DeSoto Adventurer. Though she needs the money, she’ll never sell it—even loaning the Only Brooke isn’t looking for love. She knows all too well just how prized automobile to her best friend on the day of her wedding much damage the wrong guy can do. Still, what sane, broke British stirs up painful memories. girl can resist the charms of an incredibly sexy, chivalrous billionaire? What starts as flirtation quickly turns into all-consuming Avowed bachelor and car collector Noah Black has never seen a car passion. Nothing could have prepared her for the searing heat of he can live without...or a woman he can live with. Reluctant to see Caleb’s touch—or just how much she craves him. his best friend condemned to matrimony, he flies to Boot Creek from California to be the best man in the wedding. But after Their whirlwind romance is the stuff of high-society fantasy—but discovering that the gorgeous maid of honor owns the car of his for every moment of pleasure, there is a cost. Past mistakes and dreams, Noah makes a pricey bet that he’ll add the DeSoto to his tragedy shadow them both...and falling for him might be the kind collection, no matter what it takes. of trouble she can’t afford. Despite their determination to stay single, Noah and Megan soon Stay tuned for the next book in the series, which will be find they can’t resist each other. His attention turns from getting released in Spring 2017! the car to getting the girl, and thanks to Noah, Megan can imagine a life in the present.

167 Deadly Secrets Series

Repressed (Book One) Gone (Book Two) Elisabeth Naughton Elisabeth Naughton Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 7/26/2016 Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Page Count: 318 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Hidden Falls is exactly as Samantha Parker left it—small, insular, Three years ago, Alec and Raegan McClane lived every parent’s and prone to gossip. Eighteen years have passed since she worst nightmare: their one-year-old daughter, Emma, was abducted witnessed her brother’s murder, but she’s still the talk of the from a park when Alec turned his back for just a moment. Emma town. Until a handsome child psychologist with haunting memories was never found, and presumed dead. The crushing trauma, plus of his own arrives. Alec’s unbearable guilt, ended the couple’s marriage.

Dr. Ethan McClane isn’t exactly a newcomer. If it weren’t for his Now, a four-year-old girl matching Emma’s profile is found latest case, he’d never set foot back in Hidden Falls. Thankfully, no wandering a local park. Alec and Raegan are heartbroken to one seems to recognize him as the troubled teen from years past. discover it’s not their daughter, but are newly motivated to find Not even Sam, the delightfully sharp and sexy high school closure...and each secretly feels desperate to be in the other’s chemistry teacher he can’t stop thinking about. presence again.

When Sam and Ethan work together to help one of her students, Alec suspects his vengeful, biological father is behind Emma’s sparks ignite. But Sam’s hazy memories of a long-ago night concern disappearance. But as Raegan investigates other abductions in the Ethan, and unlocking the repressed images reveals a dark area, she sees a pattern—and begins to wonder if Emma’s abduction connection between them. As the horrors of the past finally come is actually linked to something more sinister. As Alec and Raegan to light, their relationship isn’t the only thing in danger. A killer race to uncover the truth, a long-burning spark rekindles into will strike again to keep an ugly secret hidden. This time no one smoldering passion as they realize they need each other now more will be safe. than ever.

Taking Chances Series

Twisted Up (Book One) Tangled Up (Book Two) Erin Nicholas Erin Nicholas Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 8/23/2016 Publication Date: 1/17/2017 Page Count: 316 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Avery Sparks is a master at controlling chaos—and she gets plenty Storm chaser Max Grady can already feel it: there’s a tornado of opportunities as fire chief and head of emergency management coming to his hometown of Chance, Nebraska. Max is going after it, in her hometown of Chance, Nebraska. The only thing she can’t and the only person he wants by his side is police officer Bree seem to control are her feelings when she’s around Jake Mitchell, McDermott, fellow adrenaline junkie, his best friend, and the the man who was her first everything the night of their high school woman Max has secretly been in love with for years. But when a graduation. But Jake was so quick to leave Chance—and Avery— close call with a tornado leaves them lip-locked, Max knows that behind that she swore she’d move on. the danger is only beginning.

While Avery’s job is to minimize drama, Jake embraces the chaos Bree is always up for excitement. Her close and sexy encounter of an emergency. After enlisting in the Army National Guard, Jake with Max is unlike anything she’s felt before, and she wants more. became a nationally recognized leader in disaster recovery. Yet a As they work together to help clean up Chance, the air between life on the road has left him restless. So when a class-four tornado them crackles with sexual tension. But Bree has a tendency to look wreaks havoc on Chance, he’s eager to return home—and to the ahead to the next thrill, and Max knows it. Now they’re all tangled woman never far from his mind. up as they chase the strongest force of nature on earth: love.

Now, Avery and Jake must team up to help their hometown weather a siege of violent storms. But it’s clear to them both that nature isn’t the only force they’ll have to reckon with. Will Avery and Jake’s whirlwind love affair be an all-new disaster—or can they recover from their stormy past to build a future together?

168 Anchor Island Novels

Meant to Be (Book One) Up to the Challenge Home to Stay (Book Three) More to Give (Book Four) Terri Osburn (Book Two) Terri Osburn Terri Osburn Contemporary Small Town Terri Osburn Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 5/21/2013 Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 5/1/2014 Publication Date: 11/11/2014 Page Count: 348 Page Count: 291 Page Count: 306 Publication Date: 10/22/2013 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 347 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German, Italian, and Turkish Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German Rights Sold: German Rights Sold: German, Italian, and Spanish Beth Chandler has spent her whole life When the Dempsey patriarch suffers Willow Parsons’s two new best friends Callie Henderson had to fight to put her pleasing others. She went to law school a heart attack, Lucas Dempsey steps are getting married, putting her tragic past behind her, but now the up- to make her grandparents happy. She up to keep the doors of the family squarely on the sidelines of romance— and-coming player in the hospitality agreed to marry her workaholic restaurant open. Sporting a bruised which suits her just fine. After the industry is well on her way to boyfriend, Lucas, to make him happy. ego after losing his fiancée to his older nightmarish situation she escaped from, happiness. She has her sights set on the And, despite her fear of boats, she took brother, Lucas would rather walk on featuring the ultimate Mr. Wrong, she lead renovation position at the Sunset a ferry to see Lucas’s parents just to glass than spend six weeks within is more than happy to spend her days Harbor Inn, which is owned by Sam make them happy. spitting distance of the happy couple. slinging drinks in Dempsey’s Bar & Grill, Edwards, the man who comforted her But family duty calls. And that duty and her nights alone. But her Anchor in her grief and gave her one night of While suffering through a panic attack includes working side by side with a Island refuge has just one catch: passion before walking away. on the ferry, Beth meets a tall, sexy tantalizing spitfire intent on driving muscle-bound charmer Randy Navarro. stranger who talks her down from her him mad. Sam is searching for someone who can fear—and makes her heart flutter in the Everyone in town knows that Randy, turn his quaint inn into a premier process. Soon, she has a new reason to Tough-as-nails boat mechanic Sid owner of the local fitness club, is a boutique hotel. He just never expected panic: her gorgeous rescuer is Lucas’s Navarro is happy to trade her tools for giant teddy bear. Everyone, it seems, that someone to be the one woman brother, Joe. But could she ever leave an apron to help the Dempseys in their except for Willow. He’s convinced that who knows his deepest secrets. But he her fiancé for his own brother...even if time of need. That is, until she realizes her avoidance is more than just playing needs Callie, and Callie needs the job. Lucas is more focused on making she’ll be working alongside Lucas, the hard to get, and is determined to partner than on making their man she’s loved from afar since she uncover the secrets that shadow her relationship work? first laid eyes on him in high school. lovely eyes.

Ardent Springs Novels

His First and Last Our Now and Forever My One and Only Her Hopes and Dreams (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) (Book Four) Terri Osburn Terri Osburn Terri Osburn Terri Osburn Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 4/21/2015 Publication Date: 11/10/2015 Publication Date: 5/17/2016 Publication Date: 11/15/2016 Page Count: 300 Page Count: 272 Page Count: 290 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German At eighteen, Lorelei Pratchett couldn’t When Caleb McGraw sweeps Snow As far as Dr. Haleigh Rae Mitchner is As a newly single mother, Carrie wait to get out of her hometown. Cameron off her feet, she never concerned, Cooper Ridgeway is more Farmer isn’t quite ready to jump back Twelve years later, her Hollywood expects their whirlwind romance to suited to a superhero cape than into the dating pool in Ardent Springs— dreams have fizzled, and she’s back— lead to a Vegas wedding chapel. Before mechanic’s overalls. It’s just like especially since her last marriage was temporarily, she thinks. Though she she can catch her breath, Caleb starts Ardent Springs’s most upstanding such a disaster. But if anyone could throws herself into saving the old talking kids and college funds while his resident to rescue a pregnant, entice her to wade in a bit, it would be theater and starting a baking business, wealthy parents make their disapproval homeless teenager and bring her to her hunky neighbor, Noah Winchester. small towns have long memories, and painfully clear. Convinced she was Haleigh’s delivery room. When they He’s the perfect man: strong, Lorelei’s wild past still haunts her. It blinded by lust, not love, Snow takes team up to help the new mother and protective, and smoking hot. But her doesn’t help that her ex-boyfriend, off for Ardent Springs, Tennessee, two baby, Haleigh is determined not to eyes have deceived her before, and Spencer Boyd, is even hotter, smarter, months into the marriage. cross the line with Cooper. Not only is she’s no longer willing to hand over her and more distracting than before. he her best friend’s brother, he’s a guy heart so easily. Heir to a media conglomerate, Caleb who deserves more than Haleigh’s The fiery Lorelei whom Spencer knew never experienced struggle or checkered past could ever offer. After completing several tours in the years ago may have become closed off rejection, until Snow sends him on a Middle East, Noah returns to his and cautious, but their chemistry wild hunt for his runaway bride. When At first glance, Haleigh is no longer the hometown a very different man. The hasn’t faded one bit. Somehow, he finally finds her—managing a girl Cooper pined for in school. The former soldier’s plan to rest and relax Spencer needs to show her that curiosity shop beloved by the quirky sleek, professional ob-gyn seems more is soon waylaid by the intriguing woman everything she needs is right here: locals—she agrees to give the marriage out of reach than ever for this small- next door and her heart-stealing little family, friendship, new beginnings... another chance, but on one condition: town mechanic. girl. no sex for a month.

169 K2 Team Novels Aces & Eights Series

Lost in Her Only Her Jack of Hearts (Book Four) (Book Five) (Book One) Sandra Owens Sandra Owens Sandra Owens Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 2/9/2016 Publication Date: 7/19/2016 Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Page Count: 302 Page Count: 290 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

It’s been a year since Ryan O’Connor buried his Former SEAL sniper Cody Roberts has returned Alex Gentry doesn’t scare easily. Working as an wife. He was in Afghanistan as a SEAL medic from Afghanistan with too many demons and a undercover FBI agent in the biker bar he and his when the call came that she’d been killed during simple wish: to be left alone. Working for K2 brothers co-own, he hangs with deadly criminals a robbery. In that time, he returned home, Special Services, caring for the war dogs he in order to gather information. Danger is just nursed his grief, and joined his former brothers- rescued, playing his guitar—that’s all he wants to part of the family business. But one thing has in-arms in the K2 Special Services. After a bad do. But Cody is as protective as his nickname, him terrified: his attraction to Madison Parker. breakup with her ex, Charlene “Charlie” Morgan “Dog,” suggests. A man like that can’t sit back finds happiness only when flying the friendly when he realizes the beautiful veterinarian next Madison is the cousin of Ramon Alonzo, son and skies—as an aerobatic stunt pilot. But the skies door is being targeted by an unknown enemy. second in command to a notorious drug lord Alex aren’t so friendly when her plane troubles turn is trying to bust. Alex has befriended Ramon as out to be the work of sabotage. Riley Austin is desperate to find out who’s part of his cover, and Madison has unknowingly poisoning her animal patients, and she’s stunned become his informant. Falling for her could risk Looking to forget their worries, Charlie and Ryan by her mysterious neighbor’s suggestion that it’s this case—and both their lives. run into each other at a bar. The chemistry is personal. But Cody makes her feel something instant and intense. It’s only supposed to be a else, too: a powerful attraction. He insists he’s All Madison wants is to get her new bookstore one-night stand. But the memory of their no good for her, but those haunted eyes and that business off the ground, and for her creepy passionate kiss lingers, and when Ryan shows chiseled body tell Riley that surrendering to cousin, Ramon—to whom she’s unfortunately up at Charlie’s flight school, their romance their mutual lust is worth the risk. And despite indebted—to leave her alone. If she could only takes off. Yet the route to love has its own his conditions—no falling for each other, no stop fantasizing about his mysterious new friend, turbulence—secrets, lies, and danger. Can one regrets once it’s over—she’ll fight to love him Alex... night lead to something lasting? just as fiercely as he’ll fight to save her. As the Alonzo cartel investigation heats up, so does their relationship. But will the secrets they’re keeping tear them apart—or get them both killed?

Against the Cage Series

Fighting for Control Beneath the Surface (Book Three) Melynda Price Melynda Price Romantic Suspense Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 9/13/2016 Publication Date: 3/22/2016 Page Count: 325 Page Count: 418 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Rights Acquired: All Languages

For Nikko “The Bull” Del Toro, an ex-marine turned MMA fighter, He was the last man she wanted to turn to for help. But when only two things quiet the demons raging inside him—facing an freelance journalist Quinn Summers uncovers a shocking secret opponent in the cage...and the memory of his hottest one-night with the potential to rock Washington, DC, she reluctantly finds stand. But when his PTSD resurfaces, causing him to lose control at herself on his doorstep. Someone intends to silence her forever, a CFA press party, it’s his career that may be KO’d. and Asher Tate may be all that’s standing between her and a vicious killer. Dr. Violet Summers is stunned to discover her newest patient is the man who rocked her world—and put her heart in a clinch after her Overbearing, arrogant, and insanely hot, the ex-marine Special nasty divorce. She’s determined to delve deep into the darkness Forces officer turned mercenary for hire is no bodyguard— that haunts him and to keep all further encounters strictly especially when it comes to the stubborn woman who sets his blood professional. on fire as quickly as his temper. Quinn Summers is a powder keg of trouble just waiting for a match, and he isn’t surprised that the Nikko doesn’t want a shrink. What he needs is Violet. With the feisty beauty has made some dangerous enemies. memory of their passion blazing between them, it’s only a matter of time before they give in to desire. Can Violet help save this surly To survive, she’s going to have to play by his rules—and that means fighter from his own personal nightmare? Or will he forfeit his stepping into Asher’s world, where he controls the playing field. career and his last chance at love? But in his fight to save Quinn’s life, he just might end up losing his heart...

170 Hidden Sins Series

The Thirteenth The Devil’s Blind Retribution Earl Daughter (Book One) K. T. Roberts Evelyn Pryce Romantic Suspense Victorian Romance Katee Robert Publication Date: 11/29/2016 Publication Date: 3/22/2016 Romantic Suspense Page Count: TBD Page Count: 220 Publication Date: 1/24/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Dark-haired Victorian beauty Cassandra Seton Growing up in a small town isn’t easy, especially It should have been an open-and-shut case. will finally see her fiancé, Miles Markwick, after when you’re the daughter of a local cult leader. When a car bomb explodes, taking with it the a separation of nine years. Nine years that have Ten years ago, Eden Collins left Clear Springs, wife of a prominent heart surgeon, NYPD made her an object of pity. Marrying him now Montana, and never once looked back. But when detective Maxine Turner is sure she has arrested would save her further social humiliation, but it the bodies of murdered young women surface, the right suspect—until Cory Rossini, a private may cost her even more. their corpses violated and marked with tattoos investigator, begins muddying the waters. Max worn by her mother’s followers, Eden, now an already has enough to deal with: her longtime Jonathan Vane, Viscount Thaxton, has retreated FBI agent, can’t turn a blind eye. To catch the partner is retiring, her latest case is suddenly from society, earning him the nickname “the killer, she’s going to have to return to the fold. anything but simple, and she now has a troubling Ghost.” He’s desperate to hide his father’s attraction to a man who is proving to be increasing madness and fearful that he too will Sheriff Zach Owens isn’t comfortable putting annoyingly persistent. eventually succumb to the same illness. Eden in danger, even if she is an elite agent. And he certainly wasn’t expecting to be so attracted Having taken on the task of proving his friend’s While attending the Spencers’ party in the to her. As calm and cool as she appears, he innocence, Cory isn’t about to drop the ball—no country, both Jonathan and Cassie are awakened knows this can’t be a happy homecoming. Zach matter how distractingly beautiful he finds the by unearthly wailing; instead of a ghost, they wants to protect her—from her mother, the cult, detective assigned to the investigation. When his find each other—and fall into a passionate and the evil that lurks behind its locked gates. sleuthing turns up other homicides connected to embrace. Guilt stricken and searching for But Eden is his only key to the tight-lipped the cardiology department, including a young answers, they agree to a séance, but the group, and she may just be closer to the killer woman whose throat has been slit, he convinces medium’s words only deepen the mystery. than either one of them suspects... Max that they should work together. And as they delve further into the vicious murders, they As the secrets of the past are revealed, Jonathan search for the one lead that will steer them and Cassie band together to discover what’s straight to a killer... really haunting Spencer House—and how to free each other from the specters looming over their own fates.

Along Came Mr. Right Married at Midnight Gerri Russell Gerri Russell Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 5/10/2016 Publication Date: 12/13/2016 Page Count: 226 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Olivia Tyler loves helping foster children find their forever homes, Ellie Hawthorne’s event-planning business desperately needs a jolt but she’s still waiting for her forever love. Ever since her ex- of life. Determined to drum up leads, she heads to Las Vegas for a boyfriend humiliated her on Facebook, she hasn’t been ready for a trade conference—and has one too many shots of tequila. The next commitment. But on the night of the charity auction for her morning, Ellie wakes up with a ring on her finger and next to the adoption agency, she gives in to temptation with a stranger who last person she expected to see again: Connor Grayson, the high- helps her out of a jam...and out of her bright-blue stilettos. school boyfriend who broke her heart.

After the most mind-blowing romantic night of her life, everything Connor is in Vegas to secure funds for his self-driving car project. about Max Right seems perfect: he’s handsome, chivalrous, and He’s as shocked as Ellie is by their accidental marriage. But when he’s about to launch an algorithm-based matchmaking app with an he finds out that his beloved grandmother Viola has suffered a extraordinary success rate. But when Olivia finds out her mystery heart attack, he begs Ellie to keep up the charade—just until Viola man is also someone else’s fiancé, no matter how much they seem recovers. to click, this romance doesn’t add up. For Olivia, unavailable means incompatible. Neither of them could have guessed what Viola has planned. And Ellie starts to think that maybe she got luckier in Vegas than she When a troubled teen comes to both of them for help, Olivia is could have ever imagined. With a little help from Viola and four willing to put their differences aside temporarily. But as the three elderly Elvis impersonators, can these former sweethearts find spend time together, she discovers the truth about Max’s heart, lasting love? and it just may be the key to opening her own.

171 The Lucky Series

Unlucky in Love Sweet Resolve (Book One) (Book Two) Jill Sanders Jill Sanders Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 3/8/2016 Publication Date: 6/7/2016 Page Count: 194 Page Count: 178 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Kristen Collins is cursed. It’s the only explanation for this recent Amy Walker is steps away from her perfect job. run of catastrophes. She’s lost her brand-new car and a winning lottery ticket, and her ex-boyfriend just drove off with all her The day she makes partner at her real estate firm will be the possessions. She’s even lost the empty office that’s been her happiest of her life, second only to the day in junior high when her lunchtime sanctuary. Plus, the new hire who’s taken it over is tormentor, Logan Miller, finally moved away. But fate has a warped precisely the kind of impending heartache she knows to avoid, from sense of humor, because Logan is back. In her town, in her office, his intense gaze to that irresistible crooked smile. gunning for the same promotion. Worse, the man is sinfully hot. But that won’t keep Amy from exacting the revenge he richly Developer Aiden Scott plans to stay at the Denver architecture firm deserves... just long enough to prime it for takeover. A job like his can’t get personal. Yet from the moment he collides with Kristen, he’s Logan had reasons for acting wild in his youth, but he still regrets smitten. He wants to save the stunning interior designer from every the way he treated Amy. Especially once he’s sharing an office with crazy scenario she winds up in. But who’s going to save him when the smart, self-controlled beauty. For one thing, she’s got a wicked his business agenda shatters Kristen’s trust? sense of payback. For another, he’s realized there’s something he wants much more than a promotion. And that’s to melt the ice he Turns out, love’s a lot like luck. You don’t know just how good you helped form around her heart all those years ago and to prove that have it until you stand to lose it all. loving thine enemy can be the ultimate happy ending.

Wilds of the Bayou Series

Wild Man’s Curse Black Diamond (Book One) (Book Two) Susannah Sandlin Susannah Sandlin Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 4/5/2016 Publication Date: 10/18/2016 Page Count: 286 Page Count: 266 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

From award-winning author Susannah Sandlin comes the first book For some people, the untamed beauty of the bayou is a place to in the Wilds of the Bayou series. hide. For Louisiana wildlife agent Jena Sinclair, it’s a place of refuge—one where she can almost forget the tragedy that scarred The bones said death was comin’, and the bones never lied. both her skin and her soul. But when the remains of yet another fisherman turn up, Jena realizes that Bayou Pointe-aux-Chenes is While on an early-morning patrol in the swamps of Whiskey Bayou, not safe for her...or anyone else. Louisiana wildlife agent Gentry Broussard spots a man leaving the home of voodoo priestess Eva Savoie—a man who bears a startling The mysterious deaths aren’t her only problem. A dangerous drug resemblance to his brother, whom Gentry thought he had killed known as Black Diamond is circulating through Terrebonne Parish, during a drug raid three years earlier. Shaken, the agent enters turning addicts into unpredictable sociopaths. Jena’s investigation Eva’s cabin and makes a bloody discovery: the old woman has been leads her to Cole Ryan—a handsome, wary recluse struggling with brutally murdered. his own troubled history—who knows more than he’s willing to admit. If they want to stop the killer, Jena and Cole must step out With no jurisdiction over the case, he’s forced to leave the of the shadows of their pasts and learn to help each other...before investigation to the local sheriff, until Eva’s beautiful heir, the evils lurking in the bayou consume them both. Celestine, receives a series of gruesome threats. As Gentry’s involvement deepens and more victims turn up, can he untangle the secrets behind Eva’s murder and protect Celestine from the same fate? Or will an old family curse finally have its way?

172 The Sinclairs Series

The Billionaire’s No Ordinary The Forbidden Christmas: A Billionaire Billionaire Novella (Book One) (Book Two)

J. S. Scott J. S. Scott J. S. Scott Contemporary Erotic Romance Contemporary Erotic Romance Contemporary Erotic Romance Publication Date: 10/14/2014 Publication Date: 3/31/2015 Publication Date: 7/28/2015 Page Count: 102 Page Count: 242 Page Count: 242 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Called an eccentric beast by the citizens of Dante Sinclair never cared about his family’s Wall Street Journal Bestseller Amesport, Maine, handsome, sensual billionaire money. All the ultrasexy billionaire ever wanted Grady Sinclair stays isolated in his mansion on a was to be a cop; and now that he’s a homicide All of Jared Sinclair’s wealth still can’t ease the private peninsula. The arrangement suits Grady detective in Los Angeles, he’s a damn good one. pain from his terrible childhood...or his guilt just fine—until an unassuming woman rings his But when he is injured and loses his partner in over a recent tragedy. Unable to forgive himself, doorbell, awaking his long-dormant passion with the line of duty, he returns to his vacation home the billionaire property investor buries his her fearlessness. All he wants is to make the in Amesport, Maine, to recover. With a mouth as emotions, toughens his skin, and becomes a fiery blonde his forever. But will he have to dangerous as the streets he protects, Dante notorious womanizer, refusing to commit his become the monster everyone thinks he is to get knows no one can ever heal or tame him. heart to a woman when he’s convinced she his Christmas wish? wants only his wallet. Sarah Baxter, a brilliant young doctor still Emily Ashworth is desperate. The Youth Center struggling with her stifled upbringing, has But ever since Jared arrived in Amesport, Maine, has been robbed of all its money, and as the recently moved from Chicago to sleepy Amesport he’s been intrigued by Mara Ross, the petite director, she has to find a way to give the town’s to escape her past, hoping to find peace. When and sexy shop owner who asks nothing of him. needy children the Christmas they deserve. With Sarah is assigned to Dante’s case, there’s an When Mara’s store is purchased without her nowhere else to turn, she ventures to the instant heat between them. They couldn’t knowledge, she stands on the brink of losing her mansion of a mysterious billionaire to ask for possibly be more different, yet their intense home, her livelihood, and generations of family help. Warned to expect a beast, Emily is shocked passion is impossible to ignore. As burning history. Then the irresistibly persuasive Jared to find Grady Sinclair a handsome and very desires awaken within Sarah, her haunted past proposes a business deal to Mara...and soon sensual man. With steamy kisses under the returns, threatening her once again. Can Dante draws her into a steamy, sensual affair, mistletoe and seductive whispers while hanging overcome his grief and unravel the secrets Sarah convincing her that he’s anything but cold. the wreath, Emily finds there’s more to Grady is hiding in time to protect and rescue her? However, when a revelation shakes Mara’s than meets the eye. Is this misunderstood fragile trust to the core, Jared must finally billionaire just a lonely soul who needs the gift confront the truth about his past. of love for Christmas?

The Billionaire’s The Billionaire’s The Billionaire Touch Voice Takes All (Book Three) (Book Four) (Book Five)

J. S. Scott J. S. Scott J. S. Scott Contemporary Erotic Romance Contemporary Erotic Romance Contemporary Erotic Romance Publication Date: 2/2/2016 Publication Date: 8/30/2016 Publication Date: 3/7/2017 Page Count: 254 Page Count: 240 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Wall Street Journal Bestseller As an extreme-sports mogul, billionaire Micah The Sinclairs are old money, and the Sinclair Sinclair is comfortable taking risks. But nothing— children are brought up by a father who After a troubling childhood, wealthy Evan and no one—has ever challenged him like Tessa demanded perfection from every one of his Sinclair likes his life orderly and controlled. He Sullivan. He’s fascinated by the woman who’s offspring. Unfortunately, none of the Sinclair rarely gives in to spontaneous urges—until he overcome so much, including the loss of her siblings are perfect, and all of them dealt with begins a chance correspondence with a mystery hearing. The petite blonde dynamo, a small- their father’s abusive, alcoholic wrath woman who sounds like his complete opposite. town restaurateur on the Maine coast, is the in different ways. After their father dies, the She intrigues and amuses him, and the interest most courageous person he knows, and he wants Sinclair siblings go their own separate ways. seems mutual...which is more than he can say her in his bed. Now all he has to do is convince Even though every sibling has a mansion on the for his current obsession, Miranda Tyler, the Tessa to explore their desire. Amesport Peninsula, the Sinclairs are a mystery tough-as-nails, sexy schoolteacher who’s made it to the townspeople, and completely clear she’s not impressed—or interested. After a lifetime of loss, Tessa’s finally come to misunderstood. terms with her limitations. Or she would, if a Miranda finally has it all: a good job, friends, certain sexy businessman weren’t pushing her to In The Billionaire Takes All, J.S. Scott brings the and the security of living in the quaint coastal want more. And to want him. All her remaining next chapter in her bestselling, passionate town of Amesport, Maine. She even has an senses are clamoring for her to touch, taste, and Sinclairs series to life. anonymous pen pal—a man she’s never met yet feel. But her doubts tell her to go slow when has bonded with almost effortlessly. The only their passion gets too hot. thing unsettling her life is Evan Sinclair. The handsome billionaire is arrogant, pompous, and Micah’s determined to prove to Tessa that she far too used to getting his way. Miranda tries her can still have everything she’s ever wanted, best to avoid him, until Evan’s steamy kiss turns including his love. But will she listen to her her world upside down. head—or her heart?

Soon their red-hot desire is scorching the sheets and has them both spinning out of control. The eldest Sinclair just might have met his match.

173 Tangled Ivy Series

In His Shadow Shadow of a Doubt Out of the Shadows (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) Tiffany Snow Tiffany Snow Tiffany Snow Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 12/16/2014 Publication Date: 5/12/2015 Publication Date: 12/15/2015 Page Count: 350 Page Count: 320 Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Ivy Mason is hiding—from her past, from herself, Ivy Mason has it all: beauty, a plush apartment, Ivy Mason is no stranger to trouble—though so far and from anyone who could love her. The only a fancy car, and a debonair British-spy boyfriend she’s always managed to outrun or outsmart it. kind of love she’s ever known hurts, leaving who pays all her bills. If only her boyfriend was Now a nasty man-made virus and an FBI manhunt scars on her body and soul. Now, her world may in her life—and her bed—more than just have her desperate for a cure, and on the run be boring and predictable, but that’s exactly sporadically. for her freedom. Even her romance with British what she wants. Until Devon Clay walks into her secret agent Devon Clay may have deadly life. Part of an underground British agency called the consequences, placing her squarely in the Shadow, Devon Clay knows that secrecy is what crosshairs of a shadowy international assassin, A lonely man in a deadly profession, Devon has kept him alive. Anyone he loves is a liability, Vega. works as an agent for an underground British and being involved with him puts the other agency known only as the Shadow. Nothing about person in grave danger. Yet Ivy is someone his Devon is determined to take Vega out, but first him is safe or ordinary. The danger that heart can’t resist. he must make sure beautiful Ivy is out of danger. consumes his life turns into an addiction Ivy When she escapes FBI custody, the couple can’t resist...even if it proves fatal. When an enemy from Devon’s past returns, the rekindles their passion and sets off on a pulse- spy and his girlfriend are thrown headlong into pounding adventure across the United States and As Ivy’s past begins to catch up with her, she an international conspiracy that puts everyone around the globe. En route, Ivy and Devon wonders if love really is the twisted thing she’s Ivy loves at risk. From the Missouri River bottoms discover new truths about their nemeses— always thought it was. Maybe it could be more to the brothels of Amsterdam, Ivy and Devon revelations that will test the limits of their love. with this man, who’s shown her that she doesn’t must outrun and outmaneuver the forces allied need to protect herself from everyone. Is what against them, and no one can be trusted. In this thrilling conclusion to the Tangled Ivy she feels for Devon worth the risk? He may save trilogy, Ivy Mason learns that the path to her heart or break it, if she manages to stay justice—and love—is more complicated and alive. fraught with danger than she ever could have imagined.

Corrupted Hearts Series

Follow Me (Book One) Blank Slate Tiffany Snow Tiffany Snow Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 10/4/2016 Publication Date: 12/18/2012 Page Count: 304 Page Count: 371 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Brilliant, quirky twenty-three-year-old China Mack is totally Special Agent Erik Langston has been tracking Clarissa O’Connell satisfied with her carefully ordered, data-driven life. A computer for nearly a year, always one step behind the cyber-hacking thief. prodigy who landed a coveted programming job at the cutting-edge She’s escaped his clutches often and easily. Except tonight. tech company Cysnet before even graduating from MIT, China is happiest when following her routine: shower before coffee, pizza In the snow-covered switchbacks of the Colorado mountains in a only on Mondays, bedtime at ten thirty sharp. worsening snowstorm, a car crash robs Clarissa of her memory and lands her as Erik’s prisoner. Riding out the storm in a cabin, Erik is But then things start to get a little...unpredictable. forced to protect someone he knows to be a criminal, though O’Connell isn’t anything like he’d imagined her to be. First Jackson Cooper—Cysnet’s rich, gorgeous, genius CEO—assigns China to a dangerous and highly classified project for a government In a race to stay one step ahead of those who’ll do anything for defense contractor. Her sixteen-year-old runaway niece suddenly what she knows, Clarissa and Erik must dig into her locked arrives in town, begging to move in with China. And then there’s memories if they’re going to survive. Can she trust his feelings her sexy but oddly unsettling new neighbor, Clark...Quickly the even when he knows the truth? Is it really possible to start over Cysnet assignment becomes disconcerting—and then downright with a blank slate? scary—as key staffers turn up dead. China suspects she’s being followed and isn’t sure whom she can trust. For the first time ever, she’ll have to follow her instincts, rather than logic, if she’s going to survive. Stay tuned for the next book in the series, which will be released in Spring 2017!

