ENSINGTON JANUARY – APRIL 2019 JANUARY January 2 New Releases February 17 New Releases March 32 New Releases April 49 New Releases Citadel Press 67 Backlist 78 Rights Guide 88 Kensington Sub-Agents 90 Index 91 Ordering Information 92 MOONDUST LAKE The Miramar Bay Series Davis Bunn From the internationally bestselling author of Firefly Cove and Miramar Bay comes a powerful novel of healing old wounds, surprising second chances, and letting the heart lead the way. Emotional and heartfelt, Moondust Lake is an uplifting novel about embracing all the things in life that matter—and never letting go. What to do with a life where everything he’s worked for is shattered? A top executive in the family business, Buddy Helms lives and works under the thumb of his powerful father. He’s proved himself time and again to the manipulative patriarch—even saving the company from financial ruin. Yet for six years Buddy’s waited to hear that he’s worthy of his father’s love and respect. Now, after another cold dismissal, Buddy’s slamming the door on everything he’s strived for. When his church counselor recommends a soothing tonic for his disillusionment, frustration, and rage, he grabs at it: the solitude of Moondust Lake, a retreat just outside Miramar Bay. Believing in others comes easily—it’s believing in herself that’s a risk… Category: Fiction Kimberly Sturgiss is a professional psychotherapist, whose tragic past has granted her a rare ability to gently release her patients from their ISBN13: 978-1-4967-0835-9 U.S./Canadian Price: $21.95/$28.95 self-made prisons. She’s well acquainted with the Helms family and the dark burdens that come with them. But the most intriguing challenge Rights: World of all is Buddy. He and Kimberly share more than she’s prepared to admit—the same emotional cage, the guarded heart, and the broken JANUARY 2019 JANUARY Pages: 300 trusts that come with being alive. Maybe it’s finally time that Kimberly finds herself, too—by reaching out to the man who’s reaching out to her. Trim Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Spine Size: 1 Praise for the Miramar Bay Series Pack: 36 “Fans of Kate Morton and Liane Moriarty will enjoy how this warm and well-crafted novel explores the Author’s Residence: Vero Beach, FL and limits of human understanding, acceptance, and imagination.” Oxford, England —Booklist on Firefly Cove eBook ISBN: 978-1-4967-0837-3 “Warm-hearted, wise, and wonderfully moving, Firefly Cove is a powerful novel of first love and second SALES HISTORY chances that will live in readers’ hearts for years to come.” Kensington Hardcover Firefly Cove —Family Fiction 1/18 (978-1-4967-0832-8) “This is ultimately a bittersweet story about the importance of love and friendship. Readers of Nicholas Miramar Bay Sparks will find it appealing.” 4/17 (978-1-4967-0829-8) —Library Journal on Firefly Cove “Delightful and magical…This novel is heartwarming from start to finish.” —RT Book Reviews on Firefly Cove “The emotional power of Firefly Cove demonstrates Davis Bunn’s extraordinary gift of story telling and solidifies his place as one of the great writers of a generation. Somehow, Davis has managed to pen an emotionally-layered love story with the pacing of a thriller writer. The result is a beautiful and tender story of sacrifice and romance, where the selfless purity and power of love heals two long broken hearts. KENSINGTON HARDCOVER I enjoyed it immensely.” — Charles Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Mountain Between Us “Lucius Quarterfield is a character you want to get to know. His story is fascinating…I’ve had other readers tell me they couldn’t put this book down, and I know the feeling!” —Delilah on Firefly Cove, A Delilah Book Club Pick Selection 1/18 (978-1-4967-0832-8) 4/17 (978-1-4967-0829-8) 2 KEY SELLING POINTS MARKETING PLANS • Perfect for fans of Nicholas Sparks and Jan Karon, this is the • Advance print and digital reading copies third novel in the Miramar Bay series, set in a sleepy seaside • Major publicity campaign including national and town on the California coast where people go when in need regional attention of a second chance at life. • Select author events • A four-time Christy Award winner, Davis Bunn is an • Print and online advertising internationally bestselling author with over seven million books in print in 21 different languages. • Satellite radio tour • Miramar Bay (Kensington HC, 4/17) was chosen as one • A MaryJanesFarm Book Club Selection of Amazon’s Best Romances of the Month for April 2017. • Early reader and consumer reviewer promotions via Kensington kLovers, Goodreads, NetGalley, etc. • Firefly Cove (Kensington HC, 1/18) was chosen as radio 2019 JANUARY personality Delilah’s Book Club Pick of the Month for • Blog tour and early online buzz