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Book Club Fiction | 3 The Passion Against the Inquisition The Dragon Queen According to Carmen Marcos Aguinis William Andrews Marcos Aguinis Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Imprint: AmazonCrossing Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: AmazonCrossing Publication Date: 4/3/2018 Publishing Publication Date: 10/9/2018 Page Count: 548 Publication Date: 3/6/2018 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Spanish Languages Spanish

The story of an unlikely love between two A meticulously researched novel by one of From the author of Daughters of the Dragon doctors—one Argentine, one Cuban—narrated Argentina’s most celebrated novelists, which comes another dual narrative set in Korea. with impressive realism. was praised as “[a] stirring song of freedom” by Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. The Dragon Queen follows a young Korean They meet in Cuba in the midst of Castro’s American attorney in the present day and the revolution. Shortly before the advent of Against the Inquisition is based on the real life tragic tale of her distant ancestor, Queen Min, democracy in Argentina, he returns; she, of Francisco da Silva, a respected, erudite in the nineteenth century. The novel weaves a instead, remains in Cuba, free, but somehow physician in seventeenth-century South compelling contemporary tale set around a turned hostage. America who refused to renounce his Jewish growing conflict between North and South faith, and prevailed in countless debates Korea with a historical account of Korea’s last In a love story that is in no way simple, against the Inquisitors who jailed him over queen, a woman who bucked tradition and renowned Argentine author Marcos Aguinis a span of twelve years. Eventually, the took her own initiative to “speak for the spirit of shines a light on the challenges oppression Inquisitors realized they could never break da Korea.” and political upheaval present in otherwise Silva’s spirit. He was burned at the stake, ordinary lives. And through this emotional unrepentant, in the infamous Acto de fe (Act of journey, the reader leaves remembering the Faith) in Lima, Peru, in 1639. Against the universal maxim: “Love conquers all.” Inquisition was originally published in Spanish and is being translated into English by The Passion According to Carmen was Carolina De Robertis. originally published in Spanish, and will be translated into English.

One Night in November Seasons of the Moon (Le Amélie Antoine sourire du clair de lune) Contemporary Fiction Julien Aranda Imprint: AmazonCrossing Historical Fiction Publication Date: 7/18/2017 Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Page Count: 190 French Language Rights Acquired: All Languages, Publication Date: 12/1/2015 excluding French Page Count: 310 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Korean Rights Sold: English, Italian, and Spanish

November 13, 2015. It was a Paris night that began like so many At the close of World War II, a chance encounter sets the course for others—until a series of terrorist attacks brought darkness to the City of one man’s destiny… Light. Stirred by the tragic events at the Bataclan music club, One Night in November looks into the hearts and minds of all those whose paths During the Nazi occupation, fifteen-year-old Paul Vertune, the sensitive crossed that fateful fall evening… son of wheat farmers, prefers gazing at the ocean and contemplating life’s mysteries over toiling in the fields of the Brittany coast. One fateful A rebellious teenage girl in the throes of a crush. A middle-aged man day, Paul’s life is spared by a compassionate German soldier with eyes eager to chase away his buddy’s blues. A young gay student rejected as blue as the sea. When Paul’s village is liberated, an angry mob turns by his father, but discovering himself. Two new parents in need of a against their occupiers. The German soldier, near death, asks Paul to date night. They went out seeking love, laughter, and music—and then promise him one thing: find his daughter and tell her that her father the world fell down around them. loved her.

Using intersecting narratives, award-winning author Amélie Antoine As Paul becomes a man, he fulfills his childhood dream of sailing the choreographs the shocking attack and its aftermath, from grief and world, even as twists of fate steer his life in unexpected directions. But devastation to hope and healing. One Night in November was originally through it all, Paul never forgets his promise. published in French, and has been translated into English by Maren Baudet-Lackner. Beautifully moving and deeply profound, Seasons of the Moon evokes a sense of wonder at the mystery of human connection and the powerful ripple effects of kindness.

Book Club Fiction | 4 Whisper of the Moon Moth The Woman on the Orient Lindsay Jayne Ashford Express Historical Fiction Lindsay Jayne Ashford Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Historical Fiction Publication Date: 10/1/2017 Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Page Count: 351 Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 332 Rights Sold: German Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Large Print (English)

From the author of The Color of Secrets and The Woman on the Orient Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Express comes a poignant novel inspired by the Hollywood legend— Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous and the secrets of—actress Merle Oberon, famous for playing Cathy to detective, Hercule Poirot, she can’t neatly unravel the mysteries she Laurence Olivier’s Heathcliff in the film Wuthering Heights. encounters on this fateful journey.

For nineteen-year-old Estelle Thompson, going to the cinema is more Agatha isn’t the only passenger on board with secrets. Her cabinmate than a way to pass the time…it’s a way out. In 1931 in Calcutta, Anglo- Katharine Keeling’s first marriage ended in tragedy, propelling her Indian girls like Estelle are considered half-breeds, shunned by both toward a second relationship mired in deceit. Nancy Nelson—newly English and Indian society. Her only escape is through the silver married but carrying another man’s child—is desperate to conceal the screen, where she can forget the world around her. pregnancy and teeters on the brink of utter despair. Each woman hides her past from the others, ferociously guarding her secrets. But as the When Estelle catches the eye of a dashing American heir with train bound for the Middle East speeds down the track, the parallel connections to a major motion-picture studio, he also captures her courses of their lives shift to intersect—with lasting repercussions. heart. Soon, Estelle has a one-way ticket to London and a recommendation for a screen test. Filled with evocative imagery, suspense, and emotional complexity, The Woman on the Orient Express explores the bonds of sisterhood To get to the top, she must keep her Indian heritage concealed—and forged by shared pain and the power of secrets. so begins her new identity as movie goddess Merle Oberon. But just as her dreams are poised to come true, she discovers that her own family is keeping a much more shocking secret from her—one that changes everything she’s believed about her past.

The Storyteller’s Secret Trail of Broken Wings Sejal Badani Sejal Badani Family Drama Literary Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 3/27/2018 Publication Date: 5/1/2015 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 377 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German, Hungarian, Italian, and Polish

From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer story of the unrelenting force of maternal love, the power of healing, Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she’d fled years before. Since and the invincible desire to dream. she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life; and her Nothing prepares New York journalist Jaya for the heartbreak of her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. these women come together, their various methods of coping with a To assuage her deep anguish, she decides to attempt a rediscovery of terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay. sorts by making her first pilgrimage to India, her family’s homeland. Buried secrets rise to the surface as their father—the victim of Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya humiliating racism and perpetrator of horrible violence—remains becomes a fast and hungry student of the culture. But it is Ravi—her unconscious. As his condition worsens, the daughters and their mother grandmother’s aged and longtime servant, friend, and trusted wrestle with private hopes for his survival or death, as well as their own confidante—who reveals the story of resilience, struggles, secrets, and demons and buried secrets. tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother. And it is through that telling that Jaya discovers her own personal history—and the legacy Told with forceful honesty, Trail of Broken Wings reveals the burden of bequeathed to her by her ancestors and the culture she’s only now shame and secrets; the toxicity of cruelty and aggression; and the coming to know. exquisite, liberating power of speaking and owning the truth.

Book Club Fiction | 5 Fortune’s Daughters What Was Rescued The Silver Music Box Consuelo Saah Baehr Jane Bailey (Die silberne Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Spieldose) Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Mina Baites Publishing Publishing Historical Fiction Publication Date: 5/9/2017 Publication Date: 8/1/2017 Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Page Count: 334 Page Count: 386 German Language Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Publication Date: 3/7/2017 Languages Languages Page Count: 322 Rights Sold: German Rights Sold: German Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: English Faith Simpson is born at the dawn of the In the autumn of 1940, four children meet on a A captivating cross-generational novel from twentieth century into a dynasty that gives train. Behind them is London, under heavy German author Mina Baites about a Jewish her everything she will ever need—except aerial attack; ahead of them is a ship bound family divided by World War II and an her parents’ love and attention. Often for the safe shores of Canada. Arthur has inheritance with the power to bring them back misunderstood, she trusts few as she grows promised his mother not to let his little brother, together. up on the family’s manicured Long Island Philip, out of his sight. Pippa and Dora are on estate. Just twenty-nine miles away, on Lower their own: polar opposites, brought together by 1914. For Paul, with love. Jewish silversmith Manhattan’s dirty, crowded streets, Hope the adventure of a lifetime. But disaster strikes Johann Blumenthal engraved those words on Lee’s world is one of poverty and desperation. mid-Atlantic, and in the chaos, one of the his most exquisite creation, a singing filigree The scrappy child of hardworking Irish and children makes a choice that will determine bird inside a tiny ornamental box. He crafted Chinese immigrants has learned to fend for the course of their lives forever. this treasure for his young son before leaving herself, until a terrible disaster thrusts her into to fight in a terrible war to honor his beloved a strange, new world of privilege. As the years pass and the survivors become country—a country that would soon turn adults—forging their futures and falling in against his own family. When she meets Faith, Hope has faced love—they are still haunted by the events of enough loss to last a lifetime, and, like Faith, that night at sea. It’s not just what was lost that A half century later, Londoner Lilian Morrison she has built an emotional wall to survive. darkens their lives: what was rescued casts a inherits the box after the death of her parents. Compelled by the tragic bonds of very different long shadow, too. One of them has a terrible Though the silver is tarnished and dented, this childhoods, they soon forge a strong alliance. secret that they thought sank with the ship. much-loved treasure is also a link to an But when Faith’s father chooses Hope as his But a secret is just a truth waiting to be astonishing past. With the keepsake is a letter protégé, and, worse yet, both Faith and Hope revealed, and this secret could shatter from Lilian’s mother, telling her daughter for fall in love with the same man, resentment and everything. the first time that she was adopted. Too young betrayal threaten their bond. Caught in the to remember, Lilian was rescued from a tumult of World War I, Wall Street, union Germany in the grips of the Holocaust. Now fights, and changing women’s roles, these two only she can trace what happened to a family extraordinary women find that true fortune who scattered to the reaches of the world, a can’t be bought or sold. family forced to choose between their heritage and their dreams for the future.

The Night Husband The Heaven over The Estate in Tuscany A. J. Banner Positano (Der Himmel (Das Gut in der Mystery & Suspense über Positano) Toskana) Imprint: Lake Union Margot S. Baumann Margot S. Baumann Publishing Women’s Fiction Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 8/7/2018 Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Page Count: TBD German Language German Language Rights Acquired: All Publication Date: 9/5/2017 Publication Date: 3/7/2017 Languages Page Count: 330 Page Count: 366 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

From the bestselling author of The Good Love is full of secrets. But secrets are not Who could ever love a mortician? Neighbor comes a riveting new domestic- always filled with love... suspense novel. In an idyllic coastal town in The twenty-seven-year-old Allegra has little the Pacific Northwest, Marisa Parlette is living Lara is surprised to get the news: her Italian luck with men. Once she tells them her her dream. She’s engaged to marry the love of friend Cecilia wants to marry in four weeks, profession, they’re turned off. However, being her life, a pilot named Nathan Black, and and she is the maid of honor! The Hamburg her parents’ only child, she sees it as her duty become stepmom to his ten-year-old native sees the wedding as a wonderful to take over the family business in Frankfurt— daughter, Anna. opportunity to take a spontaneous vacation, even though she envisioned her life a bit and Lara loves Cecilia’s hometown of differently. But the morning after Nathan proposes to Positano, and, of course, her favorite hotel on Marisa, she finds her close friend, Lauren the Amalfi coast, which has been the property When her grandfather in Tuscany suffers a Foster, dead on the beach at the bottom of the of the Marconi family for years. When Lara stroke, she agrees to go there and take care cliff behind her house. She appears to have arrives and meets Cecilia’s charming brother of him. But she soon realizes that this trip has slipped and fallen in the rain. But Anna seems Romeo, her heart starts racing—a romantic nothing to do with her usual family holidays to know otherwise. vacation fling is just what she needs right now! under the Tuscan sun.

As Marisa investigates, she uncovers more Everything would be so wonderful were it not than one suspect who could’ve wanted Lauren for a long-kept family secret and Romeo’s dead. And Anna herself proves to be a catastrophic relationship with his father. As the mystery—is she really afraid of a killer, or is brother of the bride refuses to come to the she pretending? wedding, the situation appears to get out of control…On Italy’s stunning Amalfi Coast, love A twisty puzzle of a thriller, The Night finds its true passion and temperament, even Husband forces us to consider how well we if you need to climb a few cliffs. know those closest to us—or even ourselves.

Book Club Fiction | 6 Lady Jane Series

The Orlow Diamond, Book Three Grievance Sign of the Witch (Das Cloves Love (Nelkenliebe) (Die Orlow-Diamanten) Christine Bell Hexenzeichen) Anja Saskia Beyer Annis Bell Mystery & Suspense Nora Berger Women’s Fiction Historical Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Historical Fiction Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Publication Date: 7/1/2017 Imprint: Tinte & Feder - German Language German Language Page Count: 286 German Language Publication Date: 12/26/2017 Publication Date: 3/28/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Publication Date: 9/12/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 336 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Lady Jane and her husband, Captain Christine Bell’s haunting and A suspenseful work of historical fiction. A novel based on the history of the Wescott, are looking forward to their suspenseful novel draws readers into Dramatic and atmospheric, the novel Carnation Revolution. Wolf (a father and journey to India. The luggage is already the world of a grieving widow stalked by explores the dark side of the Middle a baker) lost his love when he lived in on board, and the ship is supposed to a stranger bent on stealing away Ages. Portugal. He never understood why set sail the following day. everything she has left—even her past. Marisa a Pasteleria (a baker) left him. Upper Swabia, in the year 1415: Then the famous Orlow diamond is After weathering the first year since her Emma’s life begins on the steps of an When Wolf is on his deathbed, he has stolen in London, and a Russian attaché husband’s death, Lily Declan is trying to abbey. When the chatelaine Magdalena two wishes that he conveys to his is the victim of an insidious murder. The move past her grief and find a place of takes in the foundling and says it is her daughter, Katharina. The first is that she first suspect is quickly found: Wescott’s healing for herself and her two young child, Emma’s future seems secure. marry her longtime boyfriend, and the servant, Levi, who had regular contact sons. But when a strange sympathy However, fate is impossible to predict. second is that she investigate what with Russian emigrant circles. Lady letter arrives, the quiet life Lily has Emma is raised by her father and step- happened with Marisa. Katharina not Jane and the captain are forced to rebuilt comes under stealthy, sinister brother, Ekart. Free of worries, she has only finds Marisa in Portugal and learns postpone their trip in order to prove attack. On her wedding anniversary, an a carefree childhood and falls head over the sad story of why she left Wolf (she Levi’s innocence. When the captain intimate bridal gift is delivered to her heels in love with the knight Wolfram. was in prison), but Katharina also finds a himself is suddenly a suspect, it’s up to door. Then, a bizarre home invasion But her love presents her with enormous new love in Portugal. Lady Jane to find the murderer and free shatters her sense of security, and a challenges, as Wolfram is a passionate her husband from his difficult situation. mysterious Facebook memorial advocate for reformation of the church Will Katharina fulfill her father’s last wish The search for the true person behind appears. Like a hungry ghost, someone and a defender of heretic Jan Hus. and marry her boyfriend—even though the murders leads her from London to seeks to claim her love and loss as their When her father and brother set out on he is not her soul mate? And will Marisa revolutionary circles in St. Petersburg... own, to erase Lily from her own life and a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy and Wolf meet again, one last time? possess her beloved forever. Land, Emma’s world starts to fall apart.

Strawberries in On a Cold Dark Sea In the Shadow of Summer (Erdbeeren im Elizabeth Blackwell Lakecrest Sommer) Historical Fiction Elizabeth Blackwell Anja Saskia Beyer Imprint: Lake Union Historical Fiction Women’s Fiction Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Publication Date: 4/10/2018 Publishing German Language Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 2/1/2017 Publication Date: 5/16/2017 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 284 Page Count: 302 Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

Strawberries in Summer follows two female On April 15, 1912, three women climbed into The year is 1928. Kate Moore is looking for a friends fleeing to southern Italy. The novel is Lifeboat 21 and watched in horror as the way out of the poverty and violence of her complete with Mediterranean recipes and tells Titanic sank into the icy depths. They were childhood. When a chance encounter on a the story of a summer full of secrets. strangers then… transatlantic ocean liner brings her face-to- face with the handsome heir to a Chicago Con artist Charlotte Digby lied her way fortune, she thinks she may have found her through London and onto the Titanic. The escape—as long as she can keep her past disaster could be her chance at a new life— concealed. if she hides the truth about her past. Esme Harper, a wealthy American, mourns the end After exchanging wedding vows, Kate quickly of a passionate affair and fears that everything discovers that something isn’t quite right with beautiful is slipping from her grasp. And Anna her husband—or her new family. As Mrs. Halversson, a Swedish farm girl in search of a Matthew Lemont, she must contend with her fresh start in America, is tormented by the husband’s disturbing past, his domineering screams that ring out from the water. Is one of mother, and his overly close sister. Isolated at them calling her name? Lakecrest, the sprawling, secluded Lemont estate, she searches desperately for clues to Twenty years later, a sudden death brings the Matthew’s terrors, which she suspects stem three women back together, forcing them to from the mysterious disappearance of his aunt face the impossible choices they made, the years before. As Kate stumbles deeper into a inconceivable loss, and the secrets they have maze of family secrets, she begins to question kept for far too long. everyone’s sanity—especially her own. But just how far will she go to break free of this family’s twisted past?

Book Club Fiction | 7 Working Fire Emily Bleeker Mystery & Suspense Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 8/29/2017 Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese Rights Sold: German

From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of When I’m Gone comes a compelling novel of a bond between sisters, tested by tragedy…

Ellie Brown thought she’d finally escaped her stifling hometown; med school was supposed to be her ticket out. But when her father has a stroke, she must return home to share his care with her older sister, Amelia. Working as a paramedic, Ellie’s days are monotonous, driving an ambulance through streets she’d hoped never to see again.

Until a 911 dispatch changes everything. The address: her sister’s house. Rushing to the scene, Ellie discovers that Amelia and her husband, Steve, have been shot in a home invasion. After Amelia is rushed to the hospital, Ellie tries to make sense of the tragedy. But what really happened becomes less and less clear. As Amelia hangs on in critical condition, Ellie uncovers dark revelations about her family’s past that challenge her beliefs about those closest to her…and force her to question where her devotions truly lie.

When I’m Gone Emily Bleeker Mystery & Suspense Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 3/15/2016 Page Count: 365 Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese Rights Sold: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese

A Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Luke Richardson has returned home after burying Natalie, his 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 for—a blue envelope with his name scrawled across the front in Natalie’s handwriting, waiting for him on the floor.

The letter inside, written on the first day of Natalie’s cancer treatment a year ago, turns out to be the first of many. Luke is convinced they’re genuine, but who is delivering them? As his obsession with the letters grows, Luke uncovers long-buried secrets that make him question everything he knew about his wife and their family. But the revelations also point the way toward a future where love goes on—in written words, in memories, and in the promises it’s never too late to keep.

Wreckage Emily Bleeker Mystery & Suspense Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 3/1/2015 Page Count: 305 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, and Turkish

Lillian Linden is a liar. On the surface, she looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she’s been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost two years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can’t tell the real story—so they lie.

The public is fascinated by the castaways’ saga, but Lillian and Dave must return to their lives and their spouses. Genevieve Randall—a hard-nosed journalist and host of a news program—isn’t buying it. She suspects Lillian’s and Dave’s explanations about the other crash survivors aren’t true. And now, Genevieve’s determined to get the real story, no matter how many lives it destroys. In this intriguing tale of survival, secrets, and redemption, two everyday people thrown together by tragedy must finally face the truth…even if it tears them apart.

Book Club Fiction | 8 The Tuscan Child In Farleigh Field Christmas on the Rhys Bowen Rhys Bowen Coast Mystery & Suspense Mystery & Suspense Rebecca Boxall Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Family Life Publishing Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publication Date: 2/20/2018 Publication Date: 3/1/2017 Publishing Page Count: TBD Page Count: 398 Publication Date: Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: English, 10/10/2017 Portuguese, French, Portuguese, French, Page Count: 208 Chinese, German, Italian, Chinese, German, Italian, Rights Acquired: All Spanish, and Japanese Spanish, and Japanese Languages

From Rhys Bowen, a beloved New York “Instantly absorbing, suspenseful, romantic, Christmas is approaching on the island of Times bestselling author of more than thirty and stylish—like binge-watching a great British Jersey, but Libby is feeling far from festive. books, comes a new novel exploring love, drama on Masterpiece Theater.” —Lee Child, She’s stressed by her police work and role as loss, and finding yourself. The follow-up to #1 New York Times bestselling author vicar’s wife, anxious about her troubled Kindle bestseller In Farleigh Field, The Tuscan children; and now her best friend, Stella, Child is a sweeping and riveting saga set in World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the has suddenly turned against her, citing a the UK and Tuscany. ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his mysterious family grudge. five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After It’s almost a relief when Libby’s aged parents his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, need her help and she is able to escape her MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell own chaotic life. But then a conversation with is covertly tasked with determining if the man her father reveals a long-hidden secret is a German spy. The assignment also offers involving her family and Stella’s—one rooted Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham’s in love, loyalty, and betrayal. middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. But Pamela has her own secret: she In the pages of her great-aunt Queenie’s 1941 has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British journal, Libby learns about life during the Nazi code-breaking facility. occupation of Jersey. She uncovers a world of illicit romance, of heartbreak and revenge, and As Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, of the dark and desperate acts people were which may include another member of driven to through fear for their own safety. The Pamela’s family, he discovers that some within more Libby immerses herself in Jersey’s the realm have an appalling, history-altering history, the more she understands why its agenda. Can he, with Pamela’s help, stop secrets still haunt her family and friends. But them before England falls? can the mistakes of the past ever be undone?

The Lost Love Letters of Henri Paris Still Life Show Me a Kindness Wish Me Home Fournier Rosalind Brackenbury Nancy Brandon Kay Bratt Rosalind Brackenbury Family Life Historical Fiction Family Life Historical Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 1/1/2018 Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Publication Date: 3/21/2017 Publication Date: 6/12/2018 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 270 Page Count: 302 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German

In 1975, a young Sebastian Fowler After the death of her art-dealer father, Deeply moving and exquisitely wrought, In her first work of contemporary interviews Pauline, an elderly lady in forty-year-old Gaby Greenwood’s grief Show Me a Kindness is a novel of love, women’s fiction, bestselling author Kay Paris who was the lover of the French drives her to Paris alone, leaving her survival, and hiding in plain sight. Bratt draws on her own life experiences writer Henri Alain-Fournier. Pauline, American husband behind. Where better to create a raw, yet inescapably warm, known in the world of the theater as for an existential crisis than the city so novel about friendship and a wary Madame Simone, is warmed and many artists have loved? As America plunges into the Great heart’s unexpected capacity to love. enchanted in her old age by this twenty- Depression, Marthanne Hendrix finds five-year-old who looks startlingly like Walking through the streets, she sees a herself in rural Vidalia, Georgia, with no A stray dog is the last thing Cara Butter her lost lover. She met Henri for the first man with white hair and a worn corduroy memory of how she got there. needs. Stranded in Georgia with only time in 1912, and even though she was jacket—a dead ringer for her late father. her backpack and a few dwindling married, they became lovers and A ghost? Or has mourning driven her Bewildered when the neighbors call dollars, she already has too much planned to marry after the war. mad? Then she receives a letter from a her Oma, Marthanne is haunted by baggage. After a lifetime of family woman she never knew existed—her memories of another life—and another troubles, and bouncing from one foster In 2013, Sebastian, newly widowed at father’s lover of three decades. The self. With the help of Comfort, a home to another, Cara decides to leave age sixty-three and raw with grief at the mysterious Françoise has been domestic worker living with her own it all behind and strike out on foot. loss of his wife, Annie, is asked to go to entrusted with her father’s last gift to tremendous loss, Marthanne discovers a house in rural France to examine a Gaby, a valuable seventeenth-century that Oma is another distinct personality Cara sets off to Florida to see Ernest newly discovered manuscript of still life. The woman is also the bearer of inhabiting her body. In a time when Hemingway’s home, accompanied by Fournier’s and is welcomed there by the many of her father’s secrets. mental illness is taboo, Marthanne and Hemi, the dog who proves to be the writer’s great-niece, Isa. Oma’s simple small-town life is fraught perfect travel companion. But the trip Gaby takes a French lover of her own, with complexity and danger. takes unexpected turns as strangers These three entwined stories weave a and starts to question everything she become friends who make her question compelling tale of adventure, and love thought she knew about her life. everything. lost and found. Book Club Fiction | 9 The Valley Trilogy

The Valley (Book One) The Mountain (Book Two) The Sisterhood War Brides Helen Bryan Helen Bryan Helen Bryan Helen Bryan Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 7/19/2016 Publication Date: 7/17/2018 Publication Date: 4/30/2013 Publication Date: 6/12/2012 Page Count: 607 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 420 Page Count: 497 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages, Rights Sold: German, Hungarian, and Rights Sold: Estonian, German, excluding Norwegian Russian Hungarian, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Rights Sold: French, German, Spanish, and Turkish Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Turkish

The first title in an epic historical trilogy, From bestselling author Helen Bryan A love story and historical thriller, The An international bestseller with over The Valley is an unforgettable tale of comes the next novel in The Valley Sisterhood is an emotionally charged one million readers. hardship, tenacity, love, and heartache. series, a sweeping trilogy that traces the ride across continents and centuries. lives of a group of Virginia settlers and With war threatening to spread from Left suddenly penniless, the Honorable their heirs through 250 years of trials Menina Walker was a child of fortune. Europe to England, the sleepy village of Sophia Grafton, a viscount’s orphaned and triumphs. Rescued after a hurricane in South Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort daughter, sails to the New World to America, doomed to a life of poverty, the of normal: Evacuees from London are claim the only property left to her name: In a historically detailed tale stretching orphaned toddler was adopted by an billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids a tobacco plantation in the remote wilds all the way to modern America, love American family and taken to a new life. become grimly mundane. The tightening of colonial Virginia. Enlisting the blossoms, friendships are formed, and vice of rationing curtails every comfort. reluctant assistance of a handsome strength is found in the most unexpected As a beautiful woman of nineteen, she is Men leave to fight and die. And five young French spy—at gunpoint—she places. in love, engaged, and excited about the women forge an unlikely bond of gathers an unlikely group of escaped future—until another traumatic event friendship that will change their lives slaves and indentured servants, each Stay tuned for the third book in the shatters her dreams. Menina flees to forever. seeking their own safe haven in the Valley Trilogy, The River, which will Spain to bury her misery in research for untamed New World. What follows be released in 2020! her college thesis about a sixteenth- As the war and its relentless hardships will test her courage and that of her century artist who signed his works with intensify around them, the same companions as they struggle to survive the image of a swallow—the same as struggles that threaten to rip apart their a journey deep into a hostile wilderness. the image on Menina’s family medal. lives also bring the five closer together.

Something Like Family In the Light of the Camino Beach Heather Burch Garden Amanda Callendrier Women’s Fiction Heather Burch Chick Lit Imprint: Lake Union Family Life Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 9/12/2017 Publishing Publication Date: 5/16/2017 Page Count: 318 Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Rights Sold: Turkish

Abandoned by his mother when he was A novel about unearthed family secrets, the In this poignant debut loaded with humor, young, twenty-two-year-old Rave Wayne enchantment of past loves, and the indelible heartbreak, and southern charm, old friends knows all about loss. That doesn’t mean he’s power of forgiveness. road-trip their way to solving a mystery. used to it. After he’s dumped by the girlfriend he assumed he’d spend his life with, Rave is Inheriting her grandparents’ island estate on Sarah Martin had every intention of skipping longing more than ever to connect. Florida’s Gulf coast is a special kind of her high school reunion. Once a popular girl homecoming for thirty-one-year-old Charity and valedictorian, she’s now pushing forty, Then, as if by miracle, he receives an Baxter. Raised by a narcissistic single mother, divorced, and running a small bookstore in invitation from his grandfather, a man he Charity’s only sense of a loving home comes Nashville—not exactly an impressive life. But thought was long gone, to come for a visit in from childhood summers spent with Gramps Sarah’s best friend, Kristen, won’t take no for rural Tennessee. Loyal, honest, and loving, and Grandma. But piercing her fondest an answer, and she won’t let them return to dear old Tuck is everything Rave could have memories is her sharpest grief—the death of Briley High without Roxanne, the missing third hoped for. He’s family. Soon, Rave finds her beloved grandmother, when Charity in their senior-high trio. himself falling for a down-to-earth local girl, stopped believing in the magical healing and he thinks his life is finally coming together. power of the weeping willow that still casts a The beautiful and wild Roxanne disappeared shadow on their property. just weeks before graduation. But Sarah’s not But the past isn’t through with Rave. When his so sure she wants to track her down. She mother returns after many long years, looking Now that Charity has returned, she’s full of knows Roxanne’s departure was likely to reconcile the terrible mistakes that once longing and regret, until she befriends her because of a betrayal—hers. defined her, Rave struggles to put together the neighbor Dalton Reynolds, who has come to unsettled pieces of his heart. Will this once- Gaslamp Island carrying his own heartache. Along with their pal Jack, Sarah and Kristen estranged family be able to come together to As other exiles arrive, Charity begins to embark on a quest in a beat-up old El Camino understand the meaning of unconditional love reconsider what makes a family. in search of Roxanne. But the road ahead is and the healing power of letting go? full of surprises that will force the friends to confront their pasts.

Book Club Fiction | 10 The Things We Don’t Secret Shores From a Paris Balcony Say Ella Carey Ella Carey Ella Carey Romance Romance Romance Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publishing Publishing Publication Date: 9/5/2017 Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/5/2018 Page Count: 320 10/11/2016 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 298 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Rights Sold: German

The Things We Don’t Say is Ella Carey’s In 1946, artist Rebecca Swift’s dreams of love Heartbroken and alone, Boston art curator newest novel, written with her signature, and a life free from convention are crashing Sarah West is grieving the recent deaths of irresistible style: a dual narrative with mystery like the waves of the Australian coast below her parents and the end of her marriage. and romance, set in a glamorous locale. her. And it’s into those roiling waters that she Ultrasensible by nature, she’s determined to disappears. stay the course to get her life back on track. In 1981, Laura Turner is trying to restart her But fate has something else in mind. While life. She is left with only one treasured Forty-one years later, Tess Miller’s dreams are cleaning out her father’s closet, she finds a possession that she fought hard to keep after crashing, too. The once-successful New York letter from the famous Parisian courtesan her divorce—The Luminous Halo by the editor has lost her most prestigious author to Marthe de Florian, dated 1895. The subject? famous Bloomsbury artist Oscar Moore. It was the handsome new golden boy of publishing. Sarah’s great-great-aunt Louisa’s death. given to Laura’s grandmother when she Meanwhile, she’s stuck with Edward Russell, a Legend has it that Louisa committed suicide… worked at the artist’s home in England, the washed-up Australian poet writing a novel but this letter implies there’s more to that gathering place of the Bloomsbury group’s about some obscure artist named Rebecca story. inner circle during the 1920s. Swift. But Tess may have underestimated Russell. His book is not only true—it’s a Determined to learn the truth, Sarah, against When an art dealer declares The Luminous searing, tragic romance and a tantalizing her nature, impulsively flies to Paris. There Halo a fake, Laura refuses to believe it and mystery set in a circle of postwar modernists. she’s drawn into the world of her flatmate, the goes to England to prove that the painting is When Tess uncovers a long-hidden secret, brilliant artist Laurent Chartier. As she delves authentic. But once there, Laura finds her she’s drawn even deeper into Rebecca’s deep into the glittering Belle Époque to efforts thwarted by Jay Moore, Oscar’s enigmatic life and death. unravel the mystery, Sarah finds that her irascible grandson, who remains adamant that aunt’s story may offer her exactly what she the painting is not his grandfather’s work. As Rebecca’s past intertwines with the needs to open up to love again. Laura is determined to discover the truth, and present, Tess finds herself falling for the last to win Jay’s love. Alternating between 1981 man she thought she’d ever be drawn to. On Following Sarah in the present day and Louisa and the 1920s, Things We Don’t Say the way, she discovers the power of living an in the 1890s, this moving novel spans more examines how well we really know those we authentic life—and that transcendent love than a century to tell the stories of two call our most beloved. never really dies. remarkable women.

The House by the Lake Paris Time Capsule Ella Carey Ella Carey Romance Romance Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 3/29/2016 Publication Date: 5/26/2015 Page Count: 258 Page Count: 282 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Czech, Italian, Large Rights Sold: Australian (English), Print (English), Portuguese, Slovak, Czech, Portuguese, and Slovenian and Slovenian

Anna is content with her well-ordered life in San Francisco. But her New York–based photographer Cat Jordan is ready to begin a new life world is turned upside down when her beloved grandfather, Max, with her successful, button-down boyfriend. But when she learns that reveals a startling secret: Anna is part of an aristocratic family who lost she’s inherited the estate of a complete stranger—a woman named everything during World War II. What’s more, Max was forced to leave Isabelle de Florian—her life is turned upside down. behind a precious item over seventy years ago in their estate in old Prussia. It’s now his ardent wish that Anna retrieve it. Cat arrives in Paris to find that she is now the owner of a perfectly preserved Belle Époque apartment in the ninth arrondissement, and Anna burns with questions as she heads for Germany: What memento that the Frenchwoman’s family knew nothing about this secret estate. could be so important to her grandfather? And why did he keep their Amid these strange developments, Cat is left with burning questions: history hidden? As she searches for answers, she finds herself drawn Who was Isabelle de Florian? And why did she leave the inheritance to to Wil, a man who may hold the key to unlock the mystery. Together Cat instead of her own family? they discover that her family’s secrets are linked with an abandoned apartment in Paris, and these secrets go deeper than she ever As Cat travels through France in search of answers, she feels her imagined. grasp on her New York life starting to slip. With long-buried secrets coming to light and an attraction to Isabelle de Florian’s grandson Alternating between 1930s Europe and the present, The House by the growing too intense to ignore, Cat will have to decide what to let go of, Lake illuminates the destiny of a family caught in the tumult of history. and what to claim as her own.

Book Club Fiction | 11 Daughter of a Every Single Secret The Weight of Lies Thousand Years Emily Carpenter Emily Carpenter Amalia Carosella Mystery & Suspense Mystery & Suspense Historical Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publishing Publishing Publication Date: 5/1/2018 Publication Date: 6/6/2017 Publication Date: 2/21/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 382 Page Count: 444 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Greenland, AD 1000 When twenty-six-year-old Meg Ashley agrees In this atmospheric family drama, a woman More than her fiery hair marks Freydís as the to write a tell-all memoir about her unhappy investigates the forty-year-old murder that daughter of Erik the Red; her hot temper and childhood, she knows she’ll be torching what’s inspired her mother’s bestselling novel, and fierce pride are as formidable as her Viking left of her rocky, estranged relationship with uncovers devastating truths—and lies. father’s. And so, too, is her devotion to the her famous mother, author of the iconic great god Thor, which puts her at odds with seventies horror novel Kitten. What she Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of those in power—including her own brother, the doesn’t know is she will also be putting her privilege, thanks to a bestselling novel her zealous Leif Eriksson. Determined to forge her own life in danger. mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows own path, she clings to her dream of sailing that the glow of their very public life hides a away to live on her own terms, with or without Meg travels to remote Bonny Island off the darker reality of lies, manipulation, and the the support of her husband. coast of Georgia to interview Doro Kitchens, heartbreak of her own solitary childhood. the reclusive woman on which Kitten was Desperate to break free of her mother, Meg New Hampshire, 2016 based. As she begins to dig into the past, accepts a proposal to write a tell-all memoir. Like her Icelandic ancestors, history professor disturbing revelations about the forty-year-old Emma Moretti is a passionate defender of murder that inspired her mother’s cult-classic Digging into the past—and her mother’s cult Norse mythology. But in a small town steeped book come to light. With a possible cover-up classic—draws Meg to Bonny Island, Georgia, in traditional values, her cultural beliefs could and the dark, sometimes violent side of and an unusual woman said to be the jeopardize both her academic career and her fandom, she starts to understand that the truth inspiration for the book. At first island life congressman father’s reelection. Torn about her own childhood may be more seems idyllic, but as Meg starts to ask tough between public expectation and personal complicated than she realized, and that there questions, disturbing revelations come to identity, she must choose which to honor. is more to the mystery that her mother light…including some about her mother. When “created.” Somebody doesn’t want that her own life is threatened, Meg realizes the In a dramatic, sweeping dual narrative, two mystery solved. Now it’s up to Meg to break darkness found in her mother’s book is women struggle against communities free of her mother’s control and right the nothing compared to the chilling truth that determined to silence them, but neither wrongs of the past before those who lurks off the page. intends to give up without a fight. orchestrated the elaborate lie about Kitten’s roots silence Meg for good. The Hansen Saga The Secret Healer Series

Distant Hope, Book One (Die Wine Blood (Rebenblut) The Master of Medicine, Book The Secret Healer and the Dead, ferne Hoffnung) Ellin Carsta Two (Die heimliche Heilerin und Book Three (Die heimliche Ellin Carsta Historical Fiction der Medicus) Heilerin und die Toten) Historical Fiction Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Ellin Carsta Ellin Carsta Imprint: Tinte & Feder - German Language Historical Fiction Historical Fiction German Language Publication Date: 8/1/2017 Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Publication Date: 2/20/2018 Page Count: 270 German Language German Language Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages Publication Date: 7/19/2016 Publication Date: 3/7/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 380 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: English

The first book in the newest historical A dramatic medieval novel from In medieval Germany, Madlen Cologne, 1402: A knocking is heard on saga from the bestselling author of The bestselling author Ellin Carsta. Goldmann left her passion for medicine the door of the Goldman family’s town Secret Healer is an opulent tale filled behind to live a life of quiet contentment home. It is a messenger from the with vivid emotions and sensuality. Gysinheym on the Rhine, 1359: Isabel with her family. But when she learns that archbishop with an urgent command: Velten is a strong woman whom fate has her father-in-law, Peter, has gone blind, Madlen, the “Secret Healer,” is ordered A powerful family tested by history. dealt a bad hand. She finally appears to Madlen must use her healing skills to to attend to his wife, who is in labor. The Hamburg, 1888: As patriarch Peter have found some peace after the death help just one more time. Madlen assists circumstances are highly suspicious: Hansen slowly fades, his sons, Karl and of her beloved husband. Together with a handsome young doctor, Franz von Madlen is blindfolded so that she does Georg, are confronted with a massive her son, Albert, and friends in the Beyenburg, in a procedure to restore not know where the birth is taking place task: how can they stabilize the indebted Stauber family, they manage to tend a Peter’s sight—something she never and is also obligated to maintain family business as the times grow ever vineyard, until the bishop suddenly dreamed possible. When the doctor absolute secrecy. The birth is relatively more turbulent? A plantation in shows up at the monastery. As the invites her to attend his lectures in smooth, but as the newborn girl cries out Cameroon offers a once-in-a-lifetime Veltins’ and Staubers’ landlord, he plans Heidelberg, Madlen realizes it’s an for the first time, guards rush into the opportunity to meet the ever-growing to cancel all lease agreements. Isabel opportunity to expand her knowledge. room and take the baby away from demand for cocoa. As the family sets knows doing so is illegal and uses all the Madlen. Did the orders actually come sail for the Gulf of Guinea, tensions rise, means at her disposal to fight, but the But to do so, she must return to the town from the archbishop? Madlen does not as what some see as a great adventure bishop is both a powerful and cunning where she was falsely accused of have any time to think. The men come is a last resort for others. opponent who will soon reveal his true murder, face the scorn of her fellow back, and she realizes that not only the face. With deadly consequences... male students, and assuage her life of the child is in danger but also the husband’s unease—all obstacles that mother’s and her own lives are seriously Book Club Fiction | 12 seem insurmountable. threatened. This Bright Beauty The Bloom Girls A Drop of Ink Emily Cavanagh Emily Cavanagh Megan Chance Family Drama Family Life Historical Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publishing Publishing Publication Date: 3/1/2018 Publication Date: 3/14/2017 Publication Date: 1/3/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 258 Page Count: 434 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Franci and Lottie may be identical twins, but A tender, heartfelt story of three sisters, their Penniless and disgraced, Adelaide Wentworth that’s where the similarities end. Franci has late father’s painful past, and the power of is feeling rather desperate. With nothing left to always been the stable one, while Lottie has forgiveness. lose, she and her sister, Louisa, flee to Lake bipolar disorder, constantly battling depression Geneva with Adelaide’s lover, the infamous and mania. After years of taking care of her When the news of their father’s death reaches poet Julian Estes. There, Louisa hopes to sister, Franci moves across the country to them, sisters Cal, Violet, and Suzy Bloom persuade Bayard Sonnier—celebrated writer build a life for herself. Now, all the two share is have to set aside their own personal crises, and her former lover—to advance Julian’s distance. and their differences, to gather in Maine. career. He is their last hope for salvation. Responsible Cal, the oldest and closest to But when Lottie gets in an accident, Franci their dad, is torn between taking care of her At the Villa Diodati—the place that inspired the reluctantly steps back into her familiar role as family and meeting the demands of a high- writing of Frankenstein sixty years earlier— protector. She returns to find her sister’s life in pressure law career. Impulsive Violet, the Louisa plots to rekindle her affair with Bayard, complete disarray and makes a shocking estranged middle child, is regretting a messy while Adelaide hopes to restore her fading discovery: Lottie has an infant daughter she breakup with a man she’s just now realizing love for Julian by being the muse he needs. never told Franci about. Although Franci she loves. And Suzy, the youngest daughter, swore she wouldn’t get sucked back in, she is anguishing over a life-altering decision. But soon, secrets are revealed, passions can’t leave the baby alone in Lottie’s care. ignited, and hidden talents discovered. Arriving in their father’s small coastal town, the Adelaide begins to imagine a different life. As Lottie further unravels, a secret is revealed Bloom sisters can’t help but revisit the past, Confused, she turns to Giovanni Calina— that she has kept since childhood—one that confronting the allegations against their father Bayard’s assistant and a man with his own has the power to reframe the sisters’ entire that shattered their family nearly twenty years secrets and deep resentments—and the two relationship, forcing Franci to ask herself if the earlier. As they try to reconcile different form a dangerous alliance. No one leaves secret was too much for Lottie to bear. Was versions of their childhood and search for unscathed in this richly imagined, emotionally the accident really an accident, and who has common ground, they’re forced to look at their nuanced tale of passion, ambition, inspiration, been protecting whom all these years? father’s life—and their own lives—with new and redemption. eyes, or risk losing all they hold dear.

Pineapple Cay Stories

Beautiful Exiles Sunbaked (Book One) Beachbound Meg Waite Clayton Junie Coffey (Book Two) Historical Fiction Chick Lit Junie Coffey Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Chick Lit Publishing Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publication Date: 6/26/2018 Publication Date: 5/9/2017 Publishing Page Count: TBD Page Count: 254 Publication Date: 8/8/2017 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 268 Languages Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

From New York Times bestselling author Meg Thirty-six-year-old Nina Spark has done Organizing a conference for Professor Philip Waite Clayton comes a historical novel based something crazy. After knocking back a night’s Putzel isn’t high on Nina Spark’s to-do list. All on the life of American novelist, travel writer, worth of wine, she’s bought a house in the she wants is to enjoy the sun and sand at her and journalist Martha Gellhorn. Caribbean. Off the Internet. At 2:00 a.m. new home on Pineapple Cay, hopefully with handsome fishing guide Ted Matthews by her Gellhorn is a headstrong and accomplished Committing to the most impulsive decision side. But saying no to Philip isn’t easy, journalist and novelist—confident with words she’s ever made, Nina leaves her cheating ex- especially after a mysterious assailant tried to but less so with men—when she walks into husband behind, puts her teaching career in kill him following his delivery of a scathing Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West, Florida, in New York on hold, and moves to Pineapple keynote address. December of 1936. The “large, dirty man in Cay—a land of white sand, cloudless skies, somewhat soiled white shorts and shirt” and turquoise waters. Sure, her arrogant former boss has a history reading his mail at the bar is Ernest of run-ins with everyone—Nina included—but Hemingway, the novelist whose photograph Her new life is off to a lovely start: she’s got a expecting to find a real suspect in a banquet Martha had pinned to her dorm-room wall. private beach, a handsome neighbor, and a hall full of dull, book-toting academics? cushy travel-writing assignment. Even Barry They’re more likely to kill a good joke than a Their friendship builds over long afternoons in Bassett, a greedy land developer eager to fellow colleague. When Nina is questioned, his garden, and grows into a tempestuous love push her out to make way for condos, can’t her curiosity about “whodunit” leads her to affair when the two travel to Madrid to cover darken her sunny new outlook. investigate on her own, despite her promise to the Spanish Civil War. In telling Hemingway police chief Blue Roker. and Gellhorn’s story, Beautiful Exiles raises But when Barry’s wife goes missing, along issues that remain relevant today: the with a priceless necklace, Nina finds herself at Now Nina and her friends Pansy and Danish attraction of fame, power, and personality; the the center of the island’s biggest whodunit. are combing the beaches for clues. And they’d need for independence; the importance of With her quirky but loyal new friends, Nina is better act fast, because someone out there is identity; and the turmoil of professional rivalry determined to solve the mystery—so she and still planning to make good on a killer grudge. between lovers. Pineapple Cay can get back to easy living.

Book Club Fiction | 13 The Heart of the Love in an English Crimes Against a Book Garden Garden Club Victoria Connelly Victoria Connelly Kathy Cooperman Family Life Family Life Family Life Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publishing Publishing Publication Date: 3/7/2018 Publication Date: 3/14/2017 Publication Date: 5/1/2017 Page Count: 332 Page Count: 320 Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Morton Hall, with its beautiful, ruined grounds The Jacobs family has lived at Orley Court for Best friends Annie and Sarah need cash— and its reclusive mistress, Emilia Morton, is full generations. But when Vanessa Jacobs’s fast. Sarah, a beautiful, successful lawyer, of mysteries. For freelance editor Anne Marie, husband dies and leaves the property to her, wants nothing more than to have a baby. But the wild garden has become a serene and she finds costs spiraling out of control. In order balancing IVF treatments with a grueling secret refuge from her loveless marriage. The to stay in their beloved home, she and her eighty-hour workweek is no walk in the park. only other regular visitor is Cape, the Hall’s daughters will have to sell part of it off— Meanwhile, Annie, a Harvard-grad chemist part-time gardener, who is forbidden to meet a decision that drives a wedge between recently transplanted to Southern California, is his enigmatic employer or tend to anything Vanessa and her live-in mother-in-law. cutting coupons to afford her young autistic except the magnificent maze. son’s expensive therapy. The new owners of the north wing are When Emilia dies, Cape and Anne Marie are Laurence Sturridge and his father, Marcus. Desperate, the two friends come up with a astonished to find themselves among an Laurence wants to escape the constant brilliant plan: they’ll combine Sarah’s looks unlikely group of villagers named in her pressure of his corporate job in London, while and Annie’s brains to sell a “luxury” antiaging strange will. Morton Hall, including its dazzling Marcus longs to heal from the grief of losing face cream to the wealthy, fading beauties in art collection and once-glorious grounds, can his wife. Could the beauty of Orley Court offer Annie’s La Jolla book club. The scheme belong to the community forever, but only if them a fresh outlook on life? seems innocent enough, until Annie decides to they work together to bring the garden back to add a special—and oh-so-illegal—ingredient life within a single year. As the two families embark on a challenging that could bring their whole operation crashing new chapter over the course of a glorious to the ground. As they try to put their differences aside to English summer, secrets are revealed and restore the tangled grounds, long-buried relationships tested. But as Orley Court begins Hilarious, intelligent, and warm, Crimes secrets are unearthed. Can the past be to weave its magic over them, will it be love, Against a Book Club is a delightful look at the forgiven as hope and new love begin to above all, that brings the two families lengths women will go to in order to fend for bloom? together? their families and for one another.