174 The Kathleen Turner Series

No Turning Back (Book One) Turn to Me (Book Two) Turning Point (Book Three) Out of Turn (Book Four) Point of No Return (Book Five) Tiffany Snow Tiffany Snow Tiffany Snow Tiffany Snow Tiffany Snow Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication date: 12/18/2012 Publication date: 12/18/2012 Publication date: 2/19/2013 Publication date: 12/17/2013 Publication date: 5/20/2014 Page count: 440 Page count: 488 Page count: 444 Page count: 474 Page count: 462 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German and Polish Rights Sold: German and Polish Rights Sold: Polish Rights Sold: Polish Rights Sold: Polish

Being a bartender by night and law- What Kathleen Turner doesn’t know After her promotion from law-firm Breaking up is hard to do, as Kathleen Turner wasn’t expecting firm runner by day helps make ends just may kill her. runner to investigator, Kathleen Kathleen Turner discovers. After a to fall in love when she came to meet for Kathleen Turner. Turner is learning the ropes of her falling-out with her ex, high-powered Indianapolis a year ago, much less Her boyfriend, Navy SEAL-turned- new job from none other than attorney Blane Kirk, she’s moving on with two very different men. And Navy SEAL-turned-high-profile high-powered attorney Blane Kirk, assassin-for-hire Kade Dennon, a the best she can. Unfortunately, not just any men: brothers. attorney, Blane is everything a is keeping secrets from her—the situation her boyfriend Blane Kirk someone from her past is set on woman could want. The only deadly kind—and it may end their is none too happy about. But the revenge, and nothing short of killing Blane Kirk, former SEAL turned problem? He’s Kathleen’s boss. relationship before it’s even begun. lessons with Kathleen take a Kathleen will stop this person. attorney, is every woman’s dream backseat when Kade becomes a man. He’s also a playboy who Blane is known for playing the field Someone in the shadows is stalking target. Previously untouchable, his Keeping his brother’s ex-girlfriend changes women as often as he and the last thing Kathleen needs or and terrorizing Kathleen, and Blane enemies now know of the chink in alive isn’t something new to assassin- changes his tie, and trying to hold on wants is to get involved with him. must lose a trial with far-reaching his armor—his brother’s girlfriend. for-hire Kade Dennon, but this time to Blane could only break Kathleen’s But when her friend is murdered and ramifications if he wants to keep her can he protect her from himself? heart. it seems Kathleen will be next, she alive. Blane turns to assassin-for-hire And Kade’s not the only thing She’s a woman he can’t convince may not have a choice. Kade Dennon to keep Kathleen safe, coming between Kathleen and himself to walk away from, no Commitment is a foreign word to a strategy that may backfire in more Blane. From Blane’s inexplicable matter what it costs him. Kade Dennon, assassin-for-hire and Now Blane is the only thing standing ways than one. Though Kade swears defense of a man guilty of a horrible genius hacker, and nothing about between her and people who want he hates her, he’s helpless to guard crime, to a mysterious stranger from Regret is a constant companion for him is safe. A future with Kade her dead, including assassin-for-hire against things he’s never felt before Kathleen’s past, to Kathleen’s risky Blane as he realizes the truth behind would surely end in disaster—for Kade Dennon. The deeper she sinks and when they’re together, Kathleen investigation into human traffickers, the lies he’s been told. Can love heal both of them. into the web of lies and murder, the sees something forbidden in his eyes. the obstacles mount against a the past, or can some mistakes not more Kathleen realizes she can trust relationship that’s just begun to find be undone? Past betrayals come to a head, and no one if she’s going to survive. No Kathleen must find the truth behind trust again. the choice Kathleen makes could one is innocent. Not even Blane. the lies before her time, and luck, sign her death warrant. Everything’s runs out... at stake as Blane, Kade, and Kathleen reach the Point of No Return.

Kade’s Turn Blane’s Turn Tiffany Snow Tiffany Snow Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 3/24/2015 Publication Date: 3/24/2015 Page Count: 325 Page Count: 321 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Kade’s Turn is a companion novel to Turn to Me, Book Two in The Blane’s Turn is a companion novel to No Turning Back, Book One in Kathleen Turner Series. The Kathleen Turner Series.

Assassin-for-hire Kade Dennon knows exactly who he is: a soulless Blane Kirk is a Navy SEAL-turned-attorney with old money and an killer who can’t be saved. And he thinks he’s fine with that...until even older pedigree. High powered and aggressive, he plays the he meets Kathleen. Beautiful, kind, and tough as nails, Kathleen field, changing women as often as he changes his ties—but he’s had Turner is nothing like the nameless one-night stands Kade usually no complaints so far. He has only two rules: don’t date employees, goes for. Just being around her makes the hardened hit man feel and don’t get emotionally involved. These are rules he can easily emotions he never thought were possible. There’s just one live by...until his runner, an employee in his law firm named problem: Kathleen is dating Kade’s brother, hotshot attorney Blane Kathleen Turner, does an unexpected face-plant into his lap. Kirk. Kathleen’s too young and innocent for Blane, and much too When a shadowy figure starts threatening Kathleen’s life and forces vulnerable. After her friend is murdered, Blane knows she could be Blane to lose a high-stakes trial, Kade is thrown into the role of next—and he knows that keeping her alive means keeping her close reluctant bodyguard for the most captivating woman he’s ever to him. Kathleen’s like no woman he’s ever met, and protecting known. For a man who spends his life taking down murderers and her could be the one thing to change his life forever. He may be psychopaths, this battle against his feelings might prove to be the able to keep her safe from the killer...but can he keep her safe fight of his life. from himself?

175 Ghost Gifts (Book One) Unstrung Laura Spinella Laura Spinella Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 3/1/2016 Publication Date: 2/21/2017 Page Count: 386 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

All Aubrey Ellis wants is a normal life, one that doesn’t include Even as a violin prodigy, Olivia Klein courted trouble. But when her desperate pleas from the dead. Her remarkable gift may help marriage to high-stakes investor Rob Van Doren takes another others rest in peace, but it also made for an unsettling childhood wrong turn, Olivia acts out once too often. A night of bad behavior and destroyed her marriage. Finally content as the real estate results in community service hours. Time is to be served with Theo writer for a local newspaper, Aubrey keeps her extraordinary McAdams, an inner-city teacher whose passion for music eclipses ability hidden—until she is unexpectedly assigned the story of a Olivia’s. As she inches toward a better place, life surprises Olivia in decades-old murder. the form of her first husband—baseball legend Sam Nash.

Rocked by the discovery of a young woman’s skeletal remains, Years ago, Olivia fell in love with Sam. Their impulsive marriage the New England town of Surrey wants answers. Hard-nosed imploded with a fateful car crash and harsh parting words. Olivia investigative reporter Levi St John is determined to get them. never expected to see him again. But now Sam is back, and he Aubrey has no choice but to get involved, even at the terrifying risk wants her forgiveness. He also wants to recapture their volatile of stirring spirits connected to a dead woman’s demise and piquing love affair. Olivia is torn between rekindling romance and saving her new reporting partner’s suspicions. her marriage. To her surprise, it’s the presence of the young music teacher—and the lessons from a reckless past—that may bring As Aubrey and Levi delve further into the mystery, secrets are harmony to Olivia’s off-key life. revealed and passion ignites. It seems that Aubrey’s ghost gifts are poised to deliver everything but a normal life. Stay tuned for the “In Unstrung, Laura Spinella orchestrates a brilliant, multi-layered next two books in the series, which will be released in Fall 2017 story about family expectations, forgiveness, and whether we can and Spring 2018! truly love ourselves and others just as we are.” —Kerry Lonsdale, author of the #1 Kindle bestselling novel, Everything We Keep

Nothing Like Love Anything But Love Abigail Strom Abigail Strom Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 2/16/2016 Publication Date: 7/12/2016 Page Count: 226 Page Count: 226 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Simone Oliver prides herself on being a realist and a cynic. A Socialite Jessica Bullock can’t catch a break. After a lifetime of brilliant set designer for a Manhattan theater company, she thrives chasing perfection, hoping to please her parents, all her hard work in the background and is perfectly comfortable in jeans, Chuck is set to pay off. But on her wedding day, her fiancé leaves her high Taylors, and a paint-smeared T-shirt. That is, until Zach Hammond, and dry. Humiliated, she finds her calm, cool facade beginning to the award-winning (and sexy-as-hell) British director, turns the crumble...until an unexpected wedding guest, her childhood best spotlight on her. He’s clearly captivated by her and won’t take no friend and crush, offers to help her pick up the pieces. for an answer—but Simone is determined to maintain her position that love’s not worth the risk. Never in his wildest dreams would Ben Taggart have imagined he’d be escorting Jessica on her honeymoon to Bermuda. Although they A hopeless romantic who can quote Shakespeare on a whim, Zach haven’t seen each other in years, he can’t leave her to fall apart. has spent his life center stage, surrounded by world-famous actors Agreeing to keep things platonic, they vow to make the most of and royalty. But nothing he’s seen can compare to what Simone their spontaneous vacation—until an unplanned kiss sparks a can create. Before long, he finds himself as mesmerized by her powerful passion. brash beauty as he is by her work, and he’s determined to seduce her stubborn heart. They tell themselves that what happens in Bermuda will stay in Bermuda. But when old secrets are revealed and new feelings But while the two may have been successful at relegating romance ignite, will Ben and Jessica be able to leave their romance behind? to the wings in New York, when their production moves to a centuries-old Irish castle in County Clare, there may be just enough magic to give true love the curtain call it deserves.

176 The Fire Series Shifter Undercover Series

Driven by Fire Bearly in Control (Book Two) (Book One) Anne Stuart Milly Taiden Romantic Suspense Paranormal Romance Publication Date: 2/16/2016 Publication Date: 12/13/2016 Page Count: 290 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Pro bono lawyer Jenny Parker is the only true innocent in her For vet and animal whisperer Charli Avers, talking to bears is all in family. The daughter of a New Orleans crime lord, she’s tried for a day’s work. But when she finds a man—a very sexy, very alpha years to make her own way, but family ties always manage to pull man—where a bear ought to be, the wild comes close to home. her back in line. When her youngest brother gets involved in human Charli is drawn to this mysterious stranger. She wants to help him trafficking, Jenny wants to believe he’s innocent and tries to piece together the past he can’t remember—even if that means protect him, even though it means covering for his crimes. shedding her human misgivings and embracing her more carnal desires. Matthew Ryder knows Jenny is hiding something, and he couldn’t care less about her motives. As a member of the Committee, a After shifting from bear to man, Barry believes he’s finally found covert anticrime agency, he’s dealt with the worst the world has to his mate. Now he just needs to find himself. He doesn’t know much offer. To him, Jenny is just another criminal. But when she asks for about the animal within him, but his human heart aches for Charli. help, things turn dangerous quickly, and though he can’t trust her, She ignites his instincts to protect her from all danger—including he can’t turn her away. their electric attraction.

Now, Jenny and Ryder must head to South America to stop the The stakes climb as Charli investigates the mystery behind Barry’s trafficking ring. To find the truth, they’ll have to survive untamed memory loss and how it may relate to strange sightings and thefts jungles, hostile rebels, crushing betrayals, and—perhaps most in this little corner of Oregon. Without answers, she may lose dangerous—the fire of their undeniable attraction. Stay tuned for Barry—and herself—to the wild side forever. Stay tuned for the next the third book in the series, which will be released in Spring book in the series, which will be released in Spring 2017! 2017!

Morning Glory Novels

Charmingly Yours Perfectly Charming (Book One) (Book Two) Liz Talley Liz Talley Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 5/24/2016 Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Page Count: 290 Page Count: 286 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

For Rosemary Reynolds, life in tiny Morning Glory, Mississippi, is Morning Glory native Jess Culpepper is desperate to get out of just like the fabric store she runs: it seems she’s always waiting town after divorcing the only man she’s ever dated. She takes a around for someone else to make the first stitch. Then a dear temporary nursing job in Florida and, thanks to the bequest of her childhood friend passes away, leaving behind a gift that sends late friend, Lacy, has the funds to rent a condo right on the beach. Rosemary on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. She’s not prepared to literally trip over her old high school lab partner—and definitely not prepared for how deliciously hot he is Despite her mother’s protests, Rosemary heads to New York City now. for a stay in her cousin’s trendy SoHo loft. On her first day in town, a wrong turn leads her to Little Italy...and into the arms of Ryan Reyes, once known as “The Brain,” has worked hard to handsome, outgoing Sal Genovese. Sal’s mother wants him to marry become more than the skinny nerd that jocks bullied and girls a longtime family friend, but to him, Rosemary is a breath of fresh politely tolerated. At twenty-six, he has retired from science to run country air, and he’s happy to show her a good time. Soon, a charter fishing business in Pensacola and spend his leisure time Rosemary is swept up in a world she thought only existed in catching up on the debauchery he missed. But when the movies. To turn a two-week fling into a forever thing, she and Sal unattainable girl of his teenage fantasies moves in down the beach, will have to make every moment count. old feelings come flooding back.

Their scorching attraction soon leads them into bed—but what starts as no-strings-attached fun is complicated by a return to Morning Glory and the shadows of their shared past. Can the head cheerleader and the geek redefine themselves and forge ahead to find their happily ever after?

177 Wicked White Series

The Off Season Wicked Love Colleen Thompson (Book Three) Romantic Suspense Michelle A. Valentine Publication Date: 9/13/2016 Contemporary Romance Page Count: 352 Publication Date: 5/31/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 210

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Winter winds off the Atlantic have turned the tourist mecca of All Tyler Mercer wanted was to make music—until he met Avery Seaside Creek, New Jersey, into a ghost town. Dr. Christina Paxton, Jenson. The beautiful new girl in town turned his head and struck a however, is growing accustomed to living with ghosts. Recently chord in his heart. But when their one night of passion results in widowed, the emergency-room physician has returned to the shore devastating tragedy, Tyler hits the road, leaving behind his dead- with her young daughter, house-sitting a sprawling beachside end hometown and the girl he knows he’ll never forget. Victorian home. One night, her two-year-old calls her by a name that makes Christina’s blood run cold and sends her thoughts After her father was caught embezzling, Avery’s comfortable life in spiraling back thirty years. the city was blown to bits. But meeting Tyler helped to pick up the pieces and eased her into country living. She just never expected Deeply unnerved, and certain someone else is in the house, she the handsome musician would add to her heartbreak by walking flees with her child into the cold night, only to come face-to-face away without a backward glance. with Chief Harris Bowers, a former classmate with whom Christina has a complicated history. Now divorced, Harris hopes to mend Now, three years later, rock star Tyler’s come back, hat in hand. their past, but Christina is wary of being played for a fool again. As He’s found fame and fortune as a member of Wicked White, but threats emerge, Christina and her small family find themselves in it’s all worth nothing without Avery’s love. Can she forgive him for grave danger. It seems there is no one she can put her trust in— leaving when she needed him most? Or will the ghost of their past least of all herself. keep them apart?

A Dark Lure In the Barren Ground Loreth Anne White Loreth Anne White Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 7/1/2015 Publication Date: 8/16/2016 Page Count: 418 Page Count: 396 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

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Twelve years ago, Sarah Baker was abducted by the Watt Lake In the Barrens, a vast wilderness in northern Canada bordering the Killer and sexually assaulted for months before managing to Arctic Circle, night consumes every hour of the winter. Humans are escape. The killer was caught, but Sarah lost everything: her scarce; ferocious predators roam freely. Locals say spirits do, too. marriage, her child, and the life she loved. Rookie cop Tana Larsson doesn’t mind the dark and quiet. Five Struggling with PTSD, Sarah changes her name to Olivia West and months pregnant and hoping to escape the mistakes of her past, finds sanctuary working on Broken Bar Ranch. But as her scars she takes a post in Twin Rivers, population 320. Maybe here she finally begin to heal, a cop involved with her horrific case remains can find peace and community for her child. convinced the Watt Lake Killer is still out there. He sets a lure for the murderer, and a fresh body is discovered. Now Olivia must face But with her superior out of commission, Tana becomes the sole the impossible—could the butcher be back, this time to finish the police officer in 17,500 square miles. One bitter night, she gets a job? call about the fatal wolf mauling of two students, and the only way to reach the remote scene is to enlist the help of the arrogant, As a frigid winter isolates the ranch, only one person can help irritatingly handsome Cameron “Crash” O’Halloran, a local bush Olivia: Cole McDonough, a writer, adventurer, and ranch heir pilot with a shady reputation for smuggling and a past cloaked in who stirs long-dormant feelings in her. But this time, Olivia’s shadow. determination to shut out her past may destroy more than her chance at love. It could cost her her life. When the macabre scene they uncover suggests violence much more sinister than animal, Tana must trust Crash if she wants to protect the town—and herself—from the evil that lurks in the frozen dark.

178 The Royals of Monterra

Good Earls Don’t Royal Chase Royal Games Lie (Book Two) (Book Three) Michelle Willingham Sariah Wilson Sariah Wilson Historical Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Publication Date: 1/26/2016 Publication Date: 7/5/2016 Page Count: 342 Page Count: 288 Page Count: 316 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Lady Rose Thornton never expected to find a Booking her client, Prince Dante of Monterra, on Genesis Kelley didn’t just get her heart broken. half-naked man in her garden. The handsome reality show Marry Me is a royal coup for PR The aspiring veterinarian had it crushed in front Irishman claims to be the Earl of Ashton, but was agent Lemon Beauchamp. But thanks to a last- of millions of viewers on the dating reality show Iain Donovan truly robbed by thieves? Or is he minute glitch, Lemon must pretend to be one of Marry Me. Now, just as she’s getting her life and merely an impoverished stranger lying to her? the contestants vying to win the playboy prince’s dignity back together, her royal heartbreaker, love and then live happily ever after—at least Prince Rafael of Monterra, has landed in Frog After losing everything in the potato famine, Iain until the publicity tour ends. Hollow, Iowa. And he’s renting out her aunt’s is searching for a wife whose dowry will save his guest cottage. estate. The beautiful and charming Lady Rose, Prince Dante agreed to go on the show to find a unable to walk because of an illness that stole wife, even though he already has the perfect Deceiving TV audiences for his brother’s sake her strength, agrees to help him find a wife, but candidate in mind. She’s smart, funny, sexy, and cost Rafe the girl of his dreams. But he’s going only if he will help her learn to take her first completely uninterested in wealth and fame. to fix it, even if it means moving from his steps. She’s also absolutely determined to keep him at mountain-kingdom home to small-town Iowa. A arm’s length. prince doesn’t give up on his rightful princess— As their friendship takes root and blossoms into especially once he realizes Genesis is in deeper something more, secrets about Iain’s birthright Even if Lemon weren’t already engaged, she danger than she knows. threaten the growing feelings between them. He can’t trust a notorious flirt like Dante. So she has no right to love a woman like Rose, who ignores the lingering looks. Those subtle, Between fixing her truck, whisking her off to deserves a better life than he can give her. Rose thrilling touches. That pulse-quickening kiss. Monterra for a whirlwind date, and charming the believes that there is more to Iain than a broken Until suddenly, Lemon isn’t playing for the entire town, Rafe is thawing the ice around past, and she brings light to his shadows. cameras. She’s lovestruck for real, and just Genesis’s heart. Will it be enough to earn back maybe, the man behind the title is the one her trust, protect her from her past—and sweep Within the walls of a secret garden, sometimes who’s always been in her heart... her into a real-life fairy tale? miracles happen...

The Mercury Pack Series The Phoenix Pack Series

Force of Temptation Savage Urges (Book Two) (Book Five) Suzanne Wright Suzanne Wright Paranormal Romance Paranormal Romance Publication Date: 12/13/2016 Publication Date: 5/3/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 318 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

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Harley Vincent is resigned to life in the human world. Sure, being a She’s a lone wolf with a cause. margay shifter is half her nature, but life among humans gives her the freedom to roam and do as she pleases. That is, until As a volunteer at a shelter for lone shifters—the same one that antishifter extremists target her, putting her life in immediate rescued her—Makenna Wray has dedicated her life to finding homes danger. for its residents. And when she discovers that a teen in her care is related to Ryan Conner, the broody, handsome-as-sin enforcer of When an old acquaintance and onetime fling, Jesse Dalton, shows the Phoenix Pack, she’s eager to help connect the two. She just up to offer the protection of his pack, Harley hesitates. She may wasn’t prepared to feel a connection of her own. have feelings for Jesse that go beyond their one-night stand, but life among shifters means giving over her independence to the Lone wolves are loners for a reason—and most of them bad. Or so needs of pack. Plus, Mercury Pack has its own threat to face: a rich Ryan assumes until he meets the mysterious Makenna. Quirky and half-shifter is determined to claim their territory at any cost. sensual, she seems to enjoy riling him, especially when she refuses to discuss her past. Although there is no mating bond, he’s sure Jesse, who lost his true mate as a child, has wanted Harley since she’s the one. All he has to do is be patient and wait. But when their night together, and he’s not letting her go again. They may another pack’s sinister Alpha comes sniffing around, threatening not be destined for each other, but he knows she belongs to him Makenna and her shelter, this enforcer is ready to let his wolf off and with his pack. Even if he can convince her to join him now, can the leash... he convince her to stay?

Stay tuned for the third book in the series, which will be released in Fall 2017!

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The End of the Spies Summonings Matthew Burnside Reem Abu-Baker Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Publication Date: 6/8/2016 Publication Date: 4/13/2016 Page Count: 16 Page Count: 19 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

When Nadiyya wakes up one morning to find that her guilt ghost, After his father dies and his mother moves him to Indiana, a ten- Sarah, has disappeared, she’s not quite sure what to think—or how year-old boy feels like the world has collapsed around him. But to feel. Nadiyya had considered Sarah’s haunting a nuisance; after when a long-haired, ant-burning neighbor named Ryan invites him all, they’d barely even known each other when she was alive. But to be friends, the new kid with the dead dad thinks he might have now that Sarah’s gone, the prospect of finally being unhaunted fills found his place. Ryan welcomes the grateful boy into his exclusive Nadiyya with the competing emotions of hopefulness and despair. world of brotherhood and “spies.” Yet soon the boy discovers a disturbing secret that Ryan is hiding in the woods, and he is faced As Nadiyya moves through the next three days—reading scripted with a difficult moral conundrum. condemnations to desperate debtors at her collection-agency job and visiting the local bar where haunteds and their ghosts gather— Without his father to guide him, and still angry at his devoted, if she ponders the whole summonings phenomenon. Why are only 10 distressed, mother, the grieving son is stuck at an impasse. As he percent of people haunted? Are the unhaunted guiltless, or simply struggles to make the mature decision, help—and forgiveness— hiding the truth? And who suffers the most—the guilty living or the might just unexpectedly arrive. ghosts themselves, bound in death to someone who’d hurt them in life? Spies is a bittersweet story of heartbreak, healing, and the price we sometimes pay for making hard choices. Entertaining and insightful, The End of the Summonings explores the complex web of regret, grief, intimacy, and joy that comes with moving on.

My House Is Not Cuddle Bunnies Your House Justin Carter Catherine Carberry Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Publication Date: 7/27/2016 Publication Date: 3/30/2016 Page Count: 16 Page Count: 16 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Five years ago, Andrea’s mother left the United States to move Five years into their marriage, Thomas knows that it’s well beyond back to Puerto Rico. They haven’t seen each other since. the time for him to contribute an equal share. Yet even after Margot loses her teaching gig at the community college, he can’t Now, after experiencing an unexpected pregnancy and a somewhat seem to force himself to apply for a real job, or examine the convenient miscarriage, Andrea and her aging rock-star boyfriend, fundamental selfishness of his inertia. Hank, decide to visit the island in an effort to heal their troubled relationship—and to allow Andrea a chance to reconnect with her As bills begin to stack up, the couple asks Margot’s father, who mom. But when they arrive, they discover that Andrea’s mother resells Cuddle Bunnies online, for a chance to get in the game. has left once again. This time she’s on vacation, following her own Together they travel around Ohio, prowling for the highly prized wanderlust and her new tattoo-artist boyfriend. Frustrated but stuffed animals. This unconventional job briefly funds their lives, determined to make the best of things, Andrea and Hank check into while at the same time making the discrepancy in their relationship a once-glamorous hotel. As Andrea begins to tour the island where all the more apparent. Will they find a way out of their slow her mother grew up, she hopes to gain some insight into her family, downhill slide, or will this strange venture prove to be one more her past, and her ambivalence about motherhood and the opportunity for Thomas to fall short? prescribed future it seems to promise.

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If I See You First How Things Go Missing

Tia Clark Shanté Cozier

Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Publication Date: 1/6/2016 Publication Date: 7/13/2016 Page Count: 22 Page Count: 13 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Shainey had only known Jamilah for five months, but to the college Sheryl is losing her hair. Her identity. Her peace of mind. Each freshman, that felt like a lifetime. As two of the few black girls on morning she awakens to a stark reminder of her new reality: thick campus, they’d stuck together—except, of course, for the times coils of hair on her pillow. And each day, she feigns ignorance, when thrill-seeking Jamilah got too drunk or high and abandoned rises from bed, and busies herself with the day’s tasks. Stuck Shainey for some random frat guy. between wanting to hide and wanting to be seen, she turns her attention toward minutiae and obsesses over things she has lost. For SpringFest, the college’s biggest all-day concert, the young women had planned to go to Greek row to party. But Jamilah is But as Sheryl moves through one particular day, she can’t help but nowhere to be found. While navigating a campus full of students in reflect—on her past, on her culture, on her relationships. And as varying states of insobriety, Shainey must put aside her anxieties the hours tick by, her perspective begins to evolve. about being an outsider, her own unspoken desires, and the distracting demands of others in order to find a friend who may How Things Go Missing is a haunting story of one woman at the crux just prefer to remain lost. of a revelation.

Shining Rock Unconditional

Blake Crouch Blake Crouch

Crime Crime Publication Date: 5/28/2014 Publication Date: 5/28/2014 Page Count: 25 Page Count: 10 Rights Acquired: English and Rights Acquired: English and German German

On their annual camping trip in the southern Appalachians, Roger A father visits his son. They sit close together but are separated by and Sue encounter Donald, a Vietnam vet with a peculiar and so much—most tangibly, a Plexiglas window. In the wake of menacing way. After offering a generous pour of Scotch—and taking unimaginable events, the conversation that follows spirals toward a a few pours for himself—the odd stranger reveals a disturbing devastating revelation. truth. In this remote place, under a cold night sky, Roger and Sue become convinced they won’t leave the mountains alive.

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*69 On Monday Nights We Danced in the Park Blake Crouch Nikki Dolson Crime Literary Fiction Publication Date: 5/28/2014 Publication Date: 3/23/2016 Page Count: 25 Page Count: 25 Rights Acquired: English and Rights Acquired: All Languages German

Tim and Laura West receive a bizarre voice mail on their answering Marissa lost her husband and her father in the same week. Her ex is machine. Although the sound is muffled, the raised voices, now living in a new city after their remarkably uneventful divorce. suspicious thuds, and tortured gurgles lead them to believe that Her dad, however, is gone forever, buried beneath Chicago’s icy what they’re hearing is a brutal murder, unintentionally left as a earth. voice message. As they try to decide what to do next, they are forced to consider a terrifying thought: what will happen when the Six months after the funeral, Marissa’s mother asks her to move killer realizes his mistake? home. But even though the young woman is struggling to live on a single income, she can’t bring herself to give up her solitude. So she urges her grieving mother to cope with her new situation by getting out and trying something new. While her mom dives into her changed life—taking dance classes and finding new romances— Marissa struggles to find hope in what seems to be an increasingly bleak and lonely world.

Heart-wrenching and witty, On Monday Nights We Danced in the Park explores life after endings, when there is no choice but to start again.

Veiled This Is Where I Live Now Kendra Elliot Shideh Etaat Romantic Suspense Literary Fiction Publication Date: 12/4/2013 Publication Date: 8/3/2016 Page Count: 69 Page Count: 14 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

When a dead body turns up in the hot tub at a high-end resort on Maryam’s father has always been the strict one, the one who the rugged Oregon Coast, forensic investigator Lacey Campbell and makes demands, while her mother toes the line but laughs and her fiancé, Jack Harper, realize their vacation is over. Tragically, sings while doing it. So when her father dies suddenly and the the dead woman is dressed in a wedding gown, even more grieving family emigrates from Tehran to San Francisco, disturbing for Lacey since she’s about to become a bride. When the Maryam expects to have a little more freedom. Instead, her victim turns out to be a popular bartender with a bad-news ex- mother and sister take on the conservative values they’d husband, it looks like a domestic quarrel turned deadly. But could previously bridled at, and Maryam finds herself under all-too- there be something more sinister going on in this tight-knit familiar constraints. community?

Swept into the investigation, Lacey uncovers a killer with a morbid Unlike them, Maryam wants to start fresh, to embrace America perspective on marriage. From master of romantic suspense Kendra and its people. When she realizes that her hijab sets her apart Elliot comes a fast-paced tale of obsession and murder. from her coworkers at her new job, she spontaneously decides to uncover her hair—but this only complicates matters. And when a young man begins to pursue her, she’ll be forced to examine how others see her. She’ll be forced to ask herself, Is it easier to just be invisible?

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Honeymoon at Flags and Rafts the YMCA Cecilia M. Fernandez Harry Falconer

Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Publication Date: 5/25/2016 Publication Date: 2/3/2016 Page Count: 13 Page Count: 18 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

James’s patience with his boyfriend, Andy, is growing thin. Thirty years after escaping communist Cuba, Adela, a Miami A twentysomething pseudovagabond, Andy is erratic and seamstress, scans the news on TV for a familiar face. There’s one unpredictable, and always manages to drag James into the worst in particular she’s looking for: Raimundo, a lover from her youth. situations. This time is no different. She’d begged him to go with her to the United States, but he’d refused to abandon the socialist revolution he’d thought would The two haven’t slept since the disastrous fire in James’s sister’s transform Cuba into a democratic nation. apartment—an accident he insists was Andy’s fault. After a long, frigid night on the streets of Manhattan, James finds himself Now, a “dry foot, wet foot” immigration policy changes everything. sheltered in a yuppie café with a throbbing head, a cheap bagel, For a brief period, rafters caught at sea are returned to the island— and a maddeningly unapologetic boyfriend—and wondering where but anyone who makes it past the Coast Guard and sets foot on he went so horribly wrong. American soil is allowed to stay. Raimundo, by this point hopeless about his homeland and desperate for freedom, will attempt to Written when the author was just nineteen years old, Honeymoon take part in a mass exodus toward Florida’s shores. But for the at the YMCA is a tragicomic tale of a young man’s desire for adult couple to reunite, he must survive shark-infested waters. And she stability and independence stunted by a dwindling relationship that must recognize his face, masked with age, to find him among all seems barely worth saving. those seeking refuge.