campaign January 2018. • Social media advertising and promotions including sharable • This book has a subtle faith/inspirational element and will images, contests, and dedicated hashtags have cross-over appeal, but is aimed squarely at the • Feature title in Kensington Bouquet program and outreach mainstream market. to Christian readers • In a heated auction, audio rights sold for all three Davis Bunn • Special outreach and marketing to libraries and novels—with Firefly Cove and Moondust Lake sight unseen! independent bookstores In an even more heated auction, the large-print rights went to Center Point for six figures. KENSINGTON HARDCOVER More praise for the Miramar Bay Series “A heartwarming romance…this one left me grinning from ear to ear…It left me feeling uplifted.” —First for Women on Miramar Bay “In this heartwarming novel, bestselling author Davis Bunn weaves a spellbinding tapestry of loss, longing and second chances against the backdrop of an idyllic coastal town…Compelling characters transform their doubts into destiny…Readers are awakened to an uplifting truth.” —Simple Grace on Miramar Bay Davis Bunn is an internationally bestselling author, published in 21 languages and with more than seven million books in print. He is a four-time Christy Award winner and has received much acclaim for his novels across multiple genres, including historical fiction, inspirational, suspense and women’s fiction. Born and raised in North Carolina, Davis left for Europe at age twenty and pursued a business career that took him to over 20 countries all over the world. He and his wife now divide most of their time between the coast of Florida and the English countryside, where Davis serves as Writer in Residence at Regent’s Park College, Oxford University. Please join Davis Bunn online at DavisBunn.com. © Paul Wheeler 3 FRACTURED TRUTH The Bone Gap Travellers Series Susan Furlong When the mutilated remains of a young woman are found in an Appalachian Mountain cave, newly sworn-in deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan is forced to track down a killer driven by twisted motives in Susan Furlong’s second Bone Gap Travellers Novel… Not long after donning the uniform of the McCreary County Sheriff’s department in Bone Gap, Tennessee, ex-Marine Brynn Callahan faces her first official homicide. On a cold February morning, a lone cross-country skier stumbles across the mutilated body of a young woman. Sent to investigate, Brynn is shocked when she recognizes the victim as a fellow Traveller, Maura Keene. Maura held a solid standing both within the Travellers’ insular community and among the settled townspeople—a fact that makes her murder all the more disturbing to Brynn, who also straddles the two worlds. After her trained K-9, Wilco, digs up human bones, and then a scrap of paper scrawled with arcane Latin phrases is uncovered, Brynn finds evidence leading her to question those closest to her—and closing the case becomes a deeply personal matter. While trying to suppress local superstitions and prejudices, Brynn discovers that Maura was keeping a dangerous secret. And as the bones Wilco Category: Mystery found are analyzed by forensics, Brynn harbors the troubling suspicion that she knows who they belong to. Still struggling with PTSD, Brynn must ISBN13: 978-1-4967-1169-4 put her career on the line and her life at risk to find justice for a woman not unlike herself—haunted by her past, and caught in a vicious cycle U.S./Canadian Price: $26.00/$35.00 she may never escape… Rights: World JANUARY 2019 JANUARY Pages: 288 Praise for Splintered Silence Trim Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 “One of top 25 books of 2017.” Spine Size: 1 Pack: 52 —The Strand Magazine Author’s Residence: Champaign, IL “An auspicious series debut…Readers will want to see more of the intrepid Brynn, who must face her eBook ISBN: 978-1-4967-1171-7 personal demons as she tries to find her place in a hostile community.” SALES HISTORY —Publishers Weekly Kensington Hardcover Splintered Silence “Brynn Callahan is a fascinating new character on the mystery landscape. Battle-weary on the outside, 1/18 (978-1-4967-1166-3) yearning for closure from within, Brynn and her war-injured dog are characters readers will root for in a world where blood and kinship are as dark and tangled as the mountain hollows she calls home.” —Suzanne Chazin, author of the Jimmy Vega series Susan Furlong has been a freelance writer, academic writer, ghost writer, translator, novelist, high-school language arts teacher, and martial arts instructor. Raised in North Dakota, she graduated from Montana State University with a double major in French and Spanish. She and her family lived in Ohio, Massachusetts and Texas before settling in central Illinois.