Byron’s Spiral (El The Skull of Balboa (El The Hares of Sonora caracol de Byron) cráneo de Balboa) (Liebres de Sonora) Rafael R. Costa Rafael R. Costa Rafael R. Costa Contemporary Fiction Historical Fiction Contemporary Fiction Imprint: Amazon Encore - Imprint: Amazon Publishing Imprint: Amazon Encore - Spanish Language - Spanish Language Spanish Language Publication Date: 8/22/2017 Publication Date: 8/29/2017 Publication Date: 8/29/2017 Page Count: 390 Page Count: 435 Page Count: 384 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

City of Irún Novel Prize, 2004. Planeta Prize Finalist, 2004. Sonora is unique: an imaginary village located in a remote place somewhere near Portugal. The enigmatic Don Amos returns to Byron It is 1905, and Leonardo Prado Sandoval The most prosperous of its inhabitants is the Bay, a place he should never have left. There, moves to Madrid. He wants to complete his leader of the Saldaña clan, a bachelor who he finds himself among the sweet Cesárea, doctorate in medicine under Ramón y Cajal, goes to a border town in search of a “womb for her wise son, Henry, and the passionate but very soon he finds himself involved in a hire” so that he can produce female offspring; Agapito Venturini, a man of the sea whose rivalry that forces him to flee Spain. Thus however, he can only seem to have boys. The stories bring incredible adventures into the begins a fabulous adventure that leads the opposite happens to Senora Encinasola, the present day. Between pleasant walks, fish protagonist to change identity, to work as a mother of three girls who will eventually raise stews, calm sunsets, rain showers, and foreman in Panama, to enter the jungle, and to these new arrivals. Some grew up to become storms, events unfold as if in a loop, enclosed live with a strange tribe from which he as close as brothers, while others do not forge in a continuous, spiral staircase that, like the receives a skull as a gift: the skull of Vasco such close relationships. Life continues as lighthouse on the bay, seems to ascend to Núñez de Balboa. Just as fate seems to be usual until the arrival of the Costa Brothers infinity. smiling on him once more, his luck runs out Circus revolutionizes their lives, dreams, and with the death of his wife-to-be. In conflicts. desperation, he decides to return to his own country, where he finally manages to recover The rural environment and the pressure of his identity, his belongings, and—perhaps— their surroundings, as well as love, sadness, hope. death, and the intersection of lives, all create the powerful, magical force that builds the This historical novel, based on real-life character of Sonora’s inhabitants. Just like a historical figures, vividly re-creates events hare running from its hunter, however, the such as the construction of the Panama Canal people of Sonora cannot avoid their destiny. and extraordinary adventures with authentic shamans. It is a tale with all the best ingredients—a gateway to the world of dreams and imagination, as well as a love story. Book Club Fiction | 14 The Uncertain Season Turn Towards the Sun When Never Comes Ann Howard Creel Emma Davies Barbara Davis Historical Fiction Romance Family Drama Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publishing Publishing Publication Date: 8/22/2017 Publication Date: 2/9/2017 Publication Date: 5/1/2018 Page Count: 320 Page Count: 368 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages Rights Sold: German

In hurricane-ravaged Galveston, a storm of Lizzie wants nothing more than to start over Author Barbara Davis explores an emotionally betrayal is brewing. and put the past behind her. So when she is charged landscape of pain, loss, and despair offered the chance to live and work at Rowan and risking it all in the hope of loving again. Nineteen-year-old Grace’s golden age is Hill, a beautiful country estate and bustling just beginning. She and her mother live a community of artists, it feels like a dream As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, privileged life. Beautiful and talented, Grace is come true. Christy-Lynn learned the hard way that no looking forward to a pleasant summer address was permanent, and no promise celebrating her engagement to a wealthy But soon after her arrival a series of accidents sacred. For a while, she found a safe haven in young gentleman. and misunderstandings begins to threaten the her marriage to bestselling crime novelist happiness and livelihoods of everyone at Stephen Ludlow—until his car skidded into But when her lovely, charming, and disgraced Rowan Hill. And when suspicion quickly falls Echo Bay. Stephen’s wasn’t the only body cousin Etta arrives, Grace finds her place in on Lizzie, she discovers that the past is not so pulled from the icy waters that night. When society—and in her mother’s heart— easily forgotten. details about a mysterious, violet-eyed blonde threatened. Etta enchants everyone as she become public a media circus ensues, and maneuvers to secure a station in Galveston’s To keep the life she has just begun to build, Christy-Lynn runs again. upper echelons. Grace, in a reckless moment, Lizzie will have to race to uncover the truth reveals Etta’s scandalous past, and as before there are disastrous repercussions for Desperate for answers, she’s shattered to punishment, she’s sent to work in Galveston’s everyone involved. In this heartwarming story learn that Stephen and his mistress had a back alleys, helping the poor. There, a silent of friendship, loss, and love, the stakes are child—a little girl named Iris, who now lives in waif known only as Miss Girl opens Grace’s high, but so are the rewards. If Lizzie can find poverty with her ailing great-grandmother. The eyes to new love and purpose. She’s a way to stay true to herself, she might have a thought of Iris abandoned to the foster care determined to save this girl who lost her entire chance at something she has always wanted: system—as Christy-Lynn once was—is family in the hurricane and now slips along the a place to call home. unbearable. But she’s spent her whole life shadows of the unfinished seawall with a running—determined to never be hurt again. mysterious resolve. Will she finally stand still long enough to open herself up to forgiveness and love?

The Midwife Series

Practically Magic A More Perfect Union White Rose, Black Maddie Dawson (Book Three) Forest Women’s Fiction Jodi Daynard Eoin Dempsey Imprint: Lake Union Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publication Date: 5/22/2018 Publishing Publishing Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 5/23/2017 Publication Date: 3/1/2018 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 434 Page Count: TBD Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

From the author of The Survivor’s Guide to In 1794, Johnny Watkins returns to America From the author of Finding Rebecca comes a Family Happiness comes a comic, romantic from Barbados, intent on becoming a great gripping love story set against the backdrop of tale that tackles our most universal longings statesman. Even his hero, John Adams, World War II Germany. for love, connection, and family. Like Jojo believes the gifted boy will go far. There’s just Moyes’s Me Before You and Nancy Star’s one catch: Johnny must learn to pass for Franka Gerber is a broken woman. It’s Sisters One, Two, Three, Maddie Dawson’s white. December of 1943, in the Black Forest newest novel is both heart-wrenching and Mountains of southwest Germany. Her laugh-out-loud hilarious. Full of insights into He finds a spirited and lovely confidante in beloved boyfriend was executed by the Nazis life’s maddening complexities, the novel’s Kate, one of the few who knows that Johnny’s for leading the infamous White Rose plucky, small-town heroine is plunked down in father had been born a slave. But as he resistance movement. She herself was the heart of Brooklyn, where she’s forced to moves closer to the new city of Washington, sentenced to six months in jail, and while figure out where her heart really lies—and Johnny leaves Kate behind, falling instead for there, her father was killed by Allied bombs. whom it belongs to. a prominent Maryland heiress who may not Back home after her release, she is have his best interests at heart. Embroiled in completely alone, ravaged by grief, and ready the vicious politics of the approaching election, to take her own life. But when she sets out to Johnny lives every moment at risk of being do so, Franka discovers an unconscious man unmasked. lying in the snow in a Luftwaffe uniform. Unwilling to let him die, she takes him to her Then, a discovery about Thomas Jefferson, father’s isolated cabin despite her hatred for one that could sway the election, imperils not the regime he represents. But she soon finds only Johnny’s future but also his life. In the he is not who he seems, and begins a race end, Johnny learns who his real friends are— against time to unravel the mystery of his true and the truth behind the great promise of life, identity. Thrown together, and hunted by the liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Gestapo, can they trust each other enough to join forces on a mission that could change the face of the war and their own lives forever? Book Club Fiction | 15 Pretty Little World At Wave’s End Melissa DePino and Patricia Perry Donovan Elizabeth LaBan Family Life Family Life Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 8/15/2017 Publication Date: 1/17/2017 Page Count: 366 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

“A skilled, funny, and highly engaging examination of family, love, and After a childhood as unpredictable as the flip of a coin, Faith Sterling marriage…This book is a win.” —Meg Mitchell Moore, author of The has finally found her comfort zone in the kitchen of an upscale Admissions Manhattan restaurant. A workaholic chef, at least there she’s in control. So when her free-spirited and often-gullible mother, Connie, calls to On a cozy street in Philadelphia, three neighboring families have announce that she’s won a bed-and-breakfast on the Jersey Shore, become the best of friends. They can’t imagine life without one Faith’s patience boils over. Convinced the contest is a scam, she another—until one family outgrows their tiny row house. In a bid to stay rushes to Wave’s End to stop Connie from trading her steady job for an together, a crazy idea is born: What if they tear down the walls between uncertain future. their homes and live together under one roof? When a hurricane ravages the coast, Faith is torn between supporting Celia and Mark now have the space they need. But is this really what the shore rescue and bailing out her beleaguered boss. But the storm Celia’s increasingly distant husband wants? Stephanie embraces the dredges up deceptions and emotional debris that threaten to destroy idea of one big, happy family, but has she considered how it may the inn’s future and her fragile bonds with her mother. exacerbate the stark differences between her and her husband, Chris? While Hope always wanted a larger family with Leo, will caring for all As the women struggle to salvage both the inn and their relationship, the children really satisfy that need? Faith begins to see herself and Connie in a new light—and to realize that some moments are better left to chance. Behind closed doors, they strive to preserve the closeness they treasure. But when boundaries are blurred, they are forced to question their choices…and reimagine the true meaning of family.

The Ingrid Winter Misadventure Series

The Marvelous Winter in Wonderland Misadventures of Ingrid (Book Two) Winter (Book One) J.S. Drangsholt J.S. Drangsholt Women’s Fiction Women’s Fiction Imprint: AmazonCrossing Imprint: AmazonCrossing Publication Date: 11/28/2017 Publication Date: 3/1/2017 Page Count: 300 Page Count: 217 Rights Acquired: All Languages, Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Norwegian excluding Norwegian

Ingrid Winter is desperately trying to hold it all together. A neurotic In this delightfully funny romp through a winter wonderland, Norwegian mother of three small children and an overworked readers are left pondering the legacy older generations impart on literature professor with an overactive imagination, Ingrid feels like the young. her life’s always on the brink of chaos. Ingrid Winter and her family, who live in Norway, are planning a Her overzealous attempt to secure her dream house has strained vacation to the Piedmont area of Italy, but the very urgent repairs her marriage. She’s repeatedly reprimanded for eye rolling in needed on their house thwart their plans. The family, including faculty meetings. Petulant PTA parents want to drag her into a war Ebba’s friend Lars, go ahead with the hike in the mountains and over teaching children to tie their shoes. And an alarmingly Steinar, Katti and their kids join them. Ingrid’s 100-year-old persistent salesman keeps warning her of the potential dangers of grandfather, Gramps, also comes along, not to hike but to stay in home intrusion. the main lodge. After the two families begin the strenuous hike, it quickly becomes dangerous when the weather turns bad. In their Clearly she needs to get away. But Russia? Forced to join an effort to return to the lodge where they started, they get lost, and academic mission to Saint Petersburg to promote international the hike becomes life threatening. cooperation, Ingrid finds herself at a crossroads while drinking too much cough syrup. Will this trip push her into a Siberian sinkhole Winter in Wonderland was originally published in Norwegian and of existential dread or finally give her life some balance and has been translated into English by Tara F. Chace. direction? The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter was originally published in Norwegian and has been translated into English by Tara F. Chace. Book Club Fiction | 16 The Elephant Keeper’s The Lioness of The Extraordinary Life Daughter Morocco of Sam Hell Julia Drosten Julia Drosten Robert Dugoni Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Family Life Imprint: AmazonCrossing Imprint: AmazonCrossing Imprint: Lake Union Publication Date: 4/10/2018 Publication Date: 6/1/2017 Publishing Page Count: 426 Page Count: 450 Publication Date: 4/24/2018 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Languages, excluding Languages, excluding Rights Acquired: English, German German Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

Ceylon, 1803. Phera is born the daughter Independent-minded Sibylla Spencer feels From #1 Wall Street Journal, New York Times, of the king’s highest elephant trainer, an trapped in nineteenth-century London, where and #1 Kindle bestselling author Robert Dugoni esteemed position in the royal court. Without a her strong will and progressive views have comes a new literary novel. son to take over his role, Phera’s mother and rendered her unmarriageable. Single at twenty father decide to raise her as a boy and teach -three, she feels stifled in her father’s house. Born with Ocular Albinism—red pupils—Sam her to be the next elephant trainer. Spanning Hill always saw the world through different Phera’s life into adulthood and set against the When Benjamin Hopkins, an ambitious eyes. “Devil Boy,” his classmates called him. backdrop of the violent colonization of Ceylon employee of her father’s trading company, “God’s will” his Catholic mother reasoned. But by the British in the early nineteenth century, shows an interest in her, she realizes marriage that was hardly comforting to a boy his age. The Elephant Keeper’s Daughter shows is her only chance to escape. As Benjamin’s Yet, through it all, Sam perseveres supported Phera’s fight for her right to find freedom, self- rising career whisks them both away to exotic by his mother's faith, his father's practical determination, and love. Morocco, Sibylla revels in her newfound wisdom, and the friendship of two other misfits, freedom, striking her first business deals, Ernie, the only African American kid in his The Elephant Keeper’s Daughter was befriending locals…and falling in love with a school and Mickie, a girl who seems to break originally published in German and is being charismatic and handsome Frenchman. all conventions of gender roles. translated into English by Deborah Rachel Langton. But Benjamin’s lust for money and influence Forty years later, a small town ophthalmologist, draws him into dark dealings, pulling him ever Sam isn’t sure anything was by design— further from Sibylla and their two young sons. especially a tragedy that caused him to flee his When he’s arrested, the fate of Sibylla’s family friends, his home, and the life he’d always rests on her shoulders, as she must decide known. Running from it, eyes closed, served its whether she’ll leave him to his fate or help him purpose. Now he’s looking back. This time, his fight for his life. The Lioness of Morocco was eyes are open—better to see what changed originally published in German and has been him, defined him, and made him afraid. Above translated into English by Christiane Galvani. all, Sam can finally see what truly matters.

13 Dates Berlin Calling Palms and Phantom Matt Dunn Kelly Durham Pain (Palmen und Romance Historical Fiction Phantomschmerz) Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Rafael Eigner Publishing Publishing Contemporary Fiction Publication Date: 8/15/2017 Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Page Count: 334 Page Count: 430 German Language Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Publication Date: 3/21/2017 Languages Languages Page Count: 434 Rights Sold: Czech Rights Acquired: All Languages

When Noah Wilson first encounters the quirky, Germany, 1938. While young and old are Benny Brandstätter is back. He is still the opinionated, and very beautiful Angel Fallon, captivated by the country’s rapid ascent under handsome physician in search of himself and his world is turned upside down. It’s clear the leadership of Adolf Hitler, naive Maggie the meaning of life. After a stroke of fate, he she’s not his normal type, but Noah can’t stop O’Dea, an American studying abroad, finds quits his demanding job as head physician, thinking about her—which doesn’t bode well her own fortunes turning after falling in love treats himself to a break, embarks on travel, for the blind date he’s already late for. with a handsome soldier and landing a job and ends up in Costa Rica. In his new home, with the propaganda ministry. Embodying the his passion is surfing, and the more chilled Convinced by his friend (and self-professed infectious spirit of nationalism sweeping the “Pura Vida” on the Caribbean coast. Although dating expert) Marlon that thirteen dates is all country, her powerful dispatches launch her somewhat against his will, he helps out at the you need to fall in love, Noah decides to give it broadcasting career as a champion of the local clinic and soon finds his profession as a a try with Angel. They should be incompatible: Fatherland. doctor exciting again. Everything could be so she’s impulsive and he’s a planner; he wants easy, were it not for this paradise that gives to settle down, and she doesn’t “do” But as Germany invades one peaceful rise to the biggest and most beautiful relationships—or anything, for that matter— neighbor after another and the wheels of challenge for a man—namely women. the way Noah is used to. But there’s World War II are set in motion, Maggie starts something about Angel, and Noah can’t shake opening her eyes to the grim reality of Hitler’s Based on the bestseller Kammerflimmern und the idea that all they need is twelve more intentions. Torn between her successful Klabusterbeeren (A Life Turned Upside dates. career rooted in the allegiance to her adopted Down), the second novel about Benny’s land and a growing dread over her role in a amorous adventures is now out. A new treat Despite some near-disasters involving rock tyrant’s ruthless reign, Maggie—supported by for fans of romantic comedies, even those who climbing, saddle sores, and jellied eels, it a new love—must fight her own war of are unfamiliar with the previous novel. seems his plan may actually work. But even if conscience. Will she survive a conflict they do reach the magic number, can that threatening the world…and her own life? really mean they’ll just fall into their happily ever after?

Book Club Fiction | 17 The Lighthouse The Unkillable Kitty And Everything Keeper O’Kane Changes (Und dann ist Cynthia Ellingsen Colin Falconer alles anders) Family Life Historical Fiction Nelly Fehrenbach Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Women’s Fiction Publishing Publishing Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Publication Date: 4/4/2017 Publication Date: 12/1/2017 German Language Page Count: 380 Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 7/11/2017 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 254 Languages Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Dawn Conners’s parents are famous for When fiery and idealistic Kitty O’Kane escapes What do you do when life throws a fatal finding historic treasures, but she has a knack the crushing poverty of Dublin’s tenements, diagnosis your way? for losing things—her job, her boyfriend, and she’s determined that no one should ever now, her reputation. Thanks to a mud-slinging suffer like she did. As she sets out to save the Charlotte thinks the migraines she suffers exposé, Dawn’s late great-grandfather is world, she finds herself at the forefront of stem from the stress of planning her assumed guilty of stealing silver from a events that shaped the early twentieth century. wedding—until she suffers a seizure one day century-old shipwreck. Hoping to clear his While working as a maid, she survives the out of the blue. Charlotte is a nurse and is name, Dawn returns to Starlight Cove, her sinking of the Titanic. As a suffragette in New usually the one who helps others. Her need for idyllic hometown on Lake Michigan, where the York’s Greenwich Village, she’s jailed for care and the disconcerting diagnosis unleash doomed vessel sleeps beneath the beam of a breaking storefront windows. And traveling a crisis for her. Her wedding to her fiancé, ramshackle lighthouse. war-torn Europe as a journalist, she’s at the Jörg, is canceled, and his loving care plunges Winter Palace when it’s stormed by the her even deeper into despair. With barely Her plan: remodel and sell the lighthouse Bolsheviks. Ultimately she returns to her enough strength to go on, she encounters while untangling the perplexing family mystery. homeland to serve as a nurse in the Irish another man. He is also marked by a disease, Neither task is easy, especially once her well- Civil War. but he deals with his malady in a completely meaning parents and the quirky locals— different way. Giving up is not a solution! including nautical researcher and Starlight During Kitty’s remarkable journey, she Suddenly Charlotte finds the strength to Cove’s most eligible bachelor, Kip Whittaker— reunites with her childhood sweetheart, Tom endure by learning to live with her disease. get involved. Despite their attraction, Dawn is Doyle, but he doesn’t know everything about reluctant to trust Kip, or any of the close-knit her past—a past that continues to haunt her. townsfolk. But as she pieces together the Will Kitty accept that before she can save truth, Dawn’s once-shuttered heart opens up. everyone else, she needs to find a way to And if she’s willing, the lighthouse might guide save herself? Or will the sins of her past stop her to a place she never expected to find, her from pursuing her own happiness? where the past entwines with a bright new beginning.

The Good Widow The Tenderness of the The Time Traveler (La Lisa Steinke, Liz Fenton Moment (Die viajera del tiempo) Mystery & Suspense Zärtlichkeit des Lorena Franco Imprint: Lake Union Augenblicks) Contemporary Fiction Publishing Heike Fröhling Imprint: Amazon Publishing Publication Date: 6/1/2017 Contemporary Fiction - Spanish Language Page Count: 302 Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Publication Date: 9/12/2017 Rights Acquired: All German Language Page Count: 236 Languages Publication Date: 3/7/2017 Rights Acquired: All Rights Sold: German Page Count: 224 Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Bestselling authors Liz Fenton and Lisa A young couple meets an old man whose one “What is love?” Steinke make their suspense debut in this big love has failed due to his own “Love is when you steal a piece of chocolate twisty, emotional thriller. overwhelming guilt, which he could not from my lunch every day, and yet I keep overcome. leaving it in the same place for you.” Elementary-school teacher Jacqueline “Jacks” Morales’s marriage was far from perfect, but Meeting with the young couple, he is able to Twins Lia and Will share their life in their even in its ups and downs, it was predictable, find his old, great love and reconcile with the family mansion in New Haven with an absent familiar. Or at least she thought it was…until past. Inspired by his story, the young couple father and a mother who stays isolated in her two police officers showed up at her door with decides not to end their own relationship as studio, writing horror novels. Despite the close devastating news. Her husband of eight years, planned and begins to fight for their own love relationship they have maintained since the one who should have been on a business before it’s too late. childhood, the twins have distinctly different trip to Kansas, had suffered a fatal car personalities: Lia is cheerful and carefree, accident in Hawaii. And he wasn’t alone. while William always feels as though he doesn’t fit into the world around him. For Jacks, laying her husband to rest was hard. But it was even harder to think that his The day they bury their mother, Will final moments belonged to another woman— mysteriously disappears without a trace. At an one who had left behind her own grieving and exhibition five years later, Lia discovers the bewildered fiancé. Nick, just as blindsided by portrait of the early nineteenth-century writer the affair, wants answers. So he suggests that known by the pseudonym of Scorpio, who he and Jacks search for the truth together, bears a striking resemblance to her brother. retracing the doomed lovers’ last days in This happy coincidence opens the door for Lia paradise. Now, following the twisting path of to embark on a unique and fascinating that fateful road, Jacks is learning that nothing adventure, a trip to the past in the hope of is ever as it seems. Not her marriage. Not her discovering her soul mate and herself. husband. And most certainly not his death… Book Club Fiction | 18 Jasmine and Bitter All the Little Children Almonds (Jasmin und Jo Furniss Bittermandeln) Mystery & Suspense Julia Freidank Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Women’s Fiction Publication Date: 9/1/2017 Imprint: Tinte & Feder - German Page Count: 320 Language Rights Acquired: All Languages Publication Date: 8/8/2017 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Jasmine and Bitters Almonds explores the healing power of art and When a family camping trip takes a dark turn, how far will one mother self-discovery in the desolate back alleys of Italy. go to keep her family safe?

Lara travels to Rome to examine the secretive Pasquino statue where Struggling with working-mother guilt, Marlene Greene hopes a camping people leave anonymous messages—about politics, the world, and life trip in the forest will provide quality time with her three young children— in Rome. Upon her arrival in the Eternal City, she meets Jasmine, an until they see fires in the distance, columns of smoke distorting the unconventional femme fatale who shares her wisdom with the young sweeping view. Overnight, all communication with the outside world is woman and welcomes her to the apartment she shares with shy lost. journalist Francesco and student Momus. One day she finds a message on the Pasquino, which could only be addressed to her. Who Knowing something terrible has happened, Marlene suspects that the is the secretive author? More and more messages follow until Lara falls isolation of the remote campsite is all that’s protecting her family. But for the unknown stranger, who arouses her innermost desires. The the arrival of a lost boy reveals they are not alone in the woods, and as search for the secret author gradually transforms into Lara’s search for the unfolding disaster ravages the land, more youngsters seek refuge herself. under her wing. The lives of her own children aren’t the only ones at stake.

When their sanctuary is threatened, Marlene faces the mother of all dilemmas: Should she save her own kids or try to save them all?

The Designer Dear Dwayne, With Love Marius Gabriel Eliza Gordon Literary Fiction Chick Lit Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 10/1/2017 Publication Date: 12/12/2017 Page Count: 338 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In 1944, newly married Copper Reilly arrives in Paris soon after the Wannabe actress Dani Steele’s résumé resembles a cautionary tale on liberation. While the city celebrates its freedom, she’s stuck in the how not to be famous. She’s pushing thirty and stuck in a dead-end prison of an unhappy marriage. When her husband commits one insurance job, and her relationship status is holding at uncommitted. betrayal too many, Copper demands a separation. With unbearably perfect sisters and a mother who won’t let her forget it, Dani has two go-tos for consolation: maple scones and a blog in which Alone in Paris, she finds an unlikely new friend: an obscure, middle- she pours her heart out to her celebrity idol. He’s the man her father aged designer from the back rooms of a decaying fashion house whose never was, no boyfriend will ever be—and not so impossible a dream timid nature and reluctance for fame clash with the bold brilliance of his as one might think. When Dani learns that he’s planning a fund-raising designs. His name is Christian Dior. event where the winning amateur athlete gets a walk-on in his new film, she decides to trade pastries and self-doubt for running shoes and a Realizing his genius, Copper urges Dior to strike out on his own, sexy British trainer with adorable knees. helping to pull him away from his insecurities and toward stardom. With just a camera and a typewriter, she takes her own advice and ventures But when Dani’s plot takes an unexpected twist, she realizes that her into the wild and colorful world of fashion journalism. happy ending might have to be improvised—and that proving herself to her idol isn’t half as important as proving something to herself. Soon Copper finds herself torn between two very different suitors, questioning who she is and what she truly wants. As the city rebuilds and opulence returns, can Copper make a new, love-filled life for herself?

Book Club Fiction | 19 The Memory of The Happiness In The White Blood of the Butterflies Between Soil (Das weiße Blut Grace Greene Grace Greene der Erde) Women’s Fiction Literary Fiction Tara Haigh Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Historical Fiction Publishing Publishing Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Publication Date: 9/5/2017 Publication Date: 1/31/2017 German Language Page Count: 290 Page Count: 302 Publication Date: Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All 10/10/2017 Languages Languages Page Count: 445 Rights Acquired: All Languages

To keep a devastating family secret from A woman returns home to hide from her past A love affair in the British Crown Colony of being revealed, a young mother’s desperate mistakes and discovers one more chance at Malaysia is overshadowed by a dark family lies could end up destroying everything, happiness. secret… and everyone, she loves. The Memory of Butterflies is a poignant story of family and Sandra Hurst has left her husband. Again. Hamburg, 1898: As her dying adoptive father forgiveness. After dropping out of college to marry Trent, uses the last of his strength to write down a divorcing him, then remarrying him, she’s name, Ella Kaltenbach sees the first clue Hannah Cooper’s daughter is leaving for shown up on her parents’ doorstep nursing her about her origins. Is this the name of her college soon. A single mother since the age of wounds. But her parents refuse to help this biological father, and why have payments eighteen, Hannah isn’t eager to be alone, but time—emotionally or financially. been coming from British Malaysia over the she’s determined not to let her own hang-ups years? The young nurse decides to travel to keep Ellen from the future she deserves. As Desperate to earn money and start over, she the distant land and find some answers. Ellen’s high school graduation approaches, accepts an offer from her aunt to house-sit at Hannah decides it’s time to return to her roots the old family home. But when Sandra arrives, The clues lead her to the Fosters’ rubber in Cooper’s Hollow in Virginia. she finds the house has grown shabby, her plantation. While there, Ella gets caught in aunt’s dog is missing, and the garden is the middle of a struggle between the British Hannah devotes her energies to building a woefully overgrown. And she suspects her colonial powers and the Malaysian resistance new house on the site of the old family home, almost ex-husband is on her trail. while also finding true love. However, destroyed in a fire more than a decade ago. someone is doing everything possible to make But Hannah’s entire adult life has revolved As she begins to settle into the familiar sure the truth about Ella’s roots remain buried around one very big secret. And her new homestead, powerful secrets and memories deep in the darkness of the rain forest. beginning comes with unanticipated risks that are unearthed. But Sandra discovers that to will cost her far more than she could have move on from the pain of her past, she must imagined—perhaps more than she can embrace the beauty of her future. survive.

Lies That Bind Us The Ragged Edge of The Saturday Evening Andrew Hart Night Girls Club Mystery & Suspense Libbie Hawker Jane Healey Imprint: Lake Union Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publication Date: 6/5/2018 Publishing Publishing Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 5/8/2018 Publication Date: 4/25/2017 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Page Count: 250 Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Sold: German Languages Languages

A briskly paced psychological thriller with an Inspired by true events during World War II, For four young immigrant women living in unreliable narrator, Lies That Bind Us follows The Ragged Edge of Night is the newest Boston’s North End in the early 1900s, a reunion of old friends on the island of Crete historical novel from the author of Mercer Girls escaping tradition doesn’t come easy. But at that turns lethal as dark secrets come to light. and Tidewater. least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making Jan needs this. She's flying to Crete to reunite The heroism of Schindler’s List meets the group offering respite from their hectic home with friends she met there five years ago and heart of Broken Angels in this gripping story of lives—and hope for a better future. relive an idyllic time. Basking in the warmth of a quiet, unassuming family man whose the sun, the azure sea, the aura of antiquity, conscience wouldn’t let him stand by while the Ambitious Caprice dreams of opening her own she can once again pretend—for a little Nazis spread their cruel regime. hat shop, which clashes with the expectations while—that she is one of the beautiful people. of her Sicilian-born parents. Brilliant Ada Her ex-boyfriend Marcus will be among them, secretly takes college classes despite the but even he doesn't know the secrets she disapproval of her Russian Jewish father. keeps hidden behind a veil of lies. None of Stunning Maria could marry anyone yet them really know her, and that’s part of the guards her heart to avoid the fate of her Italian allure. Then again, how well does she know Catholic mother, broken down by an alcoholic them? husband. And shy Thea is torn between asserting herself and embracing an antiquated When Jan awakens in utter darkness, a Jewish tradition. manacle around her wrist, chained to a wall, her echoing screams only give her a sense of The friends face family clashes and romantic how small her cell is. As she desperately tries entanglements, career struggles and cultural to reconstruct what happened and who is prejudice. But through their unfailing bond, holding her prisoner, dread covers despair like forged through their weekly gathering, they’ll a hand clamped over her mouth. Because, like draw strength—and the courage to transform the minotaur in the labyrinth in Greek myth, their immigrant stories into the American lives her captor will be coming back for her… of their dreams.

Book Club Fiction | 20 Blooming Dreams Series

Flora’s Dream of Red Leilani - The Heavenly Jasmin - Time of Oleander, Book One Flower, Book Two Dreams, Book Three (Floras Traum von (Leilani - Die Blume (Jasmin - Zeit der rotem Oleander) des Himmels) Träume) Annette Hennig Annette Hennig Annette Hennig Women’s Fiction Women’s Fiction Women’s Fiction Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Imprint: Tinte & Feder - German Language German Language German Language Publication Date: 3/14/2017 Publication Date: 4/4/2017 Publication Date: 11/7/2017 Page Count: 350 Page Count: 338 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

A white mansion, a noble family, and the The second book in the Blooming Dreams A young woman. A huge dream. An old gift, dream of great happiness. In early 1939, Flora series from Annette Hennig, this is a family more valuable than any treasure. Hoffmann dreams of a better life. She grew up saga covering four generations of women, all poor with five sisters, and their daily lives on of whom could not be more different, yet all Jasmine gets a special gift for her eighteenth the rural island of Rügen is dominated by hard have one important characteristic in common: birthday: four dusty old crates, which are part work and sacrifice. The young maid has a the absolute will to succeed. of her great-great-grandmother Isolde’s legacy single goal: wealth and power. She does and have been languishing to this very day in everything she can to get ahead, making A young doctor, a valuable painting, and a the attic of the old mansion on the Baltic decisions that will change her life forever. secret that has endured through the years. seaside. Curious, Jasmine searches through In the summer of 1990, young doctor Leilani their contents and is delighted to find old Fifty years later, Countess Flora von Vonderhoff’s life seems to fly off the rails. letters and diaries. She appears one step Langenberg returns to the small seaside resort Forsaken by those she held dear, she pulls up closer to realizing her biggest dream. on the Baltic, where everything started. She stakes in Berlin and embarks on a new start to walks through the old mansion that was once bring peace and calm back into her life. She However, as she delves deeper into her the sum of her desires. Alone yet determined, feels she has found everything she needs on family’s history, she discovers a painful secret. the seventy-year-old begins a journey into the the island of Rügen. But the tranquility of her Her unconditional love for her great- past, which appears to hold in store far less new world is short-lived. She unexpectedly grandmother Flora begins to crumble. But hope and far greater pain. Nevertheless, she finds herself confronted with her family’s Countess Flora is not leaving anything to continues down her path. Will Flora finally find legacy. Curious, she begins hunting down chance. Just as in the past, she pulls the right what she had long thought lost? clues, and in the end, nothing is as it seems. strings in the background, invites Clemens Meerbusch to the mansion on the Baltic seaside, and is certain he will help Jasmine realize her dreams.

The Forgotten Ones Abby’s Journey Steena Holmes Steena Holmes Family Drama / Suspense Literary Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 4/1/2018 Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 240 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

From a New York Times bestselling author comes a novel of woman’s Twenty-year-old Abigail Turner has only known her mother, Claire— search for the truth—in a life defined by secrets and lies. who died shortly after she was born—through letters, videos, postcards, and journals. Abby’s father, Josh, has raised his precious Elle is a dedicated nurse and daughter. She’s managed to piece daughter himself, but his overprotectiveness has become stifling. Abby together a solid life from a childhood of broken memories, and fairy longs to forge out on her own and see the world after a childhood tales her mother told her to explain away bad dreams. But weekly visits trapped indoors: she suffers from bronchopulmonary dysplasia, which to her mother still fills Elle with a paralyzing fear she can’t explain. It’s means a case of the sniffles can rapidly escalate into life-threatening just another of so many unanswered questions she grew up with in a pneumonia. family estranged by silence and secrets. But when Abby’s doctor declares her healthy—for now—her Then Elle receives a deathbed request from her grandfather, a man grandmother Millie whisks her away to Europe to visit the Christmas whom Elle was told died years ago. Wracked by grief, regrets, and a markets that her mother cherished and chronicled in her travel journals. haunted conscience, he has a tale of his own to tell Elle: about her Despite her father’s objections, Abby and Millie embark on a journey of father, her mother, an imaginary friend, and two strangers who came to discovery in which Abby will learn secrets that force her to reevaluate the house one night and never left. her image of her mother and come to a more mature understanding of a parent-child bond that transcends death. As Elle’s past begins to unfold, so does the truth. If she can believe it. So do the reasons for her inexplicable dread. If she can face them. As New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Steena Holmes dark as they are, Elle must listen…before her grandfather’s death offers a tender and heartfelt exploration of parental love and a buries the family’s forgotten history forever. daughter’s longing for connection in the poignant next chapter following Saving Abby.

Book Club Fiction | 21 Heaven Adjacent The Wake Up Catherine Ryan Hyde Catherine Ryan Hyde Family Life Family Life Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 5/22/2018 Publication Date: 12/5/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Catherine Ryan Hyde is back with an emotionally resonant, deeply From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes insightful, beautifully written novel that deftly explores the mysteries of a hauntingly emotional novel of how one man’s life changes forever the human heart and the beautiful truth about human experience. when he rediscovers his ability to feel the pain of others.

Roseanna Chaldecott is a high-powered, smooth-talking, high-earning Something has been asleep in forty-year-old cattle rancher Aiden New York City attorney. Or, at least, she was. But one unusual day Delacorte for a long time. It all comes back in a rush during a hunting something snaps inside Roseanna. trip, when he’s suddenly attuned to the animals around him, feeling their pain and fear as if it were his own. But the newfound sensitivity of A month earlier, Roseanna lost her best friend, Alice, a woman her own Aiden’s “wake up” has its price. He can no longer sleepwalk through age who was a fellow partner in, and cofounder of, the firm. Alice had life, holding everyone at arm’s length. As he struggles to cope with a worked and sacrificed all her life, postponing even the simplest trait he’s buried since childhood, Aiden falls in love with Gwen, a single pleasures to be enjoyed after the magic date of retirement. But then mother whose young son bears a burden of his own. Alice died of a stroke at age fifty-three and never got to enjoy anything she had worked for. This had been eating at Roseanna’s peace of mind Sullen and broken from his experiences with an abusive father, Milo for a month, so she phones in to work for a mental-health day, knowing has turned to acting out in violent and rebellious ways. Aiden can feel even as she does so that she will probably never go back to that office the boy’s pain, as well as that of his victims. Now he and Milo must sift again. Instead, she’ll search out a remote place where she can be through their pasts to find empathy with the innocent as well as the completely alone. But life won’t let her stay isolated for long. She’s guilty, to come to terms with their deepest fears, and to finally discover forced to face up to her past; reconcile with her son; and forge real, the compassionate heart of a family. meaningful relationships.

Allie and Bea Say Goodbye for Now Leaving Blythe River Catherine Ryan Hyde Catherine Ryan Hyde Catherine Ryan Hyde Family Life Family Life Family Life Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publishing Publishing Publication Date: 5/23/2017 Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/24/2016 Page Count: 352 12/13/2016 Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 366 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German and Languages Rights Sold: German and Large Print (English) Rights Sold: German, Large Print (English) Norwegian, and Romanian

An Amazon Charts bestseller. “Catherine Ryan Hyde delivers once again Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is with this feel-good story guaranteed to be a totally unprepared to search for his father in Bea has barely been scraping by since her hit…” —Redbook the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only husband died. After falling for a telephone is he small, scrawny, and skittish, but he’s scam, she loses everything and is forced to On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for barely speaking to the man after a traumatic abandon her trailer. With only two-thirds of a abandoned animals. The solitude allows her to betrayal. Yet when his father vanishes from tank in her old van, she heads toward the avoid the people and places that remind her of their remote cabin and rangers abandon the Pacific Ocean with her cat—on a mission to the past. Not that any of the townsfolk care. In rescue mission, suddenly it’s up to Ethan to reclaim what’s rightfully hers, even if it means 1959, no one is interested in a woman doctor. keep looking. Angry or not, he’s his father’s making others pay for what she lost. Nor are they welcoming Calvin and Justin Bell, only hope. a newly arrived African American father and When fifteen-year-old Allie’s parents are jailed son. With the help of three locals—a fearless for tax fraud, she’s sent to a group home. But seventy-year-old widow, a pack guide, and a when her life is threatened by another When Pete Solomon, a neglected twelve-year- former actor with limited outdoor skills—he resident, she knows she has to get out. She old boy, and Justin bring a wounded wolf-dog heads into the wild. The days that follow escapes only to find she has nowhere to go— hybrid to Dr. Lucy, the outcasts soon find transform Ethan’s world. Hail, punishing sun, until fate throws Allie in Bea’s path. refuge in one another. Lucy never thought swollen rapids, and exhausting pain leave him she’d make connections again, never mind fall wondering if he’s been fooled yet again: Is his Reluctant to trust each other, much less in love. Pete never imagined he’d find friends father out here at all? As the situation grows become friends, the two warily make their way as loyal as Justin and the dog. But these four increasingly dire, Ethan realizes this quest has up the Pacific Coast. Yet as their hearts open people aren’t allowed to be friends, much less become about more than finding his dad. to friendship and love from the strangers they a family, when the whole town turns violently meet on their journey, they find the courage to against them. With heavy hearts, Dr. Lucy and From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward forge their own unique family—and begin to Pete say goodbye to Calvin and Justin. But comes a story of nature revealing human see an imperfect world with new eyes. through the years they keep hope alive… nature—the trickiest terrain. Ethan searches waiting for the world to catch up to them. himself for the ability to forgive his father—if he finds him alive. Book Club Fiction | 22 Ask Him Why Worthy The Language of Catherine Ryan Hyde Catherine Ryan Hyde Hoofbeats Family Life Family Life Catherine Ryan Hyde Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Family Life Publishing Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/2/2015 Publishing 12/15/2015 Page Count: 325 Publication Date: 12/9/2014 Page Count: 333 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 344 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Rights Sold: German and Large Print (English) The stunning and emotional story of a young They might’ve been a family. Winner of a Rainbow Award. soldier’s unthinkable act…and the bonds of a sister’s and brother’s love. Virginia finally had the chance to explore a New to a small town, Jackie and Paula relationship with Aaron when he asked her on envision a quiet life for their kids: a young Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just a date. She had been waiting, hoping that the adopted son and two teenage foster children, teenagers when their older brother ships off to widower and his young son, Buddy, would including the troubled Star. However, they Iraq. When Joseph returns, uninjured, only a welcome her into their lives. But a terrible quickly butt heads with their neighbor, few months later, Ruth is happy he is safe tragedy strikes on the night of their first kiss, Clementine, who disapproves of their lifestyle but also worried. How can it be that her crushing their hopes for a future together. and is incensed when Star befriends her courageous big brother has been dishonorably spirited horse, Comet. Haunted by past discharged for refusing to go out on duty? Nineteen years later, Virginia is engaged, tragedy and unable to properly care for though she has not forgotten Aaron or Buddy. Comet, Clem nevertheless resents the bond Yet as the horrifying details of the incident When her dog goes missing and it comes to Star soon shares with the horse. When Star emerge, Joseph disappears. In their attempts light that her fiancé set him loose, a distraught disappears with Comet, the neighbors are to find him, Ruth and Aubrey discover he has Virginia breaks off the engagement and is thrown together—far too close together. But a past far darker than they could imagine. But alone once again. A shy young man has found as the search for the pair wears on, both even as they learn more about their brother, the missing pet, and although he’s bonded families must learn to put aside their animosity important questions remain unanswered—why with the animal, he answers his conscience and confront the choices they’ve made and did he betray his unit, his country, and now his and returns the dog. Before long, Virginia and the scars they carry. family? Joseph’s refusal to speak ignites a fire the young man discover a connection from in young Aubrey that results in a disastrous, their pasts that will help them let go of painful Plumbing the depths of regret and and public, act of rebellion. The impact of memories and change their lives forever. forgiveness, The Language of Hoofbeats Joseph’s fateful decision one night in Baghdad explores the strange alchemy that transforms will echo for years to come, with his siblings a group of people into a family. caught between their love for him and the media’s engulfing frenzy of judgment.

Take Me With You Walk Me Home When I Found You Catherine Ryan Hyde Catherine Ryan Hyde Catherine Ryan Hyde Family Life Family Life Family Life Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publishing Publishing Publication Date: 7/22/2014 Publication Date: 4/23/2013 Publication Date: 4/23/2013 Page Count: 363 Page Count: 374 Page Count: 410 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 Rights Sold: Brazilian Rights Sold: French, Rights Sold: Estonian, Portuguese, Estonian, German, and Italian French, German, German, Hungarian, Italian, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Norwegian, Simplified Romanian, Spanish, and Chinese, Slovak, Ukrainian, Turkish and Large Print (English) August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has Since their mother’s sudden death, sixteen- While duck hunting one morning, childless, been sober since his nineteen-year-old son year-old Carly and her eleven-year-old sister, middle-aged Nathan McCann finds a newborn died. Every year he’s spent the summer on the Jen, have been walking and hitchhiking across abandoned in the woods. To his shock, the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year the Southwest trying to find Teddy, the closest child—wrapped in a sweater and wearing a means everything. The plan had been to travel thing they have to a family. Carly desperately tiny knitted hat—is still alive. To his wife’s there with his son, but now August is making hopes Teddy will take them in and save them shock, Nathan wants to adopt the boy…but the trip with Philip’s ashes instead. An from going into foster care—and forgive them the child’s grandmother steps in. Nathan unexpected twist of fate lands August with two for the lies told by their mother. makes her promise, however, that one day extra passengers for his journey: two half she’ll bring the boy to meet him so he can orphans with nowhere else to go. But when the starving girls get caught stealing reveal that he was the one who rescued him. food on a Native American reservation, their What none of them could have known was journey gets put on hold. While the girls work Fifteen years later, the widower Nathan how transformative both the trip—and the off their debt, Carly becomes determined to discovers the child abandoned once again— bonds that develop between them—would travel onward—until Jen confesses a terrible this time at his doorstep. Named Nat, the prove, driving each to create a new destiny secret that leaves both sisters wondering if teenager has grown into a sullen delinquent together. they can ever trust again. whose grandmother can no longer tolerate him. Nathan agrees to care for Nat, and the Set against the backdrop of the American two engage in a battle of wills that spans Southwest, Walk Me Home and its resilient years. Still, the older man repeatedly assures heroines will inspire readers and renew their the youngster that, unlike the rest of the world, faith in recovery and redemption. he will never abandon him—not even when Nat suffers a trauma that changes both of their lives forever. Book Club Fiction | 23 Mustard Seed After She’s Gone Laila Ibrahim Maggie James Historical Fiction Family Life Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 11/7/2017 Publication Date: 3/16/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 254 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German

The bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting, tender Lori Golden’s family have had more than their fair share of troubles. But story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home. through it all, Lori and her sister, Jessie, have always supported each other. Then Jessie is killed. And Lori’s world turns upside down. Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Devastated, Lori struggles to cope with her loss, and to learn to live in a Lisbeth’s beloved nurse. The women have an unlikely bond deeper world without her bright, bubbly sister by her side. Around her, her than friendship. Three years after the Civil War, Lisbeth and Mattie are already fractured family starts to fall apart. And, as Lori and her mother tending their homes and families while Jordan, an aspiring suffragette, try to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives, secrets long thought teaches at an integrated school. buried are coming painfully to light.

When Lisbeth discovers that her father is dying, she’s summoned back Faced with the unthinkable, Lori is forced to ask herself how well she to the Virginia plantation where she grew up. There, she must face the really knows those who are left behind… Confederate family she betrayed by marrying an abolitionist. Jordan and Mattie return to Fair Oaks, too, to save the family they left behind, who still toil in oppression. For Lisbeth, it’s a time for reconciliation. For Jordan and Mattie, it’s a time for liberation.

As the Johnsons and Freedmans confront the injustice that binds them, as well as the bitterness and violence that seethes at its heart, the women must find the courage to free their families—and themselves— from the past.