Dickbeer Three Calls

Ann Glaviano Dan Hernandez

Literary Fiction Publication Date: 1/20/2016 Publication Date: 1/13/2016 Page Count: 52 Page Count: 16 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Sixteen-year-old Davey Knox has been playing it straight for as long The urge to try his luck was so strong that seven-year-old Marcos as he’s been alive, and he knows he won’t be able to keep up the hadn’t considered what he’d do if his stolen bingo card won. As it charade much longer. turned out, there was no cash prize for him and his accomplice, his brother, Davy. Instead, they were caught, forced to confess, and To escape the stifling environment of his conservative hometown, left at home by their parents on bingo nights from then on. Davey applies to a boarding school for overachievers in small-town Louisiana three hundred miles away. Yet after his parents drop him The boys’ seventeen-year-old sister, Maria, was supposed to off at the boys’ dorm, Davey realizes he’s still just as desperate babysit them, but she usually defers that responsibility to the not to blow his cover as he was back home. His assigned roommate, television while she goes out with her friends. So when Marcos and nicknamed Dickbeer, will change everything: by simply accepting Davy receive a series of menacing phone calls, they have no one to Davey as he his, Dickbeer helps the questioning young man begin to turn to. The vulnerability of two children left alone, and their do the same. inability to deal with the bizarre designs of strangers, will leave them open to an unexpected, predatory darkness. Funny and frank, Dickbeer is a portrait of the bonds formed among a group of teens navigating the strange rules and rituals of adolescence.

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Mind Assured, Inc. Rorschach

Kurt Hoberg Peter Kispert

Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Publication Date: 4/20/2016 Publication Date: 7/6/2016 Page Count: 16 Page Count: 15 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

The fear that his specialty is simply pseudoscience, and a lack of He’s been having nightmares. To his therapist, the reason is funding for it, drive a frustrated neuroscience PhD candidate out of obvious: as a producer, he plays a pivotal role in the Crucifixion, a the lab and into the world. There he finds that a mindfulness craze modern-day real-life reenactment of the classic corporal is sweeping Manhattan. To capitalize before the fad goes out of punishment. style, he and his fellow researcher, Bradford, develop a peculiar new kind of consulting firm. Imitating monks and spouting new age On opening night, a line snakes down the block to the Boston Opera platitudes, they investigate the authenticity of corporate wellness House, as theatergoers brave the frigid cold in hopes of getting a coaches. Soon they are denouncing one enlightened being after good seat for the spectacle. The evening’s star had pleaded guilty another, but when they meet their most enigmatic yogi yet, the to second-degree murder two years ago and has chosen tonight’s two must consider the reality of their own lives—and even faith performance as his means of execution. As the producer prepares itself. backstage, he hears the crowd shuffling in. They of course know how the show will end, but that doesn’t matter. They are hungry Wry and timely, Mind Assured, Inc. asks, Is it possible to tell the for violence; they’re paying for the moment when the theater difference between a genuine guru and a phony? takes on a chill, a collective awareness of what is to come.

Strange and thought-provoking, Rorschach explores our human tradition of bloodlust, retribution, and inescapable guilt.

She Can Series

He Can Fall After the Beauties

Melinda Leigh Julia LoFaso

Romantic Suspense Literary Fiction Publication Date: 3/26/2014 Publication Date: 3/9/2016 Page Count: 59 Page Count: 16 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

When security expert Sean Wilson takes his wife, Amanda, along on Until recently, the tiny tropical island had been a trendy vacation a business trip to an isolated bed-and-breakfast, he’s hoping to destination. But when a deadly parasite in local waters makes combine work and pleasure. But when four armed men storm the worldwide news, the island is quarantined, and the natives—who inn and take the staff and his wife hostage, the romantic getaway seem to be immune—are left to their crumbling luxury hotels and is over. A former army Ranger, Sean will do anything to save his empty beaches. wife, and when he finds the seven-year-old granddaughter of the innkeeper in the snowy woods, the situation becomes more dire. During the boom times, the young man was a limo driver to the Sean must get the child to safety, but as the armed men become stars. He’d even enjoyed a short stint of fame as the backseat-hot- increasingly hostile and violent, Amanda’s life is also on the line. tub companion of a made-for-reality-TV beauty. Now he has only Cut off from help and spurred by desperation, Sean and Amanda one occupation: to find Tater Tot, a lost celebrity lapdog whose must make hard choices that could get them all killed. return would bring an ample reward. As a hurricane threatens the already hurting island, he must intensify his search to capture the Thriller Award nominee and bestselling romantic suspense author Chihuahua, claim the reward, and win back all that he’s lost. Melinda Leigh delivers a page-turning story of love, fear, and desperate choices.

185 Playing with Dolls Providence

Monica Macansantos Joshua Mattson

Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Publication Date: 2/17/2016 Publication Date: 7/20/2016 Page Count: 28 Page Count: 25 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Compared to their Filipino countrymen, Margot’s family is vastly For years he’s been drifting from restaurant to restaurant as back- wealthy. But although money can protect them from the city of of-house staff, so he has few ties to cut when his grandfather calls Baguio’s poverty, it can’t prevent their private lives from falling to ask him to come home. It’s time to care for the man who raised apart. him—and to be a witness to his death.

When her beloved father runs off with the family maid, ten-year- One e-mail later, the solitary young man has a new job in his old Margot is heartbroken and confused. Her mother, meanwhile, hometown, working in the steak house at the local casino. The seems only concerned with the fact that her husband left her for a reality of his life before soon fades, overshadowed by the new daily lowly servant. To deal with her humiliation, she falls in with a grind: navigating the kitchen hierarchy, gutting trout after trout, group of New Age American expats, who lecture her and her seeing a shocking amount of food go to waste. Though he hates his daughter about “returning to their roots” while simultaneously gig, his homecoming will give him a chance to learn more about his sponging off their wealth. Soon, this passive-aggressive cultural dying grandfather and reflect on the unexpected turns his path has shaming combined with her mother’s self-centeredness begin to taken. take their toll on Margot.

Honest and insightful, Playing with Dolls speaks to an all-too- common coming-of-age story, in which a lonely child must manage the fragile emotions of the adults around her.

Daisychain All Roads Lead Home

Caitlin McGuire Lisa Mecham

Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Publication Date: 6/15/2016 Publication Date: 6/29/2016 Page Count: 19 Page Count: 18 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Daisychain Fields was surprised when she learned that she’d Bill isn’t sure that he’ll be able to abstain from drinking for the inherited her dead mother’s house, especially since the two had entire visit. But he hasn’t seen his sister, Nora, for decades, and been estranged for years. On her eighteenth birthday, tired of her the spread of her cancer means that this might be their last chance mother’s constant parade of men, Daisy had left home for good—or to make amends. so she thought. But now that her marriage is faltering, Daisy needs a haven, so her childhood home will have to do. And so they meet for a road trip to search for Stephen King’s home, in Bangor, Maine. Bill hopes that this will fulfill a wish on his When Daisy arrives at the dilapidated house, she finds it filled with sister’s bucket list and that he’ll be able to show her he’s not the more than just memories: mice and roaches have taken over. As alcoholic failure she thinks he is. Of course, siblings spending time she once again cleans up the mess her mother left behind, Daisy alone in a car can be a dangerous thing—especially when long- wonders if she’ll ever grieve for the person who created such chaos festering family secrets are just waiting for a chance to be aired. in her life. And with her husband’s hurt another weight to bear, she can’t help but ask herself if she will ever overcome her own Recognizable to anyone who has survived childhood, All Roads Lead ambivalence toward starting a family of their own. Home speaks to the gray zone of memory and how sometimes right or wrong is just a matter of perspective. The answers present themselves in a most unusual way in this southern gothic tale of loss and redemption.

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Driving Lessons The Songs of Your Decay Lindsay Merbaum Sequoia Nagamatsu Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Publication Date: 4/6/2016 Publication Date: 4/27/2016 Page Count: 15 Page Count: 23 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Raina learned to operate a vehicle before her feet could reach the Theirs was a very strange friendship. Laird had approached Aubrey pedals. As the sole caretaker of her chronically ill mother, the two years earlier, looking for information about his mother’s eleven-year-old often misses school so that she can fold laundry, mysterious death. After that, the nerdy loner had visited the pick up the groceries, and drive her mom to the hospital.Together forensic biologist nearly every day. They’d bonded over music; he they are a united front. Raina knows exactly what to do and what was the only one who knew that she sang pop hits to her cadavers. not to do when her mother is in pain, and she’s sure that she has everything under control. But when she faces a crisis she can’t Before Laird died, he’d made sure that his cancer-ridden body handle, Raina has to make a tough decision—and succumb to the would be donated to her lab. Now, as she studies him, she also dictates of someone who knows so much less but ultimately has the writes him letters, explaining in stark detail the manner of his final, devastating say. decay. In doing so, she realizes how much her friend had filled a void in her life—and allowed her to ignore the symptoms of her Honest and unsentimental, Driving Lessons is the story of a child dying marriage. discovering her powerlessness amid the whims of the adults in charge. Unexpectedly heartwarming, The Songs of Your Decay takes an unflinching look at the reality of death and the processes by which people—and relationships—deteriorate.

The Profile of a Rio Grande, Wisconsin Town Celebrity JoAnna Novak Alex Norcia Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Publication Date: 2/10/2016 Publication Date: 1/27/2016 Page Count: 23 Page Count: 28 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

This small-town New Jersey teen is not the only one intrigued by Frankie is twelve, and she’s feeling a bit too old for family Vince Rapoli. A revered Bloomington football coach, Vince is locally vacations. So on yet another trip to the Wisconsin Dells, she’ll use famous for seducing divorced mothers, marrying them, and then the rudimentary coping skills available to preadolescents: fake- leaving after a year or so, once he tires of the relationship. sleeping in the car, ignoring her parents, tormenting her brother. And, of course, fantasizing about Bill Murray. For the first five marriages, the high school freshman was happy to watch the drama from afar. But when the mother of his friend Her mother wants Frankie to watch her weight, but the tween Scotty becomes engaged to Vince, the teen is forced to take a refuses to police her body—or to be ashamed of her enjoyment of closer look. As the wedding day unfolds, he begins to reflect on the it. At every opportunity—in the pool, during dinner, at the wax strange and hilarious community that seems to both disdain and museum—her mom pushes, and Frankie pushes back. idolize the groom—as well as the repercussions of his own parents’ recent separation and the flimsiness of love. Imaginative and honest, Rio Grande, Wisconsin is a coming-of-age story about the awkward and dysfunctional ways mothers and daughters show love, and how one unique girl attempts to feed the insatiable existential hunger that comes with growing up.

187 Guadalajara, 1986 The Women of Loma

Eréndira Ramírez-Ortega Amy Scharmann

Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Publication Date: 6/1/2016 Publication Date: 6/22/2016 Page Count: 14 Page Count: 16 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

This story was originally published in Guadalajara, 1986, a weekly One day, forty-year-old Marian comes home to discover that her literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from best friend, Mimi, has decided to move out of the house they’ve emerging writers.During her first trip to Guadalajara, a young girl shared in their tiny Kansas hometown for almost twenty years. from Los Angeles gets a taste of the country her mother left Tired of their “temporary” arrangement—originally conceived to behind. She and her older sister, Fabiola, stay in their tía’s old stave off loneliness until husbands, children, and other future joys yellow house, drinking fresh juice from the oranges off the tree out arrived—Mimi informs Marian of her departure with a man she’s back and hand-washing their clothes and hanging them in the sun just met. To her, the life she and Marian have shared was just an to dry. The girl is delighted by the simple freedoms of the city, but unhappy waiting game. But to Marian, it was something else Fabiola is unimpressed; she’d rather go clubbing with their cousin entirely: a happy, peaceful existence, shuttered from the Gerardo, a radio host whose celebrity connections enthrall the boy- complications of the outside world. band-crazy teen. With Mimi now gone, Marian struggles to define the relationship When, during their second summer in Mexico, their mother joins she’s lost, a bond that never fit the label neighbors so quickly them and takes them to the impoverished vecindad where she was applied. Alone for the first time in her life, she faces heartache raised, the sisters will see another side to this place from her past and grief, as well as the way the world now sees her—and how she and gain a new understanding of themselves. sees herself.

Told with exquisite visual detail, Guadalajara, 1986 is a moving tale of lost innocence and coming to terms with the world around us.

Dirty Jobs and ABC Apartments, 1996 Love You to Death Angela So L.J. Sellers Crime Literary Fiction Publication Date: 12/4/2013 Publication Date: 5/18/2016 Page Count: 22 Page Count: 22 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In these two short thrillers, bestselling author L.J. Sellers explores After his parents’ divorce, thirteen-year-old Ben quickly realizes how the dark side of human nature takes over in crucial, fearful that his dad is gone for good, and now he must assume the role of moments and leads to irreversible, life-changing repercussions. man of the family. But moving to a new neighborhood and starting at a different school prove to be more difficult than his overworked In Dirty Jobs, ex-con Eddie Lucas makes his living doing mother had imagined. In order to avoid being bullied for his maintenance work no one else wants to do. He’s worked hard to Cambodian heritage, Ben accepts an offer to join the ABC Boys—a stay out of trouble. But when he walks in on a violent scene at a wannabe gang made up of troubled middle schoolers eager to prove client’s house, he finds himself once again on the wrong side of the themselves. law. He does one noble thing in his entire life, but it’s for the wrong person at the wrong time. When the ABC Boys invite his ten-year-old brother, John, to join as well, Ben is reluctant, unsure of how to protect the younger boy. In Love You to Death, Kelly, a weary middle-aged nurse, has As the two are pulled deeper and deeper into the group, Ben will sacrificed everything for her only son—an addict who can’t seem to be confronted with a difficult decision: complete the gang’s risky stay out of trouble or out of debt. Held up at gunpoint one night, initiation or turn away and lose this new family forever. Kelly can take no more. Pushed to the edge, she fights back and surprises herself with an unexpected chance at freedom.

188 Anxiety Stats

Maggie Trapp Kem Joy Ukwu

Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Publication Date: 5/4/2016 Publication Date: 5/11/2016 Page Count: 18 Page Count: 22 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Whenever Bill and Casey’s daughter, Allie, gets upset, she stands in Eighteen-year-old Zacharian rules the football field—but he’d the corner for hours. According to the parents’ support group Bill rather be doing his calculus homework than running the ball. regularly attends, this behavior is well within norms. In fact, the group tells stories of children with anxiety disorders who act out in After receiving several full-ride scholarship offers from a number of all kinds of ways, from breaking lamps to refusing to go to school to prestigious colleges, Zacharian is accepted to Rellanton, a small screaming loud enough to scare the neighbors. school that specializes in the sciences—and does not have a football team. With pressure from his grandparents, coach, and teammates, After much resistance, Bill finally convinces Casey to accompany who all think they know what’s best for him, the high school senior him to a group session. But as she listens to each parent’s must figure out where he really belongs. Will he make a choice to harrowing tale—and the therapist’s bland, unhelpful utterances— please his loved ones, or will he pursue the path that’s calling him? Casey’s dismay grows. Soon she wonders, When is a diagnosis actually helpful? And when does it merely promote powerlessness? An exploration of the coming-of-age conflict between duty and What if today’s parents, in their effort to reach an extreme form of honesty, Stats speaks to a young man’s struggle to create his own acceptance, are actually doing more harm than good to their kids? future.

Questions I Don't Narita Express Ask Bubby Mimi Wong Cady Vishniac Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Publication Date: 2/24/2016 Publication Date: 3/2/2016 Page Count: 26 Page Count: 19 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Some call Ezra’s grandmother a nuisance; others celebrate her as a Charlie is an expatriate adrift. Since graduation, he’s been living in hero. An eightysomething Holocaust survivor, Chava has dedicated Shanghai, exploring his parents’ homeland and trying to understand her entire life to helping others—or causing trouble, depending on his own complicated identity as a Chinese American. who’s telling the story. One summer day, Charlie takes a trip to Japan to visit his ex- Ezra, embarrassed by his bumbling corporate-lawyer dad and drunk girlfriend, Kiyomi, who is attending graduate school there. trophy wife of a mom, decides to join his bubby on her next do- Together they travel around Tokyo, taking in the sights, eating at gooder crusade. But a couple of days before a protest to save their ramen restaurants—and rekindling an old flame. Despite love and neighbors from eviction, Chava announces her intentions to good intentions, Charlie unwittingly reopens old wounds and sparks undergo “youth surgery,” a dubious procedure meant to literally a romance that, because of distance, is bound to ultimately die reverse one’s physical age. As his parents try to talk her out of it, out. Still, their time together provides clarity, resurrecting all the the precocious teen ponders whether his grandmother is really forgotten reasons their relationship failed in the first place—and willing to give up all that she’s built—including their shining new light on why it’s so hard for both of them to let go. intergenerational alliance—to recapture her stolen youth. A story that resonates with anyone who has been disappointed by Told through the perspective of a cynical, perceptive young man, love, Narita Express speaks to the heartbreak of twentysomethings Questions I Don’t Ask Bubby is the story of a woman who has learning to live their own lives. created a life after an unspeakable trauma, and the family that both loves her and cannot understand.

189

The Frame Maker and Pathfinder

Simon Wood

Crime Publication Date: 9/24/2014 Page Count: 33 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Two gripping short stories by award-winning author Simon Wood.

In The Frame Maker, a woman takes revenge on her philandering husband by hiring the Frame Maker—a man who’s made a career of solving problems permanently. This job, however, might be the one frame that just won’t hang right.

In Pathfinder, newly widowed Vivian can’t understand why her husband killed himself in a seedy Vegas hotel room. So she travels to Sin City, where she’s mysteriously guided to dangerous and unexpected places. Soon Vivian finds herself on a treacherous road to the truth.

Mr. Kim

Mingzhao Xu

Literary Fiction Publication Date: 3/16/2016 Page Count: 22

Rights Acquired: All Languages

After his father’s sudden death, Peter Kim returns to his small midwestern hometown. Despite his big postgraduation plans, his sense of duty forces him to stay, and so he takes a job mentoring children and leaves his girlfriend and grad school dreams behind.

One day, Kim is driving a van full of kids when he loses control and careens off the road. Stuck in the middle of nowhere with a dead cell phone, he hears his mother’s voice chiding his every attempt to lead his charges to safety. His hold on reality begins to slip, and soon Kim is forced to face both old and new hurts: his parents’ imperfect way of expressing love, the pain of not belonging, and the surrender of his ideas about his future.

Compelling and relatable, Mr. Kim speaks to the struggle of finding balance between creating a new life and fulfilling all of life’s many obligations.

190 Thomas & Mercer will keep you reading well into the night with first-rate fiction, from heart-pounding thrillers, cozy mysteries and killer police procedurals, to spellbinding and bestselling storytellers, including Robert Dugoni, Mark Edwards, Marcia Clark, and Leigh Russell.

191 Tier One Series

Tier One (Book One) Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson Thriller Publication Date: 9/1/2016 Page Count: 402 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In a world violated by terror, the old lines have blurred. Meet the next generation of covert ops.

John Dempsey’s life—as an elite Tier One Navy SEAL named Jack Kemper—is over. A devastating terrorist action catapults him from a world of moral certainty and decisive orders into the shadowy realm of espionage, where ambiguity is the only rule. His new mission: hunt down those responsible for the greatest tragedy in the history of the US Special Ops and bring them to justice. But how does a man torn between duty and revenge walk the line and preserve his soul? As Dempsey struggles with the games of spies, the case propels him across the globe in a desperate effort to prevent a new, horrifying attack on American soil.Once, John Dempsey followed orders blindly. Now he sees behind the curtain, and the security of the civilized world rests on one question: Can a Tier One Navy SEAL adapt and become the world’s most lethal spy? Stay tuned for Book Two in Winter 2017!

The Blood of Kings Series

A Wounded Realm (Book One) K. M. Ashman Mystery Publication Date: 1/12/2016 Page Count: 376 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Gruffyddy ap Cynan is missing, his army scattered. Twelve long years have passed since the king was taken prisoner and his people think him long dead. In the dirty shadows of Chester Castle, a beaten prisoner looks up from the squalor of the street. Dressed in rags, mocked and pelted with filth, he seems a broken man. Yet deep inside, the desire for freedom burns like the hottest furnace. Nesta is a princess in fetters of a different kind. After the death of her father, Tewdwr, she is taken against her will to London to attend the court of King William, son of the Conqueror. There she will find that court politics, and the attentions of princes and lords, are just as dangerous as the arrows and swords of the battlefield.

The royal blood of Wales is scattered and weakened, but while it flows in the bloodline of Rhodri Mawr, hope remains—hope that a broken kingdom can be reborn.

Rebellion's Forge (Book Two) K. M. Ashman Mystery Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

An uneasy peace reigns in Wales. It's 1109, and the truce with England holds by the thinnest of threads. While King Gruffydd ap Cynan’s rule of law holds in the north, a spirit of rebellion is growing in the south, as tearaway princes and rebels grow to resent England’s oppression of their homeland. And when Nesta, married off in a political move by England’s King Henry, leaves the safety of her husband’s castle to attend a celebration, the rebels seize their opportunity.

The truce broken, England’s rulers look to turn the ensuing chaos to their advantage, and to crush Wales under their boot once and for all. Gruffydd is left with a stark choice: enforce the peace he so desires for his land, and betray his countrymen, or risk everything he has built by going to war with the English once again. But the decision is soon taken out of his hands by those who ride for liberty from the depths of Rebellion’s forge.

192 McMurtrie and Drake Legal Thrillers A Harry Gilmour Novel

Between Black and The Skipper’s Dog’s White Called Stalin Robert Bailey (Book Two)

Thriller David Black Publication Date: 3/15/2016 Thriller Page Count: 399 Publication Date: 5/3/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 276 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In 1966 in Pulaski, Tennessee, Bocephus Haynes watched in horror Spring, 1941. France has fallen but the Free French naval forces as his father was brutally murdered by ten local members of the Ku are in no mood to surrender. Royal Navy sublieutenant Harry Klux Klan. As an African American lawyer practicing in the Gilmour is also ready for action, despite the horrors of his first birthplace of the Klan years later, Bo has spent his life pursuing taste of submarine warfare. justice in his father’s name. But when Andy Walton, the man believed to have led the lynch mob forty-five years earlier, ends When he is appointed as British Navy liaison officer aboard the Free up murdered in the same spot as Bo’s father, Bo becomes the French submarine Radegonde, he finds it anarchic, disorientating— prime suspect.Retired law professor Tom McMurtrie, Bo’s former and very French. Within its claustrophobic confines, suspicion and teacher and friend, is a year removed from returning to the misunderstanding are rife. courtroom. Now McMurtrie and his headstrong partner, Rick Drake, must defend Bo on charges of capital murder while hunting for So when Radegonde is sent on a mission to Martinique, it’s vital Andy Walton’s true killer. In a courtroom clash that will put their that these proud men learn to work together, especially as it seems reputations and lives at stake, can McMurtrie and Drake release everyone from Churchill to de Gaulle—not to mention Hitler—has a Bo from a lifetime of despair? Or will justice remain hidden stake in the outcome. somewhere between black and white? Will Harry be able to navigate these dangerous waters safely and return with hard-won wisdom, or will old enemies arise to sink him?

The DI Nick Dixon Crime Series

Dead Level Death Sentence (Book Five) (Book Six) Damien Boyd Damien Boyd

Crime Crime Publication Date: 3/15/2016 Publication Date: 10/4/2016 Page Count: 370 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the wife of parliamentary The highly anticipated new book in the bestselling DI Nick Dixon candidate Tom Perry is brutally murdered in an apparent burglary Crime Series. gone wrong. With the by-election campaign about to start in earnest, and the festive season in full swing, torrential rain brings The body of an elderly man is found in an abandoned World War II with it flood warnings on the Somerset Levels. pillbox beside the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. With no obvious motive and no credible suspect, DI Nick Dixon starts digging into Suspended on full pay and transferred to the cold-case unit, the victim’s past. Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is languishing on the sidelines as the investigation into Elizabeth Perry’s murder unravels and the The more he digs, the deeper Dixon is drawn into a case that takes floodwaters rise. him from the cave systems beneath rural Somerset to the heart of government, and threatens to expose a military cover-up at the Returning to duty, Dixon is convinced that the answer lies hidden in highest level. Tom Perry’s political life, but why was Elizabeth the target and not her husband? The more Dixon uncovers, the further he is from Blocked by a wall of silence, Dixon must unravel a dangerous finding the truth… conspiracy before the killer strikes again.

193 Circle of Evil Series

Chasing Evil (Book One) Kylie Brant Thriller Publication Date: 10/20/2015 Page Count: 324 Rights Acquired: All Languages

There’s nothing strange about bodies buried in cemeteries—unless they don’t belong there. And when six murdered women are discovered in other people’s graves, the hunt for a sadistic serial killer begins before he can claim a seventh victim. Agent Cam Prescott of Iowa’s Division of Criminal Investigation is leading the search alongside forensic psychologist Sophia Channing, who knows the minds of psychopaths inside and out. And after a brief but passionate affair, she knows Cam almost as well. What she doesn’t know is that her high-profile involvement in the case has caught the twisted predator’s eye—and sparked his fury. When Sophia suddenly vanishes, Cam and his team shift into overdrive to keep horrific history from repeating itself. But for Sophia, being trapped in the same isolated lair where so much innocent blood has been spilled may get her inside her vicious captor’s head—and may offer her the only chance she has to escape an agonizing and lethal fate.

Touching Evil (Book Two) Kylie Brant Thriller Publication Date: 10/20/2015 Page Count: 288 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Forensic psychologist Sophia Channing nearly lost her life to a serial killer. Fortunately, her own quick thinking—and Division of Criminal Investigation agent Cam Prescott’s efforts—rescued her from a horrifying fate. Together, Sophia and Cam jailed the sadistic predator and closed the case on his reign of terror.

But when teenagers make a gruesome discovery in the Iowa woods, Sophia and Cam realize they’ve only scratched the surface of an evil that runs even deeper and deadlier than one madman’s twisted desires. And they don’t come more twisted than the killer known as the Zombie Lover: Vance’s mystery accomplice, who’s still at large and stacking up bodies. With the law snapping at his heels and private demons screaming in his head, the Zombie Lover is hell-bent on carrying out a desperate, double-edged mission. He’s determined to terminate Sophia, then target medical examiner Lucy Benally, whom he’s vowed to make his own…dead or alive.

Facing Evil (Book Three) Kylie Brant Thriller Publication Date: 10/20/2015 Page Count: 314 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A serial attacker is locked up, and his murderous accomplice has been gunned down. But the true mastermind behind their lethal reign of terror still hasn’t been taken in or taken down, so the harrowing case of the Cornbelt Killers isn’t closed—and one murderous woman is determined to keep it that way. The only thing more important to her than evading capture is hunting down her hit list of enemies, topped by Iowa’s Division of Criminal Investigation agent Cam Prescott and forensic psychologist Sophia Channing.

Faced with an opponent both quick-witted and cold-blooded, Cam and Sophia must scramble to keep up with this horrifying new threat. Little do they realize that in this game of cat and mouse, they’re lambs being led to the slaughter.

194 Heir Hunter Hollow City Series

Blood Trails The Big Fear A Falling Knife (Book One) (Book One) (Book Two) Diane Capri Andrew Case Andrew Case Thriller Thriller Mystery Publication Date: 10/4/2016 Publication Date: 4/1/2016 Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 274 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: Rights Acquired: Rights Acquired: All Languages All Languages All Languages

Michael Flint is the heir hunter of last resort. It’s August in New York, and the steaming Book Two in the Hollow City series. A forensic genealogist and former clandestine garbage littering the streets isn’t the only thing agent specializing in high-end private that stinks. Praise for The Big Fear (Book One): investigations, he promises clients he can find anyone, anytime, anywhere—dead or alive. Civilian investigator Leonard Mitchell can keep “One of the most well researched and written his job as the new head of the Department to procedural crime novels I’ve read in the past ten Laura Oakwood stands to lose more than $50 Investigate Misconduct and Corruption only by years. At times spooky, shocking, and always million in mineral royalties if she’s not found successfully prosecuting veteran cop Ralph riveting, I finished The Big Fear wishing I’d within seventy-two hours. But she presents an Mulino. written it.” —Vincent Zandri, New York Times extra challenge: she’s been running from the law and USA Today bestselling author of The due to her involvement in a deadly armed Mulino shot an armed man on a dark night; he Remains robbery twenty-eight years ago. didn’t know the man was a fellow cop. Now, to keep his badge and his freedom, he has to make Texas oil baron Sebastian Shaw desperately his case to the investigator. But the gun Mulino needs Laura’s signature to take over her family’s saw in his victim’s hand has disappeared. oil fields. And Shaw’s bitter rival, Felix Crane, will do anything to keep that from happening. As Mitchell digs deeper into Mulino’s claim, it becomes clear that the “misconduct and In a hunt stretching from dusty, hot West Texas corruption” infecting New York City go far to snowy Saskatchewan, Flint finds himself beyond the actions of one allegedly dirty cop. caught in the cross fire between dueling tycoons Murder and sabotage force Mulino and Mitchell and avaricious mercenaries out for their own into an uneasy partnership to uncover the truth piece of the pie. and protect the city they are both sworn to serve. Assuming, of course, they can stay alive… Stay tuned for Book Two in Summer 2017!

Detective Lavender Mystery Series

The Sculthorpe The Lost Ones The Untouched Murder Crime (Book Three) Ben Cheetham Zijin Chen Thriller Thriller Karen Charlton Publication Date: 10/25/2016 Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Mystery Page Count: TBD Page Count: 322 Publication Date: 8/30/2016 Rights Acquired: Rights Acquired: Page Count: 318 All Languages All Languages, excluding Rights Acquired: Complex and Simplified

All Languages Chinese

Northamptonshire, 1810: As a new canal network When a nine-year-old girl goes missing in For three years, a serial killer has walked among snakes across the landscape, a vicious mob Harwood Forest, the search for her brings back the citizens of Hangzhou, China. With each new stakes its claim to the county. Every local memories of an unsolved double murder some body come the same clues: a jump rope, a constable is out on the hunt for the ruthless forty years earlier. Could the key to Erin cigarette, and a slip of paper that says, “Come Panther Gang. When an elderly man is robbed Jackson’s disappearance lie in the bloody fate of and get me.” In the same city, Luo Wen wanders and murdered in sleepy Middleton, the Elijah and Joanna Ingham, bludgeoned to death into a park just as a young woman stabs a local beleaguered magistrates send for help from while their young daughters slept? Were the thug to death in a desperate act of self-defense. London’s Bow Street Police Office. Inghams really the victims of opportunistic A former criminal investigator who lost his own burglars—or a more sinister fate? family in an unsolved case, Luo Wen is familiar Detective Stephen Lavender and Constable Ned with the slippery nature of justice. So he makes Woods soon discover there’s more to William The woods are combed for signs of the child, the split-second decision to help the terrified Sculthorpe’s demise than meets the eye. Mystery but Erin’s brother, Jake, mounts his own woman cover up her crime, leaving behind no surrounds the old man and his family, and the investigation, uncovering evidence that puts trace of evidence. stench of revenge hangs heavy in the air. Are the the Inghams’ daughters—vanished Rachel and Panther Gang really responsible or is something “crazy” Mary—in the frame. Meanwhile, Erin’s Luo Wen’s friend Yan Liang, a criminologist and more sinister afoot? As Lavender delves further father suspects that the ragtag army of eco- professor known for solving each case like a into long-hidden secrets, Woods has demons of warriors besieging his quarry development may mathematical equation, is called in to help the his own to contend with: ghosts from his past have something to hide. As devastating secrets police on the recent homicides. As he digs that stalk him through the investigation. and betrayals are revealed, the Jackson family is deeper, he discovers more questions than brought to a breaking point. But time is running answers—and variables that simply don’t add up. Uncovering decades of simmering hatred and out. Erin is still missing and Jake’s unorthodox While Yan Liang follows his suspicion and Luo deceit, Lavender and Woods must use all their inquiries have left him dangerously exposed. Wen covers his tracks, a battle of wits plays wit and cunning to solve this evil crime. They must find Erin and lay the past to rest— out—with the winner’s version of justice as the before they become its latest victims. ultimate prize.