Lioba (WT) Girl 99 Marion Johanning Andy Jones Historical Fiction Romance Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Imprint: Lake Union Publishing German Language Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Publication Date: 1/30/2018 Page Count: 318 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

A new medieval novel from the author of the Kindle bestseller The Before Tom finds The One, he needs to find himself. Honeysweet Hands. When Tom’s girlfriend walks out on him the day before Christmas, he Vissel on Rhine, 1188: When peasant girl Lioba finds an unconscious feels humiliated but not necessarily heartbroken. Sadie wasn’t, after all, man in the forest, she has no idea that her life has just taken a decisive The One. If we’re being precise, she was number eighty-five. turn. The injured man survives but cannot recall his previous life. They decide to call him Thomas, and he starts working as a day laborer on Tom’s first mistake is sharing this information with his best friend, El. Lioba’s parents’ farm. He and Lioba grow closer and feel a strong His next mistake is listening when El suggests that he bring his eighty- attraction, but are separated when Thomas is brought back into contact five up to a nice, neat one hundred. with his old identity and family. He discovers that he is a knight and has signed on to take part in a dangerous crusade. However, Lioba cannot It was never going to be a good idea, one reason being that everything forget the man who now seems to be someone completely different. else in Tom’s life is in complete chaos. His best friend is dying of a slow Her past is also catching up with her... and cruel disease, his teenage sister is at war with his well-meaning but dogmatic father, his elderly neighbor is having romantic problems (and makes a dreadful cup of tea), and Tom has to shoot four commercials with four children and a bad-tempered producer.

And then Tom meets Verity. Whether she’s The One remains to be seen, but she’s certainly more than just another number.

Book Club Fiction | 24 A Tangled Mercy The Mutual Admiration Joy Jordan-Lake Society Historical Fiction Lesley Kagen Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Family Life Publication Date: 11/1/2017 Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Page Count: 464 Publication Date: 2/1/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 284 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German

Told in alternating tales at once haunting and redemptive, A Tangled From the New York Times bestselling author of Whistling in the Dark Mercy is an epic novel rooted in heartbreaking, true events that comes a rich and charming coming-of-age novel full of the sweet and examines the depths of human brutality and our hope for freedom. brittle bonds of family, the tenderness of growing up, the heartbreak of longing for what we’ve lost, and the poignancy of finding love. After the death of her troubled mother, struggling Harvard grad student Kate Drayton walks out on her lecture—and her entire New England FACT: Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old Theresa “Tessie” Finley, she’s life. Haunted by unanswered questions and her own uncertain future, in over her head. PROOF: After hearing a scream and catching a she flees to Charleston, South Carolina, the place where her parents glimpse of a mysterious man carrying a body beneath the flickering met, convinced it holds the key to understanding her family and saving streetlights in the cemetery behind her house, Tessie adds solving a her career in academia. Kate is determined to unearth information on a murder case to her already quite full to-do list. failed 1822 slave revolt—the subject of her mother’s own research. Tessie has elected herself president of the crime-stopping Mutual Nearly two centuries earlier, Tom Russell, a gifted blacksmith and Admiration Society—as if dealing with her “sad madness” over the slave, grappled with a terrible choice: arm the uprising spearheaded by tragic drowning of her beloved father; showering tender loving care on members of the independent African Methodist Episcopal Church or her “sweet but weird” younger sister, Birdie; and staying on the good keep his own neck out of the noose and protect the woman he loves. 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 Kate’s attempts to discover what drove her mother’s obsession with gossips in their 1950s blue-collar neighborhood—particularly their evil Charleston’s history are derailed by a horrific massacre in the very next-door neighbor, Gert Klement, who’d like nothing better than to same landmark church. In the unimaginable aftermath, Kate discovers send the sisters to “homes.” And, of course, there’s the problem of a family she never knew existed as the city unites with a powerful steering clear of the kidnapping murderer if they have any hope of message of hope and forgiveness for the world. solving the mystery of all mysteries: the mystery of life.

Herbert Series From Elise (Von Elise) Alpine Grill, Book Four You Have Reached Verena Maria Kalmann (Alpengriller) Your Destination (Sie Women’s Fiction Friedrich Kalpenstein haben ihr Ziel erreicht) Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Humor Friedrich Kalpenstein German Language Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Humor Publication Date: 6/13/2017 German Language Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Page Count: 446 Publication Date: 3/7/2017 German Language Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 348 Publication Date: 6/13/2017 Languages Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 258 Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

A historical-romance novel about two From #1 Kindle humor author Friedrich A novel that will make you smile. musicians who fight for their livelihood in two Kalpenstein comes the newest book in the different eras. Herbert series. Justus, Erwin, and Willi have been friends since high school. Together, the three men, in In January 2014, Valerie Mollwitz moves from Playground, diapers, housework. There must the prime of their lives, set out on a long- Munich to Paris in order to take a job as the be something more! overdue trip to a wellness hotel in Lower second concertmaster in an orchestra and Bavaria. That’s how it was planned, at least. work through her failed relationship with her Herbert, now a proud father, had something ex-boyfriend. However, starting over in Paris completely different in mind for his parental Through a mishap, the three friends end up in turns out to be a disaster. Madame Prokova, leave. Luckily his buddy Hans needs him, and a health spa along the road. Out of necessity, the first concertmaster, is hostile, Valerie finds Herbert travels into the mountains to answer they allow themselves to enjoy the experience; she has no friends, and due to her poor his friend’s distress call. Hans has opened a their main goal is to relax, after all. But the language skills, she can barely function in bed-and-breakfast in Berchtesgaden and week continues to develop differently than daily life. In this catastrophic situation, she needs some help. Both men make a profit with planned, with many interesting surprises. Willi finds her great-aunt’s diary in a hollow space the first guests: discouraged employees in an gets involved with the local housekeeper, in the sofa she has inherited. Reading it takes advertising agency and their boss. Hans and Erwin discovers his long-lost detective skills, Valerie back to Bonn in 1914, when the young Herbert quickly find that grilling tofu will be the and for Justus, nothing else is left but to face pianist falls in love with the attractive violinist lease of their challenges. It turns out that a his own personal problems. Do the three Karl. Both musicians make plans for a future world as simple as a pure, idyllic mountain can friends actually relax at the spa? together, but then World War I breaks out, and only be found on postcards, after all... their lives take a dramatic turn. Deeply moved by Elise’s story, Valerie decides to take her fate into her hands and let love in.

Book Club Fiction | 25 Southlea Bay Series

A Beautiful Poison The Swing of Things Rejected Writers Take Lydia Kang Linda Keir the Stage (Book Two) Historical Fiction Contemporary Fiction Suzanne Kelman Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Family Life Publishing Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publication Date: 8/1/2017 Publication Date: 8/1/2018 Publishing Page Count: 350 Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 6/6/2017 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 288 Languages Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English) Just beyond the Gilded Age, in the mist- Big Little Lies meets Fifty Shades of Grey in After months of playing the lottery and hoping covered streets of New York, the deadly this scintillating novel that follows a middle- for an uptick in her dog-boarding business, Spanish influenza ripples through the city. But class family caught up in the emotionally Janet’s friend Annie must face the inevitable: with so many victims in her close circle, young charged and surprisingly steamy swinging the bank is foreclosing on her family farm. But socialite Allene questions if the flu is really to subculture of suburbia. thanks to the Rejected Writers’ Book Club, blame. All appear to have been poisoned— Annie doesn’t have to face it alone. With just a and every death has been accompanied by a Tired of their routine lives—the weekly ritual of few weeks to raise the $20,000 that she and mysterious note. “date night” with dinner, a set “in the mood” her fifty rescue dogs need, the writers need a playlist, and some massage oil, attorney fund-raiser, and fast. Much to Janet’s horror, Desperate for answers and dreading her own Jayne Larsen and her stay-at-home-dad Doris has another crazy plan. engagement to a wealthy gentleman, Allene husband, Eric, are ready for something new. returns to her passion for scientific discovery Change arrives in the form of Theo and Mia In a moment of inspiration, their fearless and recruits her friends Jasper and Birdie to Winters, a beautiful couple with the nicest leader declares a solution: a musical help her. The investigation brings her closer to house, the hippest friends, and a tantalizing extravaganza. No one in the group has ever Jasper, an apprentice medical examiner at secret: Theo and Mia have an open marriage. produced a musical, but Doris will not be Bellevue Hospital who still holds her heart, deterred—they’ll write it together. And with and offers the delicate Birdie a chance to find When Theo and Mia invite the Larsens to try Flora, who has never sung a note in her life, a safe haven before her fragile health fails. “the Lifestyle,” Jayne surprises herself, and as the lead, and Janet as their reluctant Eric, by wanting in. Eric, less interested but director—along with a hypochondriac costume As more of their friends and family die, feeling guilty about his own occasional designer, a pyrotechnics enthusiast, and alliances shift, lives become entangled, and philandering, agrees to go along. Theo’s claim Janet’s very pregnant daughter pitching in— the three begin to suspect everyone—even that sharing spouses is the best medicine for what could possibly go wrong? each other. As they race to find the culprit, an ailing marriage initially seems to be true. Allene, Birdie, and Jasper must once again But, despite a careful adherence to the many To produce a miracle for Annie, Janet and her trust each other, before one of them becomes rules of engagement, Jayne and Eric soon friends will work around the clock—but will it the next victim. learn that the biggest danger isn’t a wandering be enough? eye, but a straying heart.

A tragedy in their close- Ava I Wish You Happy The Wall Between Vera Kerick Kerry Anne King Jesper Bugge Kold Women’s Fiction Family Life Literary Fiction Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: AmazonCrossing German Language Publishing Publication Date: 3/21/2017 Publication Date: 3/14/2017 Publication Date: 7/1/2017 Page Count: 254 Page Count: 188 Page Count: 302 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Languages Languages Danish

What does life sound like? Told with warmth and wit, I Wish You Happy Why would someone want to murder the explores the sometimes-dark complexity of father he never knew? After Peter Körber is Since Ava can hear again, she is bursting with relationships, the transformative power of stabbed to death in Berlin, his son, Andreas, energy. Full of optimism, the literature expert friendship—and the magic of hope. leaves his home in Denmark, where he was travels to her hometown, where she aims to raised by his mother and stepfather, and reunite with her childhood sweetheart, Peter, Rescuing animals is easier for Rae than travels to that once-divided city to uncover the and rekindle old emotions. attempting relationships with people. She brutal truth. In his search to know this lacks a dimmer switch—her energy is either complete stranger, Andreas hopes to come to Back in her former home, love is indeed full-intensity on or off. Lately, she’s been grips with his own identity crisis, stalled rekindled. But Ava is stunned by what she opting for off. But the switch flips back on academic career, and failed relationship. then hears. Suddenly, a future of happiness when Rae’s car collides with a cyclist, leaving shared with Peter no longer seems possible. the rider fighting for her life. After discovering A complicated portrait begins to emerge What began as the hope for a new life, the crash was a suicide attempt, Rae invites concerning Peter’s role in the German becomes a journey into the past—full of love, the victim—emotionally and physically fragile Democratic Republic before reunification. As tragedy, and the realization that appearances Kat—into her home. Soon, Rae finds herself Andreas struggles to find a chink in the wall of can sometimes mask reality. opening up, not just to friendship but also to lies that obscures the real Peter Körber, he the possibility of love with Cole, the crisis brings to light disturbing revelations that have worker assigned to Kat’s case. devastating consequences.

However, Kat’s pain threatens to overshadow The Wall Between is a haunting novel of the Rae as their codependent friendship deepens. harsh realities of living under a repressive When disaster strikes again, Rae is desperate regime, the price of blind allegiance to to help Kat heal, but the plan backfires, putting ideology, and the moral complexity of personal at risk Rae’s tenuous connections and forcing culpability. The Wall Between was originally her to confront the most difficult challenge of published in Danish and has been translated all—embracing her own happiness. into English by K. E. Semmel. Book Club Fiction | 26 Birds with Broken Not Perfect The Welcome Home Wings Elizabeth LaBan Diner Ayse Kulin Family Life Peggy Lampman Historical Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Women’s Fiction Imprint: AmazonCrossing Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publication Date: 5/1/2018 Publication Date: 2/1/2018 Publishing Page Count: 392 Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 10/10/2017 Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: All Spanish, German, Languages Page Count: 352 Portuguese, Japanese, and Rights Acquired: All Chinese Languages

Based on true stories and historical research, From the acclaimed author of The Restaurant Betting on the city of Detroit’s eventual Birds with Broken Wings begins in the spring Critic’s Wife comes a captivating and comeback, cousins Addie and Samantha of 1933, when a bunch of German scientists humorous novel about a wife and mother’s fall decide to risk it all on an affordable new house decides to leave the country when Nazis make from grace. and a culinary career that starts with it clear that they are not wanted in their renovating a vintage diner in a depressed area homeland anymore. Tabitha Brewer wakes one morning to find her of town. There’s just one little snag in their husband gone, leaving her no way to support vision. Two such scientists, Elsa and her husband, herself and their two children, never mind their Ravi, leave Berlin with only one suitcase full of upscale Philadelphia lifestyle. She’d admit her Angus, a weary, beloved local, is strongly photos and personal belongings. The young situation to her friends—if it wasn’t for those opposed to his neighborhood’s gentrification— Republic of Turkey and its leader, Ataturk, dreadful words of warning in his goodbye note: and his concerns reflect the suspicions of the have sent invitations to each of the Jewish “I’ll tell them what you did.” community. Shocked by their reception, Addie scientists, including Einstein, stating that they and Samantha begin to have second thoughts. are welcome in both Ankara and Istanbul. Elsa Instead, she does her best to keep up and Ravi take a train to Turkey, where they appearances, even as months pass and she As the long hours, problematic love interests, will found the first science faculties, have can barely put food on the table—much less and underhanded pressures mount, the two children, become citizens of a free country— replace a light bulb. While she looks for a job, women find themselves increasingly at odds, for decades, until 2010, when they are not she lives in fear that someone will see her and soon their problems threaten everything wanted in Turkey anymore as Islamic groups stuffing toilet paper into her handbag or they’ve worked for. If they are going to realize gain power and threaten them. pinching basil from a neighbor’s window box. their dreams, Addie and Samantha must focus on rebuilding their relationship. But will the Now it is time for Elsa’s granddaughter to Soon, blindsided by catastrophe, surprised by neighborhood open their hearts to welcome flee the country she was born, and return to romance, and stunned by the kindness of a them home? Germany once more...Birds with Broken stranger, Tabitha realizes she can’t keep her Wings was originally published in Turkish and secrets forever. Sooner or later, someone is is being translated into English by Kenneth bound to figure out that her life is far from Dakan. perfect.

Wives of War Let’s Try our Luck The Halo Effect Soraya M. Lane (Versuchen wir das Anne D. LeClaire Historical Fiction Glück) Mystery & Suspense Imprint: Lake Union Barbara Leciejewski Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Women’s Fiction Publishing Publication Date: 7/1/2017 Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Publication Date: 4/1/2017 Page Count: 350 German Language Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Publication Date: 10/3/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: TBD Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

An Amazon Charts bestseller. A heartwarming novel from bestselling author In this tour de force, a father, shaken by Barbara Leciejewski. tragedy, tries to avenge his daughter’s London, 1944. Two young nurses meet at a murder—and restore his family’s shattered life. train station with a common purpose: to join When Helene and Ludwig meet surreptitiously the war effort. Scarlet longs for the chance to at the Munich train station, the last twenty-five It was supposed to be a typical October find her missing fiancé, Thomas, and to prove years of their life disappear. They go evening for renowned portrait artist Will Light. to her family—and to herself—that she’s spontaneously to a restaurant, and every Over dinner, his wife, Sophie, would share stronger than everybody thinks. Nursing is in glance, every word, and every touch brings news about chorus rehearsals for the holiday Ellie’s blood, but her humble background is back old feelings. concert, and their teenage daughter, Lucy, vastly different from Scarlet’s privileged would chatter about French club and field upbringing. Though Ellie puts on a brave face, Immortally bound to fight conventions back hockey. Only Lucy never came home. Her she’s just as nervous as Scarlet about what then, they were crazy for one another, full of body was found, days later, in the woods. awaits them in France. dreams for the future up to the bitter end of their great love. Prior to the final step in a life The Eastern Seaboard town of Port Fortune In Normandy, the two friends soon encounter together, an unbridgeable chasm opened up, used to be Will’s comfort. Now, there’s no safe the seemingly unflappable Lucy. Scarlet preventing their life together. harbor for him. Not even when Father Gervase and Ellie are in awe of her courage and asks Will to paint portraits of saints for the new competence, but the experienced nurse is well But sometimes an afternoon is enough to ask cathedral. Using the townspeople as models, aware of the dangers of the job they’ve the question: Should we try our luck? Will sees in each face only a mask of the chosen—and even she is terrified they won’t darkness of evil. And he just might be painting make it home alive. his daughter’s killer. As Will navigates his rage and heartbreak, Sophie tries to move on; Pushed to their limits by the brutality of a world Father Gervase becomes an unexpected ally; at war, Scarlet, Ellie, and Lucy will need to rely and Rain, Lucy’s best friend, shrouds herself on each other—and the power of their in a near-silent fugue. Their paths collide in a friendship—to survive. series of inextricably linked, dark, dangerous moments that could lead to their undoing…or to their redemption. Book Club Fiction | 27 Everything Series

Everything We Keep Everything We Left (Book One) Behind (Book Two) Kerry Lonsdale Kerry Lonsdale Mystery & Suspense Mystery & Suspense Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 8/1/2016 Publication Date: 7/4/2017 Page Count: 306 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Czech, Estonian, Rights Sold: Czech, Indonesian, and German, Korean, Hungarian, Italian Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Turkish, and Ukrainian

An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller. An Amazon Charts, #1 Kindle, and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Told from one man’s two perspectives, Everything We Left Behind A luminous debut with unexpected twists, Everything We Keep effortlessly blends suspense, mystery, and romance in an exploration explores the devastation of loss, the euphoria of finding love again, and of loss, resilience, and the compelling need to protect the ones we love. the pulse-racing repercussions of discovering the truth about the ones we hold dear and the lengths they will go to protect us. Before his wedding, financial executive James Donato chased his trade -laundering brother, Phil, to Mexico, only to be lost at sea and Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the perfect recipe for the perfect life: presumed dead. Six and a half years later, he emerges from a marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her dissociative fugue state to find he’s been living in Oaxaca as an artist, parents’ restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a widower and father of two sons, with his sister-in-law, Natalya Hayes. boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. Instead of But his fiancée, Aimee Tierney, has moved on. She’s married with a walking down the aisle on their wedding day, Aimee is at James’s child of her own. funeral—one that leaves her more unsettled than at peace. Devastated, James and his sons return to California. But Phil is As Aimee struggles to reconstruct her life, she delves deeper into scheduled for release from prison, and he’s determined to find James, James’s disappearance. What she uncovers is an ocean of secrets that who witnessed something in Mexico that could land Phil back in make her question everything about the life they built together. And just confinement. Under mounting family pressure, James flees with his below the surface is a truth that may set Aimee free…or shatter her sons to Kauai. As James begins to unravel the mystery, danger is forever. never far behind, and Natalya may be the only person he can trust.

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Everything We Give All the Breaking Waves (Book Three) Kerry Lonsdale Kerry Lonsdale Family Life Mystery & Suspense Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 12/6/2016 Publication Date: 7/3/2018 Page Count: 322 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian

The third book in the bestselling Everything series, featuring all the From the bestselling author of Everything We Keep comes a gripping hallmarks of the first two books: a complicated love story, a flawed tale of long-buried secrets, the strength of forgiveness, and the healing protagonist, and surprising twists and turns. power of returning home for good.

Landscape photographer Ian Collins has only made three mistakes in After a harrowing accident tore her family apart, Molly Brennan fled his life. All three led to one tragedy that left him abandoned at a from the man she loved and the tragic mistake she made. deserted intersection with nothing but a busted Nikon and the film that could have proved his mother’s innocence, unraveled and exposed. Twelve years later, Molly has created a new life for herself and her She deserted him that day, and he hasn’t seen her since. eight-year-old daughter, Cassie. The art-history professor crafts jewelry as unique and weathered as the surf-tumbled sea glass she collects, Almost twenty-five years later, Ian seemingly has it all. He travels the while raising her daughter in a safe and loving environment— world taking photographs that receive national recognition, he’s married something Molly never had. But when Cassie is plagued by horrific to a beautiful woman, and his daughter adores him. Only two things visions and debilitating nightmares, Molly is forced to return to the one have eluded him: A feature in National Geographic and locating his place she swore she’d never move back to—home to Pacific Grove. mother. But when the prized magazine calls the same day his wife’s ex- fiancé returns from Hawaii bearing the key to putting a past that haunts A riveting exploration of love, secrets, and motherhood, All the him to rest, Ian is left with a choice: chase the coveted National Breaking Waves is the poignant story of a woman who discovers she Geographic assignment or go after the one woman who can help him must confront her past, let go of her guilt, and summon everything in put the past to rest. The only problem? James’s return has rekindled her power to save her daughter. unexpected feelings in his wife and put a strain on their marriage. Ian may lose more than the assignment or the opportunity to track down his mother should he choose one over the other. He may lose his wife. Book Club Fiction | 28 Big Skye Littleton The Way of Beauty Before the Rain Falls Elisa Lorello Camille Di Maio Camille Di Maio Romance Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publishing Publishing Publication Date: 8/22/2017 Publication Date: 5/1/2018 Publication Date: 5/16/2017 Page Count: 272 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

In this warm, high-spirited contemporary novel The bestselling author of The Memory of Us After serving seventy years in prison for the from author Elisa Lorello, big love can happen returns with another lush and romantic murder of her sister, Eula, Della Lee has in the smallest of spaces. historical novel about the lives of three very returned home to the Texas town of Puerto different women and how they parallel the Pesar. She’s free from confinement—and Skye Littleton said goodbye to her job, her rapidly changing landscape of their beloved ready to tell her secrets before it’s too late. best friend, and her home in Rhode Island to New York City. start over in Billings, Montana, with Vance She finds a willing audience in journalist Mick Sandler, a gorgeous guy she met online. On The Way of Beauty follows the lives of three Anders, who is reeling after his suspension her cross-country flight, Skye shares her New York women: Vera, who harbors a secret from a Boston newspaper, and in town, happy story with her seatmate, Harvey Wright, love for her childhood friend even while aiding reluctantly, to investigate a mysterious portrait a Billings resident who knows Vance—and his his new wife in the struggle for women’s right of Eula that reportedly sheds tears. He reputation for heartbreak. Harvey’s infuriating to vote; Alice, who sees the city through the crosses paths with Dr. Paloma Vega, who’s advice to Skye? Go home. eyes of two vastly different men who love her; visiting Puerto Pesar with her own mission: to and Lindy, who values progress and dismisses take care of her ailing grandmother and to When Skye arrives, she discovers that Vance the past. But when an event occurs that draws rescue her rebellious younger sister before has changed his mind and wants nothing to do battle lines among the residents of New York, something terrible happens. Paloma and Mick with her. Despite the setback, Skye is the women must come together to make their have their reasons to be in the hot, parched determined to rebuild her life and begin a new peace with a newly emerging world—and with border town whose name translates to “Port of chapter in Montana’s largest city, which each other. Regret.” But they don’t anticipate how their sometimes feels like a small town. With lives will be changed forever. Harvey’s help, Skye finds a job—and a passion for organizing closets and clearing out Moving and engrossing, this dual story clutter. But as she grows closer to Harvey, she alternates between Della’s dark ordeals of the finds herself homesick for her former life. Can 1940s and Paloma’s and Mick’s present-day Skye finally trust her own heart enough to let it search for answers―about roots, family, love, show her the way home? and what is truly important in life.

One of the Three (Una The Copenhagen Affair The House by the de las tres) Amulya Malladi River Mercedes Pinto Women’s Fiction Lena Manta Maldonado Imprint: Lake Union Historical Fiction Mystery & Suspense Publishing Imprint: AmazonCrossing Imprint: Amazon Publishing Publication Date: 9/26/2017 Publication Date: 11/1/2017 - Spanish Language Page Count: 306 Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 8/15/2017 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 357 Languages Languages, excluding Rights Acquired: All Greek, Spanish, Italian, Languages Turkish, and Albanian

Separated after the death of their Romanian Set in the capital city of the world’s happiest The first novel by acclaimed Greek writer Lena mother, triplets Simona, Irina, and Angela are country, this is a comedy of manners about Manta to appear in English translation, The raised separately in Great Britain and Ireland. depression, the pressures of marriage, and House by the River is an intimate, emotionally The triplets are unaware of one another’s falling in love again from the bestselling author powerful saga following five young women as existence, but go through life with the intense of A House for Happy Mothers. they realize that the only constant is home. sensation that something is missing, an emptiness that they can always sense but Sanya was always the perfect wife, but after a Theodora knows she can’t keep her five never truly grasp. When a series of breakdown at her office, it’s her husband, beautiful daughters at home forever—they’re coincidences leads them to meet each other Harry’s, turn to step up. His proposal? A too curious, too free spirited, too like their late as adults, they are overcome with happiness temporary move to Copenhagen, Denmark’s father. And so, before each girl leaves the and soon reestablish the relationship that capital city. He needs to be there for business small house on the riverside at the foot of should never have been fractured. However, and figures the change of scenery will do her Mount Olympus, Theodora makes sure they their encounter also reveals how they have good. Soon Sanya goes from hiding under her know they are always welcome to return. been trapped in the snares of undesirable men duvet to hiding in plain sight—a dark-skinned who threaten to ruin their lives. Dangerous Indian American in a city of blondes. A devoted and resilient mother, Theodora men who stalk and blackmail. Together, the has lived through World War II, the Nazi sisters decide to help each other get rid of Within Copenhagen’s high society, one man occupation of Greece, and her husband’s them and their evil influence, unaware that this stands out—not only because of his intriguing death, and now she endures the twenty-year- will unleash a plot of death and betrayal, filled scar but because he sees Sanya in a way long silence of her daughters’ absence. Her with unexpected twists and the spoils of a life Harry hasn’t for years. Anders Ravn owns the children have their own lives—they’ve married; full of secrets. company Harry wants to acquire, and soon traveled the world; and courted romance, Sanya begins to fall for him. As she learns of fame, and even tragedy. But as they become Harry’s infidelity, having an affair with Anders modern women in pursuit of their dreams, seems ever more tempting. Surrounded by old Theodora knows they need her—and each money, smoked fish on dark bread, and way other—more than ever. Have they grown so too many bicycles, Sanya slowly moves from far apart that they’ve forgotten their childhood, breakdown to breakthrough, but where will she or will their broken hearts finally lead them end up—and with whom? home? Book Club Fiction | 29 The Widow’s Watcher The Unremembered Girl Eliza Maxwell Eliza Maxwell Mystery & Suspense Mystery & Suspense Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 5/22/2018 Publication Date: 11/1/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 332 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the vein of Mary Kubica’s Don’t You Cry comes a psychological In the deep woods of East Texas, Henry supports his family by selling suspense novel that questions the bounds of human resilience and the bootleg liquor. It’s all he can do to keep his compassionate but ailing restorative power of hope. mother and his stepfather—a fanatical grassroots minister with a bruising rhetoric—from ruin. But they have no idea they’ve become the When Jenna Shaw loses her entire family in a plane crash, her world obsession of the girl in the woods. goes dark. She knows that grief and time heal all wounds, but that’s the last thing she wants. Her children and her husband deserve more than Abandoned and nearly feral, Eve has been watching them, seduced by to become faded memories in a photo album, while her own life moves the notion of family—something she’s known only in the most brutal inexplicably onward. Determined not to let that happen, Jenna finds sense. Soon she can’t resist the temptation to get close. Where Henry’s herself on a frozen lake, ready to end it all. When a hand reaches out to mother sees a poor girl in need, his father sees only wickedness. When pull her back from the brink, Jenna is far from grateful. Henry forges an unexpected bond with Eve, he believes he might be able to save her. He doesn’t know how wrong he is. Lars Jorgensen, her unlikely savior, has long been living in the shadow of the day his wife disappeared with two of their three children over Eve is about to take charge of her own destiny—and that of Henry’s thirty years ago. Though his wife was found a few days later, both family. As both their worlds spin violently out of control, Henry must children were gone without a trace. Jenna can’t help but be pulled in by make an impossible choice: protect the broken young woman who’s the mysteries that surround Lars and his lost family. claimed a piece of his soul, or put everyone he loves at risk in order to do the right thing. When Lars takes Jenna to visit his institutionalized wife, Audrey, things go sideways, and both women end up pushed to the brink of their emotional limits.

The Grave Tender The Spinster Wife Eliza Maxwell Christina McKenna Mystery & Suspense Family Life Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 4/11/2017 Publication Date: 10/12/2017 Page Count: 248 Page Count: 358 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

A chilling psychological suspense novel, The Grave Tender explores In this suspenseful novel, the bestselling author of The Misremembered the limits of family bonds tested by the deepest of betrayals. Man questions whether anyone can ever truly be free of the darkness within. Endless questions from a shadow-filled East Texas childhood haunt Hadley Dixon. People said her mother, Winnie, was never quite right, Rita-Mae has lived in fear for as long as she can remember. Fear of but with one single, irreparable act, life as Hadley knew it was being alone, fear of her past and, above all, fear of her husband, Harry. shattered. The aftershocks of that moonlit night left her reeling, but the Until she spots an advertisement for a vacant cottage in a small town in secrets and lies had started long before. Northern Ireland. She makes her escape filled with hope, ready to start a new life in a new home, free from the pain of her past. But her place When a widowed and pregnant Hadley returns years later, it’s not the of refuge may not be as safe—or as anonymous—as she thought. safe harbor she expects. The mysteries surrounding a local boy’s disappearance remain, and the townspeople still whisper about In another small town, Dorrie wakes up unaware of where she is or how Hadley’s strange and reclusive Uncle Eli—whispers about a monster in she got there. Adrift in a world for which she has no explanation, she their midst. needs to find answers quickly—before her shadowy past catches up with her. But Hadley’s father and grandmother, the cornerstones of everything safe in her world, avoid her questions. If Hadley stays here, will she be Walled in by secrets and with no one to trust, both Rita-Mae and Dorrie giving her children the family they need, or putting their lives in danger? are unsure of how to move forward. Can each woman face her inner demons and confront a menacing presence from the past once and for The hunt for answers takes a determined Hadley deep into the pine all? Or will the past unravel their second chance at life? forests, in search of sunlight that will break through the canopy of lies.

Book Club Fiction | 30 Half a Heart Hello Love Karen McQuestion Karen McQuestion Women’s Fiction Family Life Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 3/20/2018 Publication Date: 9/16/2014 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 264 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German, Korean, Spanish, and Turkish

Bestselling author Karen McQuestion returns with a heartwarming story “An enchanting, impossible-to-put-down novel about big hearts and about broken hearts and what it takes to put them back together again. second chances.” —Claire Cook, USA Today bestselling author of Must Love Dogs When nine-year-old mute Logan Weber’s abusive father chases him out of their Chicago apartment, he takes refuge in the back of a moving A year after the death of his wife, Christine, Dan is barely holding on. van. Trapped inside and unable to get the driver’s attention, Logan is But one thing gets him through the long, lonely nights, and that is his transported hours away, winding up in central Wisconsin. With his cherished dog, Anni. When she is stolen from his front yard, Dan and mother and maternal grandmother dead, and the fear of his father’s his daughter, Lindsay, are devastated. Meanwhile, in another part of rage looming, he decides to try to make it on his own. town, Andrea Keller is recovering from the heartbreak of a messy divorce. After she rescues a defenseless dog from an abusive tenant, When Logan finds an abandoned tree house in the woods, he claims her life changes in ways she never could have anticipated. it as his new home. Nearby residents spot him coming and going, arousing their curiosity, but it’s not until a big storm hits that they realize Dan and Andrea cross paths again and again, only to keep missing he’s alone, and he’s taken in. Joanne is an elderly widow who lives each other and the opportunity of a lifetime. As Anni works to find her nearby with her beloved dog, Samson. Joanne eventually convinces a way home, can she bring together these two lost souls desperately in timid Logan to stay with her while she works with the authorities to try need of a second chance at happiness? to get him back home.

Logan brings the town together to unravel the mystery of who he is and where he came from, while his father and a very-much-alive maternal grandmother are separately on the road in a race to find him.

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

Four women bound by chance take the trip of Karen McQuestion deftly blends romance and “McQuestion writes with a sharp eye and a a lifetime in Karen McQuestion’s fifth novel comedy in this delightful romp where love is sure voice, and as a reader, I was willing to go The Long Way Home. discovered in the most unexpected of places. wherever she wanted to take me.” —Carolyn Parkhurst, author of The Dogs of Babel For Wisconsinites Marnie, Laverne, and Rita, When twenty-nine-year-old Lola Watson life isn’t working out so well. Each is biding unexpectedly inherits a rambling house in the Free spirit Skyla Plinka has found the love time, waiting for something better, something suburbs, she thinks her life just couldn’t be and stability she always wanted in her reliable to transport them out of what their lives have more perfect—until her new neighbors make husband, Thomas. Settling into her new family recently become. And then there’s Jazzy: her their “project,” a heartbroken high school and roles as wife and mother, Skyla finds life bubbly, positive, and happy even though she friend crashes indefinitely at her house, and in rural Wisconsin satisfying, but she can’t hears voices of the departed. Brought together her younger sister announces she’s getting seem to quell her growing sense of by a chance meeting, the women decide to married, on Lola’s thirtieth birthday. Suddenly restlessness. Skyla’s only reprieve is her join Marnie on a road trip from Wisconsin to Lola’s not so keen on her newfound domestic growing friendship with neighbor Roxanne, Las Vegas, where she intends to reunite with bliss. But when she meets handsome, who has five kids (and counting) and a life in Troy, the boy she raised as her own—and mysterious Ryan Moriarty, Lola dares to hope constant disarray—but also a life filled with who she’s been separated from since her she’s found the perfect guy to one-up her laughter and love. boyfriend’s death. Little do they know that as sister and add a little spice back into her life. the road trip unfolds, so will their lives—in Much to the dismay of her intrusive mother-in- directions they never anticipated. Humorous, This lighthearted romantic comedy from Karen law, Audrey, Skyla takes a part-time job at heartwarming, and bittersweet, the journey McQuestion is headlined by a charming cast the local bookstore and slowly begins to has something special in store for each of characters, led by the self-deprecatingly rediscover her voice, independence, and woman. funny Lola. Breezy and fun, Easily Amused confidence. Throughout one pivotal year in the serves as a gentle, often amusing reminder life of Skyla, Audrey, and Roxanne, all three that love can be found in the place we least very different women will learn what it means expect—under our very noses. to love unconditionally.

Book Club Fiction | 31 A Kate Bradley Mystery

The Man I Thought Good Sam In Silence (Im You Were Dete Meserve Lautlosen) Leah Mercer Women’s Fiction Melanie Metzenthin Family Life Imprint: Lake Union Historical Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Publishing Publication Date: 6/20/2017 German Language Publication Date: 7/25/2017 Page Count: 238 Publication Date: 7/11/2017 Page Count: 242 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 526 Rights Acquired: English, Languages Rights Acquired: All German, French, Italian, Languages and Spanish

One autumn evening, Anna returns from work Ten seemingly random people in Los Angeles A stirring novel about true love in troubled and starts making dinner, eager to welcome just found $100,000 sitting on their porches. times. home her husband, Mark. It’s just like any No one knows where the money came from or other day in their ten-year, Pinterest-perfect why. When seasoned TV news reporter Kate Hamburg, 1926: Richard and Paula are two of marriage—until he says he’s leaving her. Bradley starts asking questions, this feel-good the most talented medical students in their story becomes a mystery. How far will Kate go university class in the Hanseatic city. They are Discovering that the man she thought she to identify the generous soul known as “Good linked by more than a passion for the medical knew better than anyone else is capable of Sam,” who doesn’t seem to want to be found? profession—they fall helplessly in love with abandoning it all sends Anna reeling. She each other. believed the life they’d built together—and the With all the impostors, red herrings, and even bright future they’d imagined—counted for an attraction to one of her “suspects,” Kate When twins Emilia and Georg are born after everything. How can he walk away? The truth finds herself questioning everyone’s motives— they wed, Richard and Paula feel their fortune is, Mark is battling secrets of his own—secrets those of strangers, her family, and even her is complete, even though Georg is deaf. Then Anna knows nothing about. A painful past and own. The most dangerous thing Kate can do is the National Socialists come to power, and the an uncertain future threaten to bring his life lower her guard and let herself believe. But life of the young family is changed forever. down around him—and he’ll do anything not to “Good Sam” has started something in the Richard is now a psychiatrist at the medical expose her to that. world: change. And Kate won’t just find the facilities in Langenhorn and refuses to comply story of a lifetime, she might live it, too. with the inhumane Nazi laws, which also affect But unraveling the past is lonelier than Mark his deaf son. In order to prevent his patients could ever have imagined, and as the days from being euthanized, he creates falsified turn to months, Anna worries that the assessments. Then he takes a risk that not separation will break them forever. Can she only threatens his life but also his family... bring him back from the brink of self- destruction before it’s too late, or will she discover that she never really knew him at all?

Neighborly A Christmas Flower Piñata Tears Ellie Monago Bryan Mooney Cari Noga Mystery & Suspense Romance Family Life Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publishing Publishing Publication Date: 3/1/2018 Publication Date: 9/5/2017 Publication Date: 5/8/2018 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 290 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

With a plot twist you won’t see coming and a When a New England Christmas reunites two Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards finalist suburban block full of suspects, Neighborly will lifelong friends, romance blooms. From the and the author of Sparrow Migrations, Cari have you turning pages feverishly, wondering author of Christmas in Vermont. Noga returns with a poignant, staggeringly what it really means to love your neighbor. honest novel perfect for fans of Catherine Miracles are like snowflakes—no two are Ryan Hyde, which explores the power of grief Your poor little girl…New mom Kat Engells alike, but each one is precious and beautiful. and the universal question of how we find stares at the note that’s been left by her front This Christmas, Dr. Beth Harding could use a hope in true home. door like a parody of a welcome mat. She few miracles. The hospital she runs in River recognizes the cardboard. It’s her own Dale, New Hampshire, is being shut down, Five years after the end of a marriage garbage that she “distributed” in the neighbors’ unless she can convince the Scrooge-like bookended by loss, prickly empty nester Jane trash bags one night while she couldn’t sleep. board to save it. At least her closest friend, McArdle is finally content on her small She knows it was a crazy thing to do, but her firefighter Logan Mitchell, is home for the Michigan farm, nurturing it with the love she husband, Doug, forgot to call for the garbage holidays to offer a broad shoulder to lean on. fears investing in relationships. Then, without pickup, and if she left the mess outside their warning, she is thrust back into motherhood new house, what would the neighbors think? In California, Logan is a smoke jumper, but when her ten-year-old orphaned niece, Lucy, jumping into a romance with his best friend moves in with her, bringing a whole lot of hefty Does your husband know? When the second scares him more than any forest fire. After baggage, including a bizarre phobia and a note arrives, Kat has to take it more seriously. losing his parents at sixteen, Logan was taken secret plan to run away to Mexico and live with After all, the whole point of moving here was in by Beth’s family. As kids, they were like other relatives. But can Jane move past her to provide a safe life for her baby, Sadie. That brother and sister. Now they’re grown up, and own emotional baggage to support her new was why Kat and her husband spent every sparks keep flying between them. If only Beth unlikely family? cent they had to move, why they put wasn’t already engaged. Maybe with a themselves into a debt far greater than money. Christmas miracle or two, Beth can keep those Piñata Tears paints a beautiful story about hospital doors open—and two dear friends can how we free ourselves from the trap of All their new neighbors seem so nice, but as finally allow their one true love to blossom. becoming our own worst enemies, and the the notes escalate, so do Kat’s nerves and transformational power of learning to move on paranoia. Which one of them is it? When from grief. everyone’s so friendly, it could be any of them. Book Club Fiction | 32 Sweet Lake Novels

Sweet Lake (Book One) The Comfort of Secrets Christine Nolfi (Book Two) Romance Christine Nolfi Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Romance Publication Date: 2/28/2017 Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Page Count: 306 Publication Date: 7/18/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 318 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Linnie Wayfair knows just how many people are counting on her. But Cat Mendoza needs a win. After a business failure and years of dating knowing doesn’t make doing any easier. the wrong men, she’s ready to turn things around.

Everyone in Sweet Lake, Ohio, wants her to muster all her business First she must convince the residents of Sweet Lake, Ohio, that she’s sense and return the Wayfair Inn to its former glory. Her parents hope taking her responsibilities seriously. As the events director of the newly she’ll forgive her scoundrel of a brother and reconcile the family. The restored Wayfair Inn, she has the support of her best friends, Linnie eccentric Sweet Lake Sirens want her to open the inn—and her heart— and Jada. But everyone else—including her overprotective mother and to new possibilities. And her hilarious lifelong friends Jada and Cat are the well-meaning Sweet Lake Sirens—can’t help but chime in with dropping none-too-subtle hints for her to ignite a romance with Daniel advice about her plans, her apparently too-tight clothes, and her Kettering, the sexy attorney who’s been pining for her for years… undeniable attraction to Ryan D’Angelo, the charming ad exec hired to promote the inn. Now a shocking turn of events will open old wounds and upend the world Linnie has carefully built. She has to make changes quickly—and Cat knows she should keep Ryan at a distance, but she’s drawn closer the results, though not entirely what she expected, might be what she’s by the heartbreak he tries to hide. Will uncovering his secrets derail the been yearning for all along. new life Cat hopes to achieve…or will she gain something to cherish forever?

Digging In House of Roses Loretta Nyhan Barbara O’Neal Women’s Fiction Family Drama Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 4/1/2018 Publication Date: 7/17/2018 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

In author Loretta Nyhan’s warm, witty, and wonderful novel, a widow From established author Barbara O’Neal comes House of Roses—The discovers an unexpected chance to start over—right in her own House by the Lake meets Under the Tuscan Sun. backyard. When thirty-nine-year old Olivia Shaw sees Blackmere Priory for the Paige Moresco found her true love in eighth grade—and lost him two first time—an abandoned estate in the English countryside she never years ago. Since his death, she’s been sleepwalking through life, barely knew was in her family—everything she knows about her mother, and holding on for the sake of her teenage son. Her house is a wreck, the thus herself, is thrown into question. It’s the last straw in a run of grass is overrun with weeds, and she’s at risk of losing her job. As crushing events in her life, the worst of which was her mother’s Paige stares at her neglected lawn, she knows she’s hit rock bottom. unexpected death just a month before. So she does something entirely unexpected: she begins to dig. Olivia learns about her inheritance when she’s cleaning up her mother’s As the hole gets bigger, Paige decides to turn her entire yard into a house in San Francisco and finds paperwork from a London solicitor. vegetable garden. The neighbors in her tidy gated community are more She travels to England, where the first sight of the house, catching the than a little alarmed. Paige knows nothing about gardening, and she’s last gold light of afternoon, takes her breath away. Olivia finds herself boldly flouting neighborhood-association bylaws. But with the help of letting her guard down, and meets an array of new friends. But when a new friends, a charming local cop, and the transformative power of the part of the estate burns down, Olivia wonders if it’s all worth it. Maybe soil, Paige begins to see potential in the chaos of her life. Something she shouldn’t have even come to England. When surprising, haunting big is beginning to take root—both in her garden and in herself. secrets are revealed about her mother, her grandmother, her family, and what happened in that house, Olivia’s world is nearly shattered. But questioning her own history causes her to question how she wants to live her life. And she just might decide that this new, good, true life is the right one for her after all.

Book Club Fiction | 33 Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties Camille Pagán Women’s Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 2/27/2018 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

From bestselling author Camille Pagán comes a hilarious and hopeful story about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough.

At fifty-three, Maggie Harris has a good marriage and two mostly happy children. Perpetually anxious, she’s also accumulated a list of semi-reasonable fears: falling air conditioners, the IRS, identity theft, skydiving, and airbag recalls. But never once did Maggie worry that her husband of nearly thirty years would leave her. On the day Adam walks out the door, everything that made Maggie secure walks out with him. And his departure reveals an unfortunate truth: while Maggie has been busy caring for everyone else, she’s become invisible to the world—and herself.

Maggie cautiously begins to rebuild her life with a trip to Rome, a new career, and even a rebound romance. But when crisis strikes, she has to choose between the safety of a well-trod route and the shaky promise of a new path. An uncertain future looming, Maggie must decide: how much will she risk to remain the woman she’s just become?

Forever is the Worst Long Time Camille Pagán Family Life Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Page Count: 286 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English) and Spanish

From acclaimed author Camille Pagán comes a wry, heartfelt exploration of love and loss.

When struggling novelist James Hernandez meets poet Louisa “Lou” Bell, he’s sure he’s found the love of his life. There’s just one problem: she’s engaged to his friend, Rob. So James toasts their union and swallows his desire.

As the years pass, James’s dreams always seem just out of reach—he can’t finish that novel, can’t mend his relationship with his father, can’t fully commit to a romantic relationship. He just can’t move on. But after betrayal fractures Lou’s once-solid marriage, she turns to James for comfort. When Lou and James act on their long- standing mutual attraction, the consequences are more heartbreaking—and miraculous—than 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.

Life and Other Near-Death Experiences Camille Pagán Romance Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 11/1/2015 Page Count: 254 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German, Indonesian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish

From critically acclaimed author Camille Pagán comes a hilarious and hopeful story about a woman choosing between a “perfect” life and actually living.

Libby Miller has always been an optimist—but when her husband drops a bomb on their marriage the same day a doctor delivers devastating news, she realizes her rose-colored glasses have actually been blinding her.

With nothing left to lose, she abandons her life in Chicago for the clear waters and bright beaches of the Caribbean for what might be her last hurrah. Despite her new sunny locale, her plans go awry when she finds that she can’t quite outrun the past or bring herself 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 new relationship on the horizon, Libby is determined to forget about fate. Will she risk it all to live—and love—a little longer?

Book Club Fiction | 34 Everything the Heart A Sister’s Place Beneath the Water Wants Savannah Page Sarah Painter Savannah Page Family Life Mystery & Suspense Women’s Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publishing Publishing Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Publication Date: 2/8/2018 Publication Date: Page Count: 400 Page Count: 340 12/12/2017 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Languages Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Writer Halley Brennan couldn’t dream up a Sometimes the friend you’ve always needed is Devastated by a broken engagement, Stella better love story than her own. Married for the sister you’ve always had. Jackson packs up her old life and runs away eleven years, she and her husband, Adam, to rural Scotland. But her new job in the are still living their happily ever after. They Throughout the years, sisters Gracie and remote coastal village of Arisaig—assistant to both know what they want—and don’t want— Juliette Bennett have let life’s changes pull the elusive, eccentric Jamie Munro—is not at for their life together. And that includes being them in opposite directions. But when their all what she expected. child-free. But when one of them has a change beloved grandmother Mimi passes away, of heart about wanting a baby, it brings their they’re drawn back together in the most Windswept Munro House is grand, imposing marriage and life plans into harsher focus. unexpected way. Set to inherit the family and said to be cursed by a string of tragic home, the estranged sisters learn there’s a deaths. No less mysterious is its owner, Devastated that this bombshell might destroy catch: the house can be theirs, but only if they Jamie, whose obsession with cracking the their relationship, Halley finds comfort in her agree to live in it for one year—together. secret of eternal life is at odds with Stella’s closest friends: Nina, who’s finally pregnant pessimistic outlook. But she soon finds herself after years of trying; her sister, Charlotte, an Suddenly Gracie, a pragmatic paralegal who’s drawn in by a discovery in the family archives: overwhelmed mother of three; and Marian, a always stayed close to home; and Juliette, an a cache of increasingly erratic letters from successful businesswoman who regrets letting intrepid recent NYU grad in search of the next Jessie Lockhart to her husband, a Victorian go of her one true love. thrill, are living under one roof. Forced to doctor determined, like Jamie, to defy the reexamine their relationship, they find boundaries of science... Now, with their guidance and support, Halley themselves confronting their pasts and begins a painful journey of self-discovery. As bonding over love, heartbreak, and deeply As Stella’s feelings for Jamie grow, so too do she searches her heart to make a life- held secrets. Soon they’ll discover whether a her suspicions of an eerie connection between changing decision for both herself and Adam, sister’s love is what they need to get them the Lockharts and the Munros—one that could she realizes that someone is bound to get through their darkest hours—and if their throw doubt on Jamie’s motives and put Stella hurt. Will their perfect love be too great a grandmother’s clever plan can preserve more in grave danger as well. She’s finally started to sacrifice for everything her heart wants? than just a piece of family history. see the value in her own life—but is it too late?

Still I Miss You In Your Hands Trespassing Inês Pedrosa Inês Pedrosa Brandi Reeds Family Life Historical Fiction Mystery & Suspense Imprint: AmazonCrossing Imprint: AmazonCrossing Imprint: Lake Union Publication Date: 2/12/2019 Publication Date: 7/3/2018 Publishing Page Count: 320 Page Count: 208 Publication Date: 4/1/2018 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Languages, excluding Languages, excluding Rights Acquired: All Portuguese, Spanish, and Portuguese, Spanish, and Languages Italian Italian

“Still I Miss You is a marvelous novel, a ballad Written so intimately that the reader feels like A gripping psychological suspense novel that of disenchantment.” —Diário de Notícias part of the family, In Your Hands is a rich, is sure to appeal to fans of Gillian Flynn’s (Portugal) sweeping tale of secrets hidden and revealed Sharp Objects and Diane Chamberlain’s The for three generations of Portuguese women Silent Sister. “Amidst the triumph of the commonplace, this during the first two-thirds of the twentieth novel by Inês Pedrosa is a mad torrent, a century. Each woman narrates her own story, Veronica Cavanaugh’s world is falling apart. thread of light, a storm to which no one could deepening the reader’s connection to a family Her daughter has acquired a disturbing remain immune or indifferent.” —Grande at once unique and universal. imaginary friend; her latest round of IVF not Reportagem (Portugal) only failed but left her completely off-kilter; and Jenny tells of her complex marriage to a her husband, a pilot, still hasn’t returned from A love story told across lines we never homosexual whom she deeply loves, and who a business trip. After her daughter’s repeated consider crossing, Still I Miss You is narrated introduces her to a world she had never insistence that “Daddy’s gone to God Land,” by two perspectives—a man and a woman— considered as an upper-class woman in 1930s and her discovery that the company her whose voices intertwine to tell the story of their Lisbon. Her daughter, Camila, a photographer, husband works for doesn’t in fact exist, intense relationship. Somewhere between captured moments in her family’s history—and Veronica brings in the police. But she has a passion and friendship, this couple finds her country’s—throughout the 1940s and family history of mental illness, and it isn’t long themselves separated by the one thing they 1950s, and only hints at the tale of her one before suspicion falls firmly on her. She thinks cannot change: the woman died young. But true love. But finally young Natália, Camila’s she’s being watched, and when she finds their love is stronger than life and death, and daughter, sets out to find her father. As Natália stacks of money and a deed to a mysterious the power of their story is an emotional tour de sees more and more how her family has house in Florida, she decides to flee town. In force. shaped her, the relationships between three Key West, with the help of an enigmatic generations of Portuguese women are neighbor, she begins to find answers—but not Still I Miss You was originally written in deepened by the truths that bind them. the ones she expects. And as she struggles to Portuguese and will be translated into English. put the puzzle pieces together, she begins to In Your Hands was originally written in wonder—is she losing her grip on reality? Or Portuguese and is being translated into does someone want her and her daughter English by Andrea Rosenberg. dead?

Book Club Fiction | 35 As Good as True When the Glass The Secret Life of Mrs. Cheryl Reid Breaks London Family Drama Liz Rosenberg Rebecca Rosenberg Imprint: Lake Union Family Drama Historical Fiction Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publication Date: 2/1/2018 Publishing Publishing Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 5/29/2018 Publication Date: 1/30/2018 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

A powerful and haunting novel of a woman’s A resonant, mesmerizing family drama San Francisco, 1915. As America teeters on broken past and the painful choices she must exploring a close-knit community, loyalty, the brink of world war, Charmian and her make to keep her family and her home. secrets, and the burdens of the past. husband, famed novelist Jack London, wrestle with genius and desire, politics and marital August 1956. After a night of rage and terror, April Johanssen is dead within ten days of her competitiveness. Charmian longs to be viewed Anna Nassad wakes to find her abusive diagnosis, accepting and calm at seventy-five- as an equal partner who put her own career husband dead and instinctively hides her years-old. She had always been a predictable, on hold to support her husband, but Jack bruises and her relief. As the daughter of devoted wife and mother. But her will sends doesn’t see it that way…until Charmian is Syrian immigrants living in segregated everything into chaos. Her daughters learn pulled from the audience during a magic show Alabama, Anna has never belonged, and now that they have an older half brother they never by escape artist Harry Houdini, a man her world is about to erupt. knew about—and he’s inherited some of the enmeshed in his own complicated marriage. family property in Worcester, Massachusetts. Suddenly, charmed by the attention Houdini Days before, Anna set in motion an explosive pays her and entranced by his sexual chain of events by allowing the first black The eldest of April’s two daughters, Louisa, magnetism, Charmian’s eyes open to a world postman to deliver the mail to her house. But left a raucous party as a teenager, which of possibilities that could be her escape. it’s her impulsive act of inviting him inside for a allowed her to escape a devastating fire that glass of water that raises doubts about Anna’s killed five of her closest friends and scarred As Charmian grapples with her urge to explore role in her husband’s death. five others for life. The survivors are a close- the forbidden, Jack’s increasingly reckless knit group of friends who never discuss their behavior threatens her dedication. Now torn As threats and suspicions arise in the angry own secrets, or the past. The youngest, between two of history’s most mysterious and community, Anna must confront her secrets in Paulie, is happily married to a lawyer; but he is charismatic figures, she must find the courage the face of devastating turmoil and reconcile an outsider because he grew up in a different to forge her own path, even as she fears the her anguished relationship with her daughter. part of Worcester in an Italian, rather than a loss of everything she holds dear. Will she discover the strength to fight for those Swedish, family. April’s young teenage she loves most, even if it means losing all daughter is keeping secrets of her own. And she’s ever known? when the half brother arrives from England, he stirs up a long-dormant hornet’s nest.

Autumn in Oxford The Girl From Krakow Husbands and Other Alex Rosenberg Alex Rosenberg Sharp Objects Mystery & Suspense Historical Fiction Marilyn Simon Rothstein Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Women’s Fiction Publishing Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publication Date: 8/30/2016 Publication Date: 9/1/2015 Publishing Page Count: 428 Page Count: 454 Publication Date: 3/6/2018 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Languages Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Sold: Hebrew, Languages Hungarian, Italian, and Polish

After being blacklisted for having communist It’s 1935. Rita Feuerstahl comes to the A novel of marriage, divorce, lovers and other sympathies as a student twenty years before, university in Krakow intent on enjoying her strangers from the author of Lift and Separate. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Tom Wrought freedom. But life has other things in store— escapes America’s Cold War climate to teach marriage, a love affair, a child, all in the Just as Marcy Hammer is ready to get herself at Oxford. There, he falls in love with Liz shadows of the oncoming war. When the war unhitched, everyone else in her life is Spencer, a beautiful married woman. When arrives, Rita is armed with a secret so suddenly looking for a commitment. Her soon- Liz’s husband is pushed in front of a train in enormous that it could cost the Allies to-be ex-husband, Harvey, wants to get back the London Underground, Tom is immediately everything, even as it gives her the will to live. together. Her new boyfriend is making noise arrested for the murder. Scotland Yard is She must find a way both to keep her secret about getting serious. And her headstrong convinced it has its man, as he had means, and to survive amid the chaos of Europe at daughter, Amanda, announces a secret motive, and opportunity. war. Living by her wits among the Germans as engagement—to her father’s attorney. their conquests turn to defeat, she seeks a Certain of his innocence, Liz hires a young way to prevent the inevitable doom of Nazism With a divorce and a wedding on the horizon, solicitor, Alice Silverstone, to defend Tom. But from making her one of its last victims. Can Marcy must keep the rest of the Hammers on they discover that Tom’s former secret work her passion and resolve outlast the most track. She soon finds herself fielding as an American spy made him a number of powerful evil that Europe has ever seen? arguments over an ever-growing guest list, powerful enemies. Russian intelligence, British doubting the trustworthiness of her sticky- counterespionage, and even the FBI all may In an epic saga that spans from Paris in the fingered new in-laws, and seeing marriage in a have reason to frame him. If Liz and Alice can thirties and Spain’s Civil War to Moscow, whole new light. Planning this wedding is find out who is behind the murder, they stand Warsaw, and the heart of Nazi Germany, The going to be a challenge. Seeing her divorce a chance of freeing Tom, but doing so puts all Girl from Krakow follows one woman’s battle though to its bitter end is going to be a trial. their lives at risk. for survival as entire nations are torn apart, And trying to make everybody happy could never to be the same. drive Marcy crazy—because she’s the one who has to make a choice between something old and something new. Book Club Fiction | 36 Daughters of the Night Drawing Lessons Sky Patricia Sands Aimie K. Runyan Family Life Historical Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 10/1/2017 Publication Date: 1/1/2018 Page Count: 352 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

A novel—inspired by the most celebrated regiment in the Red Army— The author of the Love in Provence series returns to the South of about a woman’s sacrifice, courage, and love in a time of war. France with a poignant portrait of a woman who must learn how to create a new life for herself… Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she’s dreamed of Sixty-two-year-old Arianna arrives in the South of France for a two- taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on week artists’ workshop full of anticipation but burdened by guilt. Back the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve home in Toronto, she has been living with the devastating diagnosis of her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties of her new her husband’s dementia and the heartbreak of watching the man she husband—a sensitive artist who fears for her safety—can dissuade her has loved for decades slip away before her eyes. What does her future from doing her part as a proud daughter of Russia. hold without Ben? Before her is a blank canvas.

After years of arduous training, Katya is assigned to the 588th Night Encouraged by her family to take some time for herself, she has Bomber Regiment—one of the only Soviet air units comprised entirely traveled to Arles to set up her easel in the same fields of poppies and of women. The Germans quickly learn to fear nocturnal raids by the sunflowers that inspired Van Gogh. Gradually, she rediscovers the daring fliers they call “Night Witches.” But the brutal campaign will exact inner artist she abandoned long ago. Drawing strength from the warm a bitter toll on Katya and her sisters-in-arms. When the smoke of war companionship and gentle wisdom of her fellow artists at the retreat— clears, nothing will ever be the same—and one of Russia’s most as well as the vitality of guest lecturer Jacques de Villeneuve, an artist decorated military heroines will face the most agonizing choice of all. and a cowboy—Arianna searches her heart for permission to embrace the life in front of her and, like the sunflowers, once again face the light.

No Life Without You Between Me and You (Kein Leben ohne dich) Allison Winn Scotch Marnie Schaefers Romance Contemporary Fiction / Young-Adult Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Crossover Publication Date: 1/9/2018 Imprint: Tinte & Feder - German Page Count: TBD Language Rights Acquired: All Languages Publication Date: 4/18/2017 Page Count: 540 Rights Acquired: All Languages

“Erinnere dich (Remember)”—two important words that are engraved From New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch comes on Joah’s forearm. But what, damn it, should be remembered? an honest, touching, and funny exploration of falling in and out of love, told from two perspectives—one rewinding history, one moving it Joah is seventeen years old and in love for the first time, but otherwise forward—and each with bias and regret. anything but an ordinary boy. Everywhere he senses conspiracies. Especially after his brother’s tragic death. He prefers to stay away from When their paths first cross, Ben Livingston is a fledgling screenwriter other people. on the brink of success; Tatum Connelly is a struggling actress tending bar in a New York City dive. They fall in love, marry, become parents, When Joah accidentally overhears a private conversation between his and think only of the future. But as the years go by, Tatum’s stardom parents that reveals devastating secrets, he is outraged. What if his rises while Ben’s fades. In a marriage that bears the fallout of ambition paranoia is right? Who can be trusted? Maybe Sue, the girl for whom and fame, Ben and Tatum are at a crossroads. Now all they can do is he develops feelings against all reason? He is getting scared. For think back… himself. For Sue. And for a world where nothing is as it seems. A life of passion, joy, tragedy, and loss—once shared—becomes one No Life Without You tells the story of Ian’s brother, Joah, and Finn’s as shifting and unpredictable as a memory. As the pieces of their pasts sister, Sue, continuing the story from the author’s previous book, A Life come together, as they explore the ways love can bend and break, Ben with You Is Not Enough. Both novels can be read together or as stand- and Tatum come to see how it all went wrong—and wonder what they alones. can do now to make it all right.

Book Club Fiction | 37 Tips for Living A Bitter Rain Renée Shafransky James D. Shipman Mystery & Suspense Historical Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 2/1/2018 Publication Date: 11/14/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 396 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

On the day Nora discovered that her husband, Hugh, had gotten From the author of bestselling historical novels It Is Well and Going another woman pregnant, she made a vow: I will come back to life no Home comes a provocative story of a Nazi soldier torn between duty matter how long it takes… and conscience.

It’s taken Nora three years. With the help of her best friend, she fled East Prussia, Nazi Germany, 1939. History professor Erik Mueller is a New York City for a small resort town, snagged a job as the advice model citizen and a family man. He’s also a decorated sergeant in the columnist for the local paper, and cautiously let a new man into her life. Gestapo. Proving his courage on the battlefields of Poland and the But when Hugh and his perfect new family move into a summer house Soviet Union, and proud of the German army’s victories across Europe, nearby, Nora backslides. Coping with jealousy, humiliation, and he embraces what he thinks is the righteousness of the Third Reich’s resentment again is as hard as she feared. It’s harder still when Hugh cause. and his wife are shot to death in their home. But his loyalties are soon tested when he crosses paths with his old If only Nora could account for the night of the murders. Unfortunately, university friend Trude Bensheim. Forced into unemployment for being her memories have gone as dark as her fantasies of revenge. But Jewish, Trude and her husband start a secret organization to help Jews Nora’s not the only one with a reason to kill—and as the prime suspect escape Germany. But when they are betrayed by someone they in the crime, she’d better be able to prove it. thought they could trust, their lives hang in the balance.

Erik feels responsible for Trude’s capture, and he knows he’s in a position to help them. But when everything he holds dear is at stake, will he save his friends…or himself?

Do Not Photograph No Time To Blink Soldiers Crying (No Dina Silver fotografíes soldados Mystery & Suspense llorando) Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Jordi Sierra i Fabra Publication Date: 2/13/2018 Page Count: TBD Contemporary Fiction Rights Acquired: All Languages Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Spanish Language Publication Date: 10/31/2017 Page Count: 238 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Damián is young, adventurous, and an excellent photographer. At From the author of The Unimaginable comes an unputdownable family twenty-five, he embarks on his first mission as a war correspondent drama about a woman and her mother coming to terms with a terrifying with the Spanish army in Bosnia to capture the harsh reality of the abduction in their past. conflict. He takes his camera and some very clear instructions: Do not take unnecessary risks, stay close to the troops, and, last and most Greenwich, 1970: Young socialite Catherine meets a very handsome important, do not photograph soldiers crying. But Damián knows that Lebanese man, Gabriel. He’s older, established, exciting, mysterious: the latter is the perfect photograph when he witnesses the scene. The Catherine falls madly in love with him. When she discovers that she is shot will lead him to seek the truth behind a dark mystery at the heart of pregnant, Gabriel urges her to move with him to Beirut. Once there, the army. Gabriel turns into a different person overnight; he is controlling, and objects to even the slightest show of independence. He forbids her Thanks to the literary prowess of Sierra i Fabra, we accompany the from talking to her family, and locks away her passport. He also has an photographer in his struggle to break the code of silence and affair. Catherine’s efforts to fight back prove useless, so she retreats: demonstrate that not everything is fair in war. she will play the role of dutiful Lebanese wife as long as it takes her to formulate a plan to get out. After she has the baby, she escapes to the United States and files for divorce. But three months later, Gabriel weaves himself back into her life; after convincing Catherine to let him visit his baby, he kidnaps Ann-Marie and brings her back to Beirut. Again, Catherine must bide her time until she can return to Beirut. This time she must rescue her daughter from this horror.

Through alternating timelines, we learn the incredible story of Ann Marie’s abduction, both as the adult Ann Marie learns of it and as her mother experiences it. Book Club Fiction | 38 What Lies Below The Truth We Bury One Wrong Turn Barbara Taylor Sissel Barbara Taylor Sissel Deanna Lynn Sletten Family Drama Mystery & Suspense Family Life Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publishing Publishing Publication Date: 5/15/2018 Publication Date: 7/25/2017 Publication Date: 6/20/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 306 Page Count: 206 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages Rights Sold: Italian

A riveting domestic suspense novel about a In this intense, multilayered domestic drama, Author Deanna Lynn Sletten returns with an woman haunted by her past, a missing child, two families become entangled in a web of unforgettable novel about one man’s crisis of and secrets revealed that threaten to shatter lies, secrets, and betrayal that results in an act self and his greatest act of love. the rugged world of small-town Wyatt, Texas. of violence so shocking that their love may not survive. The words “I’m her husband” roll off Clay Gillian O’Connell, a 38-year-old recovering Connors’s tongue, but with his estranged wife alcoholic, is working as a waitress at the local On the outside, Lily Isley’s life seems perfect: lying in a coma—and no assurance that she’ll café, when Jake Halstead, the 42-year-old a wealthy husband, a ritzy gated community in awaken—he knows he’s perilously close to owner of a concrete company, confesses he’s Dallas, and a handsome son, AJ—a decorated losing everything. A singular, terrifying lost his wallet and can’t pay the tab for his and marine about to be married to his love, Shea. accident has left Jess Connors suspended his daughter, Zoe’s, breakfast. New to the But when a bridesmaid is murdered in AJ’s between life and death. Now Clay is reunited area, Gilly barely knows Jake, and she’s apartment and he can’t be found, Lily’s world with the family he hasn’t seen for two years, alarmed to hear herself advising him to look collapses, and a long-held family secret is at including the daughters he left behind. for the wallet in his garage atop the tool chest, risk of exposure. the one with the initials AJH engraved on it. Clay should have been there for his family. Where has she come by the information? Dru Gallagher’s life took a different course. The alcohol that took over his life destroyed She’s never been to Jake’s house. After her ex-husband, suffering from post- everything but his self-preservation. Sober traumatic stress, threatened her and her and haunted, Clay reflects on how his life Gilly’s prediction regarding Jake’s wallet daughter, Shea, with a shotgun, Dru was unraveled. He hopes that by trying to re- leaves her shaken. That night, she is even forced to leave her marriage and forge ahead connect with the daughter who blames him more disturbed when she wakens from a as a working-class single mom. Now, the and the daughter who barely knew him, he dream in which she has witnessed the anger she sees in war veteran AJ’s eyes is can find a light of hope in this darkest hour. abduction of a child, a little girl. The realization heartbreakingly familiar—and makes Dru As his family faces its most grueling test yet, that it was only a dream is of little comfort. It deeply afraid for her daughter’s safety… Clay must summon the courage to make right wasn’t just any little girl Gilly witnessed being especially after Shea’s best friend and maid of what was wrong—and find forgiveness from kidnapped; it was Jake’s little girl, Zoe. honor is found dead. his harshest judge: himself.

Sisters One, Two, Three Half Past Nancy Star Victoria Helen Stone Family Life Mystery & Suspense Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 1/1/2017 Publication Date: 9/19/2017 Page Count: 354 Page Count: 254 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Ukrainian

After a tragic accident on Martha’s Vineyard, keeping secrets becomes At forty-five, Hannah Smith is at a crossroads. That’s her spin on it. The a way of life for the Tangle family. With memories locked away, the reality is she’s divorced, jobless, and moving back to her family home in sisters take divergent paths. Callie disappears, Mimi keeps so busy she Iowa to keep an eye on her mother, who’s slipping into dementia. Her has no time to think, and Ginger develops a lifelong aversion to risk that return stirs up the same unnerving sense of disconnect Hannah has felt threatens the relationships she holds most dear. since childhood—always the odd girl out, the loner outshone by her two older sisters. Hannah knew the feelings of hurt would come back. But When a whispered comment overheard by her rebellious teenage she never expected fear. Because when her mother looks into her eyes daughter forces Ginger to reveal a long-held family secret, the Tangles’ and whispers, “You’re not my daughter,” Hannah is beginning to carefully constructed web of lies begins to unravel. Upon the death of believe it’s not just the ramblings of a confused woman. Glory, the family’s colorful matriarch, and the return of long-estranged Callie, Ginger resolves to return to Martha’s Vineyard and piece It’s the truth. together what really happened on that calamitous day when a shadow fell over four sun-kissed siblings playing at the shore. Along with Now Hannah’s following the trail of a family mystery to the dark coast of Ginger’s newfound understanding come the keys to reconciliation: with Big Sur, where years ago a lie was born—and buried. As frightened as her mother, with her sisters, and with her daughter. she is to unearth it, Hannah knows this is the last chance she has before her past—and all its terrible secrets—are lost forever. 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.

Book Club Fiction | 39 Beneath a Scarlet Sky All That’s Left of Me Mark Sullivan Janis Thomas Historical Fiction Family Drama Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 5/1/2017 Publication Date: 6/12/2018 Page Count: 526 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: All Languages Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese Rights Sold: Italian and Simplified Chinese

A USA Today, Wall Street Journal, #1 Amazon Charts, and #1 When I’m Gone meets The Lovely Bones in this riveting family drama. Kindle bestseller. The Davenport family is hurtling toward chaos. After the death of five- Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, Beneath a Scarlet Sky is year-old Jonah, mother Rachel can barely get out of bed. Her grief- the epic tale of one young man’s courage and resilience during one of stricken stupor has drained the energy she needs to be there for her history’s darkest hours. Fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The family. No one told her parenthood could be like this. Dad Samuel is Nightingale will enjoy this riveting saga of history, suspense, and love. trying to maintain some semblance of a life. He wishes he could comfort Rachel, but someone has to be strong for the family. Yet Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a typical Samuel knows he needs to grieve, too. And Greta, his nubile assistant Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of at work, is tempting him and could be the outlet he needs. And innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed teenager Eden is being, well, a teenager. She is torn up over her by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews brother’s death, but her friends and her crush are potent distractions. escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow. In an It’s Aunt Ruth, Rachel’s sister, who is keeping the Davenport household attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German running. After dealing with her own drama—her struggle with infertility, soldier—a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino her husband leaving her for another woman, her entrée into dating as a is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the divorcée—Aunt Ruth loves being needed again. It gives her a chance personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, to get lost in someone else’s problems for a change. one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders. Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High But each member of the Davenport family holds a secret—one that Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi may be a key to unraveling what led to the tragedy. Guilt might bury occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for this family…but a key confession, one unearthed memory, could set Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share. each of them free.

What Remains True Mrs. Saint and the Janis Thomas Defectives Family Drama Julie Lawson Timmer Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Family Life Publication Date: 12/1/2017 Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 8/1/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 338 Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese Rights Sold: German

In this mesmerizing drama, one life-altering event catapults a family An Amazon Charts bestseller. into turmoil, revealing secrets that may leave them fractured forever . . . or bind them together tighter than ever before. Critically acclaimed author Julie Lawson Timmer returns with a tale of how community can heal the brokenness in all of us. From the outside, the Davenports look like any other family living a completely ordinary life—until that devastating day when five-year-old Markie, a fortysomething divorcée who has suffered a humiliating and Jonah is killed, and the family is torn apart. As the fury of guilt engulfs very public fall from marital, financial, and professional grace, moves, them, the Davenports slowly start to unravel, one by one. with her teenage son, Jesse, to a new town, hoping to lick her wounds in private. But Markie and Jesse are unable to escape the attention of Losing her son forces Rachel to withdraw into a frayed, fuzzy reality. their new neighbor Mrs. Saint, an irascible, elderly New European Her husband, Sam, tries to remain stoic, but he’s consumed by regret woman who takes it upon herself, along with her ragtag group of over the choices he’s made. Eden mourns her brother while “defectives,” to identify and fix the flaws in those around her, whether desperately fighting to regain a sense of normalcy. And Aunt Ruth, they want her to or not. Rachel’s sister, works too hard to care for the family, even as her own personal issues haunt her. What Markie doesn’t realize is that Mrs. Saint has big plans for the divorcée’s broken spirit. Soon, the quirky yet endearing woman recruits Told from multiple points of view—including Jonah’s—the family Markie to join her eccentric community, a world where both hidden struggles to cope with unthinkable loss. But as they face their own dark truths and hope unite them. But when Mrs. Saint’s own secrets threaten secrets about that terrible day, they have a choice: to be swallowed up to unravel their fragile web of healing, it’s up to Markie to mend these in sadness forever, or begin the raw, arduous ascent back to living. wounds and usher in a new era for the “defectives”—one full of second chances and happiness.

Book Club Fiction | 40 The India Tea Series

The Tea Planter’s The Tea Planter’s The Girl from the Tea Daughter (Book One) Bride (Book Two) Garden (Book Three) Janet MacLeod Trotter Janet MacLeod Trotter Janet MacLeod Trotter Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publishing Publishing Publication Date: 6/21/2016 Publication Date: 6/21/2016 Publication Date: 12/6/2016 Page Count: 450 Page Count: 434 Page Count: 466 Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, Chinese, Portuguese, Chinese, Portuguese, Chinese, German, Spanish, and German, Spanish, and German, Spanish, and Japanese Japanese Japanese Lush, green, fragrant: the Indian hills of Assam When Sophie is suddenly orphaned at the age In the dying days of the Raj, Anglo-Indian are full of promise. But eighteen-year-old of six, she is taken from her parents’ tea schoolgirl Adela Robson dreams of a Clarissa Belhaven is full of worry. The family plantation, the only home she has ever known, glamorous career on the stage. When she tea plantation is suffering, and so is her father, to be raised halfway across the world in sneaks away from school in the back of still grieving over the untimely death of his Scotland. handsome Sam Jackman’s car, she knows a wife, while Clarissa’s fragile sister, Olive, new life awaits—but it is not the one she needs love and resourceful care. As the years pass and her exotic childhood imagined. becomes a distant memory, adventurous Beautiful and headstrong, Clarissa soon Sophie finds refuge in her friendship with her In Simla, the summer seat of the Raj attracts the attention of young, brash Wesley kind, shy cousin, Tilly. It is no surprise when government, Adela throws herself into all the Robson, a rival tea planter. Yet before his the girls follow each other to India to embark dazzling entertainment 1930s Indian society intentions become fully clear, tragedy befalls on new adventures, new lives, and new loves. can offer a beautiful debutante. But as her the Belhavens, and the sisters are wrenched ambitions seem near to becoming reality, she from their beloved tea garden to the industrial But the reality of 1920s India is far removed meets a charming but spoiled prince, setting in streets of Tyneside. from their dream: the jungles are too humid motion a devastating chain of events. and the breathtaking tea gardens too remote. A world away from the only home she has And among the stifling beauty, intrigue The outbreak of the Second World War finds ever known, Clarissa must start again. Using abounds; while Sophie struggles with affairs of Adela back in England—a country she cannot all her means, she must endure not only the heart, Tilly, alone in a difficult world, delves remember—without hope or love, and hiding a poverty but jealousy and betrayal, too. Will the into the mystery of Sophie’s parents’ deaths. shameful secret. Only exceptional courage reappearance of Wesley give her the link to As the past begins to darken their friendship, and endurance can pull her through these her old life that she so desperately craves? Or will long-held secrets shatter everything dark times and carry her back to the homeland will a fast-changing world and the advent of they’ve ever strived for? of her heart. Stay tuned for the fourth book in war extinguish hope forever? the series, which will be released in Summer 2018!

Magnolia Flowers The Dance of our Lives The Year of Counting (Fiori di magnolia) (Der Tanz unseres Souls Rosa Ventrella Lebens) Michael Wallace Women’s Fiction Noa C. Walker Historical Fiction Imprint: Amazon Publishing Family Drama Imprint: Lake Union - Italian Language Imprint: Tinte & Feder - Publishing Publication Date: 2/21/2017 German Language Publication Date: 6/6/2017 Page Count: 306 Publication Date: 11/28/2017 Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 400 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

A romantic epic set in the 1950s. An homage The newest novel from the bestselling author As Japanese forces attack the Philippines in to life, art, and the courage of one woman. of You, Me, and the Color of Life. the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, US army nurse Louise Harrison waits to be evacuated from Nina is twenty and dreams of traveling and When Florence breaks through the ice into the Manila. But with the enemy closing in, Louise becoming a painter, of moving to France and cold water of a mountain lake, that could have is forced to flee with a handful of wounded finding a new life far away from Castro, from been it for the musical performer—she could soldiers to a field hospital deep in the her embittered aunt, and her unscrupulous have died. Instead, she is rescued by a young mountains. uncle. Her love for the Salento Sea is not doctor, Martin. Their love story begins with enough to quell her desire to be somewhere Florence’s rescue; and is soon surrounded by Isolated in an unfamiliar country amid else. the destinies, desires, and secrets of a village desperate conditions, Louise strikes up a community in the French-speaking region of friendship with Sammy Mori, an injured Perhaps Vittorio, the only one able to calm her Switzerland. Zoé—the small girl whom Japanese soldier with a secret. Deemed a fears, might succeed in keeping Nina at home. Florence tenderly cares for—is also there, traitor for reporting on the atrocities in But Vittorio, haunted himself by the dream of a along with her mother, Claire, whose hopes of Nanking, Sammy is being hunted by his better life, leaves for America. Just twelve having her own hotel have failed. Florence brother, Yoshiko, a member of the feared months, he promises, then he’ll come back for and Martin are divided by an unspoken secret Japanese military secret police. her, marry her, and take her to France. But that reaches back into their personal pasts. He months become years, and Nina, or Ninette, still does not know why she was dancing on When Yoshiko discovers the hospital camp, as she likes to be called, decides to go on the ice, and she knows nothing of his difficult Louise and her patients find themselves in living. fate. even greater danger. Caught between new loyalties and old, Louise and Sammy must Nina leaves for Cressanges, in France, and Noa C. Walker is a master of weaving together trust their unlikely bond to sustain them there she decides to be someone else. As her characters’ lives and dreams, and The through deprivation and chaos. It’s a bond long as the past does not come back to upset Dance of our Lives is no different—a that inspires unexpected acts of courage the peace she might have found, finally... compassionate, dramatic, and humorous and sacrifice—a light of hope shining through novel. the darkness of war.

Book Club Fiction | 41 The End of When We Were Worthy The Things We Wish Temperance Dare Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Were True Wendy Webb Mystery & Suspense Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Mystery & Suspense Imprint: Lake Union Mystery & Suspense Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 9/12/2017 Publishing Publication Date: 6/6/2017 Page Count: 278 Publication Date: 9/1/2016 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Polish Languages Rights Sold: Czech, French, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Polish, and Turkish

Haunting and atmospheric, The End of A win brought them together, but loss may In an idyllic small-town neighborhood, a near Temperance Dare is another thrilling page- tear them apart. When the sound of sirens tragedy triggers a series of dark revelations. turner from the author reviewers are calling cuts through a cool fall night, the small town of the “Queen of the Northern Gothic.” Worthy, Georgia, hurtles from triumph to From the outside, Sycamore Glen, North tragedy. Just hours before, they’d watched the Carolina, might look like the perfect all- When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of Wildcats score a winning touchdown. Now, American neighborhood. But behind the white- a renowned artists’ retreat, she knows nothing they’re faced with the deaths of three picket fences lies a web of secrets that reach of Cliffside Manor’s past as a tuberculosis cheerleaders—their promising lives cut short from house to house. Up and down the sanatorium. After years as a crime reporter, in a fatal crash. And the boy in the other car— streets, neighbors quietly bear the weight of Eleanor hopes that being around artists and the only one to survive—is believed to be at their own pasts—until an accident at the writers will be a peaceful retreat. fault. As rumors begin to fly and accusations community pool upsets the delicate spin, allegiances form and long-kept secrets equilibrium. And when tragic circumstances But from her first moments on the manor’s emerge. compel a woman to return to Sycamore Glen grounds, Eleanor is seized by a sense of after years of self-imposed banishment, the impending doom and realizes there’s more to At the center of the whirlwind are four women, tangle of the neighbors’ intertwined lives the institution than its reputation of being a each grappling with loss, regret, shame, and begins to unravel. haven for creativity. After the arrival of the lies: Marglyn, a grieving mother; Darcy, whose new fellows, she begins to suspect that her son had been behind the wheel; Ava, a During the course of a sweltering summer, predecessor chose the group with a substitute teacher with a scandalous secret; long-buried secrets are revealed, and the dangerous purpose in mind. As the mysteries and Leah, a cheerleader who should have neighbors learn that it’s impossible to really of Cliffside Manor unravel and the sins of the been in the car with her friends, but wasn’t. If know those closest to them. But is it past are exposed, Eleanor must fight to save the truth comes out, will it bring redemption— impossible to love and forgive them? the fellows—and herself—from sinister forces. or will it be their downfall?

The Promise Between Us The Heart Echoes Barbara Claypole White Helena von Zweigbergk Family Drama Women’s Fiction Imprint: Lake Union Publishing Imprint: AmazonCrossing Publication Date: 1/16/2018 Publication Date: 9/1/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 382 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Swedish

From the bestselling author of The Perfect Son comes a hopeful tale of Swedish sisters Astrid, Lena, and Sandra have struggled to get along redemption, renewal, and the promise of love. since childhood, but when Lena is diagnosed with ovarian cancer, they are each thrown into crisis together. Metal artist Katie Mack is living a lie. Nine years ago she ran away from her family in Raleigh, North Carolina, consumed by the irrational fear Astrid’s well-ordered, predictable world is shaken by the return of her that she would harm Maisie, her newborn daughter. Over time she’s ex-boyfriend Michael, an American who abandoned her—and their come to grips with the mental illness that nearly destroyed her, and infant son—years earlier. While Astrid has remarried and had more now funnels her pain into her art. Despite longing for Maisie, Katie children, she is suffocating under her husband’s kindness and cannot honors an agreement with the husband she left behind—to change her escape the pull of the past. Seeing Michael at their son’s high school name and never return. graduation reawakens her grief and rage, along with more complicated and threatening emotions. But when she and Maisie accidentally reunite, Katie can’t ignore the familiarity of her child’s compulsive behavior. Worse, Maisie worries Envious of Astrid’s seemingly stable life, Sandra is married to an obsessively about bad things happening to her pregnant stepmom. alcoholic and drowning in debt. She turns to Lena for help at the worst Katie has the power to help, but can she reconnect with the family she possible time. Lena, fighting to stay alive, must finally confront a abandoned? devastating secret she’s kept from Astrid since the summer Michael left. As the walls they’ve built between them crumble, the three sisters To protect Maisie, Katie must face the fears that drove her from home, must try to forgive and to rebuild their shattered bonds…while there’s accept the possibility of love, and risk exposing her heart-wrenching still time. The Heart Echoes was originally published in Swedish, and secret. has been translated into English by Tiina Nunnally.

Book Club Fiction | 42 Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels | 43 The Cirque American Series

Girl Over Paris: The Graphic Novel

Gwenda Bond and Kate Leth Illustrated by Ming Doyle and Andrew Dalhouse Mystery Imprint: Jet City Publication Date: 11/9/2016 Page Count: 128 pages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Collecting comic book issues #1-4, this graphic novel tells a brand-new story in Gwenda Bond’s CIRQUE AMERICAN universe!

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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Graphic Novels | 44 Reliquary

Mayhem and Magic: The Graphic Novel

Sarah Fine and Alex de Campi Illustrated by Andrew Dalhouse and Dennis Calero Mystery Imprint: Jet City Publication Date: 10/5/2016 Page Count: 128 pages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Collecting comic book issues #1-4, this graphic novel tells a brand-new story in Sarah Fine’s RELIQUARY universe!

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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Graphic Novels | 45 Frontlines

Requiem: The Graphic Novel

Marko Kloos and Ivan Brandon Illustrated by Gary Erskine Science Fiction Imprint: Jet City Publication Date: 8/10/2016 Page Count: 112 pages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Collecting comic book issues #1-4, this graphic novel tells a brand-new story in Marko Kloos’s FRONTLINES universe.

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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Graphic Novels | 46 The Dominion Trilogy

The Last Sacrifice: The Graphic Novel

Stuart Moore and Joe Hart Illustrated by Michael Montenat Science Fiction Imprint: Jet City Publication Date: 1/4/2017 Page Count: 128 pages Rights Acquired: 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?

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Graphic Novels | 47 The Chronos Files

Time Trial: The Graphic Novel

Rysa Walker and Heather Nuhfer Illustrated by Agustin Padilla Science Fiction Imprint: Jet City Publication Date: 11/9/2016 Page Count: 128 pages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Collecting comic book issues #1-4, this graphic novel tells a brand-new story in Rysa Walker’s CHRONOS FILES universe!

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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Graphic Novels | 48 Covenant of Muirwood

The Lost Abbey: The Graphic Novel

Jeff Wheeler, Matt Sturges, and Dave Justus Illustrated by Alex Sheikman and Lizzy John Fantasy Imprint: Jet City Publication Date: 1/20/2016 Page Count: 144 pages Rights Acquired: All Languages

"A banished girl's forbidden magic is the kingdom's last hope."

From renowned fantasy writers Jeff Wheeler, Matt 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).

Muirwood: The Lost Abbey introduces an all-new chapter in Jeff Wheeler's highly acclaimed 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 . . . 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 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.

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Graphic Novels | 49 Graphic Novels | 50 Inspirational Fiction

Inspirational Fiction | 51 The Enoch Effect Guilty Blood Rick Acker Rick Acker Legal Thriller Legal Thriller Imprint: Waterfall Press Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 5/23/2017 Publication Date: 11/14/2017 Page Count: 396 Page Count: 500 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Insurance litigator Leigh Collins has a knack for turning up that missing Jessica Ames is desperate. Her college-age son, Brandon, has been e-mail that wins the day, or breaking down complex facts to sway a arrested for murder, and the evidence is stacked against him. His DNA jury. So she’s hoping to make partner with her latest case: cancer matches the blood and skin found under the victim’s fingernails, and researcher Dr. Elijah Rhodes and his life’s work are lost in a lab fire, the murder weapon was recovered near his apartment. Jessica turns to and Biosolutions looks to cash in on a $100 million policy. the only lawyer she knows for help.

Unfortunately, she’s up against Daniel Rubinelli, assistant general Nate Daniels is no criminal defense attorney; he’s a highly successful counsel for the biotech giant, who has a personal vendetta against corporate litigator. He also has unresolved feelings for Jessica. As her cancer. In court, Leigh and Daniel clash from the beginning, ensuring a late husband’s best friend, Nate takes the case pro bono, knowing he grueling case. has no choice but to do everything within his power to get Brandon acquitted. But soon greater concerns emerge. The late doctor might have found a “kill switch” for cancer cells—potentially wiping the disease off the face As Nate and Jessica work with the public defender to save her son, the of the earth. While most of his findings were lost in the fire, he likely loyalty, faith, and love between them grows into something more—even backed up his data, though encrypted beyond recovery. as their investigation is bringing out some very powerful and dangerous enemies… Now, in this edge-of-your-seat thriller, two contentious lawyers must set aside their differences to locate the research before the doctor’s greatest discovery falls into the wrong hands…and the secret to life ends in death.

Love in Lenox

Distorted A New Shade of Summer Christy Barritt Nicole Deese Romantic Suspense Contemporary Romance Imprint: Waterfall Press Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 6/20/2017 Publication Date: 9/12/2017 Page Count: 338 Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Mallory Baldwin is a survivor. A former victim of human trafficking, As an artist, Callie Quinn relies on inspiration to guide her wandering she’s been given a second chance, yet not a night goes by that she soul. As a summer job, she accepts a short-term muralist position in doesn’t remember being a slave to weapons dealer Dante Torres. her sister’s charming town to spend some much-needed time with her Despite being afraid of the dark and wary of strangers, Mallory is trying family. After meeting her nephew’s friend, Brandon, she’s eager to to rebuild her life by turning her tragedy into redemption. draw out his untapped artistic talents—however, it’s the boy’s straitlaced single father who could use a little color in his life. To former Navy SEAL Tennyson Walker, Mallory seems nothing like the shattered woman he rescued two years ago, and he can’t help but Davis Carter may be the town’s favorite animal whisperer, but his be inspired by her strength and resilience. So when a stalker suddenly experience is limited when it comes to understanding his preteen’s makes Mallory vulnerable once again, Tennyson steps up as her rebellious behavior. Desperate for a breakthrough, he follows the lead bodyguard to keep her safe. of a free spirit who claims to know the way into his son’s closed-off world. Soon, Davis isn’t the only one caught up in the hope of a new Mallory and Tennyson’s mutual attraction can’t be ignored, but neither beginning. can Mallory’s suspicion that Tennyson is keeping a terrible secret about her past. As the nightmare closes in, it’s not only Mallory and Just as Callie considers trading her unattached existence for a life rich Tennyson’s love that comes under fire but their very lives as well. Will with promise and permanence, an unexpected visit from the past their faith sustain them? Or will the darkness win, once and for all? threatens to send her packing once again. Davis and Callie must learn to surrender their fears so they can find a love that will outlast the summer.

Inspirational Fiction | 52 Looking Glass Lies Varina Denman Women’s Fiction Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 5/2/2017 Page Count: 318 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A poignant and relatable novel, Looking Glass Lies captures the war women wage against themselves, and the struggle to see beauty reflected in a mirror not distorted by society’s unrelenting expectations.

For most of her adult life, Cecily Ross has compared herself to other women—and come up short. After a painful divorce from her emotionally abusive husband, Cecily returns to her hometown of Canyon, Texas, looking to heal.

But coming home isn’t what she expects. In a town as small as Canyon, her pain is difficult to escape—especially with her model-perfect ex–sister-in-law working at the town’s popular coffee-shop hangout. With help from her father, a support group, and an old friend who guides her to see her own strengths, Cecily may have a shot at overcoming her insecurities and learning to love again.

The true test comes when tragedy strikes, opening Cecily’s eyes to the harmfulness of her distorted views on beauty—and giving her the perfect opportunity to find peace at last.

The Regency Spies of London Series

A Viscount’s Proposal (Book Two) Melanie Dickerson Regency Romance Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Leorah Langdon has no patience for Regency society’s shallow hypocrisy and unnecessary rules, especially for women. She’s determined to defy convention by marrying for grand passion instead of settling for a loveless union like her parents—or wedding a stuffy, pompous gentleman like Edward, the Viscount Withinghall. But when a chance meeting in the countryside leads to Leorah and Withinghall being discovered in his overturned carriage— alone and after dark—the ensuing gossip may force them together.

Withinghall has his reasons for clinging to propriety; his father perished in a duel with his mistress’s husband, and Edward must avoid scandal himself if he wants to become prime minister. He certainly has no time for a reckless hoyden like Miss Langdon. But soon the two discover that Withinghall’s coach “accident” was no such thing: the vehicle was sabotaged.

Can the culprit be brought to justice? Strong-willed Leorah and duty-driven Withinghall will have to work together if they have any hope of saving her reputation, his political career—and his life.

A Dangerous Engagement (Book Three) Melanie Dickerson Regency Romance Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 9/12/2017 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Just as merchant’s daughter Felicity Mayson is spurned once again because of her meager dowry, she receives an unexpected invitation to Lady Blackstone’s country home. Being introduced to the wealthy Oliver Ratley is an admitted delight, as is his rather heedless yet inviting proposal of marriage. Only when another of Lady Blackstone’s handsome guests catches Felicity’s attention does she realize that nothing is what it seems at Doverton Hall.

Government agent Philip McDowell is infiltrating a group of cutthroat revolutionaries led by none other than Lady Blackstone and Ratley. Their devious plot is to overthrow the monarchy, and their unwitting pawn is Felicity. Now Philip needs Felicity’s help in discovering the rebels’ secrets—by asking her to maintain cover as Ratley’s innocent bride-to-be.

Philip is duty bound. Felicity is game. Together they’re risking their lives—and gambling their hearts—to undo a traitorous conspiracy before their dangerous masquerade is exposed. Inspirational Fiction | 53 Grounded Hearts Enchanted Isle Jeanne M. Dickson Melanie Dobson Historical Fiction Historical Romance Imprint: Waterfall Press Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 6/13/2017 Publication Date: 8/29/2017 Page Count: 350 Page Count: 318 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the midst of World War II, Ireland has declared herself neutral. In the spring of 1958, Jenny Winter embarks on a two-month adventure Troops found on Irish soil must be reported and interned, no matter to one of the most enchanting places on earth, a quaint village in which side they are fighting for. When midwife Nan O’Neil finds a England’s magical Lake District. With a new camera and an eye for wounded young Canadian pilot at her door, she knows she’s taking a capturing the beauty others miss, she can’t wait to explore the heathery huge risk by letting him in. Not only is she a widow living alone, but if fells and mystical waters. Adrian Kemp, a handsome and enigmatic caught harboring a combatant, she’ll face imprisonment. local, makes the sightseeing even more beguiling—and he’s about to invite Jenny into one of the area’s most enduring legends. Still, something compels Nan to take in “flyboy” Dutch Whitney, an RAF pilot whose bomber has just crashed over County Clare. While she When Adrian shows Jenny his late father’s abandoned dream, a tends to his wounds and gives him a secret place of refuge, the two deserted island amusement park, she glimpses a kindred spirit in this begin to form a mutual affection—and an unbreakable bond. reckless, haunted young man. Yet as she opens her heart to Adrian, the two stumble into a labyrinth of mystery leading back a generation to But Nan has another secret, one that has racked her with guilt since an unforgettable romance and an unsolved murder that still casts a her husband’s death and made her question ever loving again. As Nan shadow over the lakes. As long-held secrets come to light, it’s left to and Dutch plan his escape, can he help restore her faith? Jenny and Adrian to put the past to rest and restore a lost dream.