195 Samantha Brinkman

Blood Defense (Book One) Marcia Clark Legal Publication Date: 5/1/2016 Page Count: 400 Rights Acquired: All Languages

First in a new series from bestselling author and famed O. J. Simpson trial prosecutor Marcia Clark, a “terrific writer and storyteller” (James Patterson).

Samantha Brinkman, an ambitious, hard-charging Los Angeles criminal-defense attorney, is struggling to make a name for herself and to drag her fledgling practice into the big leagues. Sam lands a high-profile double-murder case in which one of the victims is a beloved TV star—and the defendant is a decorated veteran LAPD detective. It promises to be exactly the kind of media sensation that would establish her as a heavy hitter in the world of criminal law.

Though Sam has doubts about the detective’s innocence, she and her two associates (her closest childhood friend and a brilliant ex-con) take the case. Notorious for living by her own rules—and fearlessly breaking everyone else’s— Samantha pulls out all the stops in her quest to uncover evidence that will clear the detective. But when a shocking secret at the core of the case shatters her personal world, Sam realizes that not only has her client been playing her, he might be one of the most dangerous sociopaths she’s ever encountered.

Moral Defense (Book Two) Marcia Clark Legal Publication Date: 11/8/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

For defense attorney Samantha Brinkman, it’s not about guilt or innocence— it’s about making sure her clients walk.

In the follow-up to bestselling Blood Defense, Samantha is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing left her father and brother dead, and her mother barely clinging to life. It’s a tabloid-ready case that has the nation in an uproar—and Sam facing her biggest challenge yet. Why did Cassie survive? Is she hiding something? As Sam digs in to find the answers, she’s surprised to find herself identifying with Cassie, becoming more and more personally entangled in the case. But when Sam finally discovers the reason for that kinship, she faces a choice she never imagined she’d have to make.

196 A Jake Crosby Thriller

Old Money (Book Three) Bobby Cole Thriller Publication Date: 2/23/2016 Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Jake Crosby has traded in a stockbroker’s suit and tie for a standard-issue uniform. As a newly minted Mississippi game warden, he has two tough cases to cut his teeth on—the ongoing robbery of wealthy hunters and the ruthless search for a rumored hidden fortune.

According to local gossip, several million dollars have been missing since the conviction of local con man Bronson Bolivar, and following his death in prison, his two grown children have torn his property apart looking for the funds. As Jake searches for the robber who targets well-to-do outdoorsmen, he finds a trail leading to the Bolivars. But the allure of quick cash also draws unexpected interest from both Bronson’s former cellmate and an upstanding federal judge. Will Jake understand the severity of the situation in time, or get caught up in a web of deceit?

Silent Approach Bobby Cole Thriller Publication Date: 3/21/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Two years after John Allen Harper’s beautiful wife and unborn baby are killed in freak car accident, he starts a job working for the Mississippi Choctaw Nation. He is tasked with recovering Indian artifacts that originally belonged to the tribe. His investigation uncovers the dark underworld of stolen artifacts that are traded overseas for large sums of money. Soon, John Allen comes face-to-face with greed and a man who will do whatever it takes to protect his livelihood. When John Allen's investigation runs headfirst into an FBI investigation of the same man, he and Special Agent Emma Haden team up and find more than they expected.

197 Her Last Tomorrow Adam Croft Psychological Thriller Publication Date: 10/18/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Czech

Nick and Tasha are a couple held together by their five-year-old daughter...until one ordinary morning, when Ellie vanishes amid the chaos of the school run.

Nick knows she can’t have gone far on her own, which can mean only one thing: she’s not on her own. Who would take his daughter, and why? With no motive and no leads, Nick is thrown into a tailspin of suspicion and guilt. Like Tasha, he doesn’t know what to think, or whom to trust…But then someone starts doing the thinking for him. Confronted with an impossible choice, Nick will have to make a decision, and both options will leave him with blood on his hands. But perhaps that’s to be expected.

After all, Nick’s not quite as blameless as he seems.

Only The Truth Adam Croft Psychological Thriller Publication Date: 3/1/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Czech

Dan Cooper has never been the perfect husband to Lisa. He travels for work and plays the carefree bachelor when he can. But now, on a solo business trip, in a remote coastal hotel, he’s surprised to find Lisa in his bedroom. She’s dead.

He has no idea how she got there, but one chilling fact is clear: everything points to Dan having murdered her. Someone is trying to frame him. Someone who might still be watching. In panic, he goes on the run. But even as he flees across Europe, his unknown assailant stacks up the evidence against him.

Dan is determined to clear his name and take revenge on Lisa’s killer, but the culprit is closing in. And then there’s the agony of his own guilty conscience. No, he didn’t kill her—but is it all his fault?

Long Beach Homicide

Come Twilight (Book Four) Tyler Dilts Mystery Publication Date: 8/23/2016 Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: All Languages

For the first time in years, things are going well for Long Beach homicide detective Danny Beckett. He’s closing cases with his partner, Jennifer Tanaka, and keeping a spare suit at the condo of his girlfriend, Julia Rice. But Danny’s peace is shattered when he’s called to investigate an apparent suicide—one that quickly reveals itself to be murder.

Just as Danny begins to investigate, a bomb detonates in his car while it’s parked in a mechanic’s lot, sidelining him from both the murder case and the hunt for his own assassin. Placed in protective custody at the home of his partner, the headstrong investigator must resist the temptation to break protocol— and find the willpower to stop his own self-destructive behavior before it threatens his two most important relationships. But what happens when Danny must choose between following the rules and saving a life?

198 The 7th Canon Robert Dugoni Legal Thriller Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

A riveting new legal thriller from the bestselling author of My Sister’s Grave.

In San Francisco’s seamy Tenderloin district, a teenage street hustler has been murdered in a shelter for boys. And the dedicated priest who runs the struggling home stands accused. But despite damning evidence that he’s a killer—and worse—Father Thomas Martin stands by his innocence. And attorney Peter Donley stands with him.

For three years Donley has cut his legal teeth in his uncle’s tiny, no-frills firm, where people come before profits. Just as Donley is poised to move on to a lucrative dream job, the shocking case lands in his lap, and he must put his future on hold while putting his courtroom skills to the test. But a ruthless DA seeking headlines, and a brutal homicide cop bent on vengeance have their own agendas. Now, as he unearths the dirty secrets surrounding the case, Donley must risk his neck to save his client’s life…and expose the face of true evil.

The Academy Robert Dugoni Police Procedural Publication Date: 9/9/2014 Page Count: 44 Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

Quitting her job as a high school science teacher to join the Seattle Police Department was an easy decision for Tracy Crosswhite. Years earlier, what should have been one of the happiest days of her life instead became her worst nightmare when her younger sister, Sarah, disappeared. After the murder trial, while her family disintegrated, Tracy turned her heartbreak and her lingering questions into a passion for justice.

But people don’t just become world-class detectives. If Tracy wants to uncover the truth about what happened to her sister, first she must be forged in the fires of the police academy, where not everyone wants her to succeed.

199 The Tracy Crosswhite Series

My Sister's Grave Her Final Breath (Book One) (Book Two) Robert Dugoni Robert Dugoni

Mystery Mystery Publication Date: 11/1/2014 Publication Date: 9/8/2015 Page Count: 418 Page Count: 426 Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, french, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese Spanish, and Japanese

Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese, Rights Sold: German, Italian, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Spanish, French, and English Large and English Large Print Print

Tracy Crosswhite has spent twenty years questioning the facts Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has returned to the police surrounding her sister Sarah’s disappearance and the murder trial force after the sensational retrial of her sister’s killer. Still scarred that followed. She doesn’t believe that Edmund House—a convicted from that ordeal, Tracy is pulled into an investigation that rapist and the man condemned for Sarah’s murder—is the guilty threatens to end her career, if not her life. party. Motivated by the opportunity to obtain real justice, Tracy became a homicide detective with the Seattle PD and dedicated A serial killer known as the Cowboy is killing young women in cheap her life to tracking down killers. motels in North Seattle. Even after a stalker leaves a menacing message for Crosswhite, suggesting the killer or a copycat could be When Sarah’s remains are finally discovered near their hometown targeting her personally, she is charged with bringing the murderer in the northern Cascade mountains of Washington State, Tracy is to justice. With clues scarce and more victims dying, Tracy realizes determined to get the answers she’s been seeking. As she searches the key to solving the murders may lie in a decade-old homicide for the real killer, she unearths dark, long-kept secrets that will investigation that others, including her captain, Johnny Nolasco, forever change her relationship to her past—and open the door to would prefer to keep buried. With the Cowboy on the hunt, can deadly danger. Tracy find the evidence to stop him, or will she become his next victim?

In the Clearing The Trapped Girl (Book Three) (Book Four) Robert Dugoni Robert Dugoni

Mystery Mystery Publication Date: 5/17/2016 Publication Date: 1/24/2017 Page Count: 368 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese Spanish, and Japanese

A Wall Street Journal bestseller When a woman’s body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds Detective Tracy Crosswhite has a skill, and a soft spot, for tackling herself with a tough case to untangle. Before they can identify the unsolved crimes. Having lost her own sister to murder at a young killer, Tracy and her colleagues on the Seattle PD’s Violent Crimes age, Tracy has dedicated her career to bringing justice and closure Section must figure out who the victim is. Her autopsy, however, to the families and friends of victims of crime. reveals she may have gone to great lengths to conceal her identity. So who was she running from? So when Jenny, a former police-academy classmate and protégé, asks Tracy to help solve a cold case that involves the suspicious After evidence surfaces that their Jane Doe may be a woman suicide of a Native American high school girl forty years earlier, who suspiciously disappeared months earlier, Tracy is once again Tracy agrees. Following up on evidence Jenny’s detective father haunted by the memory of her sister’s unsolved murder. Dredging collected when he was the investigating deputy, Tracy probes one up details from the woman’s past leads to conflicting clues that small town’s memory and finds dark, well-concealed secrets hidden only seem to muddy the investigation. As Tracy begins to uncover a within the community’s fabric. Can Tracy uphold the promise she’s twisted tale of brutal betrayal and desperate greed, she’ll find made to the dead girl’s family and deliver the truth of what herself risking everything to confront a killer who won’t go down happened to their daughter? without a deadly fight.

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The Devil's Work Follow You Home

Mark Edwards Mark Edwards

Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 9/13/2016 Publication Date: 6/30/2015 Page Count: 376 Page Count: 402 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Italian, Spanish, and Thai

A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The page-turning psychological thriller from the author of #1 Follow You Home and The Magpies. bestsellers The Magpies and Because She Loves Me.

It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, a final adventure first day, when an unnerving encounter drags up memories Sophie before settling down. But after a perfect start, an encounter with a Greenwood would rather forget, she wonders if she has made a young couple on a night train forces Daniel and Laura to cut their mistake. A fatal mistake. dream trip short and flee home.

What is her ambitious young assistant really up to? And what Back in London, Daniel and Laura vow never to talk about what exactly happened to Sophie’s predecessor? When her husband and happened that night. But as they try to fit into their old lives again, daughter are pulled into the nightmare, Sophie is forced to they realize they are in terrible danger—and that their nightmare is confront the darkest secrets she has carried for years. just beginning...

As her life begins to fall apart at work and at home, Sophie must race to uncover the truth about her new job…before it kills her.

Because She Loves Me What You Wish For

Mark Edwards Mark Edwards

Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 9/2/2014 Publication Date: 6/24/2014 Page Count: 352 Page Count: 271 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Italian and French

A gripping tale of jealousy, obsession and murder, from the #1 Marie Walker has vanished from the face of the earth...Her bestselling author of The Magpies. besotted boyfriend, newspaper photographer Richard Thompson, vows to find her, convinced that Marie's unusual beliefs hold When Andrew Sumner meets beautiful, edgy Charlie, he is certain the key. his run of bad luck has finally come to an end. But a shocking discovery makes him question if he ever really knew But as the two of them embark on an intense affair, Andrew his girlfriend. And when people around him start to die, Richard is wonders if his grasp on reality is slipping. Items go missing in his plunged into terrible danger. apartment. Somebody appears to be following him. And as misfortune and tragedy strike his friends and loved ones, Andrew is Drawn into the world of a sinister cult and the darkest corners of forced to confront the frightening truth...Is Charlie really the girl the Internet, Richard finds himself increasingly out of his depth as of his dreams—or the woman of his nightmares? he discovers just how far people will go to protect what they believe in...

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The Magpies Mark Edwards Thriller Publication Date: 9/19/2013 Page Count: 329 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German and Lithuanian Meet the neighbors from hell. When Jamie and Kirsty move into their first home together, they are full of optimism. The future, in which they plan to get married and start a family, is bright. The other residents of their building seem friendly too, including the Newtons, a married couple who welcome them to the building with open arms. But then strange things start to happen. Dead rats are left on their doorstep. They hear disturbing noises—and much worse—in the night. After Jamie's best friend is injured in a horrific accident, Jamie and Kirsty find themselves targeted by a campaign of terror.

As they are driven to the edge of despair, Jamie vows to fight back—but he has no idea what he is really up against...The Magpies is a gripping psychological thriller in which the monsters are not vampires or demons but the people who live next door. It is a nightmare that could happen to anyone.

Detective Lennon Thrillers

From the Cradle (Book One) Mark Edwards and Louise Voss Thriller Publication Date: 11/1/2014 Page Count: 399 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German The first child was taken from her house. The second from his mother's car. The third from her own bedroom...When Helen and Sean Philips go out for the evening, leaving their teenage daughter babysitting little Frankie, they have no idea that they are about to face every parent's greatest fear. Detective Inspector Patrick Lennon is hopeful that the three children who have been abducted in this patch of southwest London will be returned safe and well. But when a body is found in a local park, Lennon realizes that time is running out—and that nothing in this case is as it seems...Blending police procedural with psychological thriller, From the Cradle will have parents checking that their children are safe in their beds...then checking again.

The Blissfully Dead (Book Two) Mark Edwards and Louise Voss Crime Publication Date: 9/29/2015 Page Count: 418 Rights Acquired: All Languages

She couldn’t believe that he wanted to meet her. He was famous. She was a nobody. Finally, someone could see how special she was...

When the body of a teenage girl is found in a London hotel, DI Patrick Lennon is mystified. Nobody saw her or her killer enter the hotel, and there is no apparent motive—until a second teenager is found and Lennon realizes somebody is targeting fans of the world’s biggest boy band.

As Lennon struggles with both his home life and his rivals on the force, the pressure to catch the killer before he strikes again reaches fever pitch. And when Lennon makes a terrible mistake that ends in disaster, he finds himself in a race to save not only the lives of more teenage girls but also his own career.

202 A Gideon Oliver Mystery

Switcheroo Aaron Elkins Cozy Publication Date: 2/16/2016 Page Count: 286 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Japanese

The Skeleton Detective is back.

A cold case dating from the 1960s draws forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver to the Channel Islands decades later to shine a light on the mysterious connection between two men who died there on the same night.

Swapped as young boys by their fathers during the Nazi occupation, wealthy Roddy Carlisle and middle-class George Skinner had some readjusting to do after the war ended—but their lives remained linked through work, trouble with the law, and finally, it would seem, through murder.

Nobody expects that Gideon’s modern-day investigation will turn up fresh bodies. But old bones tell many tales, and the Skeleton Detective has to be at his sharpest to piece together the truth before the body count mounts still higher.

Declared “a series that never disappoints” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Gideon Oliver mystery series is highly recommended for fans of Agatha Christie and Kathy Reichs.

An Alix London Mystery

The Trouble with Mirrors (Alix London #4) Charlotte Elkins, Aaron Elkins Woman Sleuth Publication Date: 10/25/2016 Page Count: 256 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Japanese

Alix London, the art restorer and FBI consultant renowned as the Art Whisperer, can spot a counterfeit masterpiece before the paint even dries. What she can’t see is why an elite European art dealer would offer her big money for a little mirror that’s no more than a homemade gift from her beloved uncle Tiny. Not that Alix would part with it at any price. But when the mirror is abruptly stolen from her home, she realizes that someone sees more in the looking glass than mere sentimental value.

When her uncle Tiny disappears mysteriously just after the mirror is stolen, the simple art theft becomes a personal and professional challenge Alix can’t ignore. With backup from her friends in the FBI, her game-for-anything pal Chris, and an aging-but-dogged Italian police detective, she delves into the puzzling case, only to find that there is much more to this theft than meets the eye. Once the Mafia shows up on the scene, Alix’s mission becomes a do-or-die race to find the one possible man with all the answers.

203 Detective Matt Jones

City of Echoes The Love Killings (Book One) (Book Two) Robert Ellis Robert Ellis

Mystery Mystery Publication Date: 9/1/2015 Publication Date: 8/2/2016 Page Count: 362 Page Count: 364 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

On Detective Matt Jones’s first night working Homicide in LA, he’s For the past six weeks, LAPD detective Matt Jones has been called to investigate a particularly violent murder case: a man has recovering from the wrong end of a hit man’s bullet. Before he can been gunned down in a parking lot off Hollywood Boulevard, his look for payback, Jones finds himself enlisted in the manhunt for bullet-riddled body immediately pegged as the work of a serial an old foe. Dr. George Baylor, the serial killer who escaped after robber who has been haunting the Strip for months. Driven by the murdering three coeds in LA, resurfaces on the East Coast. This grisliness of the killing, Jones and his hot-tempered partner, Denny time, an entire family has been slaughtered in their home outside Cabrera, jump headfirst into the investigation. But as Jones Philadelphia, and the doctor’s fingerprints are all over the crime uncovers evidence that links the crime to a brutal, ritualized scene. murder that occurred eighteen months prior, he begins to suspect that there’s more going on beneath the surface. When Jones With panic rising, the FBI seeks Jones’s help, and the hunt for this discovers shocking, deep-seated corruption; a high-level cover-up; brutal mass killer is on. But so is the hunt for the man who paid to and his own personal ties to the rising body count, he’s no longer have Jones shot. When a second family is found murdered, the sure he can trust anyone, even himself. search for the killer becomes frantic, and Jones’s shocking personal history explodes before his eyes. With his two missions welded together as one, Jones enters the madman’s world—a place of unimaginable terror—and hopes that if he survives, he can find his way out.

A Leo Waterman Mystery

Salvation Lake The Body Reader

G. M. Ford Anne Frasier

Mystery Mystery Publication Date: 7/12/2016 Publication Date: 6/21/2016 Page Count: 226 Page Count: 304 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

At the end of an especially raucous day at his neighborhood bar, For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside private eye Leo Waterman is surprised to see his old flame, world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her Rebecca Duval, walk in the door. But King County’s medical sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. examiner is here on business, not pleasure. Two dead bodies, Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of covered by an old coat that once belonged to Leo’s father, have thought is what kept her alive. turned up in the trunk of a car. The only thing that seems to connect the men is a controversial local church and its charismatic After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a pastor. fierce desire for justice—and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead. Despite colleagues’ With help from Rebecca and surveillance expert Carl Cradduck, Leo doubts about her mental state, she resumes her role at homicide. begins to put the pieces of the puzzle together. While a pair of Her new partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, doesn’t trust her sanity, goons do their best to chase him off the case, Leo painstakingly and he has a story of his own he’d rather keep hidden. But a killer retraces the victims’ final days, charting their unusual search for is on the loose, murdering young women, so the detectives have no redemption—from a downtown homeless encampment to suburban choice: they must work together to catch the madman before he McMansions to the shores of Salvation Lake. There Leo must strikes again. And no one knows madmen like Jude Fontaine. confront an opponent hell-bent on retribution in order to get to the twisted truth about the killings.

Stay tuned for Book Two in Summer 2017!

204 Dr. Schwartzmen Series Pluto’s Snitch

Exhume The Book of Beloved (Book One) Danielle Girard Crime Publication Date: 10/1/2016 Carolyn Haines Page Count: 400 Mystery Publication Date: 8/9/2016 Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese Page Count: 332 Rights Acquired: All Languages

As a young woman widowed by World War I, Raissa James is no stranger Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman has finally found a place to belong. As the to ghosts. But when an invitation arrives from Caoin House, her uncle’s medical examiner for the San Francisco Police Department, working estate in Mobile, Alabama, she’s finally ready to cast off the shadows of alongside homicide detective Hal Harris, she uncovers the tales the dead her past. And what better way to do so than with a grand party in her can’t tell about their final moments. It is a job that gives her purpose—and honor? An aspiring authoress, Raissa’s eager to soak up more of life—and a safe haven from her former life at the hands of an abusive husband. immerse herself in the dark history that haunts the estate. Although it’s been seven years since she escaped that ordeal, she still checks over her shoulder to make sure no one is behind her. But the revelries come to an abrupt end when one of her uncle’s guests

takes a deadly plunge. And when a ghost from the property’s past, a Schwartzman’s latest case is deeply troubling: the victim bears an eerie Confederate soldier, reveals himself to Raissa, she’s more determined resemblance to herself. What’s more, a shocking piece of evidence suggests than ever to get to the heart of the mysterious deaths that plague Caoin that the killer’s business is far from over—and that Schwartzman may be in House. Enlisting the help of Reginald Proctor, a self-proclaimed medium, danger. In this pulse-pounding thriller from award-winning writer Danielle she holds a séance to shed light on old secrets. But she discovers that Girard, a woman must face her worst nightmare to catch a killer. some secrets, even those long dead, still have a startling hold on the living…

Stay tuned for Book Two in Summer 2017!

Innocent Prisoners Project

First Offense The Night Bird (Book Four) Marti Green Brian Freeman Mystery Thriller Publication Date: 5/10/2016 Publication Date: 2/1/2017 Page Count: 278 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Italian

Twelve-year-old Frankie Bishop is a model kid: quiet and bright. So Homicide detective Frost Easton doesn’t like coincidences. When a everyone, especially his family, is shocked when he’s arrested for drug series of bizarre deaths rock San Francisco—as seemingly random possession—and horrified when he’s sentenced to juvenile detention at women suffer violent psychotic breaks—Frost looks for a connection Eldridge Academy. His uncle, Bruce Kantor of the Help Innocent Prisoners that leads him to psychiatrist Francesca Stein. Frankie’s controversial Project, wants to help but knows he’s too close to the case. therapy helps people erase their most terrifying memories...and all the victims were her patients. His associate Dani Trumball has family worries of her own to deal with, but she knows Bruce wouldn’t ask for help without cause. Just as she and her As Frost and Frankie carry out their own investigations, the case team begin to investigate, the case gets even thornier: Frankie is missing, becomes increasingly personal—and dangerous. Long-submerged and evidence points to an Eldridge cover-up. secrets surface as someone called the Night Bird taunts the pair with cryptic messages pertaining to the deaths. Soon Frankie is forced to As the FBI launches a hunt for the boy, Dani knows something isn’t right. confront strange gaps in her own memory, and Frost faces a killer who Why would a minor’s first offense earn such a harsh punishment? knows the detective’s worst fears. Unconvinced by the court documents, Dani is dogged in her pursuit of the truth that will save Frankie’s future—if he still has one. As the body count rises and the Night Bird circles ever closer, a dedicated cop and a brilliant doctor race to solve the puzzle before a Stay tuned for Book Five in Spring 2017! cunning killer claims another victim.

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The Prettiest One James Hankins Thriller Publication Date: 10/1/2015 Page Count: 402 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When Caitlin Sommers finds herself alone in a deserted parking lot with blood on her clothes and no memory of the past few months, it seems like one of the nightmares that have tormented her for years...but it’s all too real.

Desperate to learn the truth about where she’s been and what has happened to her but terrified of what she may find, Caitlin embarks on a search for answers. Her journey takes her from the safe suburban world she knows to a seedy town she’s never heard of, where a terrible truth from her past lies hidden—a truth she can’t quite remember yet can’t completely forget.

The Devil Valley Zhou Haohui Mystery Publication Date: 5/23/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Complex and Simplified Chinese

One quiet evening, a student who is working late suddenly charges terror- stricken out of the classroom and runs hysterically ten miles down the street before collapsing from exhaustion and dying. The next day, a man’s body is found in a hotel bathroom in chilling circumstances, with his head thrust deep inside the toilet bowl! Similarly bizarre cases gradually spread throughout the city of Longzhou...

Police captain Luo Fei and forensic psychologist Zhou Liwei discover that the victims of all these mysterious and seemingly unrelated cases were literally scared to death. A lead from an informant reveals that the first person to suffer a similar fright was treated six months earlier in Yunnan, where a member of a local minority was found murmuring the same sentence over and over in his distinctive ethnic tongue: Demons are coming to Longzhou!

Are the demons human or supernatural? And how is this series of mysterious events connected with an unexplained historical case that occurred on the border with Yunnan some three hundred years ago? To solve these puzzles, Luo Fei and his team embark on a spine-tingling journey into the heart of the Yunnan jungle. Intolerable truths from the past and an elegy on the good and evil of humanity await them.

206 The Dominion Trilogy

The Last Girl (Book One) Joe Hart Thriller Publication Date: 3/1/2016 Page Count: 386 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A mysterious worldwide epidemic reduces the birthrate of female infants from 50 percent to less than 1 percent. Medical science and governments around the world scramble in an effort to solve the problem, but twenty-five years later there is no cure, and an entire generation grows up with a population of fewer than a thousand women.

Zoey and some of the surviving young women are housed in a scientific research compound dedicated to determining the cause. For two decades, she’s been isolated from her family, treated as a test subject, and locked away—told only that the virus has wiped out the rest of the world’s population.

Captivity is the only life Zoey has ever known, and escaping her heavily armed captors is no easy task, but she’s determined to leave before she is subjected to the next round of tests…a program that no other woman has ever returned from. Even if she’s successful, Zoey has no idea what she’ll encounter in the strange new world beyond the facility’s walls. Winning her freedom will take brutality she never imagined she possessed, as well as all her strength and cunning—but Zoey is ready for war.

The Final Trade (Book Two) Joe Hart Thriller Publication Date: 9/13/2016 Page Count: 352 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The thrilling sequel to the runaway bestseller The Last Girl.

Zoey is not the woman she once was. She’s watched her friends die at the hands of their captors, been hunted, and returned from the brink of death. Now she must find the truth about who she is.In search of the family she never knew, Zoey learns of personal records stored in an Idaho missile silo that may contain the information she and the other women seek. With the help of her group of newfound friends, Zoey travels to the missile facility, but among the records, they uncover information that leads to an insidious and horrific new foe: the Fae Trade, a macabre carnival of slavery and pain.

Zoey’s journey into the darkest parts of the human psyche brings her perilously close to the ever- thinning line between good and evil, and the final cost in her quest for justice might be her own humanity.

The First City (Book Three) Joe Hart Thriller Publication Date: 3/28/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

The final installment of Joe Hart’s Dominion Trilogy.

207 A Liam Dempsey Thriller

The Night Is Deep Everyone Pays (Book Two) Seth Harwood Joe Hart Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 4/26/2016 Publication Date: 6/28/2016 Page Count: 320 Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Though he’s still tormented by his brother’s murder and the From bestselling author Seth Harwood comes a new accident that ended his career, ex-homicide detective Liam psychological thriller set in the dark underbelly of San Dempsey is trying to move on. His girlfriend and their adopted son Francisco. are the best things that ever happened to him—and being a police liaison is the next best thing to being back on the force. But when Before joining homicide, Detective Clara Donner spent years on an old friend asks for his help, Liam is thrust into a harrowing vice alongside the runaways and vulnerable women who walk San investigation that reawakens his darkest personal demons. Francisco’s streets. She thinks she’s seen the worst things people can do—until she’s assigned to investigate a particularly ruthless A politician has been violently attacked, and his wife is kidnapped serial killer. for ransom. But as police mobilize to track the victim and trap her abductor, the case takes a chilling turn from extortion to grisly As the body count rises and a pattern emerges—each victim is murder. Whoever snatched Valerie Farrow wants blood and known for his brutal abuse of women—Donner follows the killer’s money—and they’re brutally collecting. trail across the city. In spite of a nagging sense that the world may be better off without these men, she pursues every lead. When Working with, and against, the police, Liam is forced to dig deep to Donner finds a damaged girl with links to both the killer and his expose the ugly truth—even if it means digging his own grave in the prey, she wonders if this new witness is the key to unraveling these process. murders or another victim left in the killer’s wake.

First There Was Silence Hope's Peak

Leonie Haubrich Tony Healey

Thriller Mystery Publication Date: 1/12/2016 Publication Date: 1/1/2017 Page Count: 256 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Nele finally had her life back on track. After her first marriage Beyond the shores of Hope’s Peak, North Carolina, evil waits as his crumbled, she didn’t know if she’d ever be able to recover—until next victim approaches. He’ll make her a princess like the others... she met Andreas. Detective Jane Harper can’t shake the image of the young woman Their marriage and the birth of Lotta had been a small miracle. But discovered in a field—eyes closed, a crown of woven vines on her when the baby, now nine months old, mysteriously disappears, head. She expects macabre murders like this in her native San Nele’s world turns dark again. Suspicion immediately falls on her— Francisco, not here. Jane and her partner, Stu, vow to catch the but Detective Sven Jansen suspects that there’s more to the story, killer, but in this town, that’s easier said than done. The police especially when Nele’s long-estranged sister suddenly reappears department is in the grips of a wide-reaching scandal that could and begins talking about their past. topple the entire force, and Jane and Stu face a series of dead ends. Until they meet Ida Lane. Desperate to retrieve her missing daughter, Nele finds herself on the run. With her world crashing down around her, she combats the Ida knows too well the evil that lurks in the cornfields. Tortured by growing distrust from those closest to her, along with her own her mother’s murder years before, Ida is paralyzed by the fear that self-doubt, to find out what happened to Lotta. But can she or she could be next. As the killer grows bolder, Jane must persuade Detective Jansen uncover the truth? Or will Nele’s worst nightmare Ida to use her remarkable gifts to help in the investigation. It’s a become a reality for a second time? decision that brings them closer to the killer...maybe too close.