The Ashford Chronicles The Fairfield Series

True As Fate (Book Two) My Unexpected Hope Laurie Alice Eakes Tammy L. Gray Regency Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Waterfall Press Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 6/6/2017 Publication Date: 6/27/2017 Page Count: 366 Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Lady Chloe Ashford detests going to balls, loathes social pretense, and After a year of grieving her divorce and living a life permanently stuck finds the very idea of hunting for a husband obscene. But she has an on pause, Laila Richardson is finally ready to have her own happy even more scandalous secret: she once helped an American—the ending. Then a listing for a quaint cottage in another town answers her enemy—escape from Dartmoor Prison. Now, nearly three years later, prayers for a fresh beginning—one that will bring her closer to her new Ross Trenerry is back—and in trouble again. So is her traitorous heart. boyfriend, Ben. Unfortunately, in her small town of Fairfield, Georgia, He doesn’t know she’s the one responsible for sending him to a second letting go of the past is virtually impossible. No one wants to see her prison, and she has no intention of telling him. move on, including the man who destroyed her heart to begin with.

A former privateer, Ross has finally run out of his legendary luck. Only Chad Richardson has spent years in misery but finally has his life on one woman lies between him and freedom. He desperately needs somewhat stable ground. When he learns his ex-wife is dating, he Chloe’s help to prove he hasn’t committed treason, but he’s distracted knows it’s time to go back and fight for the life he abandoned. Bolstered by the passion that flares between them. by his newfound sobriety, Chad has every intention of winning back the woman he loves, even if that means facing old demons that are waiting They set out on a cross-country adventure together to prove Ross’s for him to fail. innocence, but peril soon dogs their heels. As they race to reach their appointed rendezvous on time, they must fight their growing attraction Passions run deep as two souls searching for a second chance find the and focus on discovering who is behind this deadly plot. Will they finally courage to let go of old patterns. Can they recognize that their dreams admit their love and put the pieces together before it’s too late? are still possible, even when forged from a broken past?

Inspirational Fiction | 54 Wishing Bridge Series The Adirondack Pinkertons Series

Welcome to Wishing The Heart of an Agent Bridge (Book One) Tracey J. Lyons Ruth Logan Herne Historical Fiction Women’s Fiction Imprint: Waterfall Press Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 11/7/2017 Publication Date: 11/14/2017 Page Count: 300 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Kelsey is on her way to a life do-over. And it’s not the first time. Tracey J. Lyons, the author of A Changed Agent, returns to the Abandoned by her drug-addict mother as a teen, she landed in a foster- Adirondack Mountains of the 1890s in a novel of love, faith, and care group home where she experienced faith and community—and secrets… met her best friends, Jazz and Theadora. The trio stuck together like sisters and vowed to make their lives mean something. Former Pinkerton spy Lily Handland has always dreamed of a quiet, safe life, free from chasing criminals and putting herself at risk. So Now Kelsey’s pushing thirty, and her life has taken a wrong turn. when the opportunity to invest in a failing Great Camp in the Pregnant and alone after loving the wrong man, she’s on her way to Adirondacks comes to her attention, she quickly jumps at the chance. making another life-changing decision when a wicked blizzard strands her outside the sleepy town of Wishing Bridge. Filled with grief, widower Owen Murphy wants to run away from it all. Though he’s worked hard to forge a future for himself, his guilt has kept After being rescued from a snowbank by a handsome cop, she’s him mired in the past. But all that changes when a headstrong, embraced by the welcoming village, but she still feels upside down. mysterious woman shows up at Owen’s door. Together, as Lily and Fortunately, her frantic SOS brings her besties rushing to help sort Owen restore the beauty of the Great Camp, he begins to finally see a things out. They soon find that Wishing Bridge has as many secrets as future. But will learning about Lily’s past destroy it all? Kelsey does—and she’s connected to it in ways she couldn’t have imagined.

Hidden Threat The Christmas Star Connie Mann Robert Tate Miller Romantic Suspense Contemporary Romance Imprint: Waterfall Press Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 5/30/2017 Publication Date: 10/10/2017 Page Count: 338 Page Count: 222 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

An environmental crisis is the last thing clean-water crusader Eve Paul Bennett has the perfect wife, the perfect family, the perfect life— Jackson expected in her hometown. She’s used to taking on powerful until one fateful Christmas brings an unthinkable tragedy. In deep DC politicians in her fight, but when a baby in Safe Harbor, Florida, despair, he turns to drinking to drive away the pain, but he only shows mysterious signs of possible poisoning, the danger hits painfully succeeds in driving away his wife. His marriage shattered, his family close to home, stirring memories of her own mother’s death. gone, Paul now despises Christmas.

Eve’s search leads her to the Sutton Ranch, now run by her high But can the holiday he so detests hold a miraculous surprise? After an school crush, Cole. Focused on keeping the family business afloat as a accident in which he loses consciousness, he wakes up in the company series of deformed calves are born to his herd, Cole has no time for of the shepherds who will soon travel to Bethlehem to see the newborn Eve’s crusade. But as her unwelcome questioning ostracizes her from Christ in the manger. Can Paul find salvation on the night that forever locals, Cole’s irritation turns to intrigue—about the source of the changed the world? Can he discover the true spirit of Christmas? poisoned water and the tenacious, loyal, and passionate woman determined to help.

As Eve digs deeper into Cole’s operation, she sees that her suspicion of Sutton Ranch may be misplaced. Yet she can’t shake the feeling that his ranch, and perhaps his past, hold the answers she seeks. When the sabotage escalates, the two must work together to uncover the culprit—if they can survive the investigation.

Inspirational Fiction | 55 The Faded Photo Heavenly Blues Sarah Price Sarah Price Women’s Fiction Women’s Fiction Imprint: Waterfall Press Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 5/16/2017 Publication Date: 10/3/2017 Page Count: 270 Page Count: 280 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

Some things should be kept private. Frances Snyder can never quite In this powerful narrative, bestselling author Sarah Price takes us on get her mother’s voice out of her head—how to be the perfect wife, the the dark road to addiction. perfect mother. Frances’s home life is demanding, and while she’s busy seeing to everyone else’s needs, Frances doesn’t have the luxury of Laura Reese is losing control. Compassionate and conscientious, she spare time. excels as a post-op nurse, but her new supervisor doesn’t care how much she needs time off. Although she’s a selfless wife and mother, So when she is diagnosed with breast cancer, she thinks that she can news of her husband’s promotion only fills her with anxiety. The handle it on her own. Dealing with endless tests, brutal chemotherapy, country-club lifestyle he craves triggers memories of the dysfunctional and the looming specter of surgery, Frances chooses to face cancer family she came from, and of her own mother’s single-minded ambition on her own terms: alone. That is, until she finally understands that to climb the social ladder. unexpected friendship—and unconditional love—can offer hope in the darkest hours. Laura has reached a breaking point. For her, there’s only one way to pull it all together, to balance the demands of her family and job, and to With tenderness, grace, and flashes of humor, bestselling author Sarah keep pleasing everyone she loves. But her little blue pills are pushing Price draws upon her own experience as a breast-cancer survivor to her closer to the edge… create a story about one woman’s determined and solitary journey into the unknown—in the hopes that she’ll find her way back home.

Gilded Promises Series

A Touch of Scarlet Once an Heiress Renee Ryan Renee Ryan Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Imprint: Waterfall Press Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 1/24/2017 Publication Date: 9/26/2017 Page Count: 334 Page Count: 332 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

Never was there a more charmed debutante than the impeccable Boston society darling Gigi Wentworth leaves behind everything she Elizabeth St. James. Her sterling reputation makes her a favored guest holds dear for the sake of love—only to learn that the man with whom in the most exclusive homes in New York City. But behind the gilded she’d planned to elope is nothing but a thieving scoundrel. Abandoned curtain of turn-of-the-century society, Elizabeth despises being her in New York City and saddled with debt, Gigi must sell a prized family mother’s perfect “specimen” and refuses to forgive the woman for her heirloom, but even that sacrifice isn’t enough to get her home. Her treacherous family betrayal. Now, with only two months before determination drives her to take on work as a lady’s maid, keeping her Elizabeth sets sail for London to marry a British lord, she resolves to identity a secret…until she’s discovered by a former friend with a live a lifetime of adventure—including kissing a man under the moon hidden agenda. and stars. And Elizabeth has the perfect candidate in mind: Luke. Although dealing with his own serious family issue, Christopher “Fitz” Lucian Griffin, the brother of Elizabeth’s dearest friend, intends to Fitzpatrick sets out to return the missing heiress to her rightful place in protect Elizabeth from letting her adventures forever sully her society. But the more he interacts with this new Gigi, the more shocked reputation. He knows too well the regrets that come from taking he is to find her so changed. Gone is the frivolous beauty in expensive unnecessary risks. Soon his earnest fondness for the sweet debutante gowns. In her place is a woman he could grow to love. When secrets gives way to deep affection. But if either is to have a chance at true are revealed, will Gigi and Fitz find the trust they need to confront the love and happiness, they must have the courage to let go of the past— past and open their hearts? and the grace to embrace forgiveness.

Inspirational Fiction | 56 Maggie’s War Terrie Todd Women’s Fiction Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 1/31/2017 Page Count: 370 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

In 1942, telegrams always bring life-altering and tragic news in a war-hardened world—and the one Maggie Marshall receives is no different. But running a restaurant with the help of only pregnant, unwed girls has taught her to be tough. Maggie’s no weeping widow, but Charlotte Penfield thinks she’s the most unfeeling woman on earth. Seventeen, exiled by her wealthy parents, and working in the restaurant, fanciful Charlotte runs away with romantic notions of a reunion with her baby’s father at his military camp.

It has been years since Maggie darkened the church door of her pastor and childhood friend, Reverend Reuben Fennel, and his heart breaks for the hardened woman Maggie’s become. When she seeks his help to find Charlotte, he’s happy to aid her in the chase—though it may cost him his job and reputation.

Over the miles from Winnipeg to Fort William, Reuben and Maggie’s journey rekindles their affection. But Maggie stubbornly clings to her independent ways until she’s dealt another devastating loss, one that forces her to recognize that heroes can be discovered in unlikely places and love may be sweeter than she ever dared imagine.

Bleak Landing Terrie Todd Historical Fiction Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 8/15/2017 Page Count: 318 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the dead-end Canadian town of Bleak Landing, twelve-year-old Irish immigrant Bridget O’Sullivan lives in a ramshackle house and dreams of another life, even as the Great Depression rages. Routinely beaten by her father and bullied by schoolmate Victor Harrison, the waifish yet fiery redhead vows to run away and never return. Just a few short years later, run she does—fleeing the unspeakable repercussions of her father’s gambling. In Winnipeg, Bridget lands a job at a garment factory, the first step on her journey to shed her past and begin anew.

When her father dies, Bridget—now a striking and accomplished woman—returns home to claim her inheritance. But she has no identification to prove her stake, and no one in town recognizes her—except Victor, who has become a pastor and a candidate for town mayor. Though war has wounded him, his secret affection for Bridget remains, and now he’s the only one who can help her prove her integrity. But can he also prove he’s a changed man worthy of her forgiveness? As Victor preaches of freedom in faith, will his words spark Bridget’s once- hopeless heart and lead her to the life she’s been seeking?

Hometown Girl Courtney Walsh Women’s Fiction Imprint: Waterfall Press Publication Date: 9/19/2017 Page Count: 380 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Courtney Walsh returns with a hopeful and emotional new book about seizing second chances, finding yourself, and forging your own path.

Beth Whitaker isn’t supposed to be a small-town girl. She’s always dreamed of leaving Willow Grove, Illinois, for the big city, but she feels trapped, struggling to make up for a mistake that’s haunted her for years. Just when Beth is finally ready to break free, her sister impulsively buys a run-down farm on the outskirts of town, and she begs Beth to help with the restoration. Reluctantly, Beth agrees to help—and puts her own dreams on hold once again.

Drew Barlow hasn’t been back to Fairwind Farm since he was a boy, and he’s spent all these years trying to outrun his past. When he learns that the owner has passed away, he returns to Willow Grove and revisits the old farm, where he attempts to piece together his memories and the puzzle of the crime he witnessed so long ago. Both on a journey to find peace, Beth and Drew are surprised when they begin to experience a restoration of their own.

Inspirational Fiction | 57 Inspirational Fiction | 58 Literary Fiction and Poetry

Literary Fiction and Poetry | 59 Bury What We Cannot Take Kirstin Chen Historical Fiction Imprint: Little A Publication Date: 3/20/2018 Page Count: 250 Rights Acquired: All Languages

From the bestselling author of Soy Sauce for Beginners, Bury What We Cannot Take is a poignant drama set in 1950s Communist China.

The day nine-year-old San San and her twelve-year-old brother, Ah Liam, discover their grandmother taking a hammer to a framed portrait of Chairman Mao is the day that forever changes their lives. To prove his loyalty to the Party, Ah Liam reports his grandmother to the authorities. But his belief in doing the right thing sets in motion a terrible chain of events.

Now they must flee their home on Drum Wave Islet, which sits just a few hundred meters across the channel from mainland China. But when their mother goes to procure visas for safe passage to Hong Kong, the government will only issue them on the condition that she leave behind one of her children as proof of the family’s intention to return.

Against the backdrop of early Maoist China, this captivating and emotional tale follows a brother, a sister, a father, and a mother as they grapple with their agonizing decision, its far-reaching consequences, and their hope for redemption.

Halsey Street Naima Coster Literary Fiction Imprint: Little A Publication Date: 1/1/2018 Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages

“A quiet gut-punch of a debut…Absorbing and alive, the kind of novel that swallows you whole.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

A modern-day story of family, loss, and renewal, Halsey Street captures the deeply human need to belong—not only to a place but to one another.

Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She’s accepted that her future won’t be what she’d dreamed, but now, as gentrification has completely reshaped her old neighborhood, even her past is unrecognizable. Old haunts have been razed, and wealthy white strangers have replaced every familiar face in Bed-Stuy. Even her mother, Mirella, has abandoned the family to reclaim her roots in the Dominican Republic. That took courage. It’s also unforgivable.

When Penelope moves into the attic apartment of the affluent Harpers, she thinks she’s found a semblance of family—and maybe even love. But her world is upended again when she receives a postcard from Mirella asking for reconciliation. As old wounds are reopened, and secrets revealed, a journey across an ocean of sacrifice and self-discovery begins.

An engrossing debut, Halsey Street shifts between the perspectives of these two captivating, troubled women. Mirella has one last chance to win back the heart of the daughter she’d lost long before leaving New York; and for Penelope, it’s time to break free of the hold of the past and start navigating her own life.

Literary Fiction and Poetry | 60 I Wore My Blackest Hair Carlina Duan Poetry Collection Imprint: Little A Publication Date: 11/14/2017 Page Count: 100 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Celebrating Chinese American girlhood in all its confusion, love, and loss.

In I Wore My Blackest Hair, Fulbright grant and Edna Meudt Memorial Award recipient Carlina Duan delivers an electric debut collection of poetry. With defiance and wild joy, Duan’s poems wrestle with and celebrate ancestry and history, racial consciousness, and the growing pains of girlhood. They explore difficult truths with grace and power. I Wore My Blackest Hair is an honest portrait of a woman in between—identities, places, languages, and desires—and her quest to belong. The speaker is specific in her self-definition, discovering and reinventing what it means to be a bold woman, what it means to be Chinese American, and what it means to grow into adulthood. Duan moves seamlessly from the personal to the imaginative to the universal, heralding a brilliant new voice in contemporary poetry.

True Karl Taro Greenfeld Literary Fiction Imprint: Little A Publication Date: 4/10/2018 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Karl Taro Greenfeld, acclaimed author of Triburbia and Boy Alone, offers a literary coming-of-age novel that deftly and unflinchingly imagines a world where an angry teenage girl discovers the nature of the bigger game of life and what it really means to be a team player, a sister, a daughter, and a born survivor.

True has a singular path: to be the greatest soccer player of her generation. But to realize her dream, she’ll need to make the Under-17 National Team, then the Residency Program, and the ultimate: the US Women’s National Team. Otherwise she can say goodbye to the Women’s World Cup. And True will do whatever it takes to be the top girl on the field.

True has to stay focused because her family is crumbling. With the loss of her mother, True is forced to take care of her autistic younger sister while her grieving father wastes his time gambling. And high school isn’t much better. While True’s teammates are getting taller and growing up, she’s hardening around the edges, at a loss for what it means to be a typical teen girl. But when she’s in the game, the anxieties of family and fitting in just fade away. True—with her soft feet and deft first touch—can knock anyone off the ball. And more important, she can throw an elbow harder than anybody else. On the pitch, she’s a soccer player first, a sister second. On the pitch, she’s free.

Literary Fiction and Poetry | 61 A Small Revolution City of Spies Jimin Han Sorayya Khan Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Imprint: Little A Imprint: Little A Publication Date: 5/1/2017 Publication Date: 9/19/2017 Page Count: 209 Page Count: 248 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In this powerful, page-turning debut, Jimin Han deftly shows that In this intimate coming-of-age story set in the late 1970s, a young girl revolutions—whether big or small, in the world or of the heart—can struggles to make sense of the chaos around her during Pakistan’s have an impact that lasts through time and spans the oceans. political upheaval, where the military revolts, the embassy burns, and a terrible secret tears her world apart. On a beautiful Pennsylvania fall morning, a gunman holds college freshman Yoona Lee and three of her classmates hostage in the Eleven-year-old Aliya Shah lives a double life in Islamabad, Pakistan— claustrophobic confines of their dorm room. The desperate man with at home with her Pakistani father and Dutch mother, and at the his finger on the trigger—Yoona’s onetime friend, Lloyd Kang—is American School, where Aliya tries to downplay that she is a “half-and- unraveling after a mysterious accident in Korea killed his closest friend, half.” But when a hit-and-run driver kills the son of the family’s servant, Jaesung, who was also the love of Yoona’s life. As the tense standoff Sadiq, who is also Aliya’s dear friend, her world is turned upside down. unfolds, Yoona is forced to revisit her past, from growing up in an After she discovers the truth behind the tragedy—a terrible secret that abusive household to the upheaval in her ancestral homeland to burdens her heart—her conflicted loyalties are tested as never before. 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 Based on the author’s own experiences growing up in Islamabad, City the balance. of Spies offers a poignant and dramatic portrait of a tumultuous time, as seen through the eyes of a brave and compassionate young heroine Through scenes of political upheaval and protests in South Korea, struggling to find her place in the gray area between loyalty and spirited conversations in cramped dumpling houses, and the quiet complicity, family and country. moments that happen when two people fall in love, A Small Revolution is a moving narrative brimming with longing, fear, and—ultimately— hope.

Paper Boats The Lost Prayers of Dee Lestari Ricky Graves Literary Fiction James Han Mattson Imprint: AmazonCrossing Literary Fiction Publication Date: 5/1/2017 Imprint: Little A Page Count: 400 Publication Date: 12/1/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages, Page Count: 368 excluding Indonesian Rights Acquired: All Languages

Paper Boats, written by bestselling and critically acclaimed author Dee In raw, poignant alternating first-person narratives, interspersed with Lestari, was originally published in Indonesian and has been translated e-mails, gay chat-room exchanges, and other fragments of a youth laid into English by Tiffany Tsao. The original version of Paper Boats was bare in the age of social media, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves the first digital novel in Indonesia that readers could subscribe to from unravels the mystery of a life in all its glory. their mobile phones. It was made into a movie that became a national blockbuster and marked the author’s debut as a screenplay writer. A heartbroken and humiliated Ricky Graves took the life of a classmate and himself. Five months later, the sleepy community is still in shock For as long as she can remember, Kugy has loved to write. Whimsical and mourning. Ricky’s sister, Alyssa, returns to confront her shattered, stories are her passion, along with letters full of secret longings that she withdrawn mother and her guilt over the brother she left adrift. Mark folds into paper boats and sets out to sea. Now that she’s older, she McVitry, the lone survivor of the deadly outburst sparked by his own dreams of following her heart and becoming a true teller of tales, but cruelty, is tormented by visions of Ricky’s vengeful spirit. Ricky’s she decides to get a “real job” instead and forget all about Keenan, the surrogate older brother, Corky Meeks, grapples with doubts about the guy who makes her feel as if she’s living in one of her own fairy tales. fragile boy he tried to protect. And Jeremy Little, who inadvertently became Ricky’s long-distance Internet crush despite never having met, Sensitive and introverted, Keenan is an aspiring artist, but he feels seeks to atone for failing to hear his friend’s cries for help. pressured to pursue a more practical path. He’s drawn to Kugy from first sight: she’s unconventional, and the light radiating from her eyes For those closest to the tormented killer, shock and grief have given and the warmth of her presence pull him in. They seem like a perfect way to soul-searching. And in their shared search for meaning and match—both on and off the page—but revealing their secret feelings redemption, Ricky’s loved ones find a common purpose: learning to means risking their friendship and betraying the people they love most. trust their feelings, fighting for real intimacy in a world grown selfish and Can they find the courage to admit their love for each other and chase insincere, and fearlessly embracing all that matters most…before it’s their long-held dreams? gone from their lives.

Literary Fiction and Poetry | 62 The Long Deception Intrusion Mary McCluskey Mary McCluskey Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Imprint: Little A Imprint: Little A Publication Date: 1/30/2018 Publication Date: 7/1/2016 Page Count: 250 Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Hungarian

The sudden death of a childhood friend forces a woman to rethink her A loving couple, grieving the loss of their son, finds their marriage in own life—and make an impossible decision. free fall when a beautiful, long-lost acquaintance inserts herself into their lives. Alison Eastlake has come a long way from the wild days of her youth in England. Now, instead of streaking her hair purple, dreaming of Kat and Scott Hamilton are dealing with the hardest of losses: the becoming an artist, and sneaking cigarettes in her friend Sophie’s death of their only child. While Scott throws himself back into his law basement, she has a career in advertising in Los Angeles and attends practice in Los Angeles, Kat is hesitant to rejoin the workplace and black-tie dinners with her executive husband. She fears that she is fast instead spends her days shell-shocked and confused, unable to focus. becoming the type of person she once despised. When an unwelcome face from Kat’s past in England emerges—the When Alison receives news that Sophie has died of a drug overdose, beautiful and imposing Sarah Cherrington—Kat’s marriage is thrown leaving behind a slew of unanswered questions, she must go back into a tailspin. Now wealthy beyond anything she could have imagined home. Once there, she unearths reminders of her unruly past, including as a girl, Sarah appears to have everything she could need or want. feelings for Sophie’s brother, Matt—and finds that she is still powerfully But Sarah has an agenda and she wants one more thing. Soon Kat and attracted to him. Scott are caught up in her devious games and power plays.

Careening dangerously close to a full-blown affair, Alison must now Against the backdrops of Southern California and Sussex, in spare and make an impossible decision. But when a long-buried secret about haunting prose, Mary McCluskey propels this domestic drama to its Sophie resurfaces, it shatters everything Alison had always believed chilling conclusion. about the past—and forces her to rethink her own life, her marriage, and her future.

The Practice House The Man Who Could Be Laura McNeal King Historical Fiction John Ripin Miller Imprint: Little A Historical Fiction Publication Date: 4/1/2017 Imprint: Little A Page Count: 494 Publication Date: 7/1/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 294 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and When young Josiah Penn Stockbridge accepts the position as aide-de- aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring camp to George Washington at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, the doorbell. Aldine’s sister converts and moves to America to marry, he thinks only of the glory and romance of battle. He is unprepared for and Aldine follows, hoping to find the life she’s meant to lead and the the reality of America’s bloody fight for independence. The Continental person she’s meant to love. Army is starving, underpaid, and dangerously close to mutiny, and Washington fights not just to defeat the British but to maintain order In New York, Aldine answers an ad soliciting a teacher for a one-room and morale among his own men. schoolhouse in a place she can’t possibly imagine: drought-stricken Kansas. She arrives as farms on the Great Plains have begun to fail As anonymous letters by officers calling for revolt circulate through and schools are going bankrupt, unable to pay or house new teachers. camp in Newburgh, New York, Washington must make a choice: With no money and too much pride to turn back, she lives uneasily with preserve the young republic by keeping civilian control of the military, or the family of Ansel Price—the charming, optimistic man who placed the reshape the new government by standing in solidarity with his troops ad—and his family responds to her with kind curiosity, suspicion, and, and assuming greater power for himself. most dangerously, love. Just as she’s settling into her strange new life, a storm forces unspoken thoughts to the surface that will forever alter During one fateful week in American history, Josiah will watch a the course of their lives. conflicted general become a legend and will discover for himself that the greatest struggles of war are those within the hearts and minds of Laura McNeal’s novel is a sweeping and timeless love story about fallible men. leaving—and finding—home.

Literary Fiction and Poetry | 63 North Haven We’re All Damaged Sarah Moriarty Matthew Norman Literary Fiction Literary Fiction Imprint: Little A Imprint: Little A Publication Date: 6/1/2017 Publication Date: 6/1/2016 Page Count: 300 Page Count: 284 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Czech

Sarah Moriarty’s stunning debut is a portrait of the family scars and Andy Carter was happy. He had a solid job. He ran 5Ks for charity. He faults passed along the generations, brilliantly capturing life on the was living a nice, safe midwestern existence. And then his wife left him Maine coastline, where time seems to stand still even as the waters for a handsome paramedic down the street. never stop moving. We’re All Damaged begins after Andy has lost his job, ruined his best On an island in Maine, four siblings arrive at their sprawling, old friend’s wedding, and moved to New York City, where he lives in a tiny summer place for the Fourth of July. It’s the Willoughbys’ first summer apartment with an angry cat named Jeter that isn’t technically his. But without their parents, and their beloved house is falling apart. When a before long he needs to go back to Omaha to say goodbye to his dying substantial offer is made on the estate, the two brothers and two sisters grandfather. are forced to confront issues they had hoped to keep hidden. Back home, Andy is confronted with his past, which includes his ex, his An homage to the layers and limits of the family bond, North Haven ex’s new boyfriend, his right-wing talk-radio-host mother, his parents’ explores the shifting allegiances between siblings as they contend with crumbling marriage, and his still-angry best friend. their inheritance, the truth of family lore, and even the veracity of their own memories. This lyrical and moving novel delves into the secret As if these old problems weren’t enough, Andy encounters an entirely world that exists between parents—one their children don’t fully new complication: Daisy. She has fifteen tattoos, no job, and her own understand, much as they may think they do. 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.

Rummage The Murder of the Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa Doppelganger Poetry Collection Matthew Salesses Imprint: Little A Literary Fiction Publication Date: 8/29/2017 Imprint: Little A Page Count: 98 Publication Date: 8/14/2018 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 275 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Winner of the 2015 Little A Poetry Contest. From the bestselling author of The Hundred-Year Flood comes a new novel in the vein of Kazuo Ishiguro and Haruki Murakami. A journey through girlhood, self-discovery, and the little acts of violence we inflict on one another. The Murder of the Doppelgänger is a novel about a man trying to solve the murder of an alternate-reality version of himself. One of the In an astounding debut poetry collection, Cave Canem, Callaloo, and questions the book asks is: How do you own who you are if who you Lambda Literary fellow Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa presents a relentless but are is someone else? refined portrait of one young woman’s journey toward self-discovery. Her poems explore the eternal themes of the human condition—nature, origin, shame, identity, desire, mortality—with sensitivity and specificity. They illuminate and interrogate the ways that her characters inflict and experience pain, ultimately revealing how we must all 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.

Literary Fiction and Poetry | 64 Midair The Judgment of Richard Kodi Scheer Richter Literary Fiction Igor Štiks Imprint: Little A Literary Fiction Publication Date: 8/1/2016 Imprint: AmazonCrossing Page Count: 226 Publication Date: 9/1/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 302 Rights Sold: French Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Spanish, Croatian, Bosnian, Dutch, Serbian, German, Slovenian, Hungarian, French, Finnish, Italian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, and Ukrainian

For four young women abroad in Paris, a game of Truth or Dare turns In this gripping, war-torn epic novel, IMPAC Dublin Award—nominated life-and-death. author Igor Štiks tells the story of a writer who travels to Sarajevo to unearth devastating family secrets and the lies that have defined his “I had a secret: I wanted to leave the earth in a spectacular fashion. life. The Judgment of Richard Richter was originally published in Specifically, by leaping from the Eiffel Tower.” So begins this Croatian and has been translated into English by Ellen Elias-Bursac. provocative coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl bent on self- destruction and revenge, set in the City of Light. Author Richard Richter’s mother and father were always phantoms, both parents having died by the time he was four. His life, now at a It’s the summer of 1999, the end of a millennium. In the mind of Nessa crossroads, has been a jumble of invention, elusive memories, and Baxter, a girl from rural Illinois, Paris is the remedy for all of her woes. handed-down stories. But when Richard finds his mother’s hidden The death of her beloved brother and the betrayal by her classmate Kat notebook, written by her during World War II, he discovers a confession has left Nessa bereft and doubtful about her future. She plans to exact that was never meant to be read by anyone—least of all, her son. revenge on Kat during their renegade French Club trip. Along with classmates Whitney and Kiran, the four girls embark on a series of Richard’s quest for the truth about his life leads him to an embattled misadventures in Paris. As part of her plan, Nessa starts a game of Sarajevo. In the chaos of the besieged city, he discovers something Truth or Dare that spirals out of control. more: a transformative romance and unexpected new friendships that will change the course of his search. But just as fate determines the A suspenseful psychological drama, Midair is the story of a young girl’s lives of the characters in his novel, a betrayal reaching back half a descent into darkness and the secrets we keep, even from ourselves. century has yet to loosen its grip—on Richard, on everyone he has come to love, and on those he has no choice but to try to forgive.

Everyone Knows You Go Children of the Salt Road Home Lydia Fazio Theys Natalia Sylvester Women’s Fiction Literary Fiction Imprint: Little A Imprint: Little A Publication Date: 9/26/2017 Publication Date: 3/13/2018 Page Count: 129 Page Count: 390 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

From the acclaimed author of Chasing the Sun comes a new novel For New Yorkers Catherine and Mark, a picturesque coastal village in about immigration and the depths to which one Mexican American Sicily offers an escape from the shadow over Catherine’s career and a family will go for forgiveness and redemption. chance to rebuild their eroding marriage. Catherine sets up an art studio, while Mark explores the exciting potential of Italy’s languishing The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he’s already agricultural regions. For a moment, there’s hope for healing on the dead—an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her banks of the sparkling lagoon. husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. But the appearance of a mysterious young boy shakes their So Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar’s family— relationship to its core. As Catherine begins to devote her attention to especially his wife, Elda—to let him redeem himself. the child, Mark follows a troubling path of destruction, betraying Catherine’s trust in devastating ways. Catherine discovers their idyllic Isabel and Martin settle into married life in a Texas border town, and surroundings also belie a sinister history, driving the couple even Omar returns each year on the celebratory Day of the Dead. Every year further apart. As they delve deeper into the secrets of their town and in Isabel listens, but to the aggrieved Martin and Elda, Omar’s spirit their marriage, will the truths they uncover separate them for good? remains invisible. Through his visits, Isabel gains insight into not just the truth about his disappearance and her husband’s childhood but also the ways grief can eat away at love. When Martin’s teenage nephew crosses the Mexican border and takes refuge in Isabel and Martin’s home, questions about past and future homes, borders, and belonging arise that may finally lead to forgiveness—and alter all their lives forever.

Literary Fiction and Poetry | 65 The Oddfits Series

The Oddfits (Book One) The More Known World Tiffany Tsao (Book Two) Literary Fantasy Tiffany Tsao Imprint: AmazonCrossing Literary Fantasy Publication Date: 2/1/2016 Imprint: AmazonCrossing Page Count: 258 Publication Date: 12/19/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

For fans of Jennifer Egan, Junot Diaz, Zadie Smith, Ben Fountain, and Murgatroyd Floyd joined the Quest to set out on the most wonderful Julia Alvarez, The Oddfits is a coming-of-age story that is laugh-out- adventure of his life. But the greatest adventures are also the most loud funny, quietly provocative, and full of spirit. dangerous. When several Questians go missing and rumor spreads through the More Known World that a tribe of native savages is Eight-year-old Murgatroyd Floyd doesn’t fit in—not as a blue-eyed responsible for the disappearances, Murgatroyd sets out to investigate. blond living in Singapore, not in school, and certainly not with his aloof expatriate parents, who seem determined to make his life even harder. In the long run, the villains are vanquished and the heroes have won— Unbeknownst to him, there’s a reason why he’s always the odd boy but Murgatroyd begins to wonder whether he really is the hero. As with out: he is an Oddfit, a rare type of human with access to the More the worlds, there is more to the Quest than what initially meets the eye. Known World, a land invisible to most people. Yet unfortunate But undisclosed, its truths may prove too terrible to bear. circumstances keep Murgatroyd stranded in the Known World, bumbling through life with the feeling that an extraordinary something is waiting for him just beyond his 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?

Kings of Broken Things Mother of Invention Theodore Wheeler Caeli Wolfson Widger Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Imprint: Little A Imprint: Little A Publication Date: 8/1/2017 Publication Date: 5/8/2018 Page Count: 336 Page Count: 275 Rights Acquired: English and German Rights Acquired: All Languages

Written in the tradition of Don DeLillo and Colum McCann, with a great A present-day Silicon Valley version of The Handmaid’s Tale. debt to Ralph Ellison, Theodore Wheeler’s debut novel Kings of Broken Things is a panoramic view of a city on the brink of implosion during the Tessa Callahan heads a company developing technology that makes it course of the tragic true events of the Omaha Race Riot of 1919. possible for women to have accelerated pregnancies. They’ve invented a procedure that allows babies to fully develop in nine weeks in a During the waning days of World War I, three lost souls find themselves woman’s womb. The technology claims to help women get back on adrift in Omaha, Nebraska, at a time of unprecedented nationalism, their feet faster after giving birth and is touted as the answer to “having xenophobia, and political corruption. Adolescent European refugee it all.” Things dangerously unravel for Tessa and the other women Karel Miihlstein’s life is transformed after neighborhood boys discover when she realizes there is a wider conspiracy entrenched in the his prodigious natural talent for baseball. Jake Strauss, a young man program. with a violent past and desperate for a second chance, is drawn into a criminal underworld. Evie Chambers, a kept woman, is trying to make Mother of Invention is an exploration of the fraught sacrifices women ends meet and looking every which way to escape her cheerless make to succeed in both career and family, including income inequality existence. within marriages, as well as the menace and wonder of technological innovation in a perpetually plugged-in world. But at its core, the novel is As wounded soldiers return from the front and black migrant workers a fast-paced story of love, betrayal, and redemption set against the move north in search of economic opportunity, the immigrant wards of spooky backdrop of a not-so-distant future in which women can Omaha become a tinderbox of racial resentment stoked by “engineer” their lives as never before. unscrupulous politicians. Punctuated by an unspeakable act of mob violence, the fates of Karel, Jake, and Evie will become inexorably entangled with the schemes of a ruthless political boss whose will to power knows no bounds.

Literary Fiction and Poetry | 66 Mysteries and Thrillers

Mysteries and Thrillers | 67 Grand Mal Brian Andrews Military Science Fiction Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 4/24/2018 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

In 2002, when the US Army was scouring Afghanistan for Osama Bin Laden, an object was discovered deep in the caves of the Tora Bora mountain range—an object the likes of which no one had ever seen before.

Grand Mal is the untold, classified story of what happened after “first contact” with the object.

Tier One Thrillers

War Shadows (Book Two) Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson Military Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 2/21/2017 Page Count: 400 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A Wall Street Journal bestseller.

John Dempsey, former Navy SEAL and Tier One operator, is back. Only a few months into his new life as an operative for Ember, the United States’ most covert counterterrorism entity, he must stop an old nemesis who’s resurfaced after ten years of operating in the shadows. From the deserts of Iraq, through the jungles of Guatemala, to the streets of suburbia, Dempsey and his Ember team race against time to stop a series of horrific and devious attacks against the homeland.

In this second installment of the Tier One series, John Dempsey faces his greatest challenge as he continues to evolve from a decorated Navy SEAL into the country’s most lethal protector.

Crusader One (Book Three) Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson Military Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 12/5/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Nothing stops former Navy SEAL and Tier One operator John Dempsey from answering the call of duty— including a mission with the highest stakes he’s ever faced. When one of the most brazen and lethal acts of terrorism rocks American and Israeli intelligence forces at the highest levels, Dempsey’s ultracovert antiterror unit, Ember, mobilizes.

But this operation isn’t just a retaliatory strike by Ember; it’s a mission of vengeance for Dempsey—against the Iranian terrorist mastermind who slaughtered Dempsey’s Tier One comrades. Racing from Tel Aviv to Tehran, the elite American warrior and his formidable Israeli counterpart must forsake their backup in a capture-or-kill gambit that could turn into a suicide run.

But with missiles flying across the Middle East, Dempsey’s do-or-die quest must succeed. If it doesn’t, it’s a short countdown to World War III.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 68 The Blood of Kings

Rebellion’s Forge (Book Three) K. M. Ashman Historical Mystery Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Page Count: 386 Rights Acquired: All Languages

An uneasy peace reigns in Wales. It’s 1109 and the truce with England hangs by the thinnest of threads. While King Gruffydd ap Cynan’s rule of law holds in the north, a spirit of rebellion is rising 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. But the decision is soon taken out of his hands by those who ride for liberty from the depths of Rebellion’s Forge.

The Warrior Princess K. M. Ashman Historical Mystery Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 8/8/2017 Page Count: 485 Rights Acquired: All Languages

1135 AD. Wales is a broken land. Many of its trueborn rulers are in hiding, or married into noble English families. But, though low and dim, a flame of vengeance still burns…In the southern kingdom of Deheubarth, Gerald of Windsor governs. Firm but fair, he commands the respect of those he reigns over, and the love of Nesta, his wife.

But then treachery strikes from the heart of the English ranks, and peace and stability are quickly forgotten. Nesta, daughter of a long-dead prince, is more than what she seems. And when her family is threatened, she takes drastic action to protect it…In the mountainous rebel heartland of Cantref Mawr, the Welsh resistance has found a new figurehead: a fearless warrior, born with a sword in her hand and vengeance in her heart.

The Warrior Princess is coming. And the English will know fear.

Jo Lasker Thrillers

By Any Means (Mit allen Mitteln) Jens Bühler Police Procedural Imprint: Edition M - German Language Publication Date: 5/16/2017 Page Count: 366 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The waves wash up a gruesome find in Frankfurt one night.

The young woman is dead, her hands hacked off and her body bloated. One thing is clear: somewhere in the canyons of the looming towers of the city hides an unscrupulous murderer and a dark secret. Even though the BKA (Federal Criminal Police Office) has taken over the investigation, Jo Lasker has received orders from on high to investigate. In order to solve the case, he needs a team ready to move beyond the limits of the law. After gathering the right team for the job, he has no idea that all their lives will soon be in danger.

But the truth needs to come out, regardless of the consequences. The author and the professional detective lead the reader through the abyss of crime in this fast-moving and dark Frankfurt thriller.

Unbelievably suspenseful, dark, and definitely readable. Mysteries and Thrillers | 69 Alex Polonia Thriller

Venice Black (Book One) No Real Scotsman Gregory C. Randall (Ningún escocés International Thriller verdadero) Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Ana Ballabriga and Publication Date: 3/6/2018 David Zaplana Page Count: TBD Crime Rights Acquired: All Languages Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Spanish Language Publication Date: 6/27/2017 Page Count: 432 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A case of mistaken identity transforms detective Alexandra Two worlds collide in this fast-moving, heart-wrenching noir novel. Polonia’s vacation into an international thriller in this novel that puts a female twist on the classic thriller novel. Elías is a private investigator, a specialist in solving cases related to works of art, and he leads an uneventful life. His uncle, the bishop of Cartagena, asks him to recover the Vera Cruz de Caravaca, which was stolen in 1934, and obtain a painting that is to be auctioned in Madrid. Elías is unsuccessful in the latter task: the canvas is stolen by the beautiful and mysterious Alicia Silva, unsettling the detective’s peace of mind and his comfortable married life. From this moment on, Elías’s life descends into a living hell that threatens to destroy all of his beliefs, as he is thrown into a whirlwind of sex, violence, drugs, and corruption in which nothing is as it seems.

A daring thriller of surprising intensity, this is a book that grabs the readers and refuses to let them go until the very end. This unapologetically crude novel, which features writing that borders on the blasphemous and even flirts with the offensive, is sure to have an impact on everyone who reads it.

The Emma Fern Series

Until I Met Her After He Killed Me (Book One) (Book Two) Natalie Barelli Natalie Barelli Psychological Thriller Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 5/30/2017 Publication Date: 9/21/2017 Page Count: 288 Page Count: 304 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

She’s gone from nobody to somebody. And she’s not going back. Emma Fern has won at life: she’s a prize-winning author and she is blissfully happy with her husband, Jim. It wasn’t an easy rise to When ordinary Emma Fern strikes up a friendship with glamorous the top, but Emma knows you can’t achieve success without Beatrice Johnson Greene, her favorite author, she can’t believe sacrifice. The trouble is, Jim knows that, too. her luck. But Beatrice has an unusual favor to ask, one that will change Emma’s life forever. For Emma, desperate to please, it’s As her literary triumph starts to fade into the past, Emma comes an offer she can’t refuse. All she has to do is let Beatrice publish under pressure to write a second bestseller. But her big secret is her latest novel under her name. But the book becomes a huge that she didn’t write the first one. She’s a fraud, and the only triumph and after her first taste of success, Emma wants more. people who ever knew the truth are…no longer a problem. And she’ll stop at nothing to get it. This is her masterpiece, after all. It says so on the cover. What Emma didn’t count on was Jim playing the long game too. He has his own secrets—and a dangerous plan that could derail Only Beatrice knows the truth. And surely there’s a solution to that. her beautifully orchestrated life. Faced with the loss of everything that defines her, Emma is forced to take increasingly desperate steps.

She won’t go down without a fight. And as Jim should know, she won’t fight fair.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 70 Curriculum Mortem Enzo Bartoli Police Procedural Imprint: Amazon Publishing - French Language Publication Date: 6/27/2017 Page Count: 270 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Finalist in the 2013 edition of the Quai des Orfèvres Awards.

A corpse is found early in the morning in a garbage can on Boulevard Barbès.

Left behind: a widow and two orphans. For the two cops who have to find out what happened, so begins a long and morbid investigation into a death that no one—or almost no one—seems to lament...

Served with a fine-tuned plot and an exhilarating style in the spirit of San Antonio and Nestor Burma, Curriculum Mortem is a book that you will not be able to put down.

Investigation on Arrival (Enquête à l’arrivée) Enzo Bartoli Police Procedural Imprint: Amazon Publishing - French Language Publication Date: 6/27/2017 Page Count: 242 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Bois de Vincennes, on the edge of Lake Daumesnil.

In the misty morning, a boat drifts along. On board, an appallingly mutilated body, in pieces. The crime squad begins an investigation that will plunge them into the equestrian world, a unique realm about which they know nothing...or almost nothing.

Join Lieutenant Lanternier and Captain Guilbert for new adventure with Squad 36.

Six Months to Kill (Six mois à tuer) Enzo Bartoli Noir Imprint: Amazon Publishing - French Language Publication Date: 11/14/2017 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When Régis Gaudin’s doctor tells him that he has only six months to live, Régis receives the news with an indifference bordering on bravado. Yet his detachment is very real. A gifted child, 19 years old and a brilliant astrophysicist, Régis Gaudin is a true asocial who lives as a recluse in his beautiful Parisian apartment.

An unexpected encounter with Chloe Schneider upsets his routine. She is seductive and witty, and she has an unusual proposition: that he kill certain individuals who have been deemed undesirable by a group of victims. With only six months to live, she thinks that Régis is the ideal man for the job. But the thrill of murder proves addictive.

Six Months to Kill is about the birth of a serial killer. A killer whose most remarkable quality is how unremarkable he is.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 71 Fjord Platform 77 (Insel 77) Halvar Beck Halvar Beck Mystery & Suspense Mystery & Suspense Imprint: Edition M - German Imprint: Edition M - German Language Language Publication Date: 6/6/2017 Publication Date: 2/27/2018 Page Count: 222 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

A lonesome fjord. A dead girl. An exhilarating thriller set in the Far A drilling platform in a storm. A woman in a trap. The Kindle North from Kindle bestselling author Halvar Beck. bestselling author of Fjord, Halvar Beck, delivers yet another breathtaking thriller from the high north. A small isolated village in Briskefjord Norway is rudely awakened from its slumber. The mayor’s daughter is dead. Her corpse was A few months ago, the young doctor Kristin Jørgensen worked as found in the fjord, her skull split wide open. Young police officer the head of the infirmary on Platform 77—a drilling platform in the Hetland was last seen with her, so his predecessor helps with the North Sea. She wanted to spend her next shore leave somewhere investigation. This is no easy task, as many people in town had warm with her boyfriend, Marius, a platform worker. However, good reason to get rid of the young temptress. Marius was not on the scheduled helicopter flight that was supposed to bring him to Stavanger. All attempts at contact failed. While desperately awaiting reinforcements from Trondheim, events happen quickly: a house burns to the ground, and people Kristin is uneasy, particularly when she finds out that there have disappear without a trace. Who is behind the gruesome game? been several unsolved missing-persons cases on the platform. She goes out looking for the truth—back to the storm-wracked drilling platform—and finds herself in serious danger...

A Harry Gilmour Novel

The Speed of Sound Turn Left for Gibraltar Eric Bernt (Book Three) Techno Thriller David Black Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Historical Thriller Publication Date: 5/15/2018 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 4/5/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 366 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A Beautiful Mind meets House of Cards in this thriller that is at As 1941 draws to a close, brave young men are fighting for freedom once an exploration of autistic genius and a biting political in countries across the globe. But for Sublieutenant, Harry Gilmour, conspiracy. washed up in neutral Spain alongside “interned belligerents” from both sides of the war, hostilities have come to a pause.

Before long, his unlikely comrades must once again become his enemies, and he is back at the front line of the battle for the Mediterranean. But aboard the submarine HMS Umbrage, operating in the waters off Malta, Harry is soon reminded that allies can be more dangerous than foes. When his volatile skipper is lost at sea, it falls to Harry to take charge of the boat—and of the men who now depend on him.