208 A Chris Bruen Novel

Surveillance Duplicity (Book Three) Sibel Hodge Reece Hirsch Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 12/27/2016 Publication Date: 3/15/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 316 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

When former computer-crimes prosecutor Chris Bruen and retired There are three sides to every story: Yours. Mine. And the truth… hacktivist Zoey Doucet open their San Francisco law firm, it’s the best day of their professional lives. That is, until their first client Max and Alissa have a fairy-tale life—newlywed, madly in love and walks through the door. enviously rich. Then Max is brutally stabbed to death at their home and Alissa, miraculously, escapes with her life. But why was she Ian Ayres is an “ethical hacker” who was hired by a company to spared? test the security of its online systems. On the job, he uncovered some highly classified information: the existence of a top-secret The hunt for the killer begins, uncovering a number of leads—was government surveillance agency and its Skeleton Key, a program Max’s incredible wealth the motive? Had his shady business that can break any form of encryption. Now Ayres is on the run. practices finally caught up with him? Or was it a stalker with a And after government agents descend on Chris and Zoey’s office dangerous obsession? during their potential client’s visit—killing two employees—they, too, are forced to flee for their lives. Devoted friends rally around gentle, sweet Alissa as she is left to mourn the loss of her husband and pick up her life. But not From California to Ecuador to Mexico, the trio must try to evade a everyone is who they seem…Deep-rooted jealousies, secrets and hired assassin, a bloodthirsty drug cartel, and their own twisted love lie just beneath the surface, and not all fairy tales government. But how can they escape an adversary that can access have a happy ending. every phone call, every email, every video feed?

Girl Number One Lock the Door

Jane Holland Jane Holland

Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 8/9/2016 Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Page Count: 358 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

There’s a body in the woods. At least, there was. Eleanor Meghan Smith has always been a protective mother. Her baby son, Blackwood saw it on her morning run: a young woman, strangled to Harry, has a life-threatening condition and is never far from her death. sight. But on the evening of her wedding anniversary, as she and her husband celebrate in the garden with friends, Harry disappears But the police can find nothing—no body, no sign of a crime—and from his cot without a trace. even Ellie has to wonder if it was a trick of her mind, a gruesome vision conjured up by grief. It’s eighteen years to the day since she In an instant, the perfect life she always longed for is in tatters, witnessed her own mother’s murder on the same woodland spot. her family exposed to interrogation and accusation in the glare of But what if she really did see what she thinks she saw? What if the media attention. But none of it gets Meghan answers—or brings body was left there for Ellie alone to find? back her son.

And there’s one detail Ellie can’t shake: a deliberate number three As her life unravels and suspicion takes hold of her sanity, Meghan on the dead woman’s forehead. When she discovers a second body, begins to question everything she once took for granted. Can she this one bearing the number two, Ellie is convinced they are not trust her husband? Can she trust her friends? Can she even trust messages but threats. The killer is on a countdown: but who is girl herself? number one?

209

Before You Leap The Devil's Country

Keith Houghton Harry Hunsicker

Thriller Crime Publication Date: 11/1/2016 Publication Date: 3/14/2017 Page Count: 300 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Peace of mind is all Greg Cole has wanted since the murder of his Former Texas Ranger Arlo Baines didn’t come to the tiny West twin sister, Scarlett. Texas town of Piedra Springs to cause trouble. After his wife and children were murdered, Arlo just wants to be left alone. Moving In his new sun-soaked Florida life, he thought he had found it. But from place to place seems to be the only thing that eases the pain when Scarlett’s killer is released early from prison with a cast-iron of his family’s violent end. alibi, Greg realizes that his past is about to explode into his present, with terrifying consequences. But a chance encounter outside a bar forces him to rescue a terrified woman and her children from mysterious attackers. When To expose the truth he must open up old wounds. As a talk the woman turns up murdered the next day—her children missing— therapist, Greg knows all about dark secrets, but when a childhood Arlo becomes the primary suspect in exactly the same type of friendship comes to the fore and the police turn their spotlight on crime he is trying desperately to forget. him, the thought of analyzing his own psyche is a disturbing prospect. How far can he trust his own memories? Haunted by the fate of his family, and with the police questioning the existence of the dead woman’s children, Arlo decides it’s his With his life coming apart at the seams, and his grip on reality duty to find them. The question is, just how deep will he have to beginning to unravel, Greg must face the ghosts of his past if he sink into the dusty secrets of Piedra Springs to save them and clear hopes to prove his innocence and live to see another day. his name?

A Marty Singer Mystery

The Butterfly Garden Once Was Lost (Book Six) Dot Hutchison Matthew Iden Thriller Mystery Publication Date: 6/1/2016 Publication Date: 5/31/2016 Page Count: 288 Page Count: 286 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese and English Large Print

Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden Retired DC homicide detective Marty Singer has spent his career— grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious and his retirement—finding people. But Tommy Donlan and his son, “butterflies”—young women who have been kidnapped and Bobby, are on the run from their family, and Marty’s own family intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all urges him to help the pair disappear—for good. is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. This isn’t just any family feud. Tommy is the nephew of Patrick Donlan, the leader of a tight-knit gang of criminals known for their When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for violence, ruthlessness, and big scores. After getting pinched in a questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are federal sting, Tommy was given a lethal ultimatum: testify against tasked with piecing together one of the most stomach-churning his uncle or do hard time. His choice made him a target—one that cases of their careers. But the girl, known only as Maya, proves to Witness Protection hasn’t been able to keep safe. After Marty be a puzzle herself. As her story twists and turns, slowly shedding orchestrates Tommy’s disappearance, he figures his work is done. light on life in the Butterfly Garden, Maya reveals old grudges, new saviors, and horrific tales of a man who’d go to any length to hold But when he discovers there’ll be blood on his hands if he doesn’t beauty captive. But the more she shares, the more the agents have track Tommy down, he realizes the ordeal has only just begun. to wonder what she’s still hiding...

210 A DI Fenchurch Novel

The Hope that Kills (Book One) Ed James Crime Publication Date: 9/1/2016 Page Count: 366 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The body of a young woman is found on the streets of East London, in the shadow of the City’s gleaming towers. No ID on her, just hard-earned cash. But there is no doubting the ferocity of the attack.

DI Simon Fenchurch takes charge but, as his team tries to identify her and piece together her murder, they’re faced with cruel indifference at every turn—nobody cares about yet another dead prostitute. To Fenchurch, however, she could just as easily be Chloe, his daughter still missing after ten years, whose memory still haunts his days and nights, his burning obsession having killed his marriage.

When a second body is discovered, Fenchurch must peel back the grimy layers shrouding the London sex trade, confronting his own traumatic past while racing to undo a scheme larger, more complex and more evil than anything he could possibly have imagined.

Worth Killing For (Book Two) Ed James Crime Publication Date: 10/11/2016 Page Count: 412 Rights Acquired: All Languages

On a busy London street, a young woman is attacked in broad daylight and left bleeding to death on the pavement. Among the eyewitnesses are DI Simon Fenchurch and his wife.

Fenchurch pursues the attacker through a warren of backstreets and eventually arrests a young hoodie with a cache of stolen phones—an ‘Apple picker’ on the make. The case should be closed but something feels off…Was this really just about a smartphone? Why did the victim look nervous before she was targeted? And why don’t the prints on the murder weapon match the young man in custody?

Before Fenchurch can probe further, his superiors remove him from the case, convinced he has let the real culprit run free. But Fenchurch is determined to get to the truth and, before long, uncovers a conspiracy that reaches high above the street gangs of London.

Untitled (Book Three) Ed James Crime Publication Date: 2/9/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Book Three in the DI Fenchurch mystery series.

211 Strangers Series

Don't Say a Word The Temporary Agent (Book Three) Daniel Judson Jennifer Jaynes Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 7/1/2016 Publication Date: 5/3/2016 Page Count: 402 Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Death has always stalked single mother Allie Callahan. For the first Scarred by war, former Navy Seabee Tom Sexton vows to leave his time in her life, she has found a fragile sort of happiness living a violent past behind, only to be drawn back into that life when a quiet, peaceful existence in East Texas with her young son, Sammy, deadly conspiracy forces him to face an agonizing choice no man and her adoptive mother. should ever have to make.

Still, Allie fears she may be susceptible to the same mental illness Five years after his life was saved in Afghanistan by Marine Force that destroyed her serial-killer mother and brother. She's haunted Recon Leader Charlie Cahill, Tom lives a bleak, nomadic existence, by the idea that she could become incapable of caring for Sammy. haunted by the debt he can never repay. Salvation appears in Stella—a woman as damaged, and resourceful, as he. But when a When twelve-year-old twins Zoe and Carrie arrive on her doorstep coded distress call from his former CO leads him to a shadowy NSA late one night, their parents slain in a vicious double homicide, operative, Tom is recruited for a “black op” to bring back the now- Allie’s strength and sanity are put to the test. What did the twins rogue man who saved his life. see on the night of their parents’ horrific murder? They are too frightened to say.Soon faced with a series of menacing phone calls, As he searches for Cahill, Tom quickly uncovers a much larger web a rising body count, and the pressure of keeping the girls and her of treason and betrayal that calls his entire world into question— own son safe, Allie fears she'll lose her mind—and her one shot at and forces him into the ultimate no-win scenario. happiness—once and for all.

Lady Hardcastle Mystery Series

A Quiet Life in In the Market the Country (Book One) for Murder (Book Two) T E Kinsey T E Kinsey

Mystery Mystery Publication Date: 10/4/2016 Publication Date: 12/20/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip martial arts. The year is 1908 and they’ve just moved from London to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up to the country, hoping for a quiet life. dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie. Once again, it is up to Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, to solve But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self- the case. imposed retirement. There’s a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some Armed with wit and whimsy, not to mention Florence’s mean right enquiries of her own, and it seems she knows a surprising amount hook, the pair set out to discover what really happened and why. about crime investigation… Was it poison or just ill luck?

As Lady Hardcastle and Flo delve deeper into rural rivalries and As they delve further into their investigation, they encounter a resentment, they uncover a web of intrigue that extends far theft where nothing is stolen, a séance with a troubled ghost and beyond the village. With almost no one free from suspicion, they an ever-increasing number of Spencer’s family and friends who can be certain of only one fact: there is no such thing as a quiet might just have motive for murder. One thing’s for sure: Lady life in the country. Hardcastle has a mystery on her hands.

Stay tuned for Book Three in Summer 2017! 212 Fractured State Series

Fractured State (Book One) Steven Konkoly Thriller Publication Date: 5/17/2016 Page Count: 402 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In 2035, the southwestern United States is ravaged by drought, reeling from an environmental catastrophe that has left the landscape a chaotic, depleted ruin. California, still viably inhabitable due to its oppressive social controls, marshals state-of-the-art surveillance technology and totalitarian policies to preserve its fragile hold on rapidly dwindling resources and an increasingly unsettled population.

After a prominent California congresswoman is assassinated for her support of the state’s secession from the United States, Nathan Fisher—accidental witness to a clandestine military-style operation—is drawn into an unraveling conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power and threatens the lives of Fisher and his family.Hunted by ruthless killers seeking to ensure his silence, suspected by the authorities, and aided only by a loyal Marine officer with a mysterious agenda, Fisher and his loved ones must somehow stay a step ahead of their relentless pursuers, navigating a ruined world in a desperate search for sanctuary.

Rogue State (Book Two) Steven Konkoly Thriller Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Twenty years in the future, America perches on the edge of collapse, devastated by drought and dwindling resources. California, now a totalitarian surveillance state controlling the lion’s share of the nation’s economy, is on the brink of secession. And family man Nathan Fisher finds himself at the heart of a bloody conspiracy that threatens the lives of his loved ones and the future of the country itself. Pursued by Mason Flagg and the sinister Cerberus organization, Nathan and his embattled family— accompanied by tough-as-nails Marine David Quinn—make a desperate run across the blasted wastes of the western United States, seeking sanctuary in Nevada.

Woefully outmanned and outgunned by a cadre of ruthless Russian mercenaries enlisted by Flagg, and closely pursued by the drug cartels that rule the ravaged Southwest, the Fishers need some serious help to survive…but at what price?

Stirred [Digital First] J.A. Konrath and Blake Crouch Thriller Publication Date: 11/22/2011 Page Count: 505 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels has seen humanity at its most depraved and terrifying. She's lost loved ones. Come close to death countless times. But she always manages to triumph over evil. Luther Kite is humanity at its most depraved and terrifying. He's committed unthinkable acts. Taken human life for the sheer pleasure of it. He is a monster among monsters, and no one has ever caught him. Each is the best at what they do. Peerless. Unmatched.

Until now...

It's J.A. Konrath's greatest heroine versus Blake Crouch's greatest villain in Stirred, the stunning conclusion to both Konrath's Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels thriller series and Crouch's Andrew Z. Thomas series. Only one can survive. And it won't be whom you think.

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The Four-Night Run Bum Rap

William Lashner Paul Levine

Crime Thriller Publication Date: 5/24/2016 Publication Date: 7/1/2015 Page Count: 432 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

J.D. Scrbacek has just won the biggest trial of his career, but even NFL linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter has had it with shifty as he crows to the press, his entire life blows sky-high. Was the clients, dirty prosecutors, and a legal system out of whack. It’s bomb meant for him, or for his mobster client? In this seaside enough to make a man want to leave Miami and never look back— casino town where the tables run hot and the tensions run high, the until he gets a call from Victoria Lord, the better half of hot local odds say the attorney is a marked man. legal team Solomon & Lord. Her partner in life and law has been arrested for murder. What’s worse: the only person who can clear Alone and on the run, Scrbacek flees into the city’s forgotten him has fled the city. Now it’s up to Jake and Victoria to track underbelly, a ruined corridor called Crapstown, where he is forced down the witness—a stunning “Bar girl”—before she’s roped in by to confront the ghosts of his past, his present, and his future. the feds…or eliminated by the Russian mob. Somewhere in the sordid stream of his own existence lie the answers he needs. But in order to emerge from the depths of Jake knows that if he doesn’t get to the witness first, his client’s Crapstown, Scrbacek must argue for his life before a jury of the case is lost. Luckily, he’s got some good advice from his college forgotten and the damned. Is he lawyer enough to save his own football coach: “Buckle your chin strap and hit somebody.” And skin? sometimes, the only way to win a tough case is to do just that.

From the bestselling author of The Barkeep comes a raucous tale of reckoning, racketeering, and revenge.

A Margie Peterson Mystery Dewberry Farm Mysteries

Mother Knows Best Fatal Frost (Book Two) (Book Two) Karen MacInerney Karen MacInerney

Mystery Mystery Publication Date: 3/15/2016 Publication Date: 10/18/2016 Page Count: 318 Page Count: 282 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Things aren’t going well for private investigator and mom Margie Lucy Resnick’s nerves are as tight as a tea cozy. Her new goats, Hot Peterson. Her husband, Blake, is claiming his taste for drag queens Lips and Gidget, keep making a break for the town square, her is “just a phase.” Her first-grade daughter isn’t fitting in at her truck is dying, and her boyfriend’s gorgeous ex-wife is in town for new posh elementary school, Holy Oaks Catholic School. And her the holidays. Worse, someone’s digging holes on her land…and hippie mother has swept into town and replaced the family’s store uprooting her peach orchard and dewberry patch in the process. of processed foods with seaweed snacks. To top it all off, a late- Lucy needs additional holiday stress like she needs a blow to the night phone call from her boss, Peaches Barlowe, has pulled Margie head—which she receives one night, courtesy of the mystery into a very strange murder case, one that involves the Holy Oaks digger. headmaster, George Cavendish. Poor man—he just happened to die in a dominatrix’s pink vinyl wading pool while wearing nothing but When the dim-witted sheriff arrests one of Lucy’s best friends, the Aquaman tights and goggles. former reporter puts her own problems on the back burner and starts investigating. What she finds is a patchwork of clues—an As it turns out, there are a lot of people who might have wanted injured puppy, a sapphire necklace gone missing, and a string of Mr. Cavendish dead, from his bereaved, betrayed widow to the poison-pen letters—that draw her deep into a web of small-town shady owners of the local strip joint. Not even Margie’s best friend, secrets. whose daughter didn’t get into Holy Oaks, is above suspicion. Can the overtaxed PI solve the case before things get even weirder? Word travels fast in Buttercup. When the killer learns Lucy’s on the trail, Lucy finds she needs more than her reporting skills to save Stay tuned for Book Three in Spring 2017! her friend—she needs a Christmas miracle.

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Walk into Silence Gray Salvation (Book Six) Susan McBride Alan McDermott Mystery Publication Date: 12/1/2016 Thriller Page Count: 370 Publication Date: 3/8/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 312 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A woman vanishes from a Texas town. Did she simply run off, or is When the body of an MI5 operative is found floating in the Thames, something darker at play? police frogmen find a significant clue nearby: Nikolai Sereyev, an MI5 informer and mid-level player in a Russian criminal When Patrick Dielman shows up at Detective Jo Larsen’s desk organization. Both men have been brutally murdered. insisting that his wife, Jenny, is missing, Jo wonders if it’s a case of a bored housewife running away. Andrew Harvey is tasked with finding his colleague’s killer, and quickly uncovers a plot to assassinate a visiting dignitary on British But as she digs deeper into Jenny’s life, Jo learns that Dielman soil. No sooner has he scraped the surface of the case than the keeps a stranglehold on the family finances, down to the last tables are turned and he becomes a pawn in a game of nickel, and that Jenny’s first marriage dissolved following the international brinkmanship that leads all the way to the Kremlin. death of her young son. By all accounts—including her doctor’s—she Harvey’s girlfriend, Sarah, also a secret service operative, is hot on never recovered from the loss. Between a controlling husband, a his trail, but when she too becomes compromised, security chief tragic past, and a callous ex-husband, Jo can’t be sure if she should Veronica Ellis knows there is only one man she can turn to. He’s a suspect foul play or accept that the woman may have wanted to loose cannon, but she needs his help to rescue her agent and disappear. prevent a full-blown international incident. The trouble is, Tom Gray has gone underground. Finding him is just the beginning. For Jo, whose own demons are shadowing her every step, finding Jenny becomes more than the typical protect-and-serve. This book is the sixth in the series but can be enjoyed equally as a stand-alone novel.

An Andrew Harvey Novel

Trojan A Cure for Madness

Alan McDermott Jodi McIsaac

Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 1/12/2017 Publication Date: 1/19/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 302 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

When MI5 learns that a horrifying new weapon is in enemy hands, Clare Campbell has worked hard to create distance between agent Andrew Harvey is called in to track it down before it reaches herself and her troubled family. But when she receives news of her British soil. parents’ murder, she’s forced to return to the quiet town of Clarkeston, Maine, to arrange their funeral and take legal But then a woman is found murdered by the roadside and it soon guardianship of her unpredictable and mentally ill brother, Wes. becomes clear that London is in the crosshairs. The clock is ticking. Andrew and his girlfriend, Sarah, also a secret-service operative, While Clare struggles to come to grips with the death of her have only one lead: a beautiful refugee, desperate not to lose her parents, a terrifying pathogen outbreak overtakes the town. She is son. But is she desperate enough to betray everything she believes all too familiar with the resulting symptoms, which resemble those in? And will she do it in time to help them prevent a terrifying of her brother’s schizophrenia: hallucinations, paranoia, and attack? bizarre, even violent, behavior. Before long, the government steps in—and one agent takes a special interest in Wes. Clare must make As Andrew and Sarah race to unravel a convoluted web of a horrifying decision: save her brother or save the world. subterfuge and exploitation, they discover there is more at stake than even they knew. And somewhere, at the heart of it, lurks a faceless enemy, who is prepared to use everything—and everyone— at his disposal.

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An Invisible Client Borderline Insanity (Book Two) Victor Methos Jeff Miller Thriller Publication Date: 1/26/2016 Thriller Page Count: 256 Publication Date: 7/5/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 432 Rights Acquired: All Languages

For high-powered personal injury attorney Noah Byron, the good Special Agent Dagny Gray is a member of a small FBI team with things in life come with a price tag—cars, houses, women. That’s unprecedented independence. To maintain their autonomy, the why he represents only cases that come with the possibility of a team must continue to solve big cases. To stay on the team, Dagny nice cut of the action. But as a favor to his ex-wife, he meets with must keep her personal demons under control. the mother of twelve-year-old Joel, a boy poisoned by tainted children’s medicine. While the official story is that a psycho When Father Diego Vega tells her that undocumented workers are tampered with bottles, the boy’s mother believes something much vanishing from a small town gripped by immigration politics, Dagny more sinister is at work…and the trail leads right back to the thinks she’s found her next case. But without bodies or proof of pharmaceutical company. foul play, her boss won’t let her take it. Defying his orders, Dagny risks her career to investigate with Father Vega. As Noah digs deeper into the case, he quickly finds himself up against a powerful corporation that will protect itself at any cost. The families of the victims don’t trust her. The local police won’t He also befriends young Joel and breaks the number one rule of help her, and the sheriff wants to stop her. Deep down, she worries personal-injury law: don’t make it personal. Faced with the most that she’s not going to find the missing men alive. But what she menacing of opponents and the most vulnerable of clients, Noah is uncovers is more horrifying than anything she could have determined to discover the truth and win justice for Joel—even if it imagined… means losing everything else.

An Omar Zagouri Thriller

The Mentor Slave Queen

Rita Carla Francesca H.B. Moore Monticelli Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 8/30/2016 Publication Date: 11/1/2015 Page Count: 370 Page Count: 226 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: English and German

As Scotland Yard chief forensics detective Eric Shaw works a case Special Agent Omar Zagouri’s latest case is his most dangerous—and with some resemblance to a crime he investigated twenty years his most personal yet. The discovery of secret sixteenth-century earlier, he is convinced it is just a coincidence. But when more letters unveils a plot between the sultan Suleyman and his chief deaths occur in a style similar to those killings from the past, Shaw wife, Roxelane, to change the course of the Ottoman Empire. A suspects that he has a serial killer on his hands—one who is descendent of Roxelane, Zagouri learns he has an enemy whose pursuing a personal, cold-blooded vendetta. revenge has been centuries in the making.

Working closely with his protégée, Detective Miriam Leroux, Shaw Targeted by an antiquities collector who’s also descended from a analyzes the crimes down to the finest detail. He finds himself chief rival for the ancient throne, Zagouri soon uncovers a modern- increasingly drawn to the lab, where criminologist Adele day conspiracy that threatens the lives of his family and the Pennington, a beautiful, enigmatic woman more than two decades security of a nation. his junior, proves distracting. Determined to maintain his professionalism despite the attraction, Shaw struggles to keep her To expose the plot, Zagouri must team up with Naim, the son of his at arm’s length. Yet Pennington’s unique insight proves critical, nemesis, who heads an international black-market operation that and as the investigation develops, so does their personal may have ties to the killings. From ancient Constantinople to the connection. With a killer on the loose, Shaw must follow a winding, present-day Middle East, Zagouri is on a collision course with blood-soaked trail that will take him in an unexpected and history. Time is running out to solve a royal mystery and stop a terrifying direction. ruthless killer—one who has Zagouri’s name on his hit list.

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Terms of Use Scott Allan Morrison Thriller Publication Date: 1/1/2016 Page Count: 369 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Circles is the most popular social network in the world: vast, ubiquitous, and constantly evolving. Days before expanding into China, Circles suffers a devastating cyber attack—and a key executive is brutally murdered. As he fights to save the company he helped build, top engineer Sergio Mansour uncovers evidence of a massive conspiracy that turns the power of Circles against its users. But as Sergio investigates, someone is watching his every move—someone ruthless enough to brand him a criminal and set a vicious hit man on his trail.

Desperate to clear his name, Sergio turns to Malina Olson, a beautiful and headstrong doctor who has an agenda of her own. Now, he and Malina must survive long enough to expose the truth in a world without hiding places, where a single keystroke can shift the global balance of power.

The Capital of Latecomers Nina Nenova Thriller Publication Date: 10/1/2015 Page Count: 338 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Bulgarian

Local folklore tells the story of an ancient people wandering through the desert, discovering an oasis- like paradise. But they stayed for too long, and when they returned home all their loved ones were dead. These people are forever known as the “latecomers.” Now an exclusive compound providing residents with complete and utter privacy stands on the site where their village once was. Rhein, a thirty-year-old former darling of the art world, has lost his confidence and chosen the life of a recluse. When a body turns up in Rhein’s studio, he has no choice but to come out of his yearlong seclusion to prove his innocence. More deaths occur, and the evidence incriminating Rhein is so convincing he honestly doesn’t know what to believe. Working with his eccentric neighbors, all of whom are also hiding from their pasts, he finds that the path to the truth careens through tribal folklore and quantum physics, and nothing is as it seems.

Sydney Rose Parnell Series

Blood on the Tracks (Book One) Barbara Nickless Mystery Publication Date: 10/1/2016 Page Count: 386 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A young woman is found brutally murdered, and the main suspect is the victim’s fiancé, a hideously scarred Iraq War vet known as the Burned Man. But railroad police Special Agent Sydney Rose Parnell, brought in by the Denver Major Crimes Unit to help investigate, can't shake the feeling that larger forces are behind this apparent crime of passion.

In the depths of an icy winter, Parnell and her K9 partner, Clyde―both haunted by their time in Iraq―descend into the underground world of a savage gang of rail riders. There, they uncover a wide- reaching conspiracy and a series of shocking crimes. Crimes that threaten everything Parnell holds dear.

As the search for the truth puts her directly in the path of the killer, Parnell must struggle with a deadly question: Can she fight monsters without becoming one herself? Stay tuned for Book Two in Summer 2017! 217 James Palatine Novels

Little Sister Say a Little Prayer (Book One) (Book Two) Giles O’Bryen Giles O’Bryen

Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 3/1/2016 Publication Date: 10/25/2016 Page Count: 486 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

James Palatine, a trained killer with a surplus of conscience, is Kosovo, 1999. In the shadow of an impending NATO bombing also the inventor of the device known as Little Sister. A unique campaign, James Palatine of the Army Intelligence Corps has joined prototype, it has powers of surveillance that governments and an elite unit of the SAS for his first mission behind enemy lines. terrorist organizations would kill for. The problem is, it's gone missing. A woman’s desperate cry for help draws them to a remote farmhouse, where Palatine makes a split-second decision that he James is determined to retrieve it, and so is Natalya Kocharian—the bitterly regrets. Just hours later he sees a chance to redeem arms dealer who “inadvertently” sold it to a rogue dealer. But the himself—in his own eyes, at least—when his unit finds a young girl current owner, holed up in the scorching void of the Western close to death in the freezing woods. But rescuing the girl proves Sahara, won’t give in without a fight. Meanwhile MI6 will do only to be the beginning of a new nightmare. anything to beat Palatine to the prize. Against a backdrop of escalating violence, Palatine’s life spirals As the hunt for Little Sister goes from administrative errand to into an underworld of predatory gangsters and duplicitous spies— international arms race, global security hangs in the balance. and takes him on a journey deep into the horrors of war and the Knowledge is power, after all—and no secret is safe from Little darkness within his own soul. Sister. With only Natalya on his side, can Palatine take on his enemies, his demons and the dangerous power of his own invention?

The Sound of Rain The Light of the Fireflies Gregg Olsen Paul Pen Crime Thriller Publication Date: 12/13/2016 Publication Date: 4/1/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 338 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: English and German

Former homicide detective Nicole Foster has hit rock bottom. Driven For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement off the force by her treacherous partner and lover, she’s flat broke with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. Before he was and struggling with a gambling addiction. All Nicole has left is the born, his family was disfigured by a fire. His sister wears a white dream of a warm bed at a homeless shelter and the haunting mask to cover her burns. memories of three-year-old Kelsey Chase—whose murder case ended her career. He spends his hours with his cactus, reading his book on insects, or touching the one ray of sunlight that filters in through a crack in As Nicole obsesses over the old facts, she realizes everything about the ceiling. Ever since his sister had a baby, everyone’s been acting that case felt off: a disinterested mom, a suicidal pedophile, and too very strangely. The boy begins to wonder why they never say who many questions left unanswered. When the little girl’s grieving father the father is, about what happened before his own birth, about begs Nicole for help, she’s drawn back into the investigation...and why they’re shut away. given one shot at redemption. A few days ago, some fireflies arrived in the basement. His But the deeper Nicole digs, the more evil she uncovers, including grandma said, There’s no creature more amazing than one that can betrayals that hit painfully close to home. Will a shocking discovery make its own light. That light makes the boy want to escape, to be the key to finally getting justice for Kelsey and resurrecting her know the outside world. Problem is, all the doors are locked. And own life? he doesn’t know how to get out…

218 The Nathan McBride Series

First to Kill Forced to Kill Option to Kill (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) Andrew Peterson Andrew Peterson Andrew Peterson Thriller Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 8/21/2012 Publication Date: 8/21/2012 Publication Date: 9/6/2012 Page Count: 373 Page Count: 323 Page Count: 345 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Rights Sold: Italian, Spanish, Rights Sold: German French, and Simplified Chinese

Ten years ago, a botched mission in Nicaragua Trained Marine sniper Nathan McBride is the sole When Nathan McBride receives a text message ended covert ops specialist Nathan McBride’s CIA survivor of Montez de Oca, the brutal Nicaraguan from someone who claims she’s been kidnapped, career. Now he utilizes his unique skill set in the interrogator who tortured countless souls to it triggers a deadly chain of events that has the private sector—until the night Frank Ortega, death before vanishing fourteen years ago. potential to haunt him for the rest of his life. former director of the FBI, calls in a favor. A Though McBride’s body—as well as his soul—still Nathan will soon learn that nothing from his past deep-cover federal agent has vanished, along bear the scars from the interrogator’s blade, he could ever prepare him for the crisis he’ll soon with a ton of Semtex explosives, and Ortega dares to hope the worst is behind him. be facing. The girl’s name is Lauren and she’s needs them found—fast. Because for him, this just twelve years old. With virtually no mission is personal: the missing agent is his But when the FBI recovers a mutilated body from experience with children, Nathan’s patience and grandson. And Nathan McBride is the only man a remote Utah lake, McBride needs just one compassion are about to be tested to their he trusts to save him. glimpse to know the truth: Montez de Oca has limits. resurfaced, this time on American soil. And But it quickly becomes clear that something McBride will be damned if he lets him escape In a violent confrontation, Nathan rescues bigger than even Ortega could have imagined is again. So begins a quest for justice that will push Lauren from her kidnapper, but as he unravels at stake. Within days of accepting the McBride to the edge, pitting his capacity for Lauren's story, he realizes his troubles are only assignment, McBride finds himself trapped mercy against his hunger for vengeance in a beginning. She says she's in the Witness Security between a ruthless adversary hell-bent on deadly game of cat-and-mouse that will reach Program, and doesn't trust the US Marshals revenge and a group of high-ranking federal into the highest levels of the US government. because she thinks they're complicit in her officials who will stop at nothing to reap their abduction. Not only that, her stepdad was own brand of justice. Here there are no rules, no murdered last night. In a desperate and unlikely protocol, no backup. Only McBride… alliance, Nathan and Lauren must stay one step ahead of her kidnapper and the brutal mercenaries who will kill anyone who gets in their way.