Ashore, there is another lesson: how war drives its wedge between more than just nations. Shirley is waiting for him back in Scotland, but the world offers many distractions for a young man…As Malta is besieged from the air and home seems ever farther away, Harry must summon all his courage to stay alive and shoulder the responsibility of command.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 72 Emily Etcitty The DI Nick Dixon Crime Series

Abducted Innocence Heads or Tails Sandra Bolton (Book Seven) Police Procedural Damien Boyd Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Police Procedural Publication Date: 6/20/2017 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Page Count: 318 Publication Date: 9/14/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 370 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In this gripping police procedural, Officer Emily Etcitty sets a trap A man has been mutilated and left to drown on the incoming tide, for a kidnapper preying on Navajo teens. handcuffed in his van. With the murder bearing a striking resemblance to a string of sadistic killings carried out with surgical When a Native American girl turns up missing during a traditional precision in 1990s gangland Manchester, it can mean only one ceremony, Navajo police officer Emily Etcitty is on the case. What thing: the killer is back. initially looks like nothing more than a routine runaway turns into a high-priority kidnapping case when a connection is made to Transferred to the Major Investigation Team, DI Nick Dixon is several other missing girls. assigned a new partner and sent to Manchester. Meanwhile, the gruesome murders in Somerset continue. After abandoning everything on the East Coast but his loyal dog, Patch, musician Abe Freeman is still acclimating to the Southwest Convinced of a connection with the unsolved gangland killings, and and his new love interest, the beautiful and beguiling Emily. It with the odds stacked against him, Dixon takes the ultimate hasn’t been easy with clashing cultures and haunted pasts, but gamble, determined to bring the killer to justice before it’s too late. they’re committed to making it work. But is it the same killer? If so, why has he resurfaced now? And Fearing for the missing girls’ safety, Emily decides to use herself how many more must die? as bait to set a trap for the kidnapper…and is abducted. Now Abe must team up with Emily’s brother and her police partner, but the Stay tuned for the 8th book in the series, which will be deeper they dig, the more dangerous things become. released in Spring 2018!

Hawthorn Season (La The Night of the Moths stagione del biancospino) (La notte delle falene) Riccardo Bruni Riccardo Bruni Contemporary Psychological Thriller Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Italian Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Italian Language Language Publication Date: 3/14/2017 Publication Date: 12/1/2015 Page Count: 298 Page Count: 248 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: English

A strange world, perched on the slopes of a Tuscan mountain. A Alice was a hopeful young graduate student when, on a beautiful place of ancient woodland, remote legends, and a small town August night, her body was found in the woods. She’ll always where everyone knows everyone. remember the night she was murdered. And she still suffers the grief and rage that destroyed her family. There, winter is a heavy white cloak, a blanket of snow it seems will never disappear. And a blanket seems to cover the mind of But what Alice regrets most is the last fight she had with her Giulio Rodari, too: arrested on the charge of murdering his ex- boyfriend, Enrico—and the fact that she never had the chance to partner, he doesn’t remember anything about that night. In his tell him something that would have changed everything. memory there is an impenetrable void, a painful amnesia. And in the very fiber of the town, there is an open wound: they call it the A decade later, Enrico has returned to the provincial town where Day of the Bridge, and it is the void that four years earlier Alice lived and died, to sell his family home. All he wants is to swallowed the lives of seven people, turning this strange world forget. But then, among the things he left behind, he finds an old upside down. cell phone…and unread texts sent from Alice’s phone.

Under the white mantle of winter, poisonous mysteries lie. Part of Now, her terrible secrets are about to swallow up everyone she the old woodland is in danger of being wiped out, restless spirits knew, loved, and trusted. For Enrico, discovering them is his only perform inexplicable acts, subtle tensions run through the lives of chance to put his lost love—and the demons of his past—to rest. many. But secrets will emerge when the snow disappears, in hawthorn season.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 73 Stillhouse Lake

Stillhouse Lake Killman Creek (Book One) (Book Two) Rachel Caine Rachel Caine Psychological Thriller Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 7/1/2017 Publication Date: 12/12/2017 Page Count: 302 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German

An Amazon Charts Most-Read Book. Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. Gina Royal is the definition of average—a shy Midwestern But the war isn’t over. Not since Melvin broke out of prison. Not housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But since she received a chilling text… when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor—the ultimate You’re not safe anywhere now. warrior mom. With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the Her refuge at Stillhouse Lake has become a trap. Gwen leaves her target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to children in the protective custody of a fortified, well-armed do with her husband’s crimes, Gwen dares to think her kids can neighbor. Now, with the help of Sam Cade, brother of one of finally grow up in peace. Melvin’s victims, Gwen is going hunting. She’s learned how from one of the sickest killers alive. But just when she’s starting to feel at ease in her new identity, a body turns up in the lake—and threatening letters start arriving from But what she’s up against is beyond anything she feared—a an all-too-familiar address. Gwen Proctor must keep friends close sophisticated and savage mind game calculated to destroy her. As and enemies at bay to avoid being exposed—or watch her kids fall trust beyond her small circle of friends begins to vanish, Gwen has victim to a killer who takes pleasure in tormenting her. One thing is only fury and vengeance to believe in as she closes in on her prey. certain: she’s learned how to fight evil. And she’ll never stop. And sure as the night, one of them will die.

The Heir Hunter

The Final Realization Trace Evidence (Die letzte Erkenntnis) (Book Two) Bernadette Calonego Diane Capri Thriller Hard-Boiled Thriller Imprint: Edition M - German Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Language Publication Date: 8/22/2017 Publication Date: 10/17/2017 Page Count: 304 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

The new suspense novel from the bestselling author of The Bay of The child of billionaire tech CEO Veronica Beaumont is in Silence. desperate need of a bone-marrow transplant. With his health rapidly declining, she hires Michael Flint, the heir hunter of last In the search for his brother’s murderer, Canadian movie director resort, to do the impossible: find Josh Hallman, the boy’s father, to Lester Dubuisson finds three cases of three leading scientists, who provide a hoped-for match. Six years ago, Hallman piloted a plane coincidentally lost their lives in their home countries of Switzerland, that crashed, claiming the lives of two friends. Hallman’s body was Germany and Italy. He travels to Europe hoping to explain the link never recovered, and he’s been presumed dead ever since. But between the deaths. He soon realizes that he faces powerful Flint is beginning to have doubts—because he’s not the only one opponents. looking to find Hallman. The difference is, Flint wants to make sure he’s alive. Tia Brekman travels to a Canadian horse ranch and wants to vacation there with her boyfriend. She is escaping from a trauma. Now, in a race against time to save a child’s life, the best heir Her father was one of the scientists and was shot down in cold hunter in the business is determined to find Hallman, if he’s alive, blood right in front of her door. Instead of the hoped-for relaxation, before two relentless killers do. And when the Beaumont job she is drawn deeper into the disturbing events surrounding the uncovers new clues to a cold case that has haunted him his entire ranch and suddenly draws the attention of her father’s murderers. life, Flint finds himself wrestling with the toughest challenge of his career: just because he can find someone, does that mean he should?

Mysteries and Thrillers | 74 Hollow City Series

A Falling Knife (Book Two) Andrew Case Police Procedural Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Something’s rotten in the borough of Brooklyn. And it’s not just the wave of glossy condos pushing longtime residents out of their neighborhoods. A construction worker has plunged to his death, and suspicion has fallen on a fellow hard hat for turning a crane into a killing machine. When the suspect does a disappearing act, a pair of unlikely partners reunite to chase him down.

Leonard Mitchell once investigated dirty cops, and Detective Ralph Mulino was his target. Mulino was cleared. But Leonard ran afoul of the system and ended up pushing paper for the Parks Department. Now Mulino drafts him to infiltrate a real estate mogul’s operation and expose a financial scam that may be behind the murder. But when the suspected killer gets tossed from a tenement roof, it seems the price of probing the housing market might just be too high.

The Detective Lavender Mysteries

Plague Pits & River Bones (Book Four) Karen Charlton Historical Mystery Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 1/11/2018 Page Count: 324 Rights Acquired: All Languages

London, 1812. A time of treachery and revolt. The capital is besieged by highway robberies and savage criminal gangs. When mysterious skeletal remains are washed up on the bank of the Thames, Detective Inspector Stephen Lavender of Bow Street Magistrates is called in to investigate the gruesome find.

Meanwhile, a medieval plague pit is uncovered in the actual backyard of Bow Street Magistrates and it soon becomes clear that the ancient burial site is more sinister than it first appears.

Lavender suspects that the remains and robberies could all be part of a devious criminal network. With the help of the loyal Ned Woods, and his beautiful wife, Magdalena, Lavender must use all his wit and cunning to unmask the identity of the shadowy criminal mastermind. But will he do so in time to foil a dastardly plot that threatens to plunge the country into chaos?

The Daniel Byrne Trilogy

The Savior’s Game (Book Three) Sean Chercover Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 8/8/2017 Page Count: 232 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Spanish

Daniel Byrne is haunted by the future. Literally. It happened to his uncle. It happened to the woman he loves. And now it’s happening to him. It started as a voice only he could hear. Then he found himself visiting another world. A world both familiar and strange. A world inextricably linked to our own. And the things he sees there, come true…here. It’s a power others are willing to kill for. There’s no one Daniel can trust. Nowhere to hide. Chased across the globe by mysterious assassins, he struggles to decipher the visions plaguing him. Visions of miracles and massacres, conspiracy and catastrophe. And behind it all, a powerful adversary the likes of which we’ve never seen before.

One thing is clear: the universe is warning him of a cataclysmic change, an event that is either a bloody Armageddon or a shining new beginning. Daniel thinks he can see the answer—and maybe even change the outcome, before it’s too late. But there’s a fine line between messiah and madman.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 75 Samantha Brinkman

Blood Defense (Book One) Marcia Clark Legal Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 5/1/2016 Page Count: 400 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Estonian

First in a new series from bestselling author and famed O. J. Simpson trial prosecutor Marcia Clark, whom James Patterson calls a “terrific writer and storyteller.”

Samantha Brinkman, an ambitious Los Angeles criminal defense attorney, is struggling to make a name for herself. 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. Though Sam has doubts about his 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, 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 her client might be one of the most dangerous sociopaths she’s ever encountered.

Moral Defense (Book Two) Marcia Clark Legal Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 11/8/2016 Page Count: 426 Rights Acquired: All Languages

“[Moral Defense] has it all: a hard-charging lawyer heroine, tough-as-nails cops…as well as fly-by- the-seat-of-your-pants pacing and page-turning twists.” —The Associated Press

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 the bestselling Blood Defense, Samantha is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing left the teenager’s 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.

Snap Judgment (Book Three) Marcia Clark Legal Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 8/29/2017 Page Count: 462 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the third installment of Marcia Clark’s bestselling series, attorney Samantha Brinkman’s investigation into a family’s deadly secrets is compromised by a threat from her past.

When the daughter of prominent civil litigator Graham Hutchins is found with her throat slashed, the woman’s spurned ex-boyfriend seems the likely suspect. But only days later, the young man dies in what appears to be a suicide. Or was it? Now authorities are faced with a possible new crime. And their person of interest is Hutchins. After all, avenging the death of his daughter is the perfect reason to kill. If he’s as innocent as he claims, only one lawyer has what it takes to prove it: his friend and colleague Samantha Brinkman. It’s Sam’s obligation to trust her new client. Yet the deeper she digs on his behalf, the more entangled she becomes in a thicket of family secrets. To win her case, she’s prepared to bend any law and cross any boundary that stands in her way. Sam has always played by her own rules, and it’s always worked…so far. But this case cuts so deep and so personal that one false move could cost her everything.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 76 Reeder and Rogers Thriller

Silent Approach Executive Order Bobby Cole (Book Three) Adventure Max Allan Collins Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Political Thriller Publication Date: 4/4/2017 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Page Count: 290 Publication Date: 4/11/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 318 Rights Acquired: All Languages

One year after witnessing the tragic traffic accident that claimed his A riveting novel by MWA Grand Master Award winner Max Allan beloved wife and unborn child, accountant John Allen Harper Collins. In Eastern Europe, four CIA agents are dead—geopolitical seeks to remake his life. When he accepts a position with the pawns caught in border dispute cross fire. Why were they there? Mississippi Choctaw Nation as their cultural liaison, he is tasked Who sent them? Not even the president knows. with one job: to track down and reclaim the tribe’s stolen artifacts dug up from sacred ground and sold on the black market. Back in Washington, the secretary of the interior dies from an apparent allergic shock. As details emerge, so do suspicions that John Allen’s investigation leads him to crooked publisher Winston she was murdered. Walker, who’s using these priceless antiquities to prop himself up after a wealth-wasting divorce. Racing against time, John Allen Investigating their respective cases, ex–Secret Service agent Joe finds a cache of treasures stolen thirty years ago that may hold the Reeder and FBI Special Situations Task Force leader Patti Rogers key to an unsolved murder and an mysterious disappearance. recognize a dangerous conspiracy is in play. When suspects and Along the way, he teams up with FBI agent Emma Haden, who is government contacts are killed off with expert precision, their worst also investigating Walker and who stirs unexpected feelings in fears are confirmed. As the country edges closer and closer to war, John Allen. Reeder and Rogers must protect the president—and each other— from an unseen enemy who’s somehow always one step ahead. But the desperate Walker won’t go quietly, and the closer John Allen gets to the truth and the proof that will put Walker away, the closer he may come to being buried himself.

Water Under the Bridge The False Novelist (Acqua passata) (La novelista fingida) Valeria Corciolani Rafael R. Costa Thriller Psychological Thriller Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Italian Imprint: Amazon Encore - Spanish Language Language Publication Date: 4/18/2017 Publication Date: 8/15/2017 Page Count: 334 Page Count: 413 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Chiavari. In a backstreet of the placid Ligurian town, a stranger is A finalist in the Amazon 2015 Indie Authors Contest. found dying. A few hours later, Alma Boero, forty years old with sharp eyes, few words, and a wild sense of pride, is at work as a Surrounded by a dozen typewriters, Barbara L. Shackleton shuts maid where she finds the corpse of a young editor. herself away in her Long Island mansion. She cuts the hair of her dolls so that they resemble the protagonist of her first book, a great Investigating the cases is Inspector Jules Rosset, who is soon novel that was a huge success, which was made into a movie with struck by the insight of the maid and her ability to photograph an autumnal Bette Davis as the star protagonist, and brought her people by surveying their habits, their garbage, how they arrange fantastic fame and fortune. In 1972, it won the Pulitzer Prize. Since their socks, and the small and large foibles that every human being then, she has been unable to write the eagerly anticipated follow- fiercely guards. When a new mystery is added to the investigation, up. Why? Rosset realizes he has a unique tool in his hands to unravel the tangle of these seemingly unrelated events: a maid above One day, an unexpected visit from a friend of Shackleton’s reveals suspicion, discreet and reliable, able to slip into the most intimate exactly how her most famous novel came into being. parts of other people’s lives.

But Alma is a tool that is anything but easy to use.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 77 Only the Truth Adam Croft Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 3/1/2017 Page Count: 270 Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Czech

He’s not the perfect husband. But he is the perfect suspect.

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 bathroom. 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 a panic, he goes on the run. But even as he flees across Europe, his unknown enemy 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 conscience. No, he didn’t kill her—but is it all his fault?

Mercy Dogs Tyler Dilts Police Procedural Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 3/13/2018 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

A stand-alone thriller with shades of Bosch and Memento from Edgar Award nominee Tyler Dilts.

Depth of Lies E. C. Diskin Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 9/26/2017 Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When Shea Walker, a sunny, easygoing mom, is found dead in a bathtub with a stomach full of booze and pills, the shocking discovery shatters the complacency of her comfortable suburban community. Kat Burrows, Shea’s longtime friend and former neighbor, is hit hardest. How could a woman she thought she knew so well come to such a sordid end? What could lead happy, well-adjusted, responsible Shea to accidentally overdose on alcohol and narcotics? Or, worse, drive her to suicide?

Compelled to uncover the truth about Shea’s final months, Kat delves beneath the orderly surface of her familiar world to discover a web of thwarted desire, shameful secrets, and shocking betrayal that suggests a scarier explanation for what happened to Shea. As her carefully constructed reality begins to crumble, Kat must question every reassuring assumption her life is built upon to solve the mystery…and summon the courage and resourcefulness to survive it.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 78 Beach Lawyer (Book One) Avery Duff Legal Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 5/1/2017 Page Count: 382 Rights Acquired: All Languages

An Amazon Charts Most Read and Most Sold Book.

After five grueling years, Robert Worth is just days away from making partner at a powerful Santa Monica law firm. When a client confides that senior partner Jack Pierce sexually assaulted her, Robert breaks two of his cardinal rules: Never let yourself get emotional about clients, and never make an enemy of Jack Pierce.

Robert crosses Pierce and is fired on the spot, losing not only his job but also his reputation. Advised to go quietly, Robert vows revenge. But his investigation uncovers a twisted shadow world of sex, infidelity, and deception, where nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted. Only one thing is clear: Pierce will go the limit to keep his secrets. This straight shooter will need to use every angle if he hopes to win. But could victory come at too high a price?

The Academy Robert Dugoni Police Procedural Imprint: Thomas & Mercer 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.

The 7th Canon Robert Dugoni Legal Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 9/27/2016 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

An Edgar Award Nominee, Best Paperback Original.

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 teeth in his uncle’s tiny 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.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 79 The Tracy Crosswhite Series

My Sister’s Grave Her Final Breath In the Clearing (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) Robert Dugoni Robert Dugoni Robert Dugoni Police Procedural Police Procedural Police Procedural Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 5/17/2016 Publication Date: 11/1/2014 Publication Date: 9/15/2015 Page Count: 479 Page Count: 401 Page Count: 406 Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and German, Italian, Spanish, and German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese Japanese Japanese Rights Sold: French, German, Rights Sold: French, Simplified Rights Sold: French, Simplified Italian, Simplified Chinese, and Chinese, Complex Chinese, Chinese, Complex Chinese, Large Print (English) German, Italian, Spanish, and German, Italian, Spanish, and Large Print (English) Large Print (English)

Tracy Crosswhite has spent twenty years Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has A Thriller Award finalist, Best Paperback questioning the facts surrounding her sister returned to the police force after the sensational Original Novel. Sarah’s disappearance and the murder trial retrial of her sister’s killer. Still scarred from that that followed. She doesn’t believe that ordeal, Tracy is pulled into an investigation that Detective Tracy Crosswhite has a skill, and a Edmund House—a convicted rapist and the threatens to end her career, if not her life. soft spot, for tackling unsolved crimes. So man condemned for Sarah’s murder—is the when Jenny, a former police academy guilty party. Motivated by the opportunity to A serial killer known as the Cowboy is killing classmate and protégé, asks Tracy to help obtain real justice, Tracy became a homicide young women in cheap motels in North Seattle. solve a cold case that involves the suspicious detective with the Seattle PD and dedicated Even after a stalker leaves a menacing suicide of a Native American high school girl her life to tracking down killers. message for Crosswhite, suggesting the killer forty years earlier, Tracy agrees. or a copycat could be targeting her personally, When Sarah’s remains are finally discovered she is charged with bringing the murderer to Following up on evidence Jenny’s detective near their hometown in the northern Cascade justice. With clues scarce and more victims father collected when he was the investigating mountains of Washington State, Tracy is dying, Tracy realizes the key to solving the deputy, Tracy probes one small town’s determined to get the answers she’s been murders may lie in a decade-old homicide memory and finds dark, well-concealed seeking. As she searches for the real killer, investigation that others, including her captain, secrets hidden within the community’s fabric. she unearths dark, long-kept secrets that will Johnny Nolasco, would prefer to keep buried. Can Tracy uphold the promise she’s made to forever change her relationship to her past— the dead girl’s family and deliver the truth of and open the door to deadly danger. what happened to their daughter? Or will she become the next victim?

The Trapped Girl Close to Home A Steep Price (Book Four) (Book Five) (Book Six) Robert Dugoni Robert Dugoni Robert Dugoni Police Procedural Police Procedural Police Procedural Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 1/24/2017 Publication Date: 9/5/2017 Publication Date: Page Count: 358 Page Count: 382 Page Count: 6/26/2018 Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Portuguese, French, Portuguese, French,

German, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese, German, Italian, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese Spanish, and Japanese Spanish, and Japanese Rights Sold: German, Simplified Chinese, and Large Print (English)

A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller. New York Times bestselling author Robert Stay tuned for Book Six in the Wall Street Dugoni’s acclaimed series continues as Tracy Journal bestselling series, in which Tracy When a woman’s body is discovered Crosswhite is thrown headlong into the path of Crosswhite investigates the murder of a South submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of a killer conspiracy. Seattle activist. Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle. Before While investigating the hit-and-run death of a they can identify the killer, Tracy must figure out young boy, Seattle homicide detective Tracy who the victim is. Her autopsy, however, Crosswhite makes a startling discovery: the reveals she may have gone to great lengths to suspect is an active-duty serviceman at a local conceal her identity. So whom was she running naval base. After a key piece of case evidence from? goes missing, he is cleared of charges in a military court. When she uncovers the driver’s After evidence surfaces that she may be a ties to a rash of recent heroin overdoses in the woman who suspiciously disappeared months city, she realizes that this isn’t just a case of earlier, Tracy is once again haunted by the the military protecting its own. For Tracy, it’s memory of her sister’s unsolved murder. As all hitting very close to home. Tracy begins to uncover a twisted tale of brutal betrayal and desperate greed, she’ll find herself As Tracy moves closer to uncovering the truth risking everything to confront a killer who won’t behind this insidious conspiracy, she’s putting go down without a deadly fight. herself in harm’s way. And the only people she can rely on to make it out alive might be those she can no longer trust.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 80 The Magpies What You Wish For Mark Edwards Mark Edwards Psychological Thriller Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 9/19/2013 Publication Date: 6/24/2014 Page Count: 329 Page Count: 271 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German, Lithuanian, and Turkish

Meet the neighbors from hell, in the gripping thriller that Marie Walker has vanished from the face of the earth... Her reviewers and readers describe as “fast-paced,” “chilling,” besotted boyfriend, newspaper photographer Richard Thompson, and “impossible to put down.” vows to find her, convinced that Marie’s unusual beliefs hold the key. When Jamie and Kirsty move into their first home together, they are full of optimism. The other residents of their building seem But a shocking discovery makes him question if he ever really friendly too, including the Newtons, a married couple who welcome knew his girlfriend. And when people around him start to die, them to the building with open arms. Richard is plunged into terrible danger.

But then strange things start to happen. Dead rats are left on their Drawn into the world of a sinister cult and the darkest corners of doorstep. They hear disturbing noises, and much worse, in the the Internet, Richard finds himself increasingly out of his depth as night. After Jamie’s best friend is injured in a horrific accident, he discovers just how far people will go to protect what they Jamie and Kirsty find themselves targeted by a campaign of terror. believe in... 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.

Because She Loves Me Follow You Home Mark Edwards Mark Edwards Psychological Thriller Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 9/2/2014 Publication Date: 6/30/2015 Page Count: 352 Page Count: 402 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: French, Italian, and Rights Sold: Estonian, French, Lithuanian German, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Thai

A gripping tale of jealousy, obsession and murder, from the #1 The page-turning psychological thriller from the author of the Bestselling author of The Magpies. #1 bestsellers The Magpies and Because She Loves Me.

It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, a final adventure before When Andrew Sumner meets beautiful, edgy Charlie, he is certain settling down. But after a perfect start, an encounter with a young his run of bad luck has finally come to an end. couple on a night train forces Daniel and Laura to cut their dream trip short and flee home. But as the two of them embark on an intense affair, Andrew wonders if his grasp on reality is slipping. Items go missing in his Back in London, Daniel and Laura vow never to talk about what apartment. Somebody appears to be following him. And as happened that night. But as they try to fit into their old lives again, misfortune and tragedy strike his friends and loved ones, Andrew they realize they are in terrible danger—and that their nightmare is is forced to confront the frightening truth...Is Charlie really the girl just beginning… of his dreams—or the woman of his nightmares?

Mysteries and Thrillers | 81 The Devil’s Work The Lucky Ones Mark Edwards Mark Edwards Psychological Thriller Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 9/13/2016 Publication Date: 6/15/2017 Page Count: 376 Page Count: 382 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of It was the happiest day of her life. Little did she know it was also the Follow You Home and The Magpies. last.

It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very When a woman’s body is found in the grounds of a ruined priory, first day, when an unnerving encounter drags up memories Sophie Detective Imogen Evans realizes she is dealing with a serial killer—a Greenwood would rather forget, she wonders if she has made a killer whose victims appear to die in a state of bliss, eyes open, mistake. A fatal mistake. smiles forever frozen on their faces.

What is her ambitious young assistant really up to? And what A few miles away, single dad Ben Hofland believes his fortunes are exactly happened to Sophie’s predecessor? When her husband changing at last. Forced to move back to the sleepy village where he and daughter are pulled into the nightmare, Sophie is forced to grew up following the breakdown of his marriage, Ben finally finds confront the darkest secrets she has carried for years. work. What’s more, the bullies who have been terrorizing his son, Ollie, disappear. For the first time in months, Ben feels lucky. As her life begins to fall apart at work and at home, Sophie must But he is unaware that someone is watching him and Ollie. Someone race to uncover the truth about her new job…before it kills her. who wants nothing but happiness for Ben. Happiness…and death.

Detective Lennon Thrillers

From the Cradle The Blissfully Dead (Book One) (Book Two) Louise Voss Louise Voss and and Mark Edwards Mark Edwards Police Procedural Police Procedural Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 11/1/2014 Publication Date: 9/29/2015 Page Count: 399 Page Count: 418 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: French, German, Italian, and Spanish

The first child was taken from her house. She couldn’t believe that he wanted to meet her. He was famous. She was a nobody. Finally, someone could see how special she The second from his mother’s car. 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 third from her own bedroom... the hotel, and there is no apparent motive—until a second teenager is found and Lennon realizes somebody is targeting fans When Helen and Sean Philips go out for the evening, leaving their of the world’s biggest boy band. teenage daughter babysitting little Frankie, they have no idea that they are about to face every parent’s greatest fear. Detective As Lennon struggles with both his home life and his rivals on the Inspector Patrick Lennon is hopeful that the three children who force, the pressure to catch the killer before he strikes again have been abducted in this patch of south-west London will be reaches fever pitch. And when Lennon makes a terrible mistake returned safe and well. But when a body is found in a local park, that ends in disaster, he finds himself in a race to save not only the Lennon realizes that time is running out—and that nothing in this lives of more teenage girls but also his own career. case is as it seems...Blending police procedural with psychological thriller, From the Cradle will have parents checking that their Exploring the darkest depths of the entertainment industry and the children are safe in their beds...then checking again. terrifying dangers of social media, The Blissfully Dead is a new masterclass in tension.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 82 Hannes Niehaus Series

Missing Debt’s Legacy (Das Torment of the Soul (Desaparecida) Erbe der Schuld) (Der Schmerz der Mario Escobar (Book Four) Seele) (Book Five) Thriller Hendrik Falkenberg Hendrik Falkenberg Police Procedural Imprint: Amazon Publishing Police Procedural - Spanish Language Imprint: Edition M - German Imprint: Edition M - German Language Publication Date: Language 11/22/2016 Publication Date: 2/21/2017 Publication Date: 6/27/2017 Page Count: 366 Page Count: 266 Page Count: 398 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

A perfect life can crumble in a matter of A step into nothingness—and there is no A new case for police officer Hannes Niehaus. seconds. Charles and Mary’s marriage is the turning back. Adrenaline flows through your absolute image of success: he’s a prosperous veins, while the body is in free fall. But that At the start of the night, everything is going businessman who comes from an eminent endorphine-driven feeling of happiness ends according to plan. The spring air is filled with family of American politicians, and she’s a abruptly that day. As the jumper presses the the biting scent of ammonia when the animal- world-renowned, brilliant surgeon. But their parachute trigger, the lines flap loosely in the rights activists break through the fence and dream life is shattered when their oldest son air. Without anything to stop it, the body invade the poultry farm. Avoiding the dies in a skiing accident. The parents, crashes toward the ground while the altimeter spotlights and surveillance cameras, they tormented by grief and sorrow, decide to only shows a few hundred meters to go. A spread out over the facility. They notice too spend the summer in Turkey to start rebuilding safe landing is hardly feasible, seconds later late that they have already been discovered. their life together with their young daughter impossible and soon fatal. There isn’t even Michelle. time for a scream. The confrontation ends in violence and an activist pay for his compassion with his life. But what was supposed to be an idyllic At first it seems completely absurd to think that He is found dead in the filthy manure in a stall. vacation takes a sudden and terrible turn psychology professor Hartkamp’s respected Investigator Hannes Niehaus has to confront when the girl disappears. At first, the family has come into the crosshairs of a the reality of factory farming up close for the investigation points to a kidnapping by Islamic murderer. Only when a dark family secret is first time in his life. As the case moves extremists or Kurdish terrorists, but the FBI revealed, does a possible motive begin to forward, clues start to appear that it was about and Turkish police’s restless investigations are emerge. But to solve his fourth case, more than animal rights. As more people are thrown off by clues that suggest trafficking of policeman Hannes Niehaus must dig deeply in danger, the search for the actual motive women and girls, sinister characters with a into the past and break through a wall of becomes a race against time. track record of pedophilia, and even the silence. parents themselves.

Leo Waterman Mysteries

The Tuesday Club Family Values Soul Survivor (El club de los martes) (Book Nine) (Book Ten) Mario Escobar G. M. Ford G. M. Ford Psychological Thriller Police Procedural Hard Boiled Imprint: Amazon Publishing Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer - Spanish Language Publication Date: 8/29/2017 Publication Date: 7/17/2018 Publication Date: 11/7/2017 Page Count: 327 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 237 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Every Tuesday, five women meet together for Returning to Seattle after a business trip, In the tenth book in the Leo Waterman series reading and discussing mystery books. But the retired PI Leo Waterman is shocked to find his from acclaimed author G.M. “Jerry” Ford, Leo fun is over when they start to get killed, one by girlfriend, Rebecca Duvall, unconscious on the finds himself investigating the alt-right’s ties to one… bathroom floor, her house filled with gas. a murder.

Does the assassin know them well, or could it Officials believe it was a suicide attempt in the be one of them? wake of a humiliating scandal. Under investigation for dereliction of duty, she’d been suspended from her job as medical examiner for King County. Leo knows Rebecca too well—and is determined to prove her innocence. Most important, he wants to find out who tried to kill her.

Despite the prosecuting attorney’s claims of a solid case, Leo rounds up his ragtag team of miscreants to find the truth. The investigation leads straight to The Highlands. There, behind the locked doors of one of Seattle’s most exclusive gated communities, old money can afford to bury older family secrets. But for Leo, unearthing them is going to trap him in a conspiracy that is deadlier than he feared.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 83 Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries Elise Sandburg Series

The Body Reader (Book One) Play Dead (Book One) Anne Frasier Anne Frasier Police Procedural Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 6/21/2016 Publication Date: 2/25/2014 Page Count: 304 Page Count: 366 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding German Rights Sold: German, Simplified Chinese, and Hungarian

Thriller Award Winner, Best Paperback Original Novel. No one is more familiar with Savannah’s dark side than homicide detective and native resident Elise Sandburg. For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her She’s been haunted for years by her own mysterious past: she was sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning abandoned as a baby in one of the city’s ancient cemeteries, and it’s his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept rumored that she is the illegitimate daughter of an infamous Savannah her alive. root doctor. The local Gullah culture of voodoo and magic is one that few outsiders can understand, least of all Elise’s new partner. Now After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce someone is terrorizing the city, creating real-life zombies by poisoning desire for justice—and a heightened ability to interpret the body victims into a conscious paralysis that mimics death. language of both the living and the dead. Despite colleagues’ doubts about her mental state, she resumes her role at Homicide. Her new As the chilling case unfolds, Elise is drawn back into the haunted past partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, doesn’t trust her sanity, and he has a she’s tried so hard to leave behind. story of his own he’d rather keep hidden. But a killer is on the loose, murdering young women, so the detectives have no choice: they must work together to catch the madman before he strikes again. And no one knows madmen like Jude Fontaine.

Stay tuned for Book Two, Body Count, in Summer 2018!

Stay Dead Pretty Dead Truly Dead (Book Two) (Book Three) (Book Four) Anne Frasier Anne Frasier Anne Frasier Psychological Thriller Woman Sleuth Police Procedural Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 4/22/2014 Publication Date: 9/1/2015 Publication Date: 5/30/2017 Page Count: 310 Page Count: 334 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Languages, excluding Languages, excluding German German German

Suspense Magazine’s Best of 2014 A serial killer stalks the streets of When a demolition crew uncovers several Savannah...Homicide detective Elise bodies inside the walls of a house where serial New York Times bestselling author Anne Sandburg and her partner, profiler David killer Frank J. Remy once lived, the discovery Frasier takes readers back to her dark, Gould, are all too familiar with the terrible sends shock waves through the Savannah enchanting Savannah—a place as terrifying as costs of chasing evil. Despite their wounded Police Department. All of the bodies were it is mesmerizing. psyches, the detectives delve into the hidden before Remy’s imprisonment and deranged killer’s twisted mind, determined to subsequent death thirty-six years earlier— Homicide detective Elise Sandburg is unravel the clues in the taunts he leaves except for one belonging to a missing child. traumatized after her run-in with a madman behind. the press has dubbed “The Organ Thief.” As Homicide partners Elise Sandburg and David Elise takes refuge in her deceased aunt A city gripped by fear...When his daughter Gould were the Savannah PD’s dream team, Anastasia’s abandoned plantation to becomes the killer’s next victim, a grief- solving uncrackable crimes and catching investigate and recover from her ordeal, she stricken mayor comes down hard on the killers. But their last case resulted in their begins to question everything—from her police, demanding that they catch the termination from the squad, until the coroner dangerous line of work to her complex psychopath—now. Feeling the pressure, calls them back to consult, unofficially, on a relationship with her handsome, tortured department officials enlist the aid of both body found in the wall of a house once partner, David Gould. But with a madman on Elise’s estranged father and an FBI profiler occupied by Remy, a killer Elise’s own father the loose, and her mother’s claims to still hear who has unresolved business with David. sent to jail—a killer who died in prison. Is from Aunt Anastasia, she may have more Remy’s influence reaching from beyond the immediate problems on her hands. In Elise’s A cunning and elusive madman...In a heart- grave? Or is Elise making connections where world, where cold hard crime mixes with the pounding race to stop the next homicide, the there are none? When her father warns her to local Gullah culture, nothing is ever what it detectives uncover their own role in the back off the case, Elise’s shadowy family seems, and no one is above suspicion—not madman’s deadly game. history threatens to swallow her once again. even the dead.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 84 Frost Easton Mysteries

The Night Bird The Voice Inside (Book One) (Book Two) Brian Freeman Brian Freeman Psychological Thriller Police Procedural Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 2/1/2017 Publication Date: 1/30/2018 Page Count: 364 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages, Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Italian excluding Italian Rights Sold: Czech, German, Hungarian, Slovak, and Thai

Homicide detective Frost Easton doesn’t like coincidences. When One cop’s lie has set a killer free. a series of bizarre deaths rock San Francisco—as seemingly random women suffer violent psychotic breaks—Frost looks for a Four years after serial killer Rudy Cutter was sent away for life, connection that leads him to psychiatrist Francesca Stein. San Francisco homicide inspector Frost Easton uncovers a terrible Frankie’s controversial therapy helps people erase their most lie: his closest friend planted false evidence to put Cutter behind terrifying memories…and all the victims were her patients. bars. When he’s forced to reveal the truth, his sister’s killer is back on the streets. As Frost and Frankie carry out their own investigations, the case becomes increasingly personal—and dangerous. Long-submerged Desperate to take Cutter down again, the detective finds a new ally secrets surface as someone called the Night Bird taunts the pair in Eden Shay. She wrote a book about Cutter and knows more with cryptic messages pertaining to the deaths. Soon Frankie is about him than anyone. And she’s terrified. Because for four years, forced to confront strange gaps in her own memory, and Frost Cutter has been nursing revenge day after stolen day. faces a killer who knows the detective’s worst fears. Staying ahead of the game of a killer who’s determined to strike As the body count rises and the Night Bird circles ever closer, a again is not going to be easy. Not when Frost is battling his own dedicated cop and a brilliant doctor race to solve the puzzle before demons. Not when the game is becoming so personal. And not a cunning killer claims another victim. when the killer’s next move is unlike anything Frost expected.

Legacy of Blood Ultimate Power (Blutiges Erbe) Stephen Frey Daniela Frenken Political Thriller Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Edition M - German Publication Date: 2/13/2018 Language Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 6/20/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 296 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The car crash was gruesome. Now Jenni is alone with her son, Brad Thor meets The Big Short in this timely political-financial Olli. After the tragic loss of her beloved husband, Peter, Jenni thriller by New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey. travels with Olli to the mountains. She is happy to accept the invitation from Peter’s parents. Her hope is to escape her normal Money makes the world go round, and this suspenseful novel surroundings and get away from the misfortune of her daily life. reveals just how deep the connection to political causes and the However, the budding friendship between Olli and Anton—his financial markets go…and the shadowy groups wielding the power. father’s cousin—appears to help distract him. But then Jenni has a growing feeling that something is amiss.

Her intuition is not misleading her; she faces a looming danger amid the oppressive ravines and gloomy pines. Jenni and Olli still feel safe. Nevertheless, the chase is now afoot, and dread suddenly begins to dawn. Daniela Frenken has created an exhilarating thriller, where the suspense comes from familial ties and ends in a blood-drenched finale.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 85 The Girl on Mill Street Peter Gilboy Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 4/18/2017 Page Count: 210 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Nineteen-year-old Annie Taylor has a dark story to tell—of sex, betrayal, and homicide: her family’s story. Ten years ago, her beautiful and well-loved mother disappeared. Her father, a famous sex therapist and loving husband, was charged with the murder.

But Annie stubbornly believes in her father’s innocence. She follows in his footsteps and studies psychology, desperate to understand the tragic event that has shaped her life and to exonerate the man she believes was wrongly convicted. Annie, who will fight for the truth no matter what it reveals, starts discovering more sinister details about her family’s history. Why did her peace-loving mother have a police record? What about the other woman in her father’s past who is missing? And what about her father’s warning to others of a darkness that is hidden inside each of us? The Girl on Mill Street asks us to explore how much we really know about our own families and how our assumptions can keep us from the truth.

Dr. Schwartzman Series

Excise (Book Two) Danielle Girard Woman Sleuth Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 8/22/2017 Page Count: 354 Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

Medical examiner Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman was not meant to be idle, which is why she’s back at a murder scene even while reeling from recent chemotherapy treatments. Having undergone a double mastectomy, all she wants to do is dive back into her medical examiner job. It’s a gruesome world, yet Schwartzman takes comfort in its science and precision.

But the crime she’s dealing with brings her right back to the cancer ward: the victim is her own oncologist, dead from ingesting the very chemical used to fight her disease. Now, Schwartzman and homicide inspector Hal Harris must figure out why and stop the culprit before he can act again.

For Schwartzman, the case becomes even more personal. Her abusive ex, Spencer, who’s in prison and seemingly out of the picture, is never far from Annabelle’s mind. But to solve the mystery behind the death of the doctor who saved her life, she’s got to put aside everything else. Stay tuned for Book Three in July 2018!

Ian Ludlow Thrillers True Fiction (Book One) Lee Goldberg Espionage Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 5/1/2018 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg hits the ground running in a breakneck thriller.

When a passenger jet crashes onto the beaches of Waikiki, bestselling thriller writer Ian Ludlow knows the horrific tragedy wasn’t an accident.

Years before, the CIA enlisted Ian to dream up terrorism scenarios to prepare the government for nightmares they couldn’t imagine. Now one of those schemes has come true, and Ian is the only person alive who knows how it was done…and who is behind the plot. That makes him too dangerous to live.

Ian goes on the run, sweeping up an innocent bystander in his plight—Margo French, a dog walker and aspiring singer. They are pursued by assassins and an all-seeing global-intelligence network that won’t stop until Ian and Margo are dead. Ian has written thrillers like this before, but this time he doesn’t know how it’s going to end—or if he will be alive to find out. Mysteries and Thrillers | 86 Help Innocent Prisoners Project

Lives of Sand Twist of Faith Justice Delayed (Vite di sabbia) Ellen J. Green Marti Green Sergio Grea Woman Sleuth Legal Adventure Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Amazon Encore - Publication Date: 2/1/2018 Publication Date: 5/9/2017 Italian Language Page Count: TBD Page Count: 286 Publication Date: 6/13/2017 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 532 Languages Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

The journalist Ralph Core, half-English, half- When family secrets are unearthed, a The fifth book in the award-winning Help Italian, has become a successful writer after woman’s past can become a dangerous place Innocent Prisoners Project series is Dani working for long years as a war correspondent to hide… Trumball’s most personal case yet, as she races from the Middle East. In London his destiny to stop an execution and identify the real killer. crosses with that of Solène, a young French After the death of her adoptive mother, Ava journalist, a scholar of ancient religions, with Saunders comes upon a peculiar photograph, The brutal murder of sixteen-year-old Kelly whom he falls in love. sealed and hidden away in a crawl space. The Braden sends shock waves through a photo shows a shuttered, ramshackle house community—and an intellectually disabled man Solène is determined to resolve some on top of a steep hill. On the back, a puzzling to jail. The only witness to Kelly’s murder is the dramatic mysteries related to the historical inscription: Destiny calls us. five-year-old cousin she was babysitting. The figure of Jesus, which could bother many, young girl names their neighbor, Jack Osgood, even at the Vatican. Ralph is about to script a Ava is certain that it’s a clue to her elusive as the bat-wielding criminal. Two decades later, film to show the truth about the last days of the past. Twenty-three years ago, she’d been Osgood faces execution. life of Lawrence of Arabia, to whom he has found wrapped in a yellow blanket in the already written a successful biography. narthex of the Holy Savior Catholic Church, Defense Attorney Dani Trumball and her and rescued—or so she’d been told. For Ava, partner, investigator Tommy Noorland, are Against a backdrop of ancient lands full of now is the time to find the roots of her summoned to the Georgia prison where Osgood splendor—between Jordan, Kashmir, and mother’s lies. It begins with the house itself— is on death row. With no friends or family, there boundless sun burning deserts—unscrupulous once the scene of a brutal double murder. is no one left to believe Jack didn’t kill Kelly but characters, unforeseen obstacles, and Dani and her Help Innocent Prisoners Project. dangerous adventures will test the love of When Ava enlists the help of the two people With a mentally disabled son of her own, Ralph and Solène. closest to her, a police detective and her best defending Osgood could be her most friend, she fears that investigating her past heartrending case yet. could be a fatal mistake.

Pluto’s Snitch

Sisters The House of Memory Valley of Terror Marti Green (Book Two) Zhou Haohui Psychological Thriller Carolyn Haines Mystery Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Woman Sleuth Imprint: AmazonCrossing Publication Date: 5/8/2018 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 8/29/2017 Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 6/27/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 318 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding Languages Chinese

Twin sisters separated at birth are reunited in Raissa James not only sees the dead but A mysterious “fear disease” is scaring to death this psychological suspense standalone novel she’s caught the ears of the living—especially the citizens of Longzhou, China. Literally. from the author of the bestselling Help now that she’s solved her first case. Word of Victims go insane or die frozen in terror, while Innocent Prisoners Project series. Pluto’s Snitch, her private-investigation survivors rant maniacally about demons agency specializing in the occult, has spread infiltrating the city. But what’s really behind the far and wide. It’s even come to the notice of sudden epidemic? To find the answer, Chief Zelda Fitzgerald, the nation’s most celebrated Inspector Luo Fei teams up with a flapper. And Zelda’s in need of its services. controversial historian and a brilliant psychologist to track down the true source of Along with Reginald Proctor, her partner in the illness and halt the wave of horror that detection, Raissa travels to Montgomery, threatens the metropolis. Alabama, where Zelda’s friend Camilla has suddenly become prone to violent fits and As the trio ventures to the primitive jungles delusions. Has Camilla gone mad…or has she and mountains of Yunnan, they’re haunted by been possessed? tales of a seventeenth-century general whose demonic soul, said to have been sealed away Raissa and Reginald soon discover that in a vial of his blood, has been unleashed on Camilla’s not the only young lady in the area the modern world. Now, trekking deep into the to fall victim to something unnatural. Now it’s legendary Valley of Terror, they find up to the Snitches to follow the clues and save themselves being stalked by someone—or Camilla, locked away behind the walls of the something—daring them to uncover the truth. formidable Bryce Hospital asylum. But the key to her rescue might not lie among the living. Valley of Terror was originally published in Chinese and has been translated into English by Bonnie Huie.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 87 The Inside Dark A Blood Thing James Hankins James Hankins Serial Killers Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 7/11/2017 Publication Date: 6/5/2018 Page Count: 338 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Five days ago, aspiring crime novelist Jason Swike awoke chained The four Kane siblings are all that is left of one of Vermont’s more to the wall of a run-down horse stable, convinced he would soon prominent families, and their most prominent member—the die at the hands of Crackerjack, the infamous serial killer who had governor—may be taken down by a blackmailer. terrorized the residents of Massachusetts for the past year— capturing and tormenting men, and painting whimsical designs on From the author of the bestseller The Prettiest One, comes a their faces before shattering their bones and ending their lives. thrilling novel of psychological suspense. Just when death seems inevitable, Jason, with the help of another captive, manages to kill the madman and escape.

Hailed as a hero, Jason reaps the benefits of his newfound fame: a book deal, a possible reconciliation with his estranged wife, and reward money he can use to pay for his son’s costly medical treatments. But he soon realizes the nightmare that began in the deserted stable is far from over, as he is drawn into a twisted game where the darkest terror may not be the psychopath manipulating his every move, but what Jason may have to do to survive…

The Dominion Trilogy

Obscura The First City Joe Hart (Book Three) Medical Thriller Joe Hart Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Crossover Thriller Publication Date: 5/15/2018 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 3/28/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 446 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Italian

Joe Hart’s Obscura will appeal to fans of Stephen King, Blake In the thrilling conclusion to Joe Hart’s Dominion Trilogy, Zoey Crouch, and Netflix’s Stranger Things. discovers who she truly is—and who she must become.

With a high-concept hook, smart speculative fiction and sci-fi Zoey has only ever known a world with few women and a society elements, and a strong but vulnerable female protagonist, this is a capable of unimaginable evil. Now she’s about to learn she may be solid follow-up to the Wall Street Journal bestselling Dominion the only hope it has for salvation. Trilogy. After she and her companions flee a vicious attack, barely escaping with their lives, Zoey finds herself faced with a new threat: video evidence suggesting she is the mother of an unborn baby girl—and the key to mankind’s survival. Knowing that her former captors will stop at nothing to control the power that lies within her, Zoey sets out on her own for the last American city, Seattle, in search of answers. A new enemy awaits her there, and the truth she seeks may lead to her destruction and that of all humankind.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 88 A Nik Pohl Thriller The Jan Tommen Thriller Series

On Broken Glass (Auf What Should Remain Beneath the Surface gebrochenem Glas) Hidden (Was Sibel Hodge (Book One) verborgen bleiben Psychological Thriller sollte) (Book Five) Alexander Hartung Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Alexander Hartung Police Procedural Publication Date: 7/27/2017 Police Procedural Imprint: Edition M - German Page Count: 338 Language Imprint: Edition M - German Language Rights Acquired: All Publication Date: 4/24/2018 Languages Publication Date: 4/25/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 286 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

A new series by the author of the bestselling A continuation of the #1 bestselling series by Dean Hudson didn’t look evil…so what could Jan Tommen Thriller series. Alexander Hartung. drive an ordinary boy to kill?