Ready to Kill Contract to Kill Right to Kill (Book Four) (Book Five) (Book Six) Andrew Peterson Andrew Peterson Andrew Peterson Thriller Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 4/29/2014 Publication Date: 8/11/2015 Publication Date: 11/1/2016 Page Count: 348 Page Count: 376 Page Count: 314 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Bestselling author Andrew Peterson is back When Toby Haynes witnesses a double murder— When a team of commandos—highly skilled and with a heart-stopping fourth installment of his and suspects his boss, Tanner Mason, as the armed to the teeth—tries to kidnap retired CIA wildly popular Nathan McBride series. perpetrator of the crime—he does the only thing station chief Linda Genneken from her home, he can think of: he calls in Nathan McBride.CIA trained Marine Nathan McBride and his partner, When a mysterious note referencing a top-secret special ops veteran McBride and his partner, Harvey Fontana, arrive just in time to join the US operation is tossed over the wall of the Harvey Fontana, respond to their friend’s plea. fight. But their well-honed CIA instincts tell embassy in Nicaragua, Nathan McBride and his As they launch a covert investigation into Mason, them this is only the beginning. McBride and old pal Harv are called out of retirement by CIA the security chief for one of the nation’s leading Fontana set out to learn who ordered the Director Rebecca Cantrell and sent to Central private military contractors, they discover that midnight raid, and why. Is it connected to a America. Cantrell wants the situation resolved not everything is as it appears. Mason and his rescue mission they conducted with Genneken in quickly and knows that Nathan is the man to do inner circle are leading a top-secret operation to South America—a mission that nearly killed it; after all, he has a history with the place. The tackle a wave of crime plaguing the US-Mexican McBride? Is it related to the string of jungle he and Harv are about to land in is the border, and the murder may have been part of assassinations happening simultaneously in that same one that Nathan barely escaped with his their complicated strategy—or part of a more area of the world? Or both? life decades before, an ordeal that left him menacing agenda. Soon McBride and Fontana physically and psychologically scarred. To make find themselves engaged in a deadly game. With With the help of their CIA contacts and aided by it out alive a second time, Nathan will have to a powerful politician behind it all, stopping Genneken, the two men unravel a criminal plot face down his own demons and square off with a Mason could mean joining a secret war—with with global implications. And as their race to ruthless killer who learned from the best, truly global stakes. find answers unspools in six supercharged hours, Nathan himself. McBride and his team will be tested like never before.

Stay tuned for Book Seven in Summer 2017!

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Someone Must Die Sharon Potts

Thriller Publication Date: 6/28/2016 Page Count: 352 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When her six-year-old nephew vanishes from a neighborhood carnival, Aubrey Lynd’s safe, snow-globe world fractures; it shatters when the FBI’s investigation raises questions about her own family that Aubrey can’t answer.

Aubrey picks apart the inconsistencies to expose the first of many lies: a ransom note— concealed from the FBI—with a terrifying and impossible ultimatum. Aubrey doesn’t know what to believe or whom to trust. The abduction is clearly personal—but why would someone play a high-stakes game with the life of a child? The more she presses for answers, the more Aubrey is convinced that her mother is hiding something.

Desperate to save her young nephew, Aubrey must face harsh truths and choose between loyalty to her family and doing the right thing. And she’d better hurry, because vengeance sets its own schedule, and time is running out.

The Fifth Knight Series

The Lord of Ireland (Book Three) E.M. Powell Mystery Publication Date: 4/5/2016 Page Count: 370 Rights Acquired: All Languages

England, 1185. John is a prince without prospect of a crown. As the youngest son of Henry II, he has long borne the hated nickname “Lackland.” When warring tribes and an ambitious Anglo-Norman lord threaten Henry’s reign in Ireland, John believes his time has finally come. Henry is dispatching him there with a mighty force to impose order.

Yet it is a thwarted young man who arrives on the troubled isle. John has not been granted its kingship—he is merely the Lord of Ireland, destined never to escape his father’s shadow. Unknown to John, Henry has also sent his right-hand man, Sir Benedict Palmer, to root out the traitors he fears are working to steal the land from him.

But Palmer is horrified when John disregards Henry’s orders and embarks on a campaign of bloodshed that could destroy the kingdom. Now Palmer has to battle the increasingly powerful Lord of Ireland. Power, in John’s hands, is a murderous force—and he is only just beginning to wield it.

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Orchids and Stone Lisa Preston Thriller Publication Date: 4/1/2016 Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Daphne Mayfield sought a moment of quiet in a park—a break from city life, a tense relationship, and chronic overwork—but then an elderly woman makes a desperate plea. Daphne is reluctant to get involved when she’s not sure what’s happening, but she wants to help the stranger. Is the rambling old lady the victim of a crime or a victim of dementia?

As her unease grows, Daphne can’t let go of the encounter. No matter what her boyfriend or her friends say. No matter what the retired homicide detective warns. Though she knows she’s meddling in other people’s lives, her instincts scream that the danger is real.

With each increasingly bold intervention, Daphne involves herself in someone else’s crisis until she’s in too deep to turn back. She’s not just fighting for a stranger’s life…she’s fighting for her own.

The Thief Taker Series

Dark Stars C.S. Quinn Thriller Publication Date: 12/13/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: English and German

The Great Fire has reduced London to smoldering embers.

Charlie Tuesday’s once-great city is on its knees, and its enemies are circling. Pirates sail their fireships up the Thames, looting and raiding as they go, while criminals of every shape control the lawless streets.

And in the midst of the chaos, someone is killing young girls and throwing their bodies into the river. Someone with a connection to Charlie, and the legendary destiny unlocked by the ring he inherited from his mother.

With the help of Lily Boswell, a gypsy street-girl with a knife and a grudge, Charlie must find the killer and put a stop to the murders.

The Good Traitor Ryan Quinn Thriller Publication Date: 4/5/2016 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The US ambassador to China is killed in a suspicious plane crash just days after a news article links Chinese spies to US business interests. The American intelligence community is left scrambling to investigate possible connections between the crash and a series of other high-profile deaths.

On the other side of the world, ex-CIA operative Kera Mersal returns to the United States determined to clear her name after being branded a traitor for exposing illegal government surveillance. There, former colleague and fellow fugitive J. D. Jones contacts her with a new assignment: find out who is staging accidents to murder news sources. But Mersal’s investigations put her on the trail of a sinister hacker whose own motives may influence a vaster—and more deadly—geopolitical conspiracy than either of the world’s two largest superpowers is prepared to handle.

221 Faith McMann Trilogy

Furious (Book One) T.R. Ragan Thriller Publication Date: 3/22/2016 Page Count: 318 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Faith McMann comes home to a nightmare: her husband is killed and her son and daughter are taken. Although the intruders leave her for dead, she survives. Crippling grief and fear for her children make life unbearable. Until her anguish turns to anger…and she trades victimhood for vengeance.

Frustrated with the law’s efforts, she takes action to rescue her children—and wreaks havoc on the brutal criminals who tore them from her. With her family and newfound allies at her side, Faith descends into the hellish underworld of human trafficking, determined to make those who prey on the innocent pray for mercy.

The forces she’s up against have already proven that their ruthlessness knows no bounds. And there’s nothing they won’t do to turn Faith’s crusade into a suicide mission. But they’re about to learn that nothing is more dangerous than a mother fighting for her children—especially one who’s earned the nickname Furious.

Outrage (Book Two) T.R. Ragan Thriller Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Page Count: 279 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The happy life Faith McMann knew as a wife, mother, and teacher was destroyed when vicious criminals murdered her husband, kidnapped her children, and left her for dead. After paralyzing grief, fear, and despair, there was nothing left for her to feel…except fury. But striking a staggering blow against a brutal ring of human traffickers was just the beginning of her uphill battle.

Though her daughter remains missing and her son is lost in the wilderness, Faith’s relentless efforts have reunited some children with their families. They’ve also made her and the rest of her family the targets of a sadistic crime boss. But Faith has learned plenty about survival in the lawless underworld she’s storming. And she’s forged an unbreakable bond with two no-holds-barred allies in the war against evil. As they dodge assassins and take down predators, Faith travels deeper into the heart of darkness, determined to rescue her children at any cost.

Wrath (Book Three) T.R. Ragan Thriller Publication Date: 3/14/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

The final book in the Faith McMann Trilogy

Praise for the series:

“Searing...Readers with strong stomachs will eagerly await the next installment.” —Publishers Weekly

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Cold Black Earth Sam Reaves Mystery Publication Date: 8/1/2015 Page Count: 274 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When Rachel Lindstrom fled from her rural hometown in western Illinois to join the State Department and see the world, she never expected to return with her life in tatters. But after the horrors of war and a painful divorce, the only place where she can rebuild is the town she once escaped.

At home, however, there is little comfort. Her brother, still reeling from his wife’s suicide, struggles to run the family farm and handle a hell-raising son. Rachel’s arrival also draws a pair of rival suitors: her brother’s handsome friend and a rough-hewn sheriff’s deputy who pined for her in high school. Romance is the last thing on Rachel’s mind, but a little comfort would be nice—except for the complications.

When a deranged killer escapes from a local prison, the far-flung farmsteads go on high alert—especially when the bodies start turning up. And in a county where the miles outnumber the people, it soon becomes clear that the madman is close behind Rachel.

Baggage S.G. Redling Thriller Publication Date: 2/2/2016 Page Count: 242 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Over the years, terrible things keep happening to Anna Ray on February 17. First, there was the childhood trauma she’s never been able to speak about. Then, to her horror, her husband killed himself on that date.

A year later and a thousand miles away, Anna tries to find solace in the fresh start of a new job in a new place. She takes comfort in her outspoken cousin Jeannie, the confidant and best friend who’s there whenever she needs help. On the day of the dreaded anniversary, Anna and Jeannie hit the town, planning to ease the pain with an alcohol-induced stupor and then sleep…When Anna awakes the next morning, she thinks she can put one more February 17 behind her, but fate is about to intervene in the form of two gruesome murders with eerie similarities to her violent past. This time, however, she won’t be an abandoned daughter or a grieving widow. This time, she’ll be a suspect.

At Risk S.G. Redling Thriller Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Page Count: 240 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Colleen McElroy grew up wealthy and pampered, the daughter of a prominent society family in Lexington, Kentucky. But her privileged upbringing could not prepare or protect her from her cruel and abusive first husband. Although her calamitous marriage left her with physical and emotional scars that have yet to heal, they haven’t prevented her from doing her best to rebuild her life.

Charismatic Patrick McElroy has scars of his own from his traumatic childhood in the foster care system, but with his business partner, John, he has built a celebrated, state-of-the-art home for at-risk youths. When one goes missing, Colleen is plunged into a nightmare of uncertainty about the girl’s disappearance. Is she paranoid, seeing disasters where there is just bad luck, or does an unspeakable evil lurk behind the new life she’s made for herself? No longer sure of whom she can trust, Colleen will have to rely on herself to discover the truth.

223 Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mystery

The Low Bird Kindred (Book Five) David L. Robbins Steve Robinson Thriller Publication Date: 11/8/2016 Mystery Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 4/12/2016 Rights Acquired: English and Page Count: 354 German Rights Acquired: All Languages

On his first combat mission of the Vietnam War, US Air Force pilot Jefferson Tayte is good at finding people who don’t want to be Sol Rall is shot down over the jungles of Laos. Stranded in a valley found. For years he has followed faint genealogical trails to reunite teeming with enemy troops, Sol scrambles to survive and evade families—and uncover long-hidden secrets. But Tayte is a loner, a capture. Pararescueman Bo Bolick has been given just twenty-four man with no ties of his own; his true identity is the most elusive hours to find Sol before a US carpet bombing destroys every living case of his career. But that could all be about to change. Now thing in the valley, friend or foe. Tayte has in his possession the beginnings of a new trail—clues his late mentor had started to gather—that might at last lead to his As Bo’s search intensifies, Minh, a young Hanoi woman who own family. With Professor Jean Summer, his partner in entertains the fighters and travelers along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, genealogical sleuthing, he travels to Munich to pick up the scent. becomes inextricably caught up in the raging battle between her But the hunt takes them deep into dangerous territory: the sinister North Vietnamese troops and the American forces sent to rescue secrets of World War II Germany, and those who must keep Sol. In the midst of heavy combat, Minh tries to find and them buried at any cost. When their investigations threaten to understand love for the first time in her life. But the clock is undermine a fascist organization, Tayte and Summer know time is ticking. A curtain of fire is going to descend. The desperate running out. Can they find their way to the dark heart of a deadly realities of jungle warfare are about to collide with a warrior’s history before they become its latest victims? code that says no man will be left behind. Stay tuned for Book Six in Spring 2017!

The National Crime Agency Series

The Pick, the Spade and The Falcon Tattoo the Crow (Book One) (Book Two) Bill Rogers Bill Rogers

Crime Crime Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Publication Date: 12/13/2016 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

When the body of a man is discovered in woodlands outside A violent attacker is on the loose. His calling card: a tattoo on his Manchester, a ten-year missing-persons investigation can finally be victims’ skin. With no witnesses and no evidence left at the crime filed away. But this was no ordinary death: gagged, bound and scenes, it will take all of the National Crime Agency’s resources to buried alive, he was the victim of a sophisticated and sadistic track him down. killer. And there is something else that has the National Crime Agency puzzled. A single character carved into a nearby tree. At the head of the investigation, codenamed Operation Juniper, Newly promoted to the NCA’s Behavioral Sciences Unit, Senior Senior Investigator Joanne Stuart knows that the clock is ticking. Investigator Joanne Stuart is determined to hunt down the The time between abductions is decreasing and the perpetrator perpetrator. Just as Jo’s investigation begins to reveal links with grows ever more brazen. She fears it won’t be long before his other disappearances, there is another murder. This is no longer a assaults turn deadly. cold case; she is dealing with the escalating violence of a chilling serial killer. As the hunt closes in, Jo’s already troubled personal life is put under further pressure. With danger closer than she thinks, just Stepping into a sinister world of secrets, symbols and rituals, Jo how far will Jo go to solve the case—and at what cost? will have to confront the legacy of her own past and the violent memories that lurk there if she is going to solve this case. But at what cost?

224 The Light Series Into the Light Away from the Dark (Book One) (Book Two) Aleatha Romig Aleatha Romig

Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 6/14/2016 Publication Date: 10/18/2016 Page Count: 354 Page Count: 364 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Sara Adams awakes blind, unable to remember the most basic Nine months ago, Sara Adams awoke with no memory. The man details of her life, but her darkness seems a blessing when she holding her hand told her she’s a member of The Light, a tight-knit discovers the terrors of The Light. Stella Montgomery investigates religious group led by the terrifying and charismatic Father Gabriel. the news from the mean streets of Detroit, where she’s noticed a As a woman in the community of The Light, her duty is to be disturbing trend: young women are vanishing. When her best friend unquestionably obedient and to submit to the will of her husband. disappears, Stella digs for answers—despite warnings from her But as Sara’s memory starts to return and she remembers her past, police-detective boyfriend—following a twisted trail that leads her she sees that everything she’s been told is a lie. The Light is an through the city’s most dangerous and forsaken precincts. There insidious and dangerous organization, and its corrupting influence she uncovers something more sinister than she could have reaches well beyond the confines of the remote campus where Sara imagined: a shadowy organization known as The Light, led by the is being held. enigmatic Father Gabriel. With everything at stake, Sara struggles to sort out her true As Sara struggles to understand her place in the strange world she’s memories from her indoctrination. The desire to escape consumes awakened to—an oppressive cult demanding unquestioning her, but who can she trust? And what other followers of The Light obedience—and her feelings for Jacob, the husband she can’t recall were forced into this life, brainwashed to believe they belonged? and whose harsh and tender attentions confuse and beguile her, The more she remembers, the more it becomes clear that Jacob, Stella risks all to discover the truth. But enlightenment always the man who calls himself her husband, is keeping shattering comes with a price… secrets of his own. But Sara cannot flee alone, leaving innocents behind. She must fight to extinguish The Light.

A Crown of Blood and Honour

Write to Die Bloodlines (Book Two) Charles Rosenberg T.K. Roxborogh Mystery Publication Date: 7/26/2016 Mystery Page Count: 480 Publication Date: 1/5/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Hollywood’s latest blockbuster is all set to premiere—until a faded An epic tale of love, loss and revenge set amidst the turmoil of superstar claims the script was stolen from her. To defend the Scotland after Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The rebellion is over, studio, in steps the Harold Firm, one of Los Angeles’s top Scotland has its rightful king, and the battlefields lie still—for now. entertainment litigation firms and as much a part of the glamorous Fleance, son of Banquo, has brought a new dawn to Scotland, and scene as the studios themselves. As a newly minted partner, it’s in the process become a very different man from the lowly Rory Calburton’s case, and his career, to win or lose. huntsman who rode north to save his country.

But the seemingly tame civil trial turns lethal when Rory stumbles A generation has passed since Macbeth, but still there are evil upon the strangled body of his client’s general counsel. And the forces at work across the land. Civil war is imminent, and there are ties that bind in Hollywood constrict even tighter when the founder traitors at the castle gates. The witches who foresaw Fleance’s rise of the Harold Firm is implicated in the murder. Rory is certain the to power are watching and scheming once again. And there is plagiarism and murder cases are somehow connected, and with the turmoil, too, within the king’s own soul: urged to marry a princess help of new associate Sarah Gold—who’s just finished clerking for and strengthen his claim to the throne, he must choose between the chief justice—he’s determined to get answers. Will finding out Rachel, of royal bloodline, and his first love, Rosie, whom he left who really wrote the script lead them to the mastermind of the behind. real-life murder? With the rebels circling and his crown starting to slip, the time has come for Fleance to prove that Scotland is in his heart as well as in his blood.

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Lost Dog (Book Three) Alan Russell Mystery Publication Date: 6/7/2016 Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Detective Michael Gideon is used to being handed L.A.’s oddest cases, but his newest one assigned itself. When Gideon’s K-9 partner, Sirius, rescues a lost dog from a pack of coyotes, the duo tries to return her home—only to discover her owner is missing. Heather Moreland has clearly disappeared under suspicious circumstances, and the more Gideon digs into her past, the more he’s convinced of her abduction. As Gideon strives to help the missing woman, he is also troubled by the suspicious death of Detective Langston Walker, the leader of a support group for families of murder victims. The last time they’d met, Walker told Gideon about a cold case he had reopened, making Gideon wonder if the detective’s demise is the accident everyone believes.

In this third book in Alan Russell’s gripping cop—K-9 series, Gideon and Sirius race to save a young woman—and stop another killer from striking again.

A Lucy Hall Mystery

Journey to Death (Book One) Leigh Russell Mystery Publication Date: 2/9/2016 Page Count: 324 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A deadly secret lurks in an island’s history, buried deep but not forgotten. And it is about to come to light.

Lucy Hall arrives in the Seychelles determined to leave her worries behind. The tropical paradise looks sun-soaked and picture perfect—but as Lucy soon discovers, appearances can be very deceptive.

As black clouds begin to gather over what promised to be a relaxing family break, Lucy realizes that her father stands in the eye of the coming storm. A shadow from his past is threatening to destroy all that he holds dear—including the lives of his loved ones. A dark truth is about to explode into their lives, and that truth is going to hit them right between the eyes.

Girl in Danger (Book Two) Leigh Russell Mystery Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Page Count: 310 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Chasing a story, reporter Lucy Hall plunges into a desperate fight to save her own life.Lucy Hall’s first summer in Paris promises to be idyllic. She’s fallen in love with the city and enjoys her new job as an investigative reporter. When her friend Nina comes to stay, the girls look forward to a wonderful summer. But Paris is a city of contrasts and Lucy is about to experience its dangerous side.When an anonymous source promises her a scoop, Lucy can’t resist the chance to make her name. The deeply unsettling meeting with her informant indicates that there may be more at stake than she’d suspected. Returning home with questions instead of answers, Lucy finds her apartment ransacked and Nina gone. Lucy knows her friend is in danger, but the police are unwilling to help. When her informant is found dead, she realizes she may be next. Lucy has something the killer wants and he’ll do anything to get it back....

Stay tuned for Book Three in Spring 2017! 226

Signature Wounds Kirk Russell Military Publication Date: 3/1/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Grale is the FBI’s leading bomb expert and a member of the terrorism task force. When his brother-in-law, an entire platoon of drone pilots, his sister, and nephew are killed on the 4th of July bombing, he is sidelined to chasing down secondary leads, as he is considered to be emotionally compromised. But when his friend is accused of the crime, Gale takes liberties with his investigation and finds himself in the middle of a vast conspiracy involving Al-Qaeda, the commercial use of drones in the US, and the cartels.

Black Hills Franklin Schneider and Jennifer Schneider Woman Sleuth Publication Date: 10/11/2016 Page Count: 330 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When Brooklyn private investigator Alice Riley reluctantly travels to Whitehurst, South Dakota, to investigate an assault charge against her ex-boss’s husband, she discovers more than just a tawdry small-town scandal. A surveyor for the local fracking operation, the accused was leading a dangerous double life—shacking up with a prostitute named Kim and overindulging in Whitehurst’s deadly new drug, a powerful stimulant called “devil dust.”

Out of her element in this badlands boomtown, Alice joins forces with the street- smart Kim, whose connections open doors some in town would rather keep closed. Working together, they descend into the heart of the local drug trade, unraveling a decades-old conspiracy that reaches to the top of Whitehurst’s social strata.

As Alice comes closer to cracking the case, however, people around her start disappearing. With the case and her life spinning out of control, Alice embarks on a single-minded, dust-fueled campaign to expose the truth—an effort that will take her to the darkest places imaginable.

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The Sex Club (Book One) Secrets to Die For (Book Two)

L.J. Sellers L.J. Sellers Mystery Mystery Publication Date: 1/15/2013 Publication Date: 1/15/2013 Page Count: 378 Page Count: 299 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Rights Sold: German, Italian, Spanish, French, and Rights Sold: German Estonian

As a nurse and youth counselor at Eugene, Oregon’s Planned Parenthood When young social worker Raina Hughes arrives at a ramshackle trailer outside clinic, Kera Kollmorgan has endured her share of harassment from of town, she’s on a mission to protect a small boy from abusive parents. But fanatical abortion foes. But it only strengthens her resolve. Then a bomb when Detective Wade Jackson arrives at the same location hours later, his blast rips through the clinic, and soon after, a teenage girl Kera recently mission is far grimmer: investigating Raina’s murder. treated is found naked and murdered in a dumpster. Kera fears the bitter abortion war in her small community has reached a terrifying new level. The victim’s vicious death is a shocking event for laid-back Eugene, Oregon— and even more chilling when one of Jackson’s fellow officers suspects an elusive The sexualized killing of Jessie Davenport hits close to home for Detective rapist whose appetite is turning murderous. Jackson thinks he’s got a tight case Wade Jackson. Raising his teenage daughter alone, he understands better against the meth-head dad who menaced Raina, but the evidence seems to than anyone the predatory world that threatens young women. But he leave his suspect in the clear—and a homicidal sex offender still on the loose. never expects his grim investigation will lead to a teenage Bible-study What Jackson fears is that his new love affair with nurse Kera Kollmorgan may club, the dark underside of high school life, and even the halls of political be knocking him off his game. And what he never expects is to find an ally in power. Now he must confront two shockingly different suspects with savvy reporter Sophie Speranza, who may have stumbled on the killer’s shocking nothing in common—except a taste for sex and violence. As Jackson’s motive. But even as Jackson and Sophie team up to tighten the noose, their manhunt intensifies, Kera becomes a marked woman, stalked by a crazed quarry zeroes in on his next victim—ready to take his twisted game to the next crusader. And when the fates of the detective and nurse intersect, a world level. of righteous rage, sexual secrecy, and chilling obsession threatens to blow them apart.

Thrilled to Death Passions of the Dead Dying for Justice (Book Three) (Book Four) (Book Five) L.J. Sellers L.J. Sellers L.J. Sellers Mystery Mystery Mystery Publication Date: 1/15/2013 Publication Date: 9/26/2013 Publication Date: 9/19/2013 Page Count: 300 Page Count: 288 Page Count: 314 Rights Acquired: Rights Acquired: Rights Acquired: All Languages All Languages All Languages

Monday morning, a young mother disappears The scene is a bloodbath: Jared and Carla Ten years ago, Hector Vargas confessed to the after a doctor’s appointment.Monday evening, a Walker lie brutally bludgeoned and stabbed to cold-blooded murder of Detective Wade young socialite leaves a risqué lounge after an death, along with their young son, while their Jackson’s parents. Now, facing his own death, evening of drinking and never makes it home. teenage daughter barely clings to life. Detective Vargas has reached out from prison to declare Detective Wade Jackson, of Eugene, Oregon’s Wade Jackson’s boss believes a gang of his innocence. Armed with the shocking new Violent Crimes Unit, ends up with both cases.The carjackers has graduated to home invasion…and truth that dirty cops railroaded Vargas, Jackson missing mother is Danette Blake, a friend of the homicide. But there are other suspects in the must revisit the painful past to get justice for his family, and all signs indicate she may have fled mix: a bitter brother-in-law convinced the parents—and jail the ruthless killer. Meanwhile, the pressures of life. But Jackson’s personal Walkers ripped him off big-time, a young heroin Gina Stahl awakens from a two-year coma with a search for her must be set aside when Courtney, addict in forbidden love with the Walker’s chilling message on her lips: He tried to kill me. the socialite with rich, powerful parents, turns daughter, and the shady former employer who Now Detective Lara Evans must probe the young up mysteriously dead in a public place. was being blackmailed by Jared Walker. Still, woman’s desperate claim that her near death Pressured by the chief of police, Jackson and his with only inconclusive forensic evidence and a was not failed suicide, but attempted murder. team descend into Courtney’s wanton world, sole survivor who can’t remember anything, uncovering a handful of suspects with disturbing Jackson and his team are getting nowhere fast. As their investigations intersect, Jackson tangles motives. And so is Jackson’s personal life—as he duels with his estranged brother, hunts a loan shark- over money with his alcoholic ex, struggles to turned-philanthropist, and confronts his parents’ Although it’s hardly the first time a case has led raise his teenage daughter, and fights to keep long-buried secrets; while Evans contends with a Jackson into dark territory, the discovery that his high-pressure job from destroying his new relentless reporter, shadows a fellow cop with a the two disappearances are connected brings romance. Add the looming specter of dangerous reputation, and struggles with her him face-to-face with the last person he departmental downsizing, and things couldn’t feelings for Jackson. But the more dark expects. And leaves him wondering, Where is possibly get worse. At least until the only living revelations they make, the deadlier the the other missing woman? witness to the massacre vanishes—along with the resistance they face from a killer terrified of shocking truth buried in her mind—and the killer losing everything...and willing to stop at follows in hot pursuit. nothing.

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Liars, Cheaters & Rules of Crime Crimes of Memory Thieves (Book Six) (Book Seven) (Book Eight) L.J. Sellers L.J. Sellers L.J. Sellers Mystery Mystery Mystery Publication Date: 10/3/2013 Publication Date: 2/26/2013 Publication Date: 10/15/2013 Page Count: 306 Page Count: 294 Page Count: 308 Rights Acquired: Rights Acquired: Rights Acquired: All Languages All Languages All Languages

Outside a local bar, a man is drugged and When a call from his daughter, Katie, interrupts Fresh off the leave of absence he took following slashed to death with a scalpel. Inside a local his much-needed vacation, Detective Wade his ex-wife's tragic death, Detective Wade bank, a woman suffers a fatal heart attack after Jackson knows it’s bad news. As Katie tearfully Jackson's life is in upheaval. When a body is learning her life savings have been announces that her mom—Jackson’s ex-wife, found in a local storage unit, Jackson hopes a plundered.The crimes are as different as the Renee—is missing, Jackson suspects alcoholic simple open-and-shut homicide case will help night and day they occur. The vicious murder is Renee has climbed back inside the bottle that him get back on track. But when the victim is a case for Eugene’s Violent Crimes Division, but destroyed their marriage. But the truth is far identified as ex-con Craig Cooper—a former the more Detective Wade Jackson and his worse: kidnappers have snatched Renee and are meth addict who did time for bank robbery, the homicide team probe into the death of Rafel demanding ransom from her wealthy fiancé. The spoils of which were never recovered—it Mazari—an Iraq War veteran with disturbing very same night, someone dumps a savagely becomes quickly apparent that the case will be secrets—the more it appears that one crime’s beaten University of Oregon coed on the challenging. The same night Cooper is murdered, victim may be the other’s perpetrator. While doorstep of the ER. Jackson’s protégé, Detective a firebomb goes off in a bottled water factory on there’s damning evidence that Mazari died at Lara Evans, must identify the unconscious the other side of town. The prime suspects are the hands of his cheating wife, a phantom victim, then track down the assailant with no from an organization called Love the Earth—eco- Internet veterans’ charity—the same one that leads to go on...except the whispered rumor of a terrorists believed to be modeling themselves wiped out the heart-attack victim’s bank secret sorority. Meanwhile, Eugene’s new FBI after the infamous Earth Liberation Front. Fears account—keeps cropping up at every turn of liaison, Agent Carla River, takes charge of that the new group is plotting another attack Jackson’s investigation. And when Mazari’s best Renee’s high-tech ransom operation while bring agents from the ATF and FBI to town, friend turns up murdered in identical fashion, Jackson comforts his distressed daughter and among them Jamie Dallas, an undercover agent Jackson suspects a motive that’s deeper, darker, retraces the steps of the mother she holds dear. with a wild streak, and Carla River, an FBI agent and more devastating than broken vows and love But as the rescue takes a deadly twist and the with a complicated past. When Jackson discovers turned lethal. suspects seem willing to let Renee die rather a shocking link between the murder case and the than crack under interrogation, Jackson worries bombing, they will have to work together to that Katie will never forgive him if her mother is solve both crimes before they blow up in their lost forever. faces.

Deadly Bonds Wrongful Death Death Deserved (Book Nine) (Book Ten) (Book Eleven) L.J. Sellers L.J. Sellers L.J. Sellers Mystery Mystery Mystery Publication Date: 8/26/2014 Publication Date: 2/24/2015 Publication Date: 7/26/2016 Page Count: 320 Page Count: 331 Page Count: 286 Rights Acquired: Rights Acquired: Rights Acquired: All Languages All Languages All Languages

When a young mother is found murdered in a On a chilly Oregon morning, a policeman is found Detective Wade Jackson is in for a shock when derelict Eugene neighborhood—and her terrified slain near the homeless camp where he’d been he’s summoned to the police chief’s office—his young son is discovered hiding beneath the passing out blankets the night before. When sergeant has been poisoned, and Jackson’s been floorboards—Detective Jackson reluctantly takes Detective Jackson is called to the scene, tapped to lead the investigation. But before the the case. His own life is already in chaos, with witnesses point to a pair of mentally ill street Eugene Violent Crimes Unit has a chance to his runaway teenage daughter, Katie, still gone twins as the likely perpetrators. respond, two people are gunned down at a and his girlfriend, Kera, facing her own family licensed marijuana nursery. Jackson and his crisis. Matters get more complicated when the As the case progresses and arrests are made, the colleague Detective Lara Evans are on the case— orphaned boy bonds with Jackson, triggering homeless community revolts against the police, but there are more suspects than evidence, and unexpected emotions and compromising his and the chaos pulls detectives away from their the crime is baffling. ability to investigate. Meanwhile, Detective investigations. Tension mounts, and the Evans, one of Jackson’s most valuable evidence begins to link a series of sexual assaults Soon, more people are hospitalized, and when colleagues, is pulled off the case to look into the to the death of the murdered officer. The task Evans discovers a link between the poisonings death of a University of Oregon football star— force is quickly faced with a dangerous decision: and edible pot, she and Jackson suspect that the leaving the homicide task force shorthanded. As should they risk the life of another young victim product tampering and shootings are connected. Jackson works to solve the murder and find a to catch the killer? As the task force investigates new leads, it’s home for little Benjie, he soon faces devastating clear that the detectives are on a dangerous choices that threaten everything he holds dear. trail, one that forces them to question everyone—even their own team. But they’ll have to uncover the truth fast…before the next victim falls prey.

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Point of Control The Baby Thief

L.J. Sellers L.J. Sellers

Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 1/19/2016 Publication Date: 2/26/2013 Page Count: 356 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In her personal life, FBI agent Andra Bailey works hard to control As a thirty-two-year-old, single restaurant manager, Jenna McClure her sociopathic tendencies. But on the job, her cold logic comes in is all too aware of her ticking biological clock. Elizabeth Demauer, handy. a fertility-clinic doctor, helps her patients bear children—a joy she can never share. But these two women have more in common than Now two world-renowned scientists have disappeared, and the just a yearning for motherhood. When they cross paths, Elizabeth bureau assigns Bailey to find them and hunt down the kidnapper. sees not only the sister she never knew existed but the once-in-a- The agent soon suspects that a rare-metal shortage may be the link lifetime chance to realize her deepest desire…by any means between the disappearances, and that the motive is far more necessary. dangerous than she imagined. With the market in turmoil and prices sky-high, electronics companies and their power-hungry Together with her lover—a rogue physician and charismatic cult CEOs are ready to do anything—even kill—to keep production lines leader—Elizabeth masterminds the ultimate theft. But their going. carefully laid plans could be derailed by Eric Troutman, the heroic reporter who’s fallen in love with Jenna and will stop at nothing to When a third scientist disappears, Bailey throws caution aside to solve her sudden disappearance. And the more his relentless track the crimes to their source. But by immersing herself so investigation tightens the noose around Elizabeth and David, the deeply in the case, she risks letting down the defenses she’s built more their “victimless crime” threatens to become anything but. to contain the sociopath inside her.

The Lethal Effect The Gauntlet Assassin

L.J. Sellers L.J. Sellers

Thriller Thriller Publication Date: 2/26/2013 Publication Date: 2/26/2013 Page Count: 304 Page Count: 266 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Sula Moreno knows too much. Working in public relations at Prolabs Just over a decade into our future, America is a stricken country Pharmaceutical, it’s her job to put a positive—and profitable—spin where jobs are scarce, health care is a luxury for the wealthy, and on the company’s products. That includes the exciting new hope rides on the annual Gauntlet games—a punishing physical and antidepressant Nexapra, the linchpin in a corporate merger that mental competition where the victor brings not only pride but an will save the faltering Prolabs from going under. But when Sula economic windfall back to his or her home state. discovers the shocking truth about a lethal flaw in the drug, there’s no good way to spin the potential death of millions of consumers. In the 2023 games, former police-detective-turned-paramedic Lara Evans represents Oregon. But the contest’s notorious obstacles and Karl Rudker, the company’s ruthless CEO, disagrees. To safeguard cutthroat rivalry may be the least of her challenges. After saving a Prolabs’s bottom line—and his own place at the top—he’ll do government bureaucrat’s life—and literally dodging a bullet—she whatever’s necessary to keep the facts about Nexapra’s dangerous finds herself in the crosshairs of a relentless hit man. And when side effects secret, even if it means putting an end to more than another Gauntlet contestant is murdered, a stroke of bad luck puts just Sula’s job. And when the only other person who can expose Lara on the wrong end of damning evidence. Rudker ends up murdered, Sula knows her boss is playing for keeps. But she also knows taking on her psychopathic superior is the only Still, the games must go on. And with the country, the law, and a way to stop a fatal drug from flooding the market...and unleashing killer watching her every move, Lara must use all her strength and a wave of death. savvy to beat the odds, claim the prize, and win back her life in the most dangerous game of all.

230 Jimmy Veeder Fiasco

Imperial Valley (Book Three) Johnny Shaw Thriller Publication Date: 3/7/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Former Texas Ranger Arlo Baines didn’t come to the tiny West Texas town of Piedra Springs to cause trouble. After his wife and children were murdered, Arlo just wants to be left alone. Moving from place to place seems to be the only thing that eases the pain of his family’s violent end.

But a chance encounter outside a bar forces him to rescue a terrified woman and her children from mysterious attackers. When the woman turns up murdered the next day—her children missing—Arlo becomes the primary suspect in exactly the same type of crime he is trying desperately to forget.

Floodgate Johnny Shaw Thriller Publication Date: 2/16/2016 Page Count: 368 Rights Acquired: English and German

Andy Destra is a mostly honest cop in the most notoriously corrupt and crime-ridden city in America: Auction City. After discovering explosive information that reveals corruption within the highest levels of the police department, Andy is kicked off the force, framed, and disgraced, left to wage a lonely one- man crusade against conspiracies he can’t prove.

Andy’s investigation plunges him into a blackly comic maelstrom of one-armed gang members, slick pickpockets, criminal syndicates, hired mercenaries, escaped convicts, sewer dwellers, and one sinister ice cream truck. At the same time, he must contend with a mystery closer to home: the true identity of his parents, his most unshakable obsession. Understanding their past may be the key to Auction City’s future as it teeters on the brink of chaos. If Andy can’t solve this case, the Floodgate will fail…and his city will burn.

The Huntress/FBI Thrillers

Bitter Moon (Book Four) Alexandra Sokoloff Thriller Publication Date: 11/1/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

FBI agent Matthew Roarke has been on leave, and in seclusion, since the capture of mass killer Cara Lindstrom—the victim-turned-avenger who preys on predators. Torn between devotion to the law and a powerful attraction to Cara and her lethal brand of justice, Roarke has retreated from both to search his soul. But Cara’s escape from custody and a police detective’s cryptic challenge soon draw him out of exile—into the California desert and deep into Cara’s past—to probe an unsolved murder that could be the key to her long and deadly career.

Following young Cara’s trail, Roarke uncovers a horrifying attack on a schoolgirl, the shocking suicide of another, and a human monster stalking Cara’s old high school. Separated by sixteen years, crossing paths in the present and past, Roarke and fourteen-year-old Cara must race to find and stop the sadistic sexual predator before more young women are brutalized.

231 Two for the Show Rite of Wrongs

Jonathan Stone Mica Stone

Thriller Crime Publication Date: 5/31/2016 Publication Date: 5/24/2016 Page Count: 270 Page Count: 370 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Chas is a detective who doesn’t stake out cheating husbands, track Honor thy father and thy mother. down missing persons, or match wits with femmes fatales. Instead of pounding the pavement, he taps a computer keyboard. He can Stress is a constant in Detective Miriam Rome’s life due to her get the goods on anyone, and it’s all to make sure superstar Las heavy caseload. Now she’s facing an especially gruesome crime: a Vegas mind reader Wallace the Amazing stays amazing. Thanks to pediatrician’s wife has been brutally murdered, and a Bible verse Chas’s steady stream of stealthy intel, Wallace’s mental “magic” written in her blood is found at the scene. As the tranquil city of packs houses every night. Union Park, Texas, is left reeling, Detective Rome pursues every possible lead in her search for the murderer. But when someone threatens to call the psychic showman’s bluff, the sweet gig takes a sour—and sinister—turn. Who’s the clean-cut When a second slaying—and second bloody quote—seems to confirm couple gunning for Wallace with an arsenal of dirty tricks? Why that a serial killer is at large, Rome is forced to turn to her former does Wallace keep upping the ante instead of backing down? And partner for his particular insight. Father Augustine Treece had just how much does Chas really know about his mysterious boss’s walked away from police work, but now Rome’s request has drawn life…or his own? The tangled truth—of blackmail, kidnapping, and him back into the grisly world he thought he’d left behind. false identities—quickly becomes the biggest case of his strange, secret career. Working to stay ahead of the murders, Detective Rome and Father Treece must forgive their past to protect the next victim…a task that tests Rome’s limits when the killer hits too close to home.

The Billy Cunningham Series

How to Kill Friends and Bad Action Implicate People (Book Two) Jay Stringer James Swain

Crime Crime Publication Date: 8/2/2016 Publication Date: 5/10/2016 Page Count: 406 Page Count: 386 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Fergus Fletcher is a hit man. For five thousand pounds, he’ll kill Con artist Billy Cunningham is no stranger to the casinos of Las anyone you want. For seven, he’ll frame someone else. Pretending Vegas—he’s ripped off every single one. But his latest scam—a year to kill someone is a first, but Alex Pennan has stolen from the mob in the making—promises his crew their biggest payday yet. Billy has and needs to fake his own death. thought of everything down to the last detail…or so he thinks.

Fergus is looking for love. So is Sam Ireland, a private investigator He hasn’t counted on the father-son team of contract killers and part-time bike messenger. But she’s got her hands on a very looking to cash in on Billy’s head. Or his old flame, Maggie Flynn, important package and is in a world of trouble with the mob. Joe out for payback for her broken heart. If Billy and his team can pass Pepper, pillar of society and corrupt gangland fixer, will stop at themselves off as high rollers for a week straight, living it up in nothing—nothing at all—to intercept the package and protect his Vegas’s most exclusive suites and box seats, they’ll get their reputation. chance to make their VIP status permanent. It’s the biggest scam of their lives—if they live. Can Alex stay dead while his widow dances on his grave? Can Joe save himself before his stomach ulcer explodes? Can Fergus and Sam make it to a second date before Joe hires him to kill her? Welcome to Glasgow. It’s a love story.

232 A Joe Tiplady Thriller

Cold (Book One) John Sweeney Thriller Publication Date: 7/1/2016 Page Count: 400 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the feeble light of a London winter, Joe Tiplady walks his dog in the snow. He is not alone. Two men are tracking him, as is a woman with wolf eyes. Soon Joe will find himself caught in a storm of violence and retribution that he does not yet understand. Around the world, a chain of events is in motion that will make Joe a priceless target. A retired Soviet general hunts for his missing daughter after a series of brutal murders. A ruthless assassin loses something so precious he will do anything to get it back. And in the mountains of Utah, a brilliant ex-CIA chief wrestles with his religion.

In the shadow of them all lies Zoba, strongman ruler of Russia and puppet master of the world’s darkest operatives. Can Joe save himself from this dangerous web of power and revenge? Where can he run when there’s nowhere left to hide? Stay tuned for Book Two: ROAD, in Spring 2017!

House of Eight Orchids James Thayer Thriller Publication Date: 1/5/2016 Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In 1912, John Wade and his brother, William—children of the American consul—were kidnapped off the street in Chungking, China, and raised in the house of Eunuch Chang, the city’s master criminal. Twenty- five years later, John is the eunuch’s most valuable ward, a trained assassin and swindler, and William has become a talented forger. On the brink of World War II, China is in chaos. When William betrays Eunuch Chang and escapes to central China, a place of ferocious warlords and bandits, John begins a desperate search to save his brother, while Eunuch Chang hunts them both.

Caroline Auden

Doubt (Book One) C. E. Tobisman Thriller Publication Date: 8/1/2016 Page Count: 348 Rights Acquired: English and German

Meet Caroline Auden. The closer she gets to justice, the further she gets from the law.When Caroline Auden lands a job at a top Los Angeles law firm, she’s excited for the challenge—and grateful for the chance to put her dark past as a computer hacker behind her. Right away, her new boss asks her to find out whether a popular GMO causes healthy people to fall ill. Caroline is only supposed to dig in the trenches and report up the ladder, but her tech background and intuition take her further than planned. When she suspects a link between the death of a prominent scientist and the shadowy biotech giant, she cries foul and soon finds herself in the crosshairs. The clock is ticking and thousands of lives are on the line…including her own. Now this rookie lawyer with a troubled past and a penchant for hacking must prove a billion-dollar company is responsible for thousands of deaths…before they come after her.

Stay tuned for Book Two in Summer 2017!

233 A Jon Reznick Thriller

Hard Road (Book One) J.B. Turner Thriller Publication Date: 8/16/2016 Page Count: 332 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Jon Reznick is a “ghost”: a black-ops specialist who takes his orders from shadowy handlers, and his salary from the US government. Still mourning the loss of his beloved wife on 9/11, he’s dispatched to carry out a high-level hit. Reznick knows only that it must look like suicide. It’s textbook. But the target is not the man Reznick expected. The whole setup is wrong.

In an instant the operation is compromised, and Reznick is on the run with the man he was sent to kil— a man wanted by the FBI, and by a mysterious terrorist organization hell-bent on bringing the United States to its knees. FBI Assistant Director Martha Meyerstein is determined to track him down, and to intercept whatever it is Reznick was sent to do. When Reznick’s young daughter becomes a pawn in the game, he has to use more than his military training to stay one step ahead of those responsible. Meanwhile, he is the only person who knows the true extent of the threat to national security—and has the stealth and determination to stop it.

Hard Kill (Book Two) J. B. Turner Crime Publication Date: 8/16/2016 Page Count: 416 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A senior American security adviser is missing, presumed kidnapped for his top-level military intelligence. FBI Assistant Director Martha Meyerstein needs to track him down before classified information gets into the wrong hands. She needs Jon Reznick on board.

The former black-ops assassin is supposed to be on vacation with his daughter, but when Meyerstein calls, it doesn’t pay to keep her waiting. Her elite team is convinced that the missing diplomat’s expertise in the Persian Gulf points to an Iranian terrorist cell, but Reznick isn’t so sure. His gut instinct tells him they’re all wrong. Never one to play by the rules, he finds himself working alone, following a lead that everyone else has dismissed. But to Reznick, the suspect seems a little too clean…When the team comes under attack, the kidnapping is exposed as part of a much wider conspiracy, one far more dangerous than Meyerstein feared. Nothing and nobody is safe—and only Jon Reznick stands between national security and a campaign of unprecedented terror.

Hard Wired (Book Three) J. B. Turner Crime Publication Date: 8/16/2016 Page Count: 252 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When an ex-Delta Forces operative dies in a car wreck in Miami, the FBI dismiss it as a tragic accident. But Jon Reznick isn’t so sure—especially when he learns that his teetotaling former colleague was apparently drunk at the wheel. Reznick’s one-man investigation quickly enters dangerous territory when it becomes clear that this was merely the first in a series of mysterious deaths. All of the victims are ex- Delta Forces, and all were involved in a top-secret Iranian hit under Reznick’s command. Retribution will not be complete until Reznick is wiped out too. With Iran’s ruthless Quds Force hunting him down on US soil, assisted by a powerful Mexican drug cartel determined to increase its own foothold in the country, Reznick’s survival is a threat to national security. FBI Assistant Director Martha Meyerstein is not as keen as some government officials to sacrifice him as collateral damage, but the longer Reznick runs, the more audacious his enemies become. Innocent American lives are at risk, and only Reznick’s victory—or surrender—can save them.

Stay tuned for Book Four in Spring 2017!

234 A Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery

The Wilhelm Conspiracy (Book Two) Charles Veley Mystery Publication Date: 10/11/2016 Page Count: 249 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A prominent banker is found dead in an unsavory part of London. Hours later, the charred remains of another body lie on a beach in Dover. Both deaths—and their possible link—attract Sherlock Holmes. Then the Secretary of War summons the detective with catastrophic news whose consequences could harm the nation for generations: on the eve of war, a new British superweapon has fallen into the wrong hands. Holmes must recover it. Lucy James, an actress and Holmes’s recently discovered grown daughter, has inherited the family sleuthing skills. Despite her father’s objections, she insists on helping him find the weapon and solve the murders. Along with Dr. Watson, they follow the trail to Germany, uncovering a sinister plot that puts them directly in the line of fire. Featuring appearances from real- life notables Nikola Tesla, King Edward VII, and Kaiser Wilhelm II, this electrifying new mystery puts the greatest deductive mind of his era into a race to save the Empire.

Angela Richman, Death Investigator

Brain Storm (Book One) Elaine Viets Mystery Publication Date: 8/2/2016 Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like death investigator Angela Richman, but they also rely on her. When a horrific car crash kills a Forest teenager, Angela is among the first on the scene. Her investigation is hardly underway, however, when she suffers a series of crippling strokes. Misdiagnosed by the resident neurologist, Dr. Gravois, and mended by gauche-yet- brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Jeb Travis Tritt, Angela faces a harrowing recovery.

It’s a drug-addled, hallucinating Angela who learns that Dr. Gravois has been murdered…and the chief suspect is the surgeon who saved her life. Angela doesn’t believe it, but can she trust her instincts? Her brain trauma brings doubts that she’ll ever recover her investigative skills. But she’s determined to save Dr. Tritt from a death-row sentence—even if her progress is thwarted at every turn by a powerful and insular community poised to protect its own. Stay tuned for Book Two in July 2017!

Truth Lies Buried Lesley Welsh Crime Publication Date: 6/7/2016 Page Count: 422 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Drive. Keep quiet. Don’t touch the boss’s wife…Well, two out of three ain’t bad. Sam Riley leaves the army disillusioned and lonely, but alive, and finds work as a bouncer at an Essex nightclub. After defusing a particularly nasty situation, Sam is employed as a personal security guard for Monica, wife of local gangster Benny, and their young son, Brando. Seduced by glamorous, manipulative Monica, Sam is persuaded to help Benny find his way to a shallow woodland grave. But even as Sam and partner Joe leave the crime scene, the plan takes an unforeseen twist, and everything begins to unravel; Monica disappears, leaving Sam to babysit Brando, while every Essex villain lines up to take over Benny’s empire.

One killing follows another as Monica desperately clings to power, and Sam is forced to confront the ghosts of a traumatic youth in order to protect Brando from a similar fate.

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Fields of Wrath (Book One) Mark Wheaton Organized Crime Publication Date: 2/1/2016 Page Count: 306 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Following his ordination as a priest, Father Luis Chavez returns to the mean streets of his youth, hoping to put his past behind him. But the brutal murder of a worker in Ventura County’s vast farm fields compels Luis to return to his criminal roots in order to unravel a massive conspiracy. Teaming up with Michael Story, an ambitious Los Angeles deputy DA, Chavez goes undercover as a farm laborer to bring down an immense human-trafficking ring tied to one of California’s most prominent and powerful families.

Fighting to stay on the path of the righteous while confronting evil at every turn, Father Chavez finds himself in a battle of good versus evil, with the souls of hundreds hanging in the balance.

City of Strangers (Book Two) Mark Wheaton Organized Crime Publication Date: 9/6/2016 Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When a priest is brutally gunned down in front of St. Jerome’s Chinese-American Catholic Church, Father Luis Chavez is asked by the archdiocese to lead an inquiry. With the confessed killer already in custody, it looks like an open-and- shut case. That is, until Father Chavez digs deeper. As the killer’s confession unravels, Father Chavez teams up with Deputy District Attorney Michael Story to get to the bottom of it. Together, they discover a conspiracy leading back to one of the world’s oldest criminal organizations.

But just as the team is about to break the case, a mysterious virus sweeps through Los Angeles, sending the city into a spiral of panic—and Father Chavez into the heart of a mystery that could rock the City of Angels to its core.

Stay tuned for Book Three in Summer 2017!

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Deceptive Practices Simon Wood Thriller Publication Date: 11/15/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Do you have a cheating spouse? Has counseling failed? Want to get even? Then hire Infidelity Limited...

Olivia Shaw grew up poor on the wrong side of the tracks, but with her thriving real estate business and a solid marriage, her life finally feels stable…until she discovers her husband is cheating. Enraged, her sister offers a solution: Infidelity Limited, a firm that promises to rough up her husband and scare him straight.

Overnight, Olivia’s life is upended as she, like all of Infidelity Limited’s clients, is drawn into a dark web of blackmail and murder. Now, Olivia is emerging as a prime suspect in her husband’s death. As a dogged detective closes in, Olivia has only one option: take down Infidelity Limited before it’s too late.

The One That Got Away Simon Wood Thriller Publication Date: 3/1/2015 Page Count: 295 Rights Acquired: All Languages German, Italian, Spanish, and French Graduate students Zoë and Holli only mean to blow off some steam on their road trip to Las Vegas. But something goes terribly wrong on their way home, and the last time Zoë sees her, Holli is in the clutches of a sadistic killer. Zoë flees with her life, changed forever.

A year later and still tortured with guilt, Zoë latches on to a police investigation where the crime eerily resembles her abduction. Along with a zealous detective, she retraces the steps of that fateful night in the desert, hoping that her memory will return and help them find justice for Holli. Her abductor— labeled the “Tally Man” by a fascinated media—lies in wait for Zoë. For him, she is not a survivor, but simply the one that got away. With an unforgettable heroine, a chillingly disturbed psychopath, and a story that moves at breakneck speed, The One That Got Away is thriller writer Simon Wood at his finest.

No Show Simon Wood Thriller Publication Date: 6/25/2013 Page Count: 298 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Englishman Terry Sheffield has just arrived in San Francisco to start his new life with Sarah, the investigative journalist he married after a transatlantic love affair. But Sarah never shows up at the airport…When Terry reports his wife as missing, the police chalk it up to a new bride with cold feet. Then one murdered woman after another turns up, all with something in common: they had exposed scandals just before their deaths…and their names appear on a list that Sarah composed. As a journalist, Sarah’s exposed her share of scandals, and Terry realizes that she’s not missing—she’s on the run. To find her before the killer does, Terry must explore the dark recesses of his new homeland and rely on the help of some new friends. But as his search brings him closer to finding Sarah, Terry realizes she’s very different from the woman he thought he married.

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Accidents Waiting Paying the Piper Dragged into to Happen Darkness Simon Wood Simon Wood Simon Wood Thriller Thriller Crime Publication Date: Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/13/2012 11/13/2012 11/13/2012 Page Count: 362 Page Count: 295 Page Count: 133 Rights Acquired: All Lan- Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All guages Languages Languages Rights Sold: German Josh Michaels isn’t wanted dead or alive—just For years, the serial kidnapper known as the People spend their entire lives staving off the dead. That fact becomes shockingly clear when a Piper got rich by abducting children from San dark—but no matter the measures taken, black stranger runs his car off the road. Instead of a Francisco’s wealthiest families. When crime paths and shadowy pits lurk in the unlikeliest of helping hand, the man gives Josh a “thumbs reporter Scott Fleetwood gets a call from a man places, waiting to pull the unwary into the down” and abandons him to what is almost identifying himself as the Piper and offers an depths of despair. certainly a watery grave. Luckily, Josh cheats exclusive interview, Fleetwood jumps at the death…this time. But when more harrowing chance. But the caller turns out to be a fake, These eleven tales offer a morbid sampling of “accidents” threaten his life, it’s clear he’s a and the rash decision costs the life of the real the many forms and fashions of terror—from the marked man. Piper’s latest victim. subtle prickling of neck hairs at the kiss of a ghostly breeze to the raw-throated screams and Are his past mistakes coming back to bite him? For eight long years, Fleetwood has lived with feverish clawing of a desperate fight for survival. Or is something more sinister afoot? And how can unbearable guilt—and the enduring disdain of he convince his family, friends, and especially the entire Bay area. Now he hears from the real Witness eleven people torn from their ordinary the cops that he’s in danger? The harder Josh Piper—and it’s not for an interview. The lives and cast into twisted realities that test fights to stay alive, the more determined his kidnapper has the reporter’s son. But he doesn’t their sanity, faith, and very will to live…A pilot unknown enemy is to see him dead. And the want money…he wants blood. And he’s going to must land a crippled aircraft on an impossible deeper he digs for answers, the more chilling the use Fleetwood to get it. runway…A doctor feels far too much sympathy truth becomes. As his time and luck rapidly run for his deformed patients…A schoolgirl’s secret out, he must unmask an insidious conspiracy In the tradition of Harlan Coben and Gregg contract could cost her mother’s soul…A woman bent on making a killing—in more ways than one. Hurwitz, Simon Wood weaves a plot thick with whose pack-rat obsessions hide the obscene…For suspense and heavy with action. Paying the these and seven others, the darkness comes Nerve-jangling noir doesn’t get much blacker Piper grabs hold from page one and doesn’t let from within and without, subtle, deadly…and than Simon Wood’s top speed trip into cold- go until new debts are paid and old scores relentless. blooded murder and hot-blooded vengeance. settled.

Terminated Asking for We All Fall Down Trouble Simon Wood Simon Wood Simon Wood Thriller Crime Thriller Publication Date: Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/13/2012 11/13/2012 11/13/2012 Page Count: 342 Page Count: 119 Page Count: 343 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Stephen Tarbell needed that promotion. But Not every crime is committed with intent, but Hayden Duke just landed a coveted contract gig they had to go and give the job to his supervisor, each has one thing in common: the guilty party with Marin Design Engineering, largely thanks to Gwen Farris. Now Tarbell has had enough—and was asking for trouble. In “Making Ends Meet,” his old friend, Shane Fallon. Shane had drifted he’s about to put Gwen on notice. She has two Richard can’t stand the idea of supporting his away in recent years, only to resurface with a choices: give him a glowing review on his deadbeat in-laws anymore, so he decides to dream job for Hayden. The gig seems like a performance evaluation or suffer the remove them from his life—permanently. Matt is cinch until Hayden discovers that a key designer consequences. Gwen has already survived one ready to reform his brawling ways, but the group on the top-secret project has just committed violent attack, fifteen years ago. But even that he joins doesn’t turn out to be a typical 12-step suicide by walking straight into the ocean. experience couldn’t prepare her for Tarbell’s program, in “The Taskmasters.” “Protecting the relentless fury. Pulling a knife on her was just Innocent” features Nick, who fails to heed the The dream job becomes a nightmare when Shane the beginning. Like a sadist peeling the wings off warnings of his girlfriend’s possessive brother. takes his own life in a seemingly drug induced a helpless fly, Tarbell is determined to pick And with “A Gun in the House,” Leah refuses to stupor. The only clue to Shane’s death is an apart her life using every means of physical and move from her beloved home, leading to e-mail with an encrypted file he sends to psychological torment. The company’s security protective measures with disastrous results. Hayden. It’s a file people would kill to possess. firm says they’ll handle the situation, but whose These and six others send out the invitation for The police already suspect Hayden in the death— side are they really on? And how do you stop a disaster—one that’s gladly accepted. because of a bogus drug charge from the past— psychopath so consumed by hate he thinks he’s and finding anyone to trust seems impossible. the one being persecuted? The ten taut tales in this collection from Now Hayden’s got to risk losing everything… award-winning crime-fiction author Simon before he loses his life. An ominous thriller set in a world where Wood are rife with good intentions gone bad— workplace insecurity meets violent obsession, and bad intentions gone worse. Filled with jaw Simon Wood’s Terminated grabs the reader by -dropping twists and turns, Asking for Trouble the throat and never lets go. is a wild ride that will leave readers clamoring for more.

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When Shadows Come Vincent Zandri Psychological Thriller Publication Date: 4/12/2016 Page Count: 275 Rights Acquired: All Languages

As a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Nick Angel has seen a lot. But now he sees almost nothing after being struck with PTSD-related blindness resulting from the trauma of his last tour. In an attempt to put the past behind him, he travels to Venice, Italy, with his fiancée, Grace, to recover, reconnect, and rekindle their love.

Despite his physical and emotional setbacks, Nick senses something dangerously amiss in Venice, and his hunch proves right when Grace is abducted right in front of him. Because all he can see are horrific visions in his mind’s eye of the village casualties from his last mission, Nick will have to rely on his other heightened senses to discover what happened to his fiancée. To find the truth, he must be willing to open his eyes to the tragedies of his past and the ghosts that haunt him.

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241 Ben Corbin Series

Dead Man’s Rule (Book One) Rick Acker Inspirational Fiction—Legal Thriller Publication Date: 6/28/2016 Page Count: 368 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Chicago lawyer Ben Corbin has just launched his private practice when Dr. Mikhail Ivanovsky, a mysterious Russian scientist, hires him to sue for possession of a safe-deposit box. But when the box’s owner enlists the city’s highest-powered lawyer—and then turns up dead—the Russian confesses: inside the box is an old Soviet biowarfare formula for the deadliest disease known to humankind.

To make matters worse, a technicality called the Dead Man’s Rule now forbids the scientist from taking the stand. With no one to testify—and therefore no evidence—the odds against Ben seem insurmountable.

As the threat of a massive bioterrorist attack looms large, Ben and his team race to rebuild their case and rescue the box. To succeed, he’ll need all his wits and resources and Dr. Ivanovsky’s specialized knowledge—and both men will need to trust in a higher power.

Blood Brothers (Book Two) Rick Acker Inspirational Fiction—Legal Thriller Publication Date: 7/12/2016 Page Count: 380 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Attorney Ben Corbin travels to Norway to settle a dispute between Karl and Gunnar Bjornsen, feuding brothers on the verge of developing a revolutionary neural stimulant that could turn first responders into superheroes. But more than just the fate of their pharmaceutical empire is at stake.

What starts as a sibling rivalry takes a deadly turn as Gunnar flees with the secret formula and Karl finds himself in the crosshairs of a bribery investigation. As Ben navigates a web of intrigue involving the Russian mob, embezzled funds, and black-market deals, he and his legal team are targeted for violent reprisals. Whoever is behind the attacks, it quickly becomes clear that no one and nothing—including the miracle drug itself—is as it seems.

Will lust for profit and unbridled ambition drive Cain to slay Abel—or will the intrepid lawyer trying to save them from destroying each other pay the ultimate price?

Death in the Mind’s Eye Rick Acker Inspirational Fiction—Legal Thriller Publication Date: 10/25/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

San Francisco attorney Mike Webster does not lose medical-malpractice cases. But his stellar reputation and faith are put to the test when he agrees to defend Dr. Johanna Anderson, a brilliant and beautiful psychologist. Jo is accused of failing to prevent the death of Seth Bell, a senator’s son she was treating with a revolutionary technology-assisted therapy called the Mind’s Eye. The controversial technique provides insights into what patients are thinking and feeling and determines whether they’re telling the truth—so why didn’t it detect that Seth was suicidal?

As the case unfolds, a shadowy firm, Horizon Finance, sees a golden opportunity to profit by seizing the Mind’s Eye and auctioning it to intelligence services around the world. And Horizon will stop at nothing— not even murder—to succeed. As the danger escalates, Mike and Jo feel the heat of a mutual attraction. But when Mike’s loyal paralegal, Val, unearths evidence that could blow the case apart, Mike realizes he stands to lose much more than just a verdict.

242 Since You’ve Been Gone Christa Allan Inspirational Fiction—Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 10/11/2016 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages

One moment, Olivia Kavanaugh is preparing to walk down the aisle and embrace her own happily ever after. The next, she learns that her fiancé, Wyatt Hammond, has been in a fatal car accident. Then comes a startling discovery: Wyatt’s car wasn’t heading toward the church. He was fifty miles away...with a baby gift in the backseat. Her faith shaken, Olivia pores over the clues left behind, desperate to know where Wyatt was going that day and why. As she begins uncovering secrets, she also navigates a tense relationship with her judgmental mother and tries to ignore the attentions of a former boyfriend who’s moved back home. But when she starts receiving letters written by Wyatt before his death, she must confront a disturbing question: Can we ever know anyone fully, even someone we love? When an unexpected path forward—though nothing like the life she once envisioned—offers the promise of a new beginning, will she be strong enough to let go of the past and move toward it?

Disillusioned Christy Barritt Inspirational Fiction—Mystery & Suspense Publication Date: 8/9/2016 Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Nikki Wright is desperate to help her brother, Bobby, who hasn’t been the same since escaping from a detainment camp run by terrorists in Colombia. Rumor has it that he betrayed his navy brothers and conspired with those who held him hostage, and both the press and the military are hounding him for answers. All Nikki wants is to shield her brother so he has time to recover and heal. But soon they realize the paparazzi are the least of their worries. When a group of men try to abduct Nikki and her brother, Bobby insists that Kade Wheaton, another former SEAL, can keep them out of harm’s way. But can Nikki trust Kade? After all, the man who broke her heart eight years ago is anything but safe...Hiding out in a farmhouse on the Chesapeake Bay, Nikki finds her loyalties—and the remnants of her long-held faith—tested as she and Kade put aside their differences to keep Bobby’s increasingly erratic behavior under wraps. But when Bobby disappears, Nikki will have to trust Kade completely if she wants to uncover the truth about a rumored conspiracy. Nikki’s life—and the fate of the nation— depends on it.