Nik (police detective), Jonathan (IT expert) Ironically, the chief of detectives, Bergman, When the teenage son of Holly Gold’s school and Balthasar (pathologist) form the team for ends up in the middle of an armed robbery in a friend brutally murders his parents before this new series. In the first book, Jonathan jewelry store where hostages are taken. It killing himself, her sleepy home town is rocked blackmails Nik to help him investigate the cold quickly becomes clear that it is no ordinary by the sudden tragedy. case of a missing woman. Soon he comes robbery, because the perpetrators ignore the across two women who disappeared under money in the till and instead break open the Appalled, Holly investigates. What could have similar circumstances. Nik risks his job with walls in the basement. Since the criminals caused the happy-go-lucky boy she this investigation, as in the past he already seem to have connections to the police, remembers to commit such a heinous crime? had problems with his noncompliant behavior. Bergman secretly contacts Commissioner Jan When another teen commits suicide, she Tommen and ends up in danger himself uncovers a horrifying link between the recent An unlikely team of investigators form the because of it. Jan tries to end the hostage deaths and a dark conspiracy to hide the truth. heart of this dark thriller. crisis with his colleagues Chandu, Max, and Zoe. But the assault is only the beginning of a But someone doesn’t want Holly asking series of crimes that will even push questions and, as she hunts for evidence to Commissioner Tommen to the brink. prove her theory, she’s dragged into a nightmare that threatens her life and her sanity. Then tragedy strikes again—and this time it’s closer to home…Beneath the Surface is a gripping psychological suspense-thriller from the bestselling author of Duplicity, Look Behind You and Where the Memories Lie.

Harper and Lane Mysteries

Hope’s Peak Storm’s Edge Duplicity (Book One) (Book Two) Sibel Hodge Tony Healey Tony Healey Psychological Thriller Police Procedural Police Procedural Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/1/2017 Publication Date: 12/27/2016 Page Count: 220 10/10/2017 Page Count: 316 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 238 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Rights Sold: German

Beyond the shores of Hope’s Peak, North An insidious evil has taken root in the small There are three sides to every story: Yours. Carolina, evil waits as his next victim town of Hope’s Peak, North Carolina… Mine. And the truth… approaches. He’ll make her a princess like the others…Detective Jane Harper can’t shake In the midst of an internal investigation, the Max and Alissa have a fairy-tale life—newly the image of the young woman discovered in a police department is thrown into chaos when wed, madly in love, and enviously rich. Then field—eyes closed, a crown of woven vines on Captain Frank Morelli is gunned down on his Max is brutally stabbed to death at their home, her head. She expects macabre murders like own front lawn. Detective Jane Harper and Alissa, miraculously, escapes with her life. this in her native San Francisco, not here. suspects that someone is tying up loose But why was she spared? Jane and her partner, Stu, vow to catch the ends—a conviction that only grows stronger killer, but in this town, that’s easier said than when she witnesses the execution of another The hunt for the killer begins, uncovering a done. The police department is in the grips of officer in broad daylight. With no one else to number of leads. Was Max’s incredible wealth a wide-reaching scandal that could topple the turn to, Jane seeks the help of psychic Ida the motive? Had his shady business practices entire force, and Jane and Stu face a series of Lane. finally caught up with him? Or was it a stalker dead ends. Until they meet Ida Lane. Ida with a dangerous obsession? knows too well the evil that lurks in the Ida thought she’d finally find peace after the cornfields. death of the man who murdered her mother. Devoted friends rally around gentle, sweet But as the town emerges from the shadow Alissa as she is left to mourn the loss of her Tortured by her mother’s murder years before, cast by that serial killer, they discover that husband and pick up her life. But not everyone Ida is paralyzed by the fear that she could be there is more than one monster hiding in the is who they seem…Deep-rooted jealousies, next. As the killer grows bolder, Jane must darkness. Desperate to lay her ghosts to rest, secrets, and twisted love lie just beneath the persuade Ida to use her remarkable gifts to Ida puts her extraordinary skills to the test. surface, and not all fairy tales have a happy help in the investigation. It’s a decision that Together, she and Jane must uncover the ending. brings them closer to the killer…maybe too truth…or be permanently silenced like the rest. close.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 89 Detective Barnes Series

Lock the Door Punishment Jane Holland (Book One) Psychological Thriller Scott J. Holliday Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Police Procedural Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Page Count: 342 Publication Date: 2/1/2018 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

Meghan Smith has always been a protective mother. Her baby Do you want to know what it’s like to die, to kill, to really fear for son, Harry, has a life-threatening condition and is never far from your life? Then get hooked…Detroit-based homicide detective her sight. But on the evening of her wedding anniversary, as she John Barnes has seen it all—literally. Thanks to a technologically and her husband celebrate in the garden with friends, Harry advanced brain machine, detectives have access to the memories disappears from his cot without a trace. of the living, the dying, and the recently dead. But extracting victims’ experiences firsthand and personally reliving everything up In an instant, the perfect life she always longed for is in tatters, her to the final, brutal moments of their lives—the sights, the sounds, family exposed to interrogation and accusation in the glare of the scents, the pain—is also the punishment reserved for the criminals themselves. media attention. But none of it gets Meghan answers—or brings back her son. Barnes has had enough. Enough of the memories that aren’t his. Enough of the horror. Enough of the voices inside his head that As her life unravels and suspicion takes hold of her sanity, Meghan were never meant to take root…until a masked serial killer known begins to question everything she once took for granted. Can she as Calavera strikes a little too close to home. trust her husband? Can she trust her friends? Can she even trust herself? Now, with Calavera on the loose, Barnes is ready to reconnect, risking his life—and his sanity. Because in the mind of this serial killer, there is one secret even Barnes has yet to see…

Arlo Baines

Crash The Devil’s Country Keith Houghton (Book One) Psychological Thriller Harry Hunsicker Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Hard Boiled Crime Publication Date: 1/11/2018 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Page Count: 278 Publication Date: 4/11/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 306 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Jed Allen wakes up at a desk in New York City—and has no idea Former Texas Ranger Arlo Baines didn’t come to the tiny West who he is. The evidence around him shows he’s a hot-shot Texas town of Piedra Springs to cause trouble. After his wife and architect, and a photo in his wallet reveals he has a beautiful children were murdered, Arlo just wants to be left alone. Moving girlfriend named Cassie. But when he goes home to seek her help, from place to place seems to be the only thing that eases the pain Cassie is nowhere to be found. of his family’s violent end.

What Jed suffers from is intermittent amnesia, a condition triggered But a chance encounter outside a bar forces him to rescue a by a car crash nine months earlier. But beyond that, nobody terrified woman and her children from mysterious attackers. When around him has the answers to his questions. Who is Cassie? the woman turns up murdered the next day—her children Where has she gone? missing—Arlo becomes the primary suspect in exactly the same type of crime he is trying desperately to forget. As he plays private detective with the facts of his own life, he discovers more and more about his character. But when he finds a Haunted by the fate of his family, and with the police questioning bloodied dress in the trunk of his car, amid news reports of a serial the existence of the dead woman’s children, Arlo decides it’s his killer on the loose in Central Park, Jed has to confront the duty to find them. The question is, just how deep will he have to possibility that his lost memories contain the darkest secrets sink into the dusty secrets of Piedra Springs to save them and imaginable... clear his name?

Stay tuned for Book Two in Fall 2018!

Mysteries and Thrillers | 90 The Collector Trilogy

The Butterfly Garden (Book One) Dot Hutchison Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 6/1/2016 Page Count: 288 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Complex Chinese, Czech, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Large Print (English), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian

Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious “butterflies”—young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.

When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with piecing together one of the most stomach-churning cases of their careers. But the girl, known only as Maya, proves to be a puzzle herself. As her story twists and turns, Maya reveals old grudges, new saviors, and horrific tales of a man who’d go to any length to hold beauty captive. But the more she shares, the more the agents have to wonder what she’s still hiding…

The Roses of May (Book Two) Dot Hutchison Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 5/23/2017 Page Count: 302 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Bulgarian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, and Turkish

Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead. But for the agents, the impending thaw means one gruesome thing: a chilling guarantee that somewhere in the country, another young woman will turn up dead in a church with her throat slit and her body surrounded by flowers.

Priya Sravasti’s sister fell victim to the killer years ago. Now she and her mother move every few months, hoping for a new beginning. But when she ends up in the madman’s crosshairs, the hunt takes on new urgency. Only with Priya’s help can the killer be found—but will her desperate hope for closure compel her to put her very life on the line?

The Summer Children (Book Three) Dot Hutchison Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 5/22/2018 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Bulgarian and Serbian

Stay tuned for Book Three in this riveting series.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 91 A DI Fenchurch novel

The Winter Over Birthday Girl What Doesn’t Kill You Matthew Iden Matthew Iden (Book Three) Thriller Police Procedural Ed James Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Police Procedural Publication Date: 2/1/2017 Publication Date: 3/20/2018 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Page Count: 354 Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 4/20/2017 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 398 Languages Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Each winter the crew at the Shackleton South A new standalone book from the author of The body of a young City lawyer is discovered Pole Research Facility faces nine months of the Marty Singer series and The Winter Over. on an East London building site, assaulted isolation, round-the-clock darkness, and one and brutally murdered. Initial inquiries lead DI of the most extreme climates on the planet. Simon Fenchurch to a driver employed by For thirty-something mechanical engineer Travis, a controversial new app-based cab Cass Jennings, Antarctica offers an company. Within days another woman—a opportunity to finally escape the guilt of her Travis driver—is found murdered. troubled past and to rebuild her life. As the body count goes up, DI Fenchurch and But the death of a colleague triggers a series his colleagues on the East London Major of mysterious incidents that push Cass and Investigation Team delve into the crimes and the rest of the forty-four-person crew to the unveil a murky conspiracy that some will do limits of their sanity and endurance. Confined anything to keep hidden. and cut off from the outside world, will they work together or turn against one another? As When familiar faces begin to emerge from the the tension escalates, Cass must find the shadows, Fenchurch realizes this case is strength to survive not only a punishing more personal than he’d thought. Could he landscape but also an unrelenting menace finally be on the brink of solving the mystery determined to destroy the station—and that has dogged him for more than a decade: everyone in it. Who abducted his daughter, Chloe—and where is she now? Stay tuned for the next two books in the series, which will be released in Spring and Summer 2018!

The Agent Series

The Stranger Inside Disturbed The Rogue Agent Jennifer Jaynes Jennifer Jaynes (Book Two) Serial Killers Psychological Thriller Daniel Judson Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Espionage Publication Date: 5/9/2017 Publication Date: 11/7/2017 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Page Count: 274 Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 7/18/2017 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 354 Languages Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In this tautly crafted tale of psychological A captivating thriller from #1 USA Today Former covert ops agent Tom Sexton is living suspense, a recently widowed mother resorts bestselling author Jennifer Jaynes. quietly in rural Vermont. Running a diner with to the unthinkable to protect her family. his girlfriend, Stella, he thinks that the worst On Halloween night five years ago, Chelsea he’s seen, done, and suffered is finally behind But does she go too far? Dutton’s college roommates were viciously him. But when a long-hidden specter from his stabbed to death, and Chelsea was critically troubled past emerges, Tom is shaken out of After mystery author Diane Christie loses her injured. She was found hiding in her his safe, furtive life. With no choice but to lock husband to suicide, she and her son move to apartment’s bathtub, barely clinging to life. and load, Tom falls back into a world where the small town of Fog Harbor, Massachusetts. valor and violence collide…and his isn’t the Her daughter is in college nearby, and Diane With only fragments of shattered memory, only life in danger. hopes that her family can begin to heal. But she’s been trying her best to move past the rebuilding their lives isn’t so simple. nightmares ever since. Now in Boston, she Summoned into the ranks of top-secret lives a somewhat reclusive life, working from intelligence, Tom is tasked with protecting a Diane’s depressed daughter, Alexa, still home and bingeing on television shows. teenage girl. It’s a high-risk mission that will pit avoids her, and even her amiable teenage all his combat and espionage skills against son, Josh, has started acting out. Diane She can’t shake the fear that her attacker is ruthless paramilitary hit squads. Surrounded pushes forward, focusing on her writing and out there. When someone from her past by enemies he can’t see and allies he can no her volunteer work at a local crisis hotline. But reemerges, Chelsea starts receiving disturbing longer trust, Tom will have to face alone the then a girl from Alexa’s college is found messages and worries that her every move is fatal fury of a madman—if only to save the strangled. Worse still, the murderer uses the being watched. As the messages mount and woman he left behind. crisis hotline to confess to Diane...and claims her memories begin to return, she’s led to a she is the only one who can stop the killing. terrifying and lonely place. But she needn’t be afraid. She won’t be alone there for long.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 92 Lady Hardcastle Mysteries

A Quiet Life in the Country (Book One) T E Kinsey Historical Mystery Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 10/4/2016 Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they’ve just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life.

But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There’s a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some inquiries of her own, and it seems she knows a surprising amount about crime investigation…

As Lady Hardcastle and Flo delve deeper into rural rivalries and resentment, they uncover a web of intrigue that extends far beyond the village. With almost no one free from suspicion, they can be certain of only one fact: there is no such thing as a quiet life in the country.

In the Market for Murder (Book Two) T E Kinsey Historical Mystery Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 12/20/2016 Page Count: 270 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Spring 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-around eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up 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 the case.

Armed with wit and whimsy, not to mention Florence’s mean right hook, the pair set out to discover what really happened and why. Was it poison or just ill luck?

As they delve further into their investigation, they encounter a theft where nothing is stolen, a séance with a troubled ghost and an ever-increasing number of Spencer’s family and friends who might just have motive for murder. One thing’s for sure: Lady Hardcastle has a mystery on her hands.

Death Around the Bend (Book Three) T E Kinsey Historical Mystery Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 6/8/2017 Page Count: 318 Rights Acquired: All Languages

September 1909, and Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, have been invited to Lord Riddlethorpe’s country estate for a week of motor racing and parties. They both agree that it sounds like a perfectly charming holiday. But when one of the drivers dies in a crash during the very first race, they discover that what seemed like an uncharacteristic error in judgment may have a more sinister explanation…Closer investigation reveals that the driver’s car was sabotaged—and the driver murdered. The local constabulary are quick to dismiss the case, but Flo and Lady Hardcastle are determined to find out just who has committed this dastardly act, and why.

As the pair begin to make inquiries of Lord Riddlethorpe’s servants and guests, it seems that, below stairs and above, there is more to this case than meets the eye. And, even in the quiet of the countryside, death is always just around the bend.

Stay tuned for the fourth book in the series, which will be released in Spring 2018! Mysteries and Thrillers | 93 Fractured State Series

SOKO Troublemaker No Will be Done Rogue State (SOKO Querulant) (Kein Wille geschehe) (Book Two) Roland Kirsch Guido Kniesel Steven Konkoly Mystery & Thriller Psychological Thriller Political Thriller Imprint: Edition M - German Imprint: Edition M - German Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Language Language Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Publication Date: 2/21/2017 Publication Date: 7/4/2017 Page Count: 380 Page Count: 284 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages, excluding Turkish

A massacre shakes South Hessen: Several A suspenseful psychological thriller that takes Twenty years in the future, America perches people die when a man opens fire from a dark readers to the depths of the human soul and on the edge of collapse, devastated by sedan. The police are on site, the area is gives them goosebumps. It tempts fate. And drought and dwindling resources. California, blocked off, tight inspections stop traffic plays with fears. “Amor Fati” is written with now a totalitarian surveillance state controlling entirely. Head Criminal Inspector Robert smeared blood on two corpses. What does it the lion’s share of the nation’s economy, is on Krump is interrogated and to his discomfort he mean? Forensic psychiatrist Hendrik Jansen is the brink of secession. And family man Nathan appears to be among the suspects. The puzzled. Fisher finds himself at the heart of a bloody situation gets out of hand when a manhunt is conspiracy that threatens the lives of his loved started for Elias Maier as Krump’s former As his wife and son suddenly disappear he ones and the future of the country itself. partner from LKA and a suitcase appears with starts to realize he is a piece of the puzzle. A Pursued by Mason Flagg and the sinister two million euros. No easy task for Krump and fervent chase after the hate-filled psychopath Cerberus organization, Nathan and his police chief Hartwig, who want to clear up starts. Every step brings Jansen closer to his embattled family—accompanied by tough-as- corruption, grievances and dangerous enemy. Will he save his family or doom them nails Marine David Quinn—make a desperate vigilantism. all? In the end he has no choice. He needs to run across the blasted wastes of the western follow the insidious plan of the lunatic. At least United States, seeking sanctuary in Nevada. The fictional plot of the crime novel is based as long as his heart is still beating... on the Hessian tax inspector affair. It includes Woefully outmanned and outgunned by a a foreword from the former tax inspector and cadre of ruthless Russian mercenaries SPIEGEL bestselling author Frank Wehrheim. 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?

Winter and Parkov Thrillers

The Deathly Sacrifice (Die Gaben des Todes) The Angel of Evil (Der Engel des (Book One) Bösen) (Book Two) Martin Krüger Martin Krüger Police Procedural Police Procedural Imprint: Edition M - German Language Imprint: Edition M - German Language Publication Date: 7/18/2017 Publication Date: 10/17/2017 Page Count: 460 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Stunning material for thriller fans: the debut in the Winter-and-Parkov Evil is never satisfied: the second volume in the suspenseful thriller series from bestselling author Martin Krüger. series from bestselling author Martin Krüger.

A gruesome killer is keeping the Frankfurt police on edge. A carefully “He is going to kill me. Everyone will witness it. Can you stop him?” arranged corpse of a young woman was found in a window dressing. The murderer wrote three words in blood next to her: “Get Daniel The words from a young woman get Marie Winter and her team Parkov.” involved in a duel with an extremely dangerous criminal, who plays games with them for the lives of his hostages and lets people follow Even as the December Man—the perpetrator’s nom de plume— the whole thing online. As time starts to run out, Marie requests help sends messages to chief detective Marie Winter and eccentric again from BKA detective Daniel Parkov. The kidnapper has other billionaire and former head detective at the BKA Daniel Parkov, they hostages and plans to let deadly terror reign over the city while he remain in the dark. Gradually it dawns on them that they are dealing searches for the Angel of Evil… with psychopathic killer, who is pursuing an evil plan to end free will. The books in the Winter-and-Parkov series can be read independent The books in the Winter-and-Parkov series can be read independent of one another. of one another.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 94 The Manuscript Series

The Secret (El secreto) The Collector (El The Return (El retorno) (Book One) coleccionista) (Book Three) Blanca Miosi (Book Two) Blanca Miosi Vatican Thriller Blanca Miosi Vatican Thriller Imprint: Amazon Publishing Vatican Thriller Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Spanish Language Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Spanish Language Publication Date: 4/25/2017 - Spanish Language Publication Date: 4/25/2017 Page Count: 276 Publication Date: 4/25/2017 Page Count: 348 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 298 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

If a mysterious book told the story of your life, Thomas Cooper is an aspiring writer with no Richard Raising finds himself at a crossroads: would you dare to read it to the end? ideas for his stories. Then he receives a he quit his job, his wife left him, and his plans peculiar manuscript from a stranger. The book to be a writer aren’t working out. Nicholas Blohm, a struggling young writer, tells the story of Giulio Clovio, a sixteenth- meets a used-book salesman in the cemetery century miniaturist who happens upon some In the midst of a desperate feeling that he where he goes in search of inspiration. The man information about a hidden treasure. Giulio won’t be able to keep his head above water, shows him a strange and captivating doesn’t dare set out on an adventure, so he he receives a manuscript from a shadowy manuscript. When the salesman disappears decides to put the information on a slip of character who seems to have information and Nicholas continues reading, the manuscript paper that he hides inside a tiny clock. about his ancestors and advises him to seek goes completely blank. Desperate to find out Nicholas Blohm and Dante Contini-Massera, what happened, Nicholas searches online for Centuries later, it winds up in the hands of protagonists of the first book in the series. more information about the protagonist of the Frank Cordell, a clock collector, who finds the novel, Count Claudio Contini-Massera, and message. With the hope of finding material for Following the extraordinary text, the three set discovers the very same event recounted in the his future works, Thomas continues reading out on an adventure that will lead them to manuscript: the announcement of the Count’s the marvelous manuscript and follows the discover the secrets of Richard Raising’s death. signs. He finds out that Frank Cordell really ancestry, step into the world of the late Middle exists, and Thomas manages to get in touch Ages and dive deep into the dark times that Nicholas then travels to Rome, where he meets with him. Soon they set out on an adventure in shaped England’s history—inextricably linked the count’s nephew, Dante, and convinces him search of their own El Dorado; a journey rife to the legend of King Arthur. Will they find the to embark on a thrilling adventure that takes with ambition and betrayal, but also friendship, answers to the trilogy’s mysteries? Will love them to the streets of New York, London, loyalty, and love. and friendship prevail in the face of betrayal Rome, and the island of Capri, in search of a and death? fabulous fortune and the secret of the mysterious manuscript.

Dead Certain Never Goodbye Looking to the Woods (Book One) (Book Two) (Copier n’est pas Adam Mitzner Adam Mitzner jouer) Psychological Thriller Psychological Thriller Frédérique Molay Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Police Procedural Publication Date: 6/1/2017 Publication Date: 4/10/2018 Imprint: Amazon Publishing - French Language Page Count: 350 Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 1/17/2017 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: English

An Amazon Charts Most Read and Most The sequel to the Amazon Charts bestseller When a ten-year-old girl’s mutilated body is Sold Book. Dead Certain featuring lawyer Ella Broden. found in a public park in Paris, chief of police Nico Sirsky takes action. But his elite team of Ella Broden is living a double life. homicide detectives isn’t on the case for even twenty-four hours before a second child is By day, Ella works as a buttoned-up attorney found murdered and left to rot inside a middle- on some of the city’s most grueling cases. By school classroom. With the City of Lights on night, she pursues her passion for singing in edge awaiting another gruesome discovery, the darkest clubs of Manhattan. the clock starts ticking for Sirsky to catch the elusive killer who calls himself The Game No one knows her secret, not even Charlotte, Master. the younger sister she practically raised. But it seems she’s not the only one in the family with As the pressure mounts, Sirsky is also secrets. When Charlotte announces she’s sold confronted with a conundrum in his personal her first novel, Ella couldn’t be more thrilled… life: his girlfriend is inexplicably pulling away until she gets a call that her sister’s missing. from him. But he must once again put his own problems aside when the investigation turns Ella starts investigating with the help of up nothing but taunts from the killer. It will take Detective Gabriel Velasquez, an old flame in an entire team of police psychologists, the NYPD, and what she finds is shocking. If forensic specialists, and criminal investigators art imitates life, then her sister’s novel may to uncover the truth hidden in a web of murder contain details of her real-life affairs. And any more tangled than any of them could have one of her lovers could be involved in her imagined. disappearance.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 95 Ian Hamilton Mysteries

A Filthy Business Edinburgh Twilight Bum Luck William Lashner (Book One) Paul Levine Hard-Boiled Crime Carole Lawrence Legal Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Historical Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 5/2/2017 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 3/28/2017 Page Count: 370 Publication Date: 9/5/2017 Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 446 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

Good intentions: they’ll bite you every time. As a new century approaches, Edinburgh is a Thirty seconds after the jury announced its city divided. The wealthy residents of New verdict, I decided to kill my client. A lifetime ago, brutally efficient fixer Phil Town live in comfort, while Old Town’s Kubiak coldly cleaned up the messes of shady cobblestone streets are clotted with criminals, Second-string linebacker turned trial lawyer clients from Miami to Las Vegas by any means prostitution, and poverty. Jake Lassiter squares off against his toughest, necessary—short of murder. most unpredictable adversary yet: himself. Detective Inspector Ian Hamilton is no The downward spiral begins when Jake’s Now he’s one eye and one working leg short stranger to Edinburgh’s darkest crimes. client, NFL superstar Thunder Thurston, is of the man he used to be, scarred beyond Scarred by the mysterious fire that killed his cleared of murdering his wife. Jake didn’t recognition, and with the feds and criminal parents, he faces his toughest case yet when expect to win and didn’t want to win, since he organizations in hot pursuit. Throwing back a young man is found strangled in Holyrood is sure his client is guilty. When Thurston sour beer in a dingy bar, Phil recounts the long Park. walks free, Lassiter vows to seek his own kind story of his bitter life to the only person left to of justice. Street justice. Vigilante justice. listen...Across the splintery table, a journalist With little evidence aside from a strange in pursuit of a career-making interview has playing card found on the body, Hamilton Law partners Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord driven into the bowels of the desert, seeking engages the help of his aunt, a gifted can’t believe their friend has become so not only an award-winning profile but also photographer; and George Pearson, a inexplicably obsessed with killing his client. something more...something darker. librarian with a shared interest in the criminal Convinced Jake’s unhinged behavior is due to mind. But the body count is rising. As repeated concussions suffered during his pro Will what she sees in Phil’s empty gaze spur newspapers spin tales of the “Holyrood football career, they beg him to seek her toward forgiveness—or vengeance? Strangler,” panic sets in across the city. And treatment. But as Lassiter’s raging fixation on with each victim, the murderer is getting closer vengeance grows, Solomon and Lord wonder to Hamilton, the one man who dares to stop if they’re too late to help. Is it game over for him. Jake’s career...and his life?

Schegge Series A Margie Peterson Mystery Jo Larsen

Splinters of Memories Mother’s Little Helper Walk a Crooked Line (Schegge di ricordi) (Book Three) (Book Two) (Book Two) Karen MacInerney Susan McBride Monica Lombardi Woman Sleuth Police Procedural Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Publication Date: 5/16/2017 Publication Date: 7/3/2018 Italian Language Page Count: 288 Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 7/18/2017 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 368 Languages Languages Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese Book Two in an exciting series from USA She survived. Now she wants to start living. In the third novel in Karen MacInerney’s Today bestselling author Susan McBride madcap series, murder proves a welcome brings a police procedural with a psychological Two women, two friends, Giulia and Livia, distraction to the zany adventures and quirky edge for fans of Angela Marsons, Chevy abducted one evening in November. When characters in PI Margie Peterson’s life. Stevens, and Lisa Gardner. they return to their life, nothing is the same as it was before. Livia dreams about her Private investigator/single mom Margie Praise for Walk Into Silence, Book One: imprisonment during the night, and during the Peterson barely has time for breakfast, let day she is unable to shake off the feeling that alone to hit the gym. But when Austin Heights “McBride’s intense, heartbreaking thriller grabs he will return. And, in fact, the monster PTA president Pansy Parker hires her to find from the start and stays long after the approaches, more deranged and ruthless than out who’s been embezzling PTA funds, that’s end...Pulse-pounding twists and turns make ever, with a single objective: to penetrate exactly where Margie ends up…finding Pansy this one memorable story.” —RT Book Livia’s mind forever. dangling upside down from an exercise Reviews machine. But the PTA president’s not alone: Commissioner Claudio Sereni, who has also the dead body of a personal trainer is there, been the victim of an unusual incident that he too. And now she’s facing murder charges. has no memory of, must resume the investigation. He will have to move with To find out what really happened, Margie goes determination to uncover the killer and be undercover as a body waxer and an energy- careful not to break the fragile armor that Livia drink bottler. But that’s not all. Margie’s has built around herself. husband is living with his Madonna- impersonating boyfriend; her boss keeps setting her up on dates; and her pet piglet ran off. Can Margie pull out the big guns to find the real killer before it’s too late? Mysteries and Thrillers | 96 When You The Good Samaritan Trojan Disappeared John Marrs Alan McDermott John Marrs Psychological Thriller Military Thriller Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 12/1/2017 Publication Date: 1/12/2017 Publication Date: 7/13/2017 Page Count: 374 Page Count: 302 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

All she wanted was the truth, but she’ll wish She’s a friendly voice on the phone. But can When MI5 learns that a horrifying new weapon she never found out. you trust her? is in enemy hands, agent Andrew Harvey is called in to track it down before it reaches When Catherine wakes up alone one morning, The people who call End of the Line need British soil. The clock is ticking. Andrew and she thinks her husband has gone for a run hope. They need reassurance that life is worth his girlfriend, Sarah, also a secret service before work. But Simon never makes it to the living. But some are unlucky enough to get operative, have only one lead: a beautiful office. His running shoes are by the front door. through to Laura. Laura doesn’t want them to refugee, desperate not to lose her son. But is Nothing is missing—except him. hope. She wants them to die. she desperate enough to betray everything she believes in? And will she do it in time to But Simon knows the truth—about why he left Laura hasn’t had it easy: she’s survived help them prevent a terrifying attack? and what he’s done. He knows things about sickness and a difficult marriage only to find his marriage that it would kill Catherine to find herself heading for forty, unsettled and angry. As Andrew and Sarah race to unravel a out. The memories she holds onto are lies. She doesn’t love talking to people worse off convoluted web of subterfuge and exploitation, than she is. She craves it. they discover there is more at stake than even While Catherine faces a dark new reality at they knew. And somewhere, at the heart of it, home, Simon’s halfway around the world, alive But now someone’s on to her—Ryan, whose lurks a faceless enemy, who is prepared to and thriving. He’s doing whatever it takes to world falls apart when his pregnant wife ends use everything—and everyone—at his stay one step ahead of the truth. her life, hand in hand with a stranger. Who disposal. was this man, and why did they choose to die But he can’t hide forever, and when he together? reappears twenty-five years later, Catherine will finally learn who he is. And wish she’d The sinister truth is within Ryan’s grasp, but stayed in the dark. he has no idea of the desperate lengths Laura will go to...

The Naturalist Series

The Naturalist Looking Glass The Extraditionist (Book One) (Book Two) Todd Merer Andrew Mayne Andrew Mayne International Thriller Mystery & Suspense Techno Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 11/1/2017 Publication Date: 10/1/2017 Publication Date: 3/13/2018 Page Count: 430 Page Count: 382 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, French, German, Italian, French, German, Italian, Chinese, German, Italian, and Spanish and Spanish Spanish, and Japanese

Professor Theo Cray is trained to see patterns Professor Theo Cray caught one of the most When the world’s most notorious cartel bosses where others see chaos. So when mutilated prolific serial killers in history using get arrested, they call Benn Bluestone. A drug bodies found deep in the Montana woods revolutionary scientific methods. Cut off from lawyer sharp enough to exploit loopholes in leave the cops searching blindly for clues, university research because of the shroud of the system, Bluestone loves the money, the Theo sees something they missed. Something suspicion around him after the death of his women, the action that come with his career… unnatural. Something only he can stop. former student and the aftermath of catching but working between the lines of justice and his quarry, Cray tries to rebuild his life but finds crime has taken its toll, and he desperately As a computational biologist, Theo is more himself drawn into another unsolved case. wants out. He’s convinced himself that only an familiar with digital code and microbes than insanely rich client can guarantee him a lavish the dark arts of forensic sleuthing. But a field The desperate father of a missing child, ignored retirement. trip to Montana suddenly lands him in the by the authorities and abandoned by his middle of an investigation into the bloody community, turns to Theo for help. The only When the New Year begins with three killing of one of his former students. As more clues are children’s drawings and an urban promising cases, Bluestone thinks he’s hit pay details, and bodies, come to light, the local legend about someone called the Toy Man. dirt. But then the cases link dangerously cops determine that the killer is either a grizzly together—and to his own past. Does the gone rogue…or Theo himself. To unravel the mystery behind the Toy Man, mysterious drug kingpin Sombra hold the key Theo must set aside his scientific to Bluestone’s ambitions? Or does the key Racing to stay one step ahead of the police, preconceptions and embrace a world where open a door that could bring the entire federal Theo must use his scientific acumen to dreams and nightmares carry just as much justice system to a screeching halt and net uncover the killer. Will he be able to become weight as reality. As he becomes immersed in Bluestone a life in jail without parole? as cunning as the predator he hunts—before the case, he discovers a far-reaching he becomes its prey? conspiracy—one that hasn’t yet claimed its last victim.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 97 Sydney Rose Parnell Series

A Criminal Defense An Engineered Dead Stop William L. Myers, Jr. Injustice (Book Two) Legal Thriller William L. Myers, Jr. Barbara Nickless Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Legal Thriller Police Procedural Publication Date: 4/1/2017 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Page Count: 382 Publication Date: 1/23/2018 Publication Date: 10/3/2017 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

Losing the trial of his life could mean losing What if the deadliest train wreck in the nation’s The search for a missing child leads a everything. history was no accident? courageous railway cop down a twisted trail of murder. When a young reporter is found dead and a When a passenger train derails in North prominent Philadelphia businessman is Philadelphia with fatal results, idealistic It’s been five months since Special Agent accused of her murder, Mick McFarland finds criminal defense attorney Vaughn Coburn Sydney Parnell survived a violent himself involved in the case of his life. The takes on the most personal case of his young confrontation with a gang of brutal thugs, an defendant, David Hanson, was Mick’s close career. The surviving engineer is his cousin encounter that left her physically and friend in law school, and the victim, a TV news Eddy, and when Eddy asks Vaughn to defend emotionally scarred. Deep down, Sydney fears reporter, had reached out to Mick for legal him, he can’t help but accept. Vaughn has a she isn’t ready for another investigation. But help only hours before her death. debt to repay, for he and his cousin share an when a woman is murdered on the train tracks old secret—one that changed both their lives and a child goes missing, she knows she’s the Mick’s played both sides of Philadelphia’s forever. only one who can lead the hunt for the killer. courtrooms. As a top-shelf defense attorney While Denver police and the FBI chase down and former prosecutor, he knows all the tricks As blame for the wreck zeros in on Eddy, blind alleys, Sydney focuses on a single of the trade. And he’ll need every one of them Vaughn realizes there’s more to this case than cryptic clue left behind at the crime scene— to win.But as the trial progresses, he’s meets the eye. Seeking the truth behind the one that will send her down a path of greed, disturbed by developments that confirm his crash, he finds himself the target of malicious violence, and long-ago love. Sydney and her deepest fears. This trial, one that already hits attorneys, corrupt railroad men, and a mob K9 partner, Clyde, must wade through a murky too close to home, may jeopardize his firm, his boss whose son perished in the accident and trail of murder that stretches back thirty family—everything. Now Mick’s only way out is wants nothing less than cold-blooded revenge. years—all to rescue a child…and catch a killer to mastermind the most brilliant defense he’s with a long memory and an insatiable appetite ever spun, one that will cross every legal and for destruction. moral boundary.

The Nathan McBride Series

A Killer’s Mind Desert Flowers Hired to Kill (Book One) Paul Pen (Book Seven) Mike Omer Psychological Thriller Andrew Peterson Police Procedural Imprint: AmazonCrossing Military Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 8/8/2017 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 7/17/2018 Page Count: 322 Publication Date: 3/20/2018 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: English, Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All German, French, and Italian Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

Tracy Crosswhite with a forensic twist, A Rose and Elmer have created an idyllic The seventh book in the bestselling Nathan Killer’s Mind provides the kind of analysis we sanctuary for themselves and their five McBride series see in Silence of the Lambs with the page- daughters in Mexico’s Baja California desert. turning qualities of a thriller as we search for a Out there in the middle of nowhere, blissfully Praise for The Nathan McBride Series: serial killer who embalms his victims. cut off from the burdens of modern society, they’re free to raise their beautiful family…and “Andrew Peterson has created the most preserve its secret. brutally effective thriller hero to appear in years. He handles a plot line like his hero And they’re never giving it up. might a well-oiled sniper rifle.” —Ridley Pearson, author of Killer Weekend Then a young hiker named Rick comes looking for a place to stay. It’s just for the “Part Jack Reacher, part Jason Bourne, night, he says—but long enough for Rose and Nathan McBride is a compelling, conflicted Elmer to fear they’ve made a horrible mistake. hero.” —Steve Berry, author of The Columbus As the stranger grows more intrusive and Affair. more suspicious, the couple know they must do what they can to protect themselves. What they don’t know is that Rick has a secret, too. Soon, home and family will prove to be as cold and dark as the desert nights.

Desert Flowers was originally published in Spanish, and has been translated into English by Simon Bruni.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 98 A Gambler’s Jury A Dark Heart (Un cuore For Your Own Victor Methos oscuro) Protection Legal Thriller Maria Luisa Minarelli Paul Pilkington Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Historical Thriller Psychological Thriller Publication Date: 2/27/2018 Imprint: Amazon Publishing Imprint: Thomas & Mercer - Italian Language Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 9/28/2017 Publication Date: 7/11/2017 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 260 Languages Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: English, Languages Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

Attorney Dani Rollins is bullish in the Milan, 1980: Pina Accorsi, a middle aged Whom could you trust to protect the ones you courtroom—pushing judges and prosecutors seamstress, is found dead in her apartment in love? to their limits in defense of the innocent. So a banister house on the Naviglio Pavese. Her when she meets Teddy Thorne, a mentally throat was cut and she was robbed. Matt is trying to rebuild his life following the challenged teen accused of selling drugs, Dani breakdown of a long-term relationship. The knows she’s got this in the bag. She can easily Milan, 1938: The young Olimpia Cavenaghi most important thing to him now is to be with settle the case with a couple of court dreams of leaving her poor banister house in his son, Charlie. But when Matt gets a sinister appearances. But when prosecutors move for viale Col di Lana to flee to Rome and enter the warning from a mysterious stranger, it sends an adult felony conviction, Dani suspects fabulous world of cinema. chills up his spine. Then Charlie vanishes Teddy’s being used as a pawn in a sinister during a trip to the local pool, and it suddenly game. What connects two women who are so becomes clear that something is terribly different, more than forty years apart? That is wrong. As the case moves forward, Dani is certain the what Commissioner Marco Pisani must judge and district attorney’s office have discover when called to investigate the death Desperate to protect his loved ones, Matt goes motivations beyond the crime—a fair trial isn’t of Pina Accorsi. Maria Luisa Minarelli leads us looking for answers. Who’s after them? And in the cards. And when she takes on into a long, dark journey through the history of why? Matt finds himself caught up in a web of guardianship of Teddy, the case becomes Italy: from the popular celebrations of the lies that leaves him questioning everything he personal as she fights her own demons and fascist regime to the receptions of the high- once trusted. the government. Dani will stop at nothing to class Roman world in Cinecittà; from the years protect this innocent boy—there’s no other of war to the bloody clashes between Can he get to the truth before it’s too late? option. Because if she loses, both she and partisans and Germans; from the economic Teddy could lose far more than just the case… boom to the lean years. Masterfully drawn characters make up a rich plot of unexpected twists leading to an amazing conclusion.

A Lina Svenson Case

Replacement Murder The Measure of The Unclaimed Victim (Stattmord) the Moon D. M. Pulley M.C. Poets Lisa Preston Psychological Thriller Police Procedural Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Edition M - German Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: Language Publication Date: 4/18/2017 11/14/2017 Publication Date: 8/1/2017 Page Count: 336 Page Count: TBD Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

“If you ever say anything to anyone, they all die.” In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, A new, challenging case for Hamburg a madman hunts his victims through the hobo investigators Svenson and Berg. When eight-year-old Greer Donner falls off his jungles of Cleveland, terrorizing the city. Ethel horse in the Washington wilderness, he braces Harding, a prostitute struggling to survive both In the Hanseatic city the unscrupulous real himself to face the long hike home alone. But the cold streets and the Torso Killer, takes estate investor Sven Scholz is attacked with screams pierce the darkness, and he stumbles refuge with a devout missionary sect—only to an ax. Lina Svenson and Max Berg from the upon a dead-end road where a man is beating a find that its righteous facade conceals the Hamburg homicide division interrogate the woman—nearly to death. In a moment of darkest of secrets. man’s tenants and find a corpse. Did the real courage, he stops the assault, but he’s left to estate investor take his revenge for the face the man, who turns his wrath into an Sixty years later, the police find the butchered attack? Or did he merely want to get rid of the ominous threat. The secret Greer now carries body of Alfred Wiley in the woods. But before defiant tenant? Did he and his shady facilities begins his emotional unraveling. his daughter, Kris, can even identify the manager run riot? The detectives are not remains, things he never told her begin to getting anywhere. In Seattle, Gillian Trett is a photographer with a surface one by one—a mysterious private eye troubled marriage. Domestic tension mounts who’d been tracking him, an eerie website Then another person is attacked by an ax- when her husband’s stepsister arrives. devoted to the unsolved “Torso” murders, wielding man... Desperate for a distraction, Gillian throws herself missing archives, stolen books, and an into uncovering the history behind an old man’s abandoned Bible factory harboring vagrants. Holocaust photo of boys in a forest. The more she learns about her father’s obsession with the Torso Killer, the more Then a horrifying revelation entangles Gillian’s Alfred’s death appears to be related, pulling path with young Greer’s. The boy and the Kris further into Cleveland’s hellish past. Living woman, separated by a generation and a decades apart, Ethel and Kris must unravel hundred miles, each confront the terrible power the truth behind the city’s most notorious serial of harbored secrets. killer…or die trying. Mysteries and Thrillers | 99 Crimes à la Belle Epoque Jessie Cole

The Crumpled Letter Her Last Day Running in the Dark (La lettre froissée) (Book One) Sam Reaves (Book One) T.R. Ragan Mystery & Suspense Alice Quinn Woman Sleuth Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Cozy Mystery Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 2/6/2018 Imprint: Amazon Publishing Publication Date: Page Count: TBD - French Language 10/24/2017 Rights Acquired: All Publication Date: 11/7/2017 Page Count: 318 Languages Page Count: 485 Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: All Turkish, German, Spanish, Languages French, Italian, and Chinese

Cannes, spring of 1884. Little seems to make In this page-turner of a thriller by bestselling The silence of a prairie night hides many Miss Gabriella Fletcher smile: the British author T.R. Ragan, unlikely partners PI Jessie secrets. aristocrat, already disgraced because of her Cole and crime reporter Ben Morrison search bankruptcy and romantic preferences, has just for clues to a mystery buried in their own Needing to get out of Manhattan after a lost her job along with her lover, and her future pasts—only to discover that sometimes the personal tragedy, Abby Markstein accepts a looks bleak. She stumbles on a small truth is better off buried. teaching job in the heart of flyover country. advertisement to be the housekeeper of Filomena Giglio, or “Lola.” Her villa is in a For Jessie, who makes her living finding One night while jogging through a deserted deplorable state and her mores are debauched, missing persons, no case has consumed her hollow, she comes upon a car consumed in but this unusual lady of the house doesn’t more than the disappearance of her younger flames. The only thing more horrifying than the exactly displease Miss Fletcher, far from it. sister, Sophie. But left alone to raise Sophie’s dead man at the wheel is the live one smiling Unfortunately, the respite is short-lived. daughter, she realizes that solving the case has at her in the livid glow of the fire. become an unhealthy obsession. For Ben, a An unexpected messenger—a certain horrific car accident resulted in scars and Welcome to Lewisburg, Indiana. Maupassant—reluctantly brings bad news: Lola, amnesia that has made his life a mystery. But whose income will soon end, risks eviction. It curiously, there’s one person he recognizes The lone witness to the gruesome roadside seems as if fate is hounding the young woman without a doubt: Jessie’s sister. He just doesn’t slaying, Abby quickly learns that the quiet when, shortly thereafter, her childhood friend know why. town conceals many secrets. When another Clara is found dead in troubling circumstances. brutal murder takes place, she starts seeing Lola, Gabriella, and the literary man decide to But Sophie isn’t the only phantom drawing signs that somebody is watching her. And this take up the challenge: solve the mystery of Jessie and Ben together. The elusive Heartless time, running will not help her hide. Clara’s death and find the money so as to not Killer has reemerged from the shadows. His end up on the street. Will their determination next move will cut deeply into Jessie’s worst suffice in a world where fortune, men, and fears. And for Ben, what happens this time is appearances reign supreme? going to be unforgettable.

Claire Fletcher and Detective Parks Mysteries

The Ridge Finding Claire Fletcher Losing Leah Holloway John Rector (Book One) (Book Two) Thriller Lisa Regan Lisa Regan Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Psychological Thriller Police Procedural Publication Date: 4/25/2017 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Page Count: 284 Publication Date: 7/25/2017 Publication Date: 10/17/2017 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 325 Languages Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

“You know something is deeply wrong with In the first book in bestselling author Lisa Five years ago, Claire Fletcher escaped her this neighborhood, and yet nothing will Regan’s new series, a one-night stand sets a abductor. But some scars never fade, and prepare you for the mind-melting final detective on the trail of a terrifying unsolved surviving was just the beginning… pages.” —Blake Crouch, international crime. bestselling author of Dark Matter and the When Claire sees a car full of children careen Wayward Pines Series With his career on thin ice and fresh ink on his into a river, she rushes to the rescue. But the divorce papers, Sacramento PD Detective driver, a mother named Leah Holloway, With its manicured lawns, pastel houses, and Connor Parks goes searching for solace at the prefers to drown. For Claire and her ex, quiet, tree-lined streets, Willow Ridge seems to bottom of a bottle…and winds up in the arms Detective Connor Parks, it doesn’t add up. be the perfect place for Megan and Tyler of a beautiful woman. By morning she’s gone, What would motivate a woman with a beautiful Stokes to start a new chapter in their lives and the one clue she left behind sends Connor family and a successful career to resort to together. But soon after settling in, Megan on a desperate mission to unravel a decade- such unspeakable extremes? What Connor begins to notice cracks in the neighborhood’s old mystery—her abduction. finds out confirms Claire’s suspicions of bright suburban facade—cracks that reveal a something dreadful behind Holloway’s picture- darker secret just beneath the surface. Presumed dead for the last ten years, Claire perfect facade: a link between the terrified Fletcher has been living her life as “Lynn,” a mother and a serial strangler targeting After an angry encounter with a neighbor takes woman in the terrifying grip of her captor. After Sacramento soccer moms. a horrifying turn, Megan’s waking nightmare her unforgettable night with Connor, Claire truly begins—growing ever more chilling and clings to the hope that she’ll see him again, As Claire and Connor are drawn back bizarre with each shocking twist. Suddenly that he’ll follow her into the dark. But anyone together, their investigation leads them to forced to question everything around her, who gets close to Claire has a way of turning unearth everything Holloway was hiding. What Megan finds herself trapped between the up dead…and she’s unwittingly made Connor they find could be the only way to stop a killer specter of madness and the shadow of next on the list. from striking again. something far worse.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 100 Takeoff Joseph Reid Mystery & Suspense Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 6/12/2018 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

For an air marshal turned private investigator, the sky holds endless possibilities for danger…

Still reeling from a devastating personal tragedy, Seth Walker embarks on his first case. All he has to do is accompany female pop star Max Magic to Los Angeles and deliver her to the FBI. But when their routine flight ends in a hail of gunfire at LAX, Walker has no choice but to take the frightened diva on the run.