The Ghost of Africa Don Brobst Inspirational Fiction—Mystery & Suspense Publication Date: 4/26/2016 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages

“A beautifully crafted novel rich in detail, adventure, and spirit.” —Robert Dugoni, bestselling author of My Sister’s Grave Together, New York City surgeon Paul Branson and his wife, Nicki, had a dream: to help the people of the African bush. After Nicki’s untimely death, Paul decides to honor her memory and carry on alone. In South Sudan, he channels grief into hope, caring for villagers and working to save Leza, a little girl with leukemia who has captured his heart. Meanwhile, Jason Quinn, terrorist leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, has deadly plans for the people of South Sudan. But he needs information to carry out his plot—information from research Paul did for the US government years ago. Quinn will stop at nothing to obtain this secret intelligence, even kidnap a dying child. Now, in order to save the ailing Leza and stop a genocide, Paul must go beyond his medical training to journey into a world of brutal terrorism and global intrigue. With only instinct and his faith as guides, how far will he go to save the lives of thousands?

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The Promise of Rayne Nicole Deese Inspirational Fiction—Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 11/1/2016 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Rayne Shelby has spent her entire life trying to earn the approval of her high-powered family, with the hope of one day managing her late grandfather’s prestigious Idaho lodge. But when she makes a mistake that puts her future in jeopardy, she faces an impossible choice: defy her family or deny her dream. The only way to fix the mess she’s created is to enlist the help of her neighbor, Levi, the apprentice of her family’s greatest enemy. And if Rayne gets caught crossing the divided property lines, the consequences will be irreparable.

Levi Harding has never forgotten the August night he shared with Rayne when they were teens—or the way she later rejected him. Despite his warring instincts, he can’t ignore her plea for help or the spark that’s ignited between them. But now, as wildfires bear down on their town and family secrets are revealed, their newfound alliance might just go up in smoke.

Love in Lenox A Season to Love Nicole Deese Inspirational Fiction—Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 2/2/2016 Page Count: 318 Rights Acquired: All Languages

At this point in her life, bravery is not a trait Willa Hart would readily claim. She believes her seven- year-old daughter, Savannah, who never knew her father and successfully tackled chemotherapy, is truly the courageous one. Yet after Willa has a fateful encounter with handsome young doctor Patrick McCade, her outlook—and her view of herself—begins to change.

Patrick, a thrill-seeking world traveler and temporary resident of Lenox, Oregon, sets out to show Willa the value of adventure, even within her tiny town. But just when their friendship shows signs of turning into something more, Patrick’s life as a traveling doctor calls him back. Will his last days in town signal the end of their journey, or will Patrick and Willa find the courage to transform a single season into a lifetime?

Untitled Varina Denman Inspirational Fiction—Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 5/2/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

After her husband divorces her, Kennedy Ross’s fragile self-esteem takes a nosedive, and she returns to her small hometown in Texas to start over. When she takes a job as a receptionist in the counseling office of an old friend, Graham Harper, she’s determined not to heed his unsolicited advice. Even though he’s a licensed professional counselor, she still thinks of him as the gangly teenager from their high school days. However, she follows his suggestion and joins a support group that meets at the local coffee shop. As she becomes comfortable with the group, she gradually learns to trust the women, gains confidence in herself, and reconsiders Graham. The two of them spend more and more time together, first at work and then privately, and eventually they decide to date.

However, before Kennedy and Graham can achieve happily ever after, Kennedy must learn to make peace with her self-image. Will she ever believe that she is good enough to deserve Graham’s love?

244 The Regency Spies of London

A Spy’s Devotion (Book One) Melanie Dickerson Inspirational Fiction—Regency Romance Publication Date: 2/9/2016 Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In England’s Regency era, manners and elegance reign in public life—but behind closed doors, treason and deception thrive. Nicholas Langdon is no stranger to reserved civility or bloody barbarity. After suffering a battlefield injury, the wealthy, well-connected British officer returns home to heal—and to fulfill a dying soldier’s last wish by delivering his coded diary.

At the home of the Wilherns, one of England’s most powerful families, Langdon attends a lavish ball where he meets their beautiful and intelligent ward, Julia Grey. Determined to maintain propriety, he keeps his distance—until the diary is stolen and all clues lead to Julia’s guardian. As Langdon traces an evil plot that could be the nation’s undoing, he grows ever more intrigued by the lovely young woman. And when Julia realizes that England—and the man she is falling in love with—needs her help, she finds herself caught in the fray. Will the two succumb to their attraction while fighting to save their country?

A Viscount’s Avoidance (Book Two) Melanie Dickerson Inspirational Fiction—Regency Romance Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Leorah has always been a free-spirited tomboy at heart, but now she must adhere to the strictures of society’s rules. When she meets the uptight viscount Lord Withinghall, she dislikes him immediately, and the feeling is mutual. As a Member of Parliament, his reputation must be above reproach, and he is horrified by the possibility of scandal. He sees Leorah as reckless, just the sort of girl he should take pains to stay away from. But when, during a shared carriage ride, their carriage overturns and Lord Withinghall is badly injured, his fear is realized. Leorah and Lord Withinghall are found trapped in the overturned carriage alone together, and both their reputations are in danger of being ruined, especially when Withinghall’s nemesis, Pinegar, is the one to find them.

Withinghall’s leg is badly broken, so he is forced to spend several weeks at Leorah’s family estate while he recovers. When rumors about the “couple” become rampant, Withinghall offers to marry Leorah to prevent a scandal. Leorah is horrified at the thought of being saddled with a grumpy, rule-following, uptight husband, so she refuses him. Meanwhile, they learn that Withinghall’s carriage was tampered with, which is why it overturned. Someone tried to kill him.

Although alarmed by the attack on Withinghall and herself, Leorah’s biggest fear is ending up in the kind of cold, in-name-only marriage that is all too common among the upper classes. But when Withinghall shows a more passionate and courageous nature than Leorah ever imagined, is it time to set aside her prejudices against him? Or has she lost him forever?

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Emerald Isle Melanie Dobson Inspirational Fiction—Historical Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 10/3/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Ember Lavigne’s grandfather died in 1962—or at least, that’s what Ember, an impulsive glass artist from Tennessee, has been told for the past twenty-four years of her life. When she discovers an album with pictures of her grandparents along with a 1965 newspaper article about her grandfather—an artist named Curtis Bray—Ember asks her grandmother for the truth, but Debra refuses to talk about her husband. After meeting with a new client in London, Ember travels to the Lake District in England to search for answers, and she slowly begins to unravel the story of a poor artist who struck gold and then squandered it.

After locating Emerald Isle, her grandfather’s abandoned amusement park, Ember discovers that someone else is trying to find Curtis Bray, too. With the help of an archaeologist named Mason Nickels, she begins to uncover the story behind her grandfather’s success and demise—along with a tangled web of love, greed, and hidden treasure. Just like the beauty and power of glass, Ember ultimately seeks the beauty and power of restoration between her grandparents and the two families torn apart by a lie.

Beneath a Golden Veil Melanie Dobson Inspirational Fiction—Historical Women’s Fiction/Romance Publication Date: 11/8/2016 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

As elegant as the Sacramento residence she operates, Isabelle Labrie keeps her past concealed, like the treasure she hides under the Golden Hotel. It’s 1853, the heyday of the California Gold Rush. Isabelle is full of hope, staking her claim on the city’s refined clientele, and her future on a sweetheart’s promise to marry her when he returns from the gold fields. Then, unexpected guests—fugitive slaves seeking safe passage to the North—force her to face her past and reconsider her path.

While Isabelle learns to trust God’s provisions, a law student in Virginia must confront his father’s cruelty and rescue a young slave from his family’s tobacco plantation. As the two escape to freedom, and Isabelle risks everything to harbor runaway slaves, the past and present are set on an inevitable collision course— one that reveals hidden treasures of the heart.

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Collision of the Heart Laurie Alice Eakes Inspirational Fiction—Historical Romance Publication Date: 8/23/2016 Page Count: 210 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Mia Roper isn’t a typical nineteenth-century woman. Refusing to pass up the hard- won opportunity to prove herself as a journalist, she left Hillsdale, Michigan, hoping in vain that Ayden Goswell would follow her to Boston.

When the train bringing her back for her first major story crashes in a snowstorm outside town, Mia is stranded. Not even the survival of a fellow passenger, a toddler, can ease her heart’s sudden ache at seeing Ayden, now a history professor at the local college, courting someone else.

Ayden’s never gotten over the fact that the most fascinating woman he ever met chose her career over marriage…and he let her go. But marrying the department director’s daughter could at least guarantee him a permanent job. It’s a satisfactory arrangement, yet his kind, pretty bride-to-be has one simple flaw: she’s not Mia.

As soon as the trains are running, Mia will be leaving again, unless she and Ayden can reconcile ambition and love—and take a leap of faith together.

The Honorable Heir Laurie Alice Eakes Inspirational Fiction—Historical Romance Publication Date: 10/4/2016 Page Count: 192 Rights Acquired: All Languages

An American heiress and widow of a rakish English earl, Catherine has returned to New York high society determined to make amends for the scandal she caused when she crossed the Atlantic to elope with her best friend’s suitor and win the title of Lady Bisterne. But a ruined reputation isn’t the only thing that’s followed her home: Lord Tristram Wolfe, the rightful heir to the Bisterne estate, has vowed to track down his family’s stolen jewels—gems he’s certain Catherine stole.

Catherine has more to think about than charming, handsome Tristram and his accusations, even if he’s beginning to change her mind about never returning to England. Back at her family’s Tuxedo Park estate, she resolves to restore her honor by earning the forgiveness of her best friend and protecting her younger sister from other fortune-seeking Englishmen with dubious titles, all while abiding by the etiquette of the Gilded Age.

Yet when Tristram’s quest takes a dangerous turn, she must decide whether to follow the rules or save her accuser’s life.

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My Enemy, My Heart (Book One) Laurie Alice Eakes Inspirational Fiction—Historical Publication Date: 11/15/2016 Page Count: 390 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The sea is Deirdre MacKenzie’s home, and the crew of her father’s Baltimore clipper is the only family she loves. She’s happier wearing breeches and climbing the rigging of the Maid of Alexandria than donning a dress and learning to curtsy. But when the War of 1812 erupts, the ship is captured by a British privateer, leaving her father, the captain, dead. Deirdre watches her crew herded into the hold, destined for the notorious Dartmoor prison in England. Though her fate as a noncombatant is uncertain, she knows she must find a way to free her crew. Kieran Ashford has caused his family one too many scandals. On his way to exile in America, he is waylaid by the declaration of war and a chance to turn privateer and make his own fortune. But he regrets his actions as soon as the rich prize is secured. Now his best chance at redeeming himself in the eyes of his family is to offer Deirdre the protection of his name in marriage. But love and loyalty clash as Kieran begins to win Deirdre’s heart despite her plot to betray him. Will Kieran’s plan mend the relationship with his family, and can this fated couple find true love despite the secret lies between them?

True As Fate (Book Two) Laurie Alice Eakes Inspirational Fiction—Historical Romance Publication Date: 6/6/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

A companion to My Enemy, My Heart that also stands alone, True As Fate begins in 1813, then moves to 1815 Devonshire, England. The novel follows a love triangle, focusing on one of the escaped shipmates and prisoners of war, Ross Trennery; and Deirdre MacKenzie’s new sisters-in-law, Lady Juliet and Lady Chloe Ashford. There’s a case of mistaken identity, a kidnapping, and all sorts of predicaments—resolving in a satisfyingly good ending that will leave readers wanting more Regency Romance from Laurie Alice Eakes.

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My Hope Next Door Tammy L. Gray Inspirational Fiction—Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 9/13/2016 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Former bad girl Katie Stone can feel the weight of her reputation settle over her as she drives home for the first time in years. Feeling deeply guilty about her past mistakes, Katie wants to do the right thing for once. But the small town where she grew up is not nearly as forgiving as she’d hoped. Despite it all, she’s determined to help her parents cope with her mother’s recent illness, and Katie finds a surprise ally in the man next door.

Asher Powell never minded being the son of a small-town pastor until a recent breakup leaves him wounded by lifelong members of his church. He remembers his new neighbor as a mean-spirited high school troublemaker, but he senses that her newfound faith and desire for forgiveness are sincere.

Through an unexpected friendship, two people from different worlds find peace, hope, and a second chance they never dreamed was possible.

Faith Countryman Lori Hartman Gervasi Inspirational Fiction—Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Page Count: 280 Rights Acquired: All Languages

There’s something different about Faith Countryman. It’s not just her beauty, quick wit, or quirky sense of humor either. It’s that she’s divinely inspired.

Born under a crashing rainstorm on a ranch in Central California, Faith discovers her gift of healing as a young girl. But poor judgment causes her to run away with her boyfriend to Los Angeles. It seems like the biggest mistake of her life until a surprising turn of events leads her to a place she’s never heard of—a Victorian house in Cross Creek. When Faith arrives, she steps into her destiny, sharing her gift with love and a confident spirit. As she meets the town’s colorful characters—a handsome, heartbroken rancher among them—it’s clear she’s been brought here for a reason: to heal this community and to help them believe. The summer heats up. Testimonies are given. Change is under way, and plans begin for an old-fashioned tent revival.

Then a warm summer rain falls, bringing temptation and Faith’s deepest fears. Will she be able to trust in God’s love once again and heal the people of Cross Creek—and herself?

A Changed Agent Tracey J. Lyons Inspirational Fiction—Historical Romance Publication Date: 7/19/2016 Page Count: 242 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When schoolteacher Elsie Mitchell meets rugged William Benton on a train platform in Albany, it appears they have nothing in common. He isn’t the sort of fellow a proper young woman of the 1890s would ever speak to, much less become involved with. But when she arrives at her small town in the Adirondack Mountains, Elsie is offered a job as caregiver for this mysterious out-of-towner’s niece and nephew, who’ve been tragically orphaned. Heartbroken for them, she accepts.

Unknown to her, William is an undercover Pinkerton agent posing as a lumber-company foreman. He’s never wanted family—his work is too dangerous. Yet as Elsie transforms his house into a home and he spends time with the children, he feels drawn to family life—and to Elsie.

As a good Christian, Elsie is troubled by William’s secrets...though she does find him intriguing. And when a sinister figure from her past arrives, Elsie and William will have to trust in faith and newfound love to protect their unlikely family from danger.

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Tangled Lies Connie Mann Inspirational Fiction—Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 5/24/2016 Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Orphaned as a child in Russia, boat captain Sasha Petrov has spent most of her life adrift, anchored by only her loving foster family. So when they beg her to return to the family marina in Safe Harbor, Florida, for Mama Rosa’s sixtieth birthday, Sasha complies, hoping to put the past behind her. But Mama Rosa has other plans: she wants her three foster daughters to find Tony, the biological son who disappeared twenty years earlier.

Sasha agrees to try, but that’s easier said than done when bad boy Jesse Claybourne shows up, reigniting an old attraction. Back in Safe Harbor on a quest of his own, Jesse gets tangled up in Sasha’s search, and soon the two are close to uncovering an old town secret that some will stop at nothing to protect.

When Sasha’s dog and Jesse are attacked, they realize the past is hiding something more sinister than they ever imagined. Can they expose the truth without destroying Sasha’s family and breaking each other’s hearts, or are they sailing against the wind?

The Thirteenth Chance Amy Matayo Inspirational Fiction—Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Page Count: 298 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Baseball star Will Vandergriff knows any number of women who would happily pretend to be his girlfriend. In a last-ditch effort to restore his good standing with his team’s higher-ups, he enlists the help of his neurotic, goody-goody neighbor. Schoolteacher Olivia Pratt might be a bit quirky and a bit of a loner, but she’s a lot more inviting than she knows. Will hopes that bringing her to his next game might revamp his reckless reputation and help get his career back on track. The only problem? The plan works a little too well. Not only do the higher-ups love Olivia, but Will plays his best game yet. Suddenly his losing streak is a thing of the past, and Olivia is his new good-luck charm. Will feels anything but lucky.

After years of keeping the world at bay, Olivia Pratt is pulling off the ultimate performance—not only reluctantly posing as Will’s girlfriend but also insisting that she’s oblivious to his major-league appeal. But she can only lie to herself for so long. Being by Will’s side feels good. Really good. Maybe it’s finally time to make a pitch for everything she really wants—and to find out just how exhilarating love can be.

Trust My Heart Carol J. Post Inspirational Fiction—Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 10/25/2016 Page Count: 260 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Grant McAllister arrives in Murphy, North Carolina, with one aim: to sell his inherited property and leave as quickly as possible. The big-city lawyer has no interest in his late, estranged grandparents or the dilapidated mansion he just acquired. After his high-profile divorce, he should be avoiding perky reporters, too. But Jami Carlisle is honest, funny, and undeniably appealing.

After breaking up with her safe-but-smothering boyfriend, Jami is determined to ace her first big assignment. A story about the McAllister estate is too intriguing to ignore—much like its handsome, commitment-phobic heir. Thanks to her digging, the pieces of Grant’s fraught family history are gradually fitting into place, but also upending all his old beliefs.

The two draw closer as they share their dreams, until misread signals and misunderstandings begin to test their trust. But in the unspoiled beauty of the Smoky Mountains, there’s healing and forgiveness to be found. And for Grant, this unplanned detour may be just what’s needed to finally guide him home...

250 The Plain Fame Series

Plain Fame Plain Change Plain Again (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) Sarah Price Sarah Price Sarah Price Amish Romance Amish Romance Amish Romance Publication Date: 9/29/2015 Publication Date: 9/29/2015 Publication Date: 9/29/2015 Page Count: 242 Page Count: 334 Page Count: 348 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

While traveling through Manhattan on the way Amanda Beiler could never have imagined the Young Amish woman Amanda Beiler and back to her Amish community, young Amanda course her life would take when she happened to international Cuban superstar Alejandro Diaz Beiler is struck by a limousine. The limo’s meet Alejandro Diaz. After catching the eye of surprised the world by tying the knot. But for passenger, Cuban-born superstar Alejandro Diaz, the Cuban superstar, she hesitantly decides to the celebrated singer, time doesn’t stand still takes responsibility for her injuries and vows to leave her small Amish community in order to after the big “I do.” oversee her recovery. Leaving the fame circuit save it from the relentless attention of the behind, Alejandro returns Amanda to her family paparazzi. Away from her close-knit family and Alejandro must return to his life on the road and in Lititz, Pennsylvania. the familiar rituals of her faith for the first time, into the fray of a demanding tour and his adoring Amanda goes on tour with the famous singer, fans. After their brief period of marital bliss, the Desperate for a break from the stress of the and as she begins to see the world under new couple struggles under the media’s constant spotlight, the famous singer offers to stay on Alejandro’s care, she starts to appreciate life intrusion into their romance, and fights to the family farm for a week to help—an offer beyond the boundaries of home. Meanwhile, sustain the bond they first discovered at guardedly accepted by the deeply religious kin Alejandro is changing, too, and remembering Amanda’s Pennsylvania farmland home. When who surround and protect Amanda. As different what it feels like to be with someone who wants the paparazzi report a juicy story that could as they are, she and Alejandro find that a him despite—not because of—his celebrity. threaten Alejandro’s reputation and cause genuine friendship begins to blossom, along with Amanda to doubt their promises to each other, the realization that it might be something more. As their connection grows stronger and their the two face a hardship that may put their But if the paparazzi get wind of the superstar’s differences shrink, Amanda will have to make a budding union at risk. Can their love survive whereabouts, will they threaten the peace of difficult choice: return to her old life among the worldwide scrutiny and the distance his stardom the faithful community for a sensational story? Plain, or stay in the limelight with the man she creates between them? And in the glare of an unwelcome spotlight, and loves? with the unexpected feelings between them, can this couple build a lasting bridge between their vastly different worlds?

Plain Return Plain Choice Plain Christmas (Book Four) (Book Five) (Book Six) Sarah Price Sarah Price Sarah Price Amish Romance Amish Romance Amish Romance Publication Date: 10/20/2015 Publication Date: 3/29/2016 Publication Date: 10/18/2016 Page Count: 284 Page Count: 400 Page Count: 368 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Amanda Beiler, a young woman raised Amish, is Amanda’s husband, Cuban pop star Alejandro, It’s been nine years since Cuban singer Alejandro determined to make her marriage to beloved believed he was doing right by his wife when he Diaz’s limousine collided with a young Amish Cuban singer Alejandro Diaz work. Since they left her on her parents’ farm in the familiar woman named Amanda Beiler as she was crossing spend more time apart than together, she shelter of Lancaster’s Amish community. a New York City street—an accident that ignited decides to join her superstar husband in the Amanda, however, has other ideas. Unwilling to the couple’s cross-cultural romance. Amanda spotlight and accompany him on his South sit idly by and hide from the paparazzi, she loves her husband and their three children, but American tour. follows her husband to Europe for the start of his their fast-paced, lavish Miami lifestyle troubles world tour to find out if their marriage can be her. Will her kids grow up never knowing what Despite their deep love for each other, the saved, once and for all. it’s like to simply be, without chauffeurs, social pressures of maintaining Alejandro’s fame and media, and paparazzi complicating their lives? the media’s constant hounding begin to take a When the two reunite, it’s plain to see that their When she receives a letter from her mother in toll on the young couple. When someone from love is stronger than their differences. But as Pennsylvania inviting the family to visit for his past makes a startling appearance during the they travel together, Amanda is surprised to Christmas, Amanda seizes the chance to show tour, Amanda is forced to face not only the discover that her own fame is beginning to her children a different way of life. complexities of his hedonistic past—and the match her husband’s. Now she must struggle to unexpected responsibilities that accompany it— bridge her Amish upbringing and a new, unasked- During their weeklong stay among the Amish but also her own desire to return to a simple for role in the public eye. As other unexpected community of her youth, Amanda and her family life rooted in devotion to family and God. As tensions challenge their bond, can Amanda and will bake cookies and milk cows, sled and Amanda’s needs start to conflict with Alejandro keep their promises and make space crochet—and reconsider what’s truly important Alejandro’s obligations, the couple must for her faith, his fame, and a growing love? in life. As they prepare for their family decide if their love is strong enough to save Christmas holiday, they’ll have to make their new marriage. momentous decisions about their future and what “happily ever after” truly means.

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The Faded Photo Sarah Price Inspirational Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 4/25/2017 Page Count: 312 Rights Acquired: All Languages

From the bestselling author of the Plain Fame series and An Empty Cup comes The Faded Photo. This inspirational stand-alone novel tells the story of a woman who puts everyone else first and, upon discovering that she has breast cancer, is determined not to allow her diagnosis to impact her family’s busy life. However, she quickly learns that leaning on others is not an indication of weakness; instead, it is an essential part of survival.

Perilous Judgment Dennis Ricci Inspirational Fiction—Thriller Publication Date: 5/17/2016 Page Count: 496 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Federal judge Edward Lamport is no stranger to controversy and danger. Nine months into his tenure, he’s received two death threats and is under the protection of US Marshals. But when he receives a plea for help from a woman with whom he had a brief romance twenty-five years earlier, he must face a peril of a different sort, one that involves his long-lost son, Carlos.

While working for a bank in his native Mexico, Carlos discovers an international money-laundering scheme. Now he’s on the run from those who want him dead. To get Carlos asylum in the United States, Lamport appeals to his highest connections in Washington, only to find puzzling dead ends at every turn. Caught between law and love, he’s forced to take the matter into his own hands. With only his faith in God to guide him, how far is he willing to venture into the dark recesses of political corruption to save his son?

“A big story that pulls no punches and keeps you in its grasp until the final page. A masterful debut thriller.” —Robert Dugoni, bestselling author of My Sister’s Grave

252 Gilded Promises Series Journey’s End (Book One) Renee Ryan Inspirational Fiction—Regency Romance Publication Date: 3/8/2016 Page Count: 338 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

Having grown up on the mean streets of nineteenth-century London, Caroline St. James is used to fighting to survive.

So when her beloved mother—abandoned and ignored by her wealthy family—suddenly dies, the scrappy twenty-two-year-old devises a plan to right this terrible wrong. With nothing to lose, she sails to New York to find the man who turned a cold shoulder to her mother’s suffering: Caroline’s grandfather. To settle the family score, Caroline infiltrates her grandfather’s privileged world, hoping to sabotage his business from the inside. But as she sets her plot in motion, she meets Jackson Montgomery, a virtuous man who is struggling to recover from a family scandal of his own. As their friendship grows, and Caroline begins to piece together the motives that led her family to turn its back, she is forced to make a decision: Should she risk everything in the name of justice? Or can she look toward the future and let love and forgiveness guide her instead?

A Touch of Scarlet (Book Two) Renee Ryan Inspirational Fiction—Historical Romance Publication Date: 1/24/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

From award-winning author Renee Ryan comes the follow-up to Journey’s End. A Touch of Scarlet is an emotionally satisfying and wholesome historical romance.

Leaving Independence Leanne W. Smith Inspirational Fiction—Historical Romance Publication Date: 6/21/2016 Page Count: 370 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Abigail Baldwyn might not be a widow after all...

Ever since she received word that her husband, Robert, was killed in the Civil War, Abigail has struggled to keep her Tennessee home and family together. Then a letter arrives claiming that Robert isn’t dead, yet he has no plans to return. Desperate for answers, Abigail travels to Independence, Missouri, where she joins a westbound wagon train to find him.

Leading a company along the Oregon Trail isn’t part of Hoke Mathews’s plans. But then the former cavalry scout gets a glimpse of Abigail—so elegant compared to the rest of their hardscrabble wagon community, yet spirited and resilient. Through every peril they encounter—snakebites, Indian raids, fevers, dangerous grudges—his bond with Abigail grows.

Abigail knew this journey would test her courage. Now it’s testing her marriage vows and her heart, daring her to claim a future on her own terms in a land rich with promise.

253 Pointe and Shoot Alison Stone Inspirational Fiction—Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 10/4/2016 Page Count: 304 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Jayne Murphy has always put family first. That’s why she abandoned her dream of joining the police force to run her ailing mother’s dance studio. When one of the studio’s most talented instructors dies in a car crash, Jayne isn’t convinced it was just an accident. Relentlessly pursuing her hunch, she teams up with Officer Danny Nolan, the best friend and partner of her brother Patrick, who died in the line of duty. Haunted by Patrick’s death, Danny has begun to question whether he should still be a cop at all. As Jayne digs deeper, suspects emerge, including the victim’s clingy ex-boyfriend and a jealous foe from the cutthroat dance world. Her evolving insights into the case rekindle Jayne’s passion for police work. Danny, too, feels a renewed sense of purpose...and a definite attraction to his unofficial partner, which seems to be mutual. Now, if Jayne can only keep herself out of harm’s way, she and Danny both might get a second chance—with their careers and each other.

Maggie’s War Terrie Todd Inspirational Fiction—Historical Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 1/31/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

It’s 1942, and thirty-two-year-old Maggie Marshall lives in a hard world. Running a diner with only the help of pregnant, unwed girls has taught her to be tough. When her violently abusive husband is killed in action, no one could be more relieved than Maggie. Charlotte Penfield, seventeen and pregnant, has been exiled by her wealthy parents to work for Maggie Marshall—the most unfeeling woman Charlotte has ever met. While Maggie attends her husband’s funeral, Charlotte runs away to find her baby’s father. Rev. Reuben Fennel sees things others don’t. He should know by now that when God’s instructions are not followed, they will haunt him for life. When Maggie seeks his help in locating a runaway pregnant girl, Reuben embarks on a cross-country chase, though it may cost him his job and reputation. Independent and stubborn, Maggie is determined to make her own way and care for Charlotte and her baby. But when her restaurant burns to the ground, she learns that heroes sometimes come in unlikely packages, and love may be far sweeter than her humble dreams could imagine.

The Silver Suitcase Terrie Todd Inspirational Fiction—Historical Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 1/26/2016 Page Count: 364 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

It’s 1939, and Canada is on the cusp of entering World War II. Seventeen-year-old farm girl Cornelia has been heartbroken since the day her mother died five years ago. As a new tragedy provides Cornelia still more reason to reject her parents’ faith, a mysterious visitor appears in her hour of desperation. Alone and carrying a heavy secret, she makes a desperate choice that will haunt her for years to come. Never telling a soul, Cornelia pours out the painful events of the war in her diary. Many decades later, Cornelia’s granddaughter, Benita, is in the midst of her own crisis, experiencing several losses in the same week, including the grandmother she adored. The resulting emotional and financial stress takes its toll on her and her husband, Ken, who is unemployed. On the brink of divorce, Benita discovers Cornelia’s diary. Now the secrets of her grandmother’s past will lead Benita on an unexpected journey of healing, reunion, and faith.

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255 The Book of You: Discover God’s Plan and Transform Your Future Terrell Fletcher Nonfiction—Personal Growth Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Page Count: 180 Rights Acquired: All Languages

“I know how intimidating it can be to adopt a whole new outlook on life—I’ve done it.” When former NFL running back Terrell Fletcher first left his football career, he found himself at a crossroads. His job, his friends, and his very identity had been tied to the sport; and it was time to reenvision his life. Thus began a courageous journey to find a new path—and a new purpose. In The Book of You, the author shares his own transformation of faith to help illustrate broader truths about God’s intentions for you. By confronting your past and acknowledging your potential, you can discover your innate gifts. Learn to read God’s signs, and find the motivation to choose transformation over change. This guidebook for self-discovery can help you achieve true authenticity and meaning—the keys to lifelong happiness. Join Terrell Fletcher on this sometimes surprising, sometimes formidable, always sincere quest to discover lasting significance in your life.

The Problem of Prayer...And The Promise That Changes Everything Cherie Hill Nonfiction—Christian Living Publication Date: 12/13/2016 Page Count: 200 Rights Acquired: All Languages

You pray and pray, pouring your heart out to God. You ask for grace, for answers, for something. And then...nothing. You ask yourself if God cares, or if He even exists. The Problem of Prayer addresses the toughest dilemma every Christian faces: doubt. The world has conditioned us to crave results, demanding instant solutions to our problems. But that’s not what faith is about. Faith in prayer is about surrendering to God’s will—seeing things through His eyes, not our own. During prayer, we too often focus on our sadness, confusion, and fear instead of realizing the moment offers us the opportunity to enjoy God’s greatest gifts: trust, hope, and love. There’s only one guarantee in life, and it’s beautiful: God is with you wherever you are, in your happiest times and in your darkest hours. In this encouraging, affirming exploration of our constant battle with unbelief, author Cherie Hill offers a deeply personal, compelling approach to transforming your own faith by honestly examining your doubt.

God on the Corner Andrea Raynor Nonfiction—Christian Inspirational (Essays) Publication Date: 5/30/2017 Page Count: 230 Rights Acquired: All Languages

God on the Corner is an inspiring collection of essays that invites the reader to discover the spiritual embedded in the everyday. It’s for the person who longs for a spiritual experience but doesn’t know how or where to begin. It’s for the woman standing at her window, searching to feel connected to something greater than herself; it’s for the man who’s forgotten that the world is full of Mystery and Grace. Each essay offers a snapshot of ordinary life—a girl peeling an orange on a subway, a man begging for change—little moments that come and go without much notice. When these same experiences are viewed through a spiritual lens, however, something happens. Suddenly, the Divine begins to emerge, as if superimposed on the image. God is always accessible. It is we who are often remote, uninterested, or too distracted to see. By sharing these stories, author Andrea Raynor hopes that others, too, will begin to notice the presence of the Divine in their own lives, sometimes hiding in plain sight.

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