After a second attack leaves him battered and bloody, Walker realizes he cannot trust the FBI. To keep his client alive, he must use a patchwork of trusted aviation contacts to get her home to Austin.

But as they race to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers, the biggest danger of all may be what they’re heading toward—the dark secrets that Max herself has been keeping…

The Burning Girl

Bone Music (Book One) Christopher Rice Woman Sleuth Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 3/1/2018 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

There’s more than one way to stoke the flames of revenge…Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she knew—a pair of serial killers who murdered her mother and tried to shape Charlotte in their own twisted image. If only the nightmare had ended when she was rescued. Instead, her real father exploited her tabloid-ready story for fame and profit—until Charlotte finally broke free from her ghoulish past and fled. Just when she thinks she has buried her personal hell forever, Charlotte is swept into a frightening new ordeal. Secretly dosed with an experimental drug, she’s endowed with a shocking new power—but pursued by a treacherous corporation desperate to control her.

Except from now on, if anybody is going to control Charlotte, it’s going to be Charlotte herself. She’s determined to use the extraordinary ability she now possesses to fight the kind of evil that shattered her life—by drawing a serial killer out from the shadows to face the righteous fury of a victim turned avenger.

Riccardo Ranieri’s Series

Tango Steps by the Sea (Passi di tango in riva al mare) (Book Four) Federico Maria Rivalta Contemporary Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Italian Language Publication Date: 2/28/2017 Page Count: 266 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Italy’s most unpredictable reporter goes freelance. A report on a dangerous criminal escaped from Padua prison may be the chance of a lifetime for Riccardo Ranieri, who left newspaper Il Mattino di Padova to work alone. If he could just get on the fugitive’s trail, his professional future would be guaranteed. And his finances would certainly benefit. This time there are two women assisting him with his investigation, and keeping him out of trouble: his caustic and beautiful partner, the prosecutor Giulia Dal Nero, and a silent psychologist who follows him everywhere like a shadow. Riccardo Ranieri is back to entertain and excite, with hilarious interludes and bitter reflections on the meaning of justice and forgiveness.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 101 Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mysteries

In the Blood To the Grave The Last Queen of (Book One) (Book Two) England (Book Three) Steve Robinson Steve Robinson Steve Robinson Historical Mystery Historical Mystery Historical Mystery Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 3/18/2014 Publication Date: 3/18/2014 Publication Date: 3/18/2014 Page Count: 394 Page Count: 328 Page Count: 324 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages Rights Sold: Czech, French, Rights Sold: Czech Rights Sold: Czech German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish

Two hundred years ago a loyalist family fled to A curiously dated child’s suitcase arrives, While on a visit to London, American England to escape the American War of unannounced and unexplained, in a modern- genealogist Jefferson Tayte’s old friend and Independence and seemingly vanished into day Washington suburb. colleague dies in his arms. thin air. A week later, American genealogist Jefferson Before long, Tayte and a truth-seeking American genealogist Jefferson Tayte is hired Tayte is sitting in an English hotel room, historian, Professor Jean Summer, find to find out what happened, but it soon staring at the wrong end of a loaded gun.In his themselves following a corpse-ridden trail that becomes apparent that a calculated killer is latest journey into the past, Tayte lands in takes them to the Royal Society of London, out to stop him. wartime Leicestershire, England. The circa 1708. What to make of the story of five genealogist had hoped simply to reunite his men of science, colleagues of Isaac Newton In the Blood combines a centuries-old mystery client with the birth mother she had never met, and Christopher Wren, who were mysteriously with a present-day thriller that brings two having no idea she had been adopted. hanged for high treason? people from opposite sides of the Atlantic Instead, he uncovers the tale of a young girl together to uncover a series of carefully and an American serviceman from the US As they edge closer to the truth, Tayte and the hidden crimes. Tayte’s research centers 82nd Airborne, and a stolen wartime love affair professor find that death is once again in around the tragic life of a young Cornish girl, a that went tragically wrong. season. A new killer, bent on restoring what writing box, and the discovery of a dark secret he sees as the true, royal bloodline, is on the that he believes will lead him to the family he With To the Grave, Steve Robinson confirms loose...as is a Machiavellian heir-hunter who is looking for. Trouble is, someone else is his status as a master of the taut and senses that the latest round of murder, looking for the same answers and will stop at delicately constructed historical thriller. kidnapping, and scandal represents an nothing to find them. unmissable business opportunity. The Last Queen of England is a racing thriller with a heart-stopping conclusion.

The Lost Empress Kindred (Book Five) Dying Games (Book Four) Steve Robinson (Book Six) Steve Robinson Historical Mystery Steve Robinson Historical Mystery Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Historical Mystery Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 4/12/2016 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: Page Count: 354 Publication Date: 5/4/2017 10/21/2014 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 322 Page Count: 337 Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Rights Sold: Czech

On a foggy night in 1914, the ocean liner Jefferson Tayte is good at finding people who Washington, DC: Twin brothers are found Empress of Ireland sank between Canada and don’t want to be found. For years he has drowned in a Perspex box, one gagged and England. The disaster saw a loss of life followed faint genealogical trails to reunite strapped to a chair. It’s the latest in a series of comparable to the Titanic and the Lusitania, and families—and uncover long-hidden secrets. cruel and elaborate murders with two things in yet her tragedy has been forgotten. But Tayte is a loner, a man with no ties of his common: the killer has left a family history own; his true identity is the most elusive case chart at each crime scene, and the victims all When genealogist Jefferson Tayte is shown a of his career. have a connection to genealogical sleuth locket belonging to one of the Empress’s Jefferson Tayte. victims, a British admiral’s daughter named But that could all be about to change. Now Alice Stilwell, he must travel to England to Tayte has in his possession the beginnings of Hoping his insight and expertise will help solve understand the course of events that led to her a new trail that might at last lead to his own the case, the FBI summons Tayte back to the death. family. With Professor Jean Summer, his capital. But as he struggles to crack the clues, partner in genealogical sleuthing, he travels to the killer strikes again—and again. Tayte is Tayte is expert in tracking killers across Munich to pick up the scent. But the hunt known as the best in the business, but this centuries. In The Lost Empress, his unique takes them deep into dangerous territory: the time he’s up against a genealogical talents draw him to one of the greatest sinister secrets of World War II Germany. mastermind who always seems to be one step tragedies in maritime history as he unravels the ahead. truth behind Alice’s death amidst a backdrop of When their investigations threaten to pre-WWI espionage. undermine a fascist organization, Tayte and With the clock ticking and the body count Summer know time is running out. Can they rising, Tayte finds himself racked with guilt, his find their way to the dark heart of a deadly reputation and career in tatters. The killer is history before they become its latest victims? running rings around him; is it only a matter of time before he comes for the ultimate target?

Mysteries and Thrillers | 102 Looming Shadows The Scent of Fear The Color of Evil (Lauernde Schatten) (El aroma del miedo) (El color de la maldad) Katrin Rodeit Armando Rodera Armando Rodera Crime Police Procedural Police Procedural Imprint: Edition M - German Imprint: Amazon Publishing Imprint: Amazon Publishing Language - Spanish Language - Spanish Language Publication Date: 9/12/2017 Publication Date: 9/5/2017 Publication Date: 8/26/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 374 Page Count: 400 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: English, Rights Acquired: English Languages German, French, Italian, and Spanish and Spanish

A gripping first case for detective Jessica Wolf. Months after his last major operation, Despite their differences, Inspector Bermejo Inspector Bermejo faces a double mission in and Sergeant Roncero embark on an As the daughter of the meat processor Valencia: to unmask a serial killer of women in investigation into a case involving the Falkenberg is kidnapped, inspector Jessica the region and to put a stop to a network of kidnapping of a young couple. They soon Wolf does everything she can to rescue the corruption involving members of the police. discover that they face something even more girl. After a failed ransom payment Hannah’s Sergeant Roncero returns to Spain from leave disturbing: their investigations lead them to a death sentence seems to be sealed, as no with the journalist Miriam Monfort and is cold and meticulous serial killer. trace of her can be found. recruited to take part in an important Civil Guard operation against human trafficking in Following a series of homicides, the only leads Surprisingly a new ransom demand is made the east. A macabre discovery in the port of they have to follow are the macabre clues that and a murderous race against time begins. Valencia leads them to the trail of a Russian the psychopath leaves on the corpses at the businessman with connections at the highest crime scene. Driven by a desire to end the level. The presence of international gangs in savage ritual of death and destruction, the the area frustrates the investigators, who agents attempt to catch the monster before become embroiled in an increasingly complex they can finish their evil series of murders. plot with dangerous ramifications. The Color of Evil is a haunting police thriller, in In this thriller, the protagonists will have to which the eternal fight between good and evil face the darker side of humanity and fight plunges the reader into an intense whirlwind of fiercely for their lives. emotions, and from which it is impossible to escape until the unexpected final denouement.

The National Crime Agency Series A Lucy Hall Mystery

The Tangled Lock The Wrong Suspect Signature Wounds (Book Three) (Book Three) Kirk Russell Bill Rogers Leigh Russell Military Thriller Police Procedural Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 3/1/2017 Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/29/2017 Page Count: 370 10/26/2017 Page Count: 302 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 328 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

A serial killer haunts the streets of In the eternal city of Rome, it’s easy to While in Las Vegas on his way to a family Manchester, targeting vulnerable working girls disappear. But finding someone is a different Fourth of July celebration, FBI bomb expert in the dead of night. His signature: a tangled story…After a year in Paris working as an Paul Grale hears a deep blast and sees the lock of hair in his victims’ throats. investigative reporter, Lucy Hall is ready for smoke rising. In an unfolding nightmare, Grale her next big scoop. While researching a spate discovers his sister, brother-in-law, and many As the body count rises, pressure mounts for of missing persons, she learns of the friends were caught up in the explosion. the Greater Manchester Police and the mysterious disappearance of a young man, Quietly he begins a relentless search for the National Crime Agency Behavioral Sciences Dominique. The case is cold in the City of bomb maker. Unit. For Senior Investigator Joanne Stuart, Lights, but there’s another lead: in Rome. the race is on to catch the twisted killer before When the FBI suspects his friend and he strikes again. When Lucy arrives, she realizes that the disgruntled former drone pilot for the blast, Eternal City is as dangerous as it is beautiful. Grale thinks they’re getting it all wrong. When With DCI Gordon Holmes on her back and the She’s not the only one looking for Dominique: he uncovers another threat, time is already press following her every step, Jo will stop at a criminal gang is hot on his trail, and Lucy’s quickly running out. With the lives of so many nothing to bring the murderer to justice. But investigation has put her squarely in their at stake, Grale won’t let himself fail—and he her separation from her partner, Abbie, is a sights. won’t rest until there’s justice for his family. distraction she can ill afford. As the hunt continues, will Jo be able to focus on the case With her life in peril, Lucy will have to track Adrenalized, gripping, and all too timely, or will her personal troubles have disastrous down the missing man—before his pursuers Signature Wounds brings terror to Vegas and consequences? catch up with her… introduces FBI special agent and bomb tech Paul Grale, a man whose specialized skill and When Jo finds herself targeted by the killer, fierce determination are a lethal combination. she realizes that the game of cat and mouse she is playing could turn deadly…for her.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 103 A Jeff Bradley Thriller Sara Stein Series

The Ottoman Conspiracy Shalom Berlin (Book One) Shalom Tel Aviv (Book Two) Rejected (Abgewiesen) Thomas Ryan Alexander Schuller Alexander Schuller Melisa Schwermer Political Thriller Police Procedural Police Procedural Psychological Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Edition M - German Language Imprint: Edition M - German Language Imprint: Edition M - German Language Publication Date: 1/24/2017 Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Publication Date: 4/4/2017 Publication Date: 1/31/2017 Page Count: 306 Page Count: 224 Page Count: 204 Page Count: 261 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Former Special Forces soldier Jeff This gripping crime series following the One of the most prominent Israeli Eight years have passed since Ole has Bradley is meeting with the Mafia in investigations of a female detective was detectives, the sexagenarian Noam seen Nicholas. With his girlfriend Bari, Italy, to discover the whereabouts adapted from a popular German TV Shavit, is discovered by his foster son in Katinka, he embarks on a journey to of his nemesis—criminal overlord Avni series. his kitchen—suffocated by a plastic bag. Denmark to visit him. But the planned Leka—when he receives a message family reunion does not go as expected. from an old friend. Barry is on a tourist The hip Israeli DJ Tamar is stabbed in At the scene, there are no signs of It is far from an idyllic holiday. When a bus that has been hijacked by terrorists Berlin in front of a club. Sara Stein, who violence. Sara Stein, who has relocated mutilated woman is found in an near Istanbul. Strapped with explosives, also comes from a Jewish family, takes to Tel Aviv, is assigned to the abandoned trailer in the woods, it is racing across Turkey to the northern on the investigation. Under pressure mysterious case. Six weeks earlier than Nicholas’s sister goes a step too far... borders of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. from the public, the case quickly attains planned, she starts her service in the special significance, while for Sara, it is Israeli Police as chief inspector of the The Turkish president will not negotiate. personal: Was the act motivated by anti- Homicide Unit. Together with the An exciting thriller about mistrust and a The Turkish military will not allow the Semitism? extremely idiosyncratic Inspector Jakoov past that could have been settled better. bus to cross the border. The hijackers Blok they have to investigate, but Sara will kill themselves and their hostages if During the investigation, Tamar’s quickly finds out that Blok is apparently they cannot escape. jealous friend Khalid as well as his deeply involved in the case himself. Palestinian family increasingly start Besides Blok there are several Jeff knows it’s down to him to rescue his attracting attention. Sara is certain that suspects, all of whom had a good friend. Joining forces with US Special the family is hiding something, until a reason to kill Noam Shavit. The killer Agent Reason Johanson, he faces his tiny detail leads to a shocking twist. could be in the ranks of the Homicide toughest test yet. Unit...

The Extractor Le indagini del Cieco Jimmy Veeder Fiasco

Guilt Game What Is Left of Us (Cosa rimane The Past Is Not a Quiet Place (Il Imperial Valley (Book Three) L.J. Sellers di noi) (Book One) passato non è un posto Johnny Shaw Woman Sleuth Manuel Sgarella tranquillo) (Book Two) Crime Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Crime Manuel Sgarella Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 6/6/2017 Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Italian Crime Publication Date: 3/7/2017 Page Count: 238 Language Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Italian Page Count: 350 Language Rights Acquired: All Languages Publication Date: 11/7/2017 Rights Acquired: English and German Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 11/7/2017 Rights Acquired: All Language Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Jimmy Veeder has finally settled down, Roxanne MacFarlane is the Extractor— completing his dramatic transformation Does Hell really exist or is it only created a former CIA agent who specializes in When a kidnapper is arrested years from hell-raiser to family man. With his by our fears? rescuing people from dangerous after Diana’s father was killed, new new wife, Angie, and son, Juan, he lives situations. evidence makes her question what the quiet life. No trouble, no problems. Or Luca is a shattered man who left the happened on that day, Diana— so he thought. But this is Jimmy Veeder’s police department after a tragedy in his She works outside the law, but successful in the police department— Fiasco, after all. family. Nicole, his wife, does not leave desperate families know she’s the one knows that she needs someone willing home, entrapped in her own world. They who can bring their missing loved ones to bend the law to help her uncover the The night after his wedding, Jimmy is are no longer capable of looking at each home. Driven by guilt over the loss of truth: with the help of Il Santo, she lured right back into a world of danger other, headed toward self-destruction. A her sister to a cult, she will stop at persuades Luca to help her. when childhood friend Tomás Morales, nothing to save her clients. mysterious man offers a way for Luca to the current crime lord of Mexicali, turns have his life back. He will help him with But they will soon enter into a world of up on his doorstep offering information one condition: “You must find my son.” When the Carsons ask her to find their corruption and organized crime that about the whereabouts of his son’s daughter, Emma, Rox is eager to help involves local authorities and police, with grandfather,. Jimmy and Angie head to For the former policeman, a new them. But the experimental treatment the city of Milan and its decadence and Mexico accompanied by old pals Bobby descent into Hell begins: he has to she started in order to improve her amorality on the background. Hunted by Maves and Griselda. The trip revive his investigations illegally and atypical brain patterns forces her to face many, with no one to trust, in a city immediately careens into chaos when deal with the world of vanished children newfound emotions while working to where good people turn bad, and bad they find themselves shadowed by thugs, and corrupted rotten despicable people. help Emma. When the bodies of women people turn good, Luca and Diana will shot at by cartel soldiers, and forced into His only goal is to put back the pieces of who match Emma’s description turn up, have to come to terms with their own a confrontation with a violent, volatile those shattered lives. Rox must fast-forward her plans. Can morality and risk their lives. drug lord. she save Emma in time? Mysteries and Thrillers | 104 The Huntress/FBI Thrillers

Cold (Frío) Only the Rain Hunger Moon Jordi Sierra i Fabra Randall Silvis (Book Five) Crime Mystery & Suspense Alexandra Sokoloff Imprint: Amazon Publishing Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Police Procedural - Spanish Language Publication Date: 1/1/2018 Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 10/31/2017 10/24/2017 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 241 Languages Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages, excluding Italian

A hired murderer is assigned to kill the only When family man and war veteran Russell Revenge has no limits. one he cannot kill: a woman, the woman. loses his job as a quarry worker, his life suddenly seems more like a waking nightmare Special Agent Matthew Roarke has But someone is ahead of him, and he is forced than a chance to finally live the American abandoned his rogue search for serial killer to search the killer to absolve himself of his dream. Cara Lindstrom. He’s returned to the FBI to years of guilt. head a task force with one mission: to rid Facing bills, a new baby, and a bone-dry bank society of its worst predators. But as the In the meantime, he talks with his account, he’s got nothing left to lose. Russell skeletal symbols of Santa Muerte, “Lady psychiatrist—like in The Sopranos—which comes to the rescue of a naked stranger Death,” mysteriously appear at universities adds a colorful touch of black humor to the dancing in the rain, and what was supposed to nationwide, threatening death to rapists, whole story. be a straightforward good deed turns into a Roarke’s team is pressured to investigate. spiral of danger. When Russell finds an When a frat boy goes missing in Santa A direct, to the point, original story written by enticing stash of money in the woman’s Barbara, Roarke realizes a bloodbath is one of the best contemporary Spanish writers. house, he knows the cash could be his only coming—desperate teenagers are about to hope. Taking just a handful will save his mete out personal, cold-blooded justice. family’s future. Hiding from the law, avenging angel Cara His “victimless crime” seems to be anything Lindstrom is on her own ruthless quest. She but risky—until the criminals he robbed come plans to stay as far away from Roarke as looking for their dirty money. Russell’s ready possible—until an old enemy comes after both to surrender it, but then his daughter gets her and the FBI, forcing her back into Roarke’s sick…and he must choose between saving her orbit. This time, the huntress has become the or giving the devils their due. Someone’s hunted... going to pay. The question is, how much?

Who Sows the Storm Days of Night You Are Wanted (Wer den Sturm sät) Jonathan Stone Arno Strobel Werner Sonne Psychological Thriller Psychological Thriller Espionage Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Edition M - German Imprint: Edition M - German Publication Date: 8/15/2017 Language Language Page Count: 350 Publication Date: 3/17/2017 Publication Date: 5/30/2017 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 272 Page Count: 270 Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

On Sylt, an island in northern Germany, a When retired police detective Joe Heller is Based on the Amazon Original Series. successful German businesswoman is found called in to investigate what might be dead in the swimming pool of her hotel. Initially, Antarctica’s first murder, he quickly discovers Lukas Franke is a project manager in a Berlin the local police launch the investigation, but that winter at McMurdo Station comes with a convention center. He is the victim of a when the German Federal Office of Criminal unique set of challenges: darkness, isolation, mysterious hacker attack that seems to be Investigation becomes involved, it’s clear that and the eccentric behavior of the research bringing his professional success and this is not a routine case. facility’s 157 inhabitants. But a difficult personal happiness into jeopardy—because investigation turns much tougher when all he finds himself at the center of attention Meanwhile, a Russian armed combatant is communication with the outside world is again, which could cost him not only his family found dead on the coast. During the suddenly cut off. but also his life. investigation, the navy intercepts an encrypted radio message from German territorial waters, While Heller works diligently to reconstruct the and a political nightmare ensues: a Russian scene of the crime, evidence mounts that a submarine lies on the shore off the coast of pathogenic event could be ravaging the rest of Sylt, and no one knows why. What began as a the planet. As night descends, fear mounts, local criminal case threatens to become an and confusion reigns, the killer strikes again. If international crisis. this is a global cataclysm, is someone now picking off the human race’s few remaining The author Werner Sonne has worked for more survivors? Is this the end of the world—or just than forty years as a TV correspondent for the the end of Joe Heller’s? ARD in Germany and abroad. This action- packed and entertaining thriller draws on Sonne’s expertise in foreign policy to provide an unforgettable and timely read.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 105 Billy Cunningham A Joe Tiplady Thriller Caroline Auden

Super Con Road (Book Two) Proof (Book Two) (Book Three) John Sweeney C. E. Tobisman James Swain Political Thriller Legal Thriller Caper Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 8/8/2017 Publication Date: 6/20/2017 Publication Date: 12/5/2017 Page Count: 366 Page Count: 350 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: English Rights Acquired: All Languages and German Languages

An adrenaline rush of cons, grift, and murder When a child is kidnapped by his unstable In this gripping sequel to Doubt, techie turned in a town where deadly double-dealing is the mother, the father turns to Joe Tiplady— attorney Caroline Auden struggles to move on name of the game. offering him a lot of money to find the boy and with her life after her last case nearly destroyed bring him back. It soon becomes clear that Joe her career. Master grifter Billy Cunningham has built a will have to earn every cent: mother and son lucrative career conning a long list of Las are in war-torn Syria, and they’ve willingly Still haunted by the betrayal that forced her to Vegas casinos. In fact, he’s never walked into joined the ranks of ISIS. leave a prestigious law firm, Caroline Auden one he couldn’t rip off. Now he’s scheming a struggles to keep her fledgling practice afloat— “super con” with a gang of high-profile Meanwhile Zeke Chandler, CIA deputy and her paranoia in check. When her cheats—a one-time-only scam that could rake director, is in Albania, where four electrocuted grandmother dies, grief soon turns to suspicion in a cool multi-million-dollar payday. bodies have been found on a mountainside when she discovers her grandmother left her near a secret black-ops facility. Two seemingly entire estate to a charity called Oasis Care. On All goes as planned until Chinese crime lord unrelated incidents, but Joe will find himself the surface, Oasis helps society’s outcasts, like Broken Tooth strong-arms Billy into rigging the crossing paths with Zeke again. Caroline’s alcoholic, homeless uncle. But as Super Bowl, too. Billy has no choice but to she digs deeper, Caroline uncovers a sinister play ball. Broken Tooth has a special edge on From the Hollywood underworld to bombed- plot that sends her running for her life on the him: blackmail. out Aleppo, via a controversial US election streets of Los Angeles. and a global refugee crisis, Joe’s hunt for the When someone on his own team betrays Billy, missing boy will send him to the darkest, most Plunged into a world of addicts and broken all bets are off. Both the super con and Super dangerous places in the modern world. And souls, Caroline finds sanctuary with her uncle Bowl gambits are in jeopardy. And just who’s his search may force him to confront the and a ragtag group of outcasts while building scamming who? With kickoff time looming, it’ll unfinished business in his own murky past— evidence for her case. Caroline is also forced take a Hail Mary pass for Billy to grift the game that is, if he survives. to confront her own dark shadows, casting and survive long enough to pull off the wildest doubt on her ability—and her sanity. double-cross-with-a-twist in Vegas history.

Jan de Fries Series Detective Buddy Lock Mysteries

Little Boy Lost Shrike for Greetsiel Next of Kin J. D. Trafford (Neuntöter für James Tucker Legal Thriller Greetsiel) (Book Four) Police Procedural Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Dirk Trost Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 8/1/2017 Crime Publication Date: Page Count: 318 Imprint: Edition M - German 10/17/2017 Language Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Languages Publication Date: 9/19/2017 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

An Amazon Charts Bestseller A new East Frisian crime novel from BILD A New Year’s Eve celebration begins with the bestselling author Dirk Trost. pop of a champagne cork—and ends with the A broken city, a missing young man, and a bone-chilling screams of a killer’s victims. Ten- lawyer searching for truth when nobody else When the signal rocket explodes sharply and year-old Ben Brook is the lone survivor of the cares. the fog bank is immersed in a red light, the brutal murder of his wealthy family at their former lawyer Jan de Fries knows that upstate--New York compound. But from the Attorney Justin Glass’s practice, housed in a something is really wrong. Two fishing ships moment he evades death, Ben’s life is in shabby office on the north side of St. Louis, are roped together and floating aimlessly on constant danger. Can NYPD detective Buddy isn’t doing so well that he can afford to work the ocean. When Jan and his friends Uz and Lock keep the boy safe from a killer intent on for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Onno go on board they find a scene from a wiping out the entire Brook clan? Walker offers him a jar full of change to find horror movie in the cabin: both fishing boat her missing brother, he doesn’t have the heart crews had met at sea for a birthday When two more massacres decimate the to turn her away. celebration; now they are all dead. But who Brookses’ ranks, Buddy’s hunt narrows. But just fired off the rocket a few minutes ago? It his challenges grow as power, money, and Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and becomes immediately clear that the crews did secret crimes from the family’s past stand in well. But all that was found of Devon Walker not die a natural death and Jan has a new the way. With Ben more and more at risk, was his brutally murdered body—and the case. The day after, when jogging along the Buddy steps closer to the edge, forcing a bodies of twelve other African American dike, Jan and his dog, Motte, are the victims of relentless killer to become more brazen, teenagers, all discarded like trash in a mass a targeted attack; apparently somebody wants brutal, and cunning. Saving the boy will put all grave. As simmering racial tensions explode throw him off the trail. It is clear that Jan is of Buddy’s skills to the test…and risk the lives into violence, Justin finds himself caught in the facing a particularly dangerous opponent... of everyone he loves. tide. And as he gives voice to the discontent plaguing the city’s forgotten, he vows to search for the killer who preys upon them.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 106 Jon Reznick Thrillers

Hard Road (Book One) Hard Kill (Book Two) J. B. Turner J. B. Turner Political Thriller Political Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 8/16/2016 Publication Date: 8/16/2016 Page Count: 334 Page Count: 302 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Jon Reznick is a “ghost”: a black-ops specialist who takes his A senior American security adviser is missing, presumed orders from shadowy handlers, and his salary from the US kidnapped for his top-level military intelligence. FBI Assistant government. Still mourning the loss of his beloved wife on 9/11, Director Martha Meyerstein needs to track him down before he’s dispatched to carry out a high-level hit. Reznick knows only classified information gets into the wrong hands. She needs Jon that it must look like suicide. It’s textbook. Reznick on board.

But the target is not the man Reznick expected. The whole setup is The former black-ops assassin is supposed to be on vacation with wrong. In an instant the operation is compromised, and Reznick is his daughter, but when Meyerstein calls, it doesn’t pay to keep her on the run with the man he was sent to kill. A man wanted by the waiting. Her elite team is convinced that the missing diplomat’s FBI, and by a mysterious terrorist organization hell-bent on expertise in the Persian Gulf points to an Iranian terrorist cell, but bringing the United States to its knees. FBI Assistant Director Reznick isn’t so sure. His gut instinct tells him they’re all wrong. Martha Meyerstein is determined to track him down, and to Never one to play by the rules, he finds himself working alone, intercept whatever it is Reznick was sent to do. following a lead that everyone else has dismissed. But to Reznick, the suspect seems a little too clean... 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 When the team comes under attack, the kidnapping is exposed as those responsible. Meanwhile, he is the only person who knows part of a much wider conspiracy, one far more dangerous than the true extent of the threat to national security—and has the Meyerstein feared. Nothing and nobody is safe—and only Jon stealth and determination to stop it. Reznick stands between national security and a campaign of unprecedented terror.

Hard Wired (Book Three) Hard Way (Book Four) J. B. Turner J. B. Turner Political Thriller Political Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 8/16/2016 Publication Date: 5/11/2017 Page Count: 264 Page Count: 274 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

When an ex-Delta Forces operative dies in a car wreck in Miami, Jon Reznick has never played by the rules, a trait that has brought the FBI dismisses it as a tragic accident. But Jon Reznick isn’t so him into conflict with FBI Assistant Director Martha Meyerstein in sure—especially when he learns that his teetotalling former the past. But now Meyerstein has been taken by a shadowy gang, colleague was apparently drunk at the wheel. and the renegade black-ops specialist may be her only hope for rescue. Reznick’s one-man investigation quickly enters dangerous territory when it becomes clear that this was merely the first in a series of The FBI are reluctant to let Reznick anywhere near the case, but mysterious deaths. All of the victims are ex-Delta Forces, and all he’s not in the habit of seeking their permission—especially once were involved in a top-secret Iranian hit under Reznick’s his covert investigation leads him straight to the head of the command. Retribution will not be complete until Reznick is wiped Russian mob. And it soon becomes clear that it’s not only out too. Meyerstein who’s in danger: her abduction is just the start of a campaign to undermine American law and order. With Iran’s ruthless Quds Force hunting him down on US soil, assisted by a powerful Mexican drug cartel determined to increase With Meyerstein’s whereabouts unknown, and the CIA and FBI its own foothold in the country, Reznick’s survival is a threat to seemingly operating at cross-purposes, it falls to Reznick to go it national security. FBI Assistant Director Martha Meyerstein is not alone. Can he get to Meyerstein before the mob gets to him? as keen as some government officials to sacrifice him as collateral damage, but the longer Reznick runs, the more audacious his Stay tuned for the fifth book in the series, which will be enemies become. Innocent American lives are at risk, and only released in Spring 2018! Reznick’s victory—or surrender—can save them. Mysteries and Thrillers | 107 Angela Richman, Death Investigator Luis Chavez

Fire and Ashes Wages of Sin (Book Two) (Book Three) Elaine Viets Mark Wheaton Psychological Thriller Police Procedural Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 7/25/2017 Publication Date: 6/13/2017 Page Count: 288 Page Count: 302 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the exclusive, gated enclave of Olympia Forest Estates, death Not a day goes by that Father Luis Chavez isn’t haunted by the investigator Angela Richman watches a mansion go up in a fiery cold-blooded slaying of his brother, Nicolas. But as the years pass blaze. With it, seventy-year-old financier Luther Delor, a drunken, and the case remains unsolved, there looks to be no end to his bed-hopping rhinestone cowboy. Embroiled in a bitter divorce, torment. Delor may have scandalized Chouteau Forest, but his murder has united it against the accused: Delor’s twenty-year-old girlfriend, When Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Story discovers a Kendra Salvato, an “outsider.” With an engagement ring bigger possible link between a murdered prosecutor and Nicolas’s death than Chouteau County, she’s being railroaded straight to death row several years before, the priest investigates, uncovering an as a gold-digging killer. international money-laundering scheme tying American banks to Mexican cartels. Finding himself the target of a brutal cartel hit All there is against Kendra is vicious gossip and anti-Mexican rage, squad, Father Chavez heads to Mexico, where he unearths a long- and both are spreading like wildfire. Meanwhile, Angela is trying to buried secret that pushes his faith to the breaking point. douse the flames with forensic work that’s putting the Forest on edge. After all, facts could implicate one of their own. Now, sifting As he fights to stop a seemingly endless cycle of killing, Father through the ashes of a vicious crime—and the guilty secrets of the Chavez closes in on his brother’s murderer, learning that privileged—only Angela can get to the truth, and prevent an sometimes the most incipient evil is found closest to home. innocent woman from getting burned.

Dragon Series

The Law of the Dragon The Feathers of the Dragon (La legge del Drago) (Le piume del Drago) Lorenzo Visconti Lorenzo Visconti Noir Contemporary Thriller Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Italian Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Italian Language Language Publication Date: 5/16/2017 Publication Date: 7/25/2017 Page Count: 222 Page Count: 242 Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, Rights Acquired: English, Portuguese, French, Chinese, German, Italian, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese Spanish, and Japanese

Lorenzo “Dragon” Visconti is just out of Milan’s San Vittore jail, “You must do something to get by, and some unauthorized awaiting trial for something he didn’t do. But for that something, he investigations are certainly not the worst evil. Especially if you are has lost everything: his job as a policeman, his credibility, and his very well paid for it.” Lorenzo Visconti, a.k.a. the Dragon, keeps on faith in justice. He no longer believes in anything, except in his own “not” being a private investigator: he has no official licenses and no law, the law of the Dragon. rules (except his own). He is an ex cop who had some problems with the uniform and the institutions, and his office is a coffee shop in via Gluck in Milan. And it is there that Valeria Zamperini shows Because if legislation doesn’t work, justice must find its own up one morning in July, asking him to find her sister who has been way...or for those who have no voice, like sixteen-year-old Micol, missing for five months. Thus, the Dragon’s investigations begin, an escape through suicide. But this particular suicide is too helped by his associate Jamel, a young French computer whiz. mysterious not to raise doubts, someone is trying to cover something up. The same someone who incriminated the Dragon. In the meantime a serial killer is committing murders in a macabre Someone who doesn’t know the power he has just unleashed. ritual. Two cases apparently very distant from each other will prove to be intimately connected. With The Feathers of the Dragon, Lorenzo Visconti brings us a fiery, violent, and dirty Milan, alternating between the lights of the city and the banks of the river, plundered and exploited by man, and the words of an old fisherman.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 108 Fleetwood and Shiels

Saving Grace (Book Two) Simon Wood Police Procedural Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 1/9/2018 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages His only chance to save a young girl’s life is to put his trust in a headline-hunting kidnapper.

Former reporter Scott Fleetwood and his family are still recovering after tangling with a notorious kidnapper, the Piper, when another kidnapper grips the city. The Shepherd has snatched a young girl from a vacationing family. Other than money, he has one demand: he’ll talk only to Scott.

Special Agent Tom Sheils is on the case and will watch over Scott every step of the way. The Shepherd promises the girl’s safety as long as Scott follows the rules of his game. Haunted by the last victim he failed to save, Scott is desperate to keep the past from making a brutal comeback.

But just when Scott and Sheils think they’re winning and that it will all be over soon, the Shepherd ups the stakes. Scott begins to realize he’s a pawn in a scheme that runs deeper than greed…and colder than death.

Sam Callahan

The Tracker (Book One) Chad Zunker Political Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Trust no one. Sam Callahan learned this lesson from a childhood spent in abusive foster care, on the streets, and locked in juvie. With the past behind him and his future staked on law school, he is moonlighting as a political tracker, paid to hide in crowds and shadow candidates, recording their missteps for use by their opponents. One night after an anonymous text tip, Sam witnesses a congressional candidate and a mysterious blonde in a motel indiscretion that ends in murder, and he records it all on his phone.

Now Sam is a target. Set up to take the fall and pursued by both assassins and the FBI, he is forced to go on the run. Using the street skills forged during his troubled youth—as well as his heightened mental abilities—Sam goes underground until he can uncover who is behind the conspiracy. A taut thriller with an unforgettable young hero, The Tracker is a heart-stopping debut from an exciting new voice.

Shadow Shepherd (Book Two) Chad Zunker Political Thriller Imprint: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 9/19/2017 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Languages

As a former political tracker with a brand-new law degree, Sam Callahan has turned his life around, leaving behind a childhood ravaged by abuse and a fatally dangerous job shadowing political candidates. Now a lawyer, Sam hopes for a risk-free future, but harm’s way has a much longer reach than he could ever expect.

His very first legal client is gunned down in a Mexico City hotel, and Sam barely dodges a bullet himself. Suddenly on everyone’s most-wanted list—brutal hit men, hostile cops, relentless FBI agents, and even an infamous assassin—he doesn’t have the luxury of finding out why. When Sam’s girlfriend is dragged into the fray by a kidnapper, Sam would do anything to save her life. The catch? He’s got only twenty-four hours to do it…but any number of ways to die.

Mysteries and Thrillers | 109 Mysteries and Thrillers | 110 Romance

Romance | 111 Sequoia Lake Series

It Started with a Kiss Every Little Kiss (Book One) (Book Two) Marina Adair Marina Adair Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 1/31/2017 Publication Date: 7/18/2017 Page Count: 286 Page Count: 256 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German Rights Sold: German

With a kidney transplant behind her, Avery Adams is determined to There’s nothing that single mom Liv Preston won’t do if it means channel her inner adventurer and explore everything life has to offer. making her six-year-old son smile again. After a heartbreaking two Only problem is, the closest she’s ever come to a real-life adventure years, her little family is due for some fun in the sun. She just didn’t was sixth-grade science camp. So to seize the summer in her rustic expect to find it in the big, rugged search-and-rescue hero next door— Sierra Nevada town, she takes a job as a guide at the local adventure who shows her just how exciting, and sexy, life’s adventures can be. lodge. But Avery doesn’t realize her biggest challenge will register at six-plus feet of rugged good looks and alpha-male charm. As head of Reno’s K-9 search division, Ford Jamison knows what it takes to make life-and-death decisions on the fly. He doesn’t hesitate, As a member of the Sequoia Elite Mountain Rescue team, Tyson doesn’t do regrets, and has never doubted his instincts—until he makes Donovan has made a life out of cheating death and rescuing weekend a promise that turns his world upside down. Desperate for redemption, warriors from the treacherous terrain. When his dad’s health lands the he returns to Sequoia Lake, only to find himself face-to-face with his family’s adventure lodge in serious danger of going up in flames, he past…and the one woman he can’t have. Not when his secret would moves home—and quickly remembers why he left. Until he meets destroy her—and everything she holds dear. Avery, the irresistible new guide who makes him want to stay. For Liv, finding love once was a gift. Finding it twice seems impossible, Tyson gives the inexperienced Avery a lesson in romance that her until the moment Ford’s lips meet hers. Love doesn’t always come books could never teach her. And with her undeniable spirit for life, easy, but when it’s right, it’s worth fighting for…Stay tuned for the Avery shows Tyson the healing power of love. But with one misstep, third book in the series, which will be released in Summer 2018! 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.

Red River Valley Novels

It’s in His Arms The Wingman (Book Four) Natasha Anders Shelly Alexander Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 3/7/2017 Publication Date: 1/3/2017 Page Count: 318 Page Count: 318 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Lorenda Lawson has built a safe, sheltered life for her two young sons She was supposed to be his one-night distraction. But their attraction is since their father was killed in action several years ago. She has a undeniable. beautiful cottage and a support network of family and friends. No one in Red River suspects that her marriage to Cam was ever less than Introverted Daisy McGregor is used to being a wallflower, but what she perfect. Nobody, that is, except the gorgeous ex-SEAL who’s shown up lacks in style, she makes up for with an acerbic wit, a passion for life, after a long absence: Cam’s notorious twin brother, Mitchell. and a deep devotion to her family. So she’ll suffer through her sister Dahlia’s bachelorette party and accept the cloud of pity for going stag Mitchell Lawson was a teenage rebel who fled Red River after the local to the wedding. watering hole burned down, choosing the military over jail. Now he has a new mission: making amends with the town and his sheriff father for Out at the pub, sexy bad boy Mason Carlisle is a reluctant wingman his hell-raising days, while resisting the woman he’s always wanted. tasked with entertaining Daisy while his brother flirts with her oldest Between Lorenda’s warmth and sensuality and her boys’ mischievous sister, Daffodil. When the plan fails and Mason’s true intent is revealed, matchmaking ploys, it won’t be easy. he feels intense guilt—and a sensual spark of desire for the unlikeliest of women. When a string of fires breaks out, suspicious eyes turn toward Mitchell. Lorenda risks her reputation for his sake—but she’ll need to risk her Daisy decides to use this unfortunate encounter to her advantage: to heart, too, to bring this onetime bad boy home for good. make it up to her, Mason will be another kind of wingman, playing the role of her boyfriend and wedding date. Will their ruse unravel completely—or will Mason and Daisy’s undeniable attraction ignite a scorching love affair that knows no rules?

Romance | 112 Billionaire Aviators Series Undercover Billionaire Series

Turbulent Waters Turbulent Intrigue Kian (Book One) (Book Three) (Book Four) Melody Anne Melody Anne Melody Anne Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 2/27/2018 Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Publication Date: 8/1/2017 Page Count: 272 Page Count: 288 Page Count: 258 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Coast Guard pilot Nick Armstrong savors the The final novel in bestselling author Melody A spin-off of Melody Anne’s bestselling taste of danger. But after his helicopter Anne’s Billionaire Aviators series finds Ace Billionaire Aviators series, the Undercover crashes into the ocean during a mission, Armstrong back home after years away in the Billionaires series features the fantastically shattering his knee, he encounters a whole CIA. Faced with the stipulation in his father’s wealthy Forbes brothers. Each brother is an different type of thrill when he meets his new will to find a wife or lose his inheritance, the alpha male with a heart of gold. physical therapist. Maybe being grounded isn’t “black sheep” of the family takes to the skies so bad after all. like his aviator brothers. Soon Ace encounters Kian Forbes never thought he’d see his high temptation in the form of the sexy and school sweetheart again, until years later Smart, sexy, and deeply guarded, Chloe confident Dakota Forbes, a female pilot who when one tragic night ensures their lives are Reynolds is the type of woman who drives just so happens to be his new sister-in-law’s forever intertwined. Nick crazy for all the right reasons. But as she best friend…and should be off-limits. But tries to help him heal, Chloe struggles to keep Dakota is used to getting what she wants— her heart—and secrets—safe. For years, she and she makes it clear she wants Ace. has been told that Nick is responsible for her brother’s death, a “fact” that she slowly learns Ace’s previous line of work is not so easily left may not contain the entire truth. behind, and soon someone from his past threatens both him and all he holds dear. As But can Chloe’s growing feelings for Nick, and Ace’s relationship with Dakota heats up, he’ll their undeniable chemistry, really overcome a be forced to choose whether to walk away in years-long family feud? Or will the past order to keep her safe or risk it all on the ultimately destroy the future they both breathless high of passion. desperately want?

Bay Village Series A Heartbreaker Novel

Thunderbolts and Love in Provence Seeing Double Misunderstandings Tamara Balliana (Book One) (Coup de foudre et Chick Lit Tamra Baumann Quiproquos) Imprint: Amazon Publishing Contemporary Romance Tamara Balliana - French Language Imprint: Montlake Romance Chick Lit Publication Date: 8/29/2017 Publication Date: 8/29/2017 Imprint: Amazon Publishing Page Count: 294 Page Count: 283 - French Language Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Publication Date: 10/3/2017 Languages Languages Page Count: 298 Rights Acquired: All Languages

After the death of her beloved aunt, Amy Cassie is American and works as a consultant Dani Botelli has vowed to step out of her decides to take over her café “Chez Josy,” for the Richmond Hotel Group. Her ultimate demanding movie-star mother’s shadow, and located in the heart of Boston. Three years dream? To run a hotel one day. When her is determined to start a new chapter in her life. later, the results are mixed: although Amy bosses send her to France for one last But two men are creating double the trouble. feels fulfilled by her work, it consumes all assignment before entrusting her with her own her energy, and her personal life suffers. establishment, she jumps on the first plane to There’s Jake, her police-detective almost-ex Determined not to remain single on the eve of Marseille, determined to prove her worth. who wasn’t so hot as a husband but sizzles her thirtieth birthday, her mother introduces between the sheets. He needs Dani’s intuition her to Lieutenant Tom McGarrett of the Boston Despite her traveling habit, when Cassie finds and visions to help him solve crimes. Then police at a family dinner... herself in the Luberon, in the heart of the there’s her high school crush, Michael, a Provence of postcards, the experience is very former NFL pro who’s now her mom’s hunky Their paths soon cross again when Amy different from what she had expected! The lawyer. Working alongside Jake while keeping becomes a victim of a robbery the next day. mistral, French gastronomy, and the song of her special gifts under wraps is proving to be And as if that wasn’t enough, her employee the cicadas plunge her into a world she had more dangerous than Dani realized. She Amber mysteriously disappears. Amy then never dared to dream of. Her colleague Olivia needs to stay out of harm’s way—and out of decides to take matters into her own hands will drag her to meet the colorful characters of Jake’s arms—long enough to find out if and conduct her own investigation, which her large family, and Cassie will not be Michael is the one. But will her hard-to-explain leads her into the troubled circles of Boston impervious to the disturbing charm of Damien, hunches be the secret that comes between and the entourage of the seductive but the sexy hotel manager. Will her clearly them? dangerous gang leader, Cole. defined career plan withstand her Luberon adventures, and love? Between the ideal son-in-law and the bad boy, her heart wavers…who will she choose? Will she succeed in finding Amber and those responsible for the robbery? Romance | 113 Sterling Canyon Series

Unexpectedly Hers Joyfully His: A Novella (Book Three) Jamie Beck Jamie Beck Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 10/17/2017 Publication Date: 2/21/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 282 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

By day, bashful wallflower Emma Duffy works at her family’s bed-and- Jamie Beck welcomes readers back to Sterling Canyon, Colorado, breakfast. By night, she secretly pens erotic romance hot enough to where a disgraced but charming ski instructor falls in love while trying melt the snow in their cozy Rockies town. to redeem himself.

But Emma’s real life is about to heat up when her mother books the Folks in Sterling Canyon know that small towns have long memories. entire inn to a professional snowboarder, hoping the publicity will put Two years after the DUI that injured a pedestrian, Andy Randall is still them on the map. In a karmic twist of fate, that guest is Wyatt Lawson, making amends. He hopes the Christmas spirit will help him get rehired the man with whom Emma had shared the secret one-night stand that as a ski instructor, but that job will come with conditions. He can’t afford became the inspiration for her novel and its dreamy hero. Worse, a film another mistake, which is exactly what making a play for his former crew is documenting his comeback just as her debut is about to hit the boss and friend, Nikki Steele, would be. shelves. Emma’s only saving grace is that Wyatt doesn’t remember her—and hopefully he never will. Nikki races down double black diamonds and hikes mountains better than most guys, unafraid of tumbling down the slopes. But trusting the When Wyatt arrives in Sterling Canyon for several weeks of intense guy who once shot her down could end in a fall that actually hurts, training, the last tumble he expects to take is falling for a girl, especially especially when she’d have to vouch for him with her boss. Still, the one as shy as Emma. Unlike groupies with their hidden agendas, she resort needs another instructor to handle the holiday tourists, and isn’t using him—or so he believes…until the film crew uncovers Andy’s sexy grin and relaxed charisma make him hard to resist. Emma’s pen name and steamy novel. Wyatt’s comeback run can withstand a fall or two, but can his heart recover from this crash and With both of their reputations now on the line, can Andy convince Nikki burn? that the second chance he wants isn’t only about the job?

The Cabots Series

Before I Knew All We Knew (Book One) (Book Two) Jamie Beck Jamie Beck Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 8/22/2017 Publication Date: 1/30/2018 Page Count: 354 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Author Jamie Beck returns with an engrossing series about family, For Hunter and Sara, getting married was easy. It’s staying together friendship, and starting over. In this first Cabot novel, a legacy of that’s the true test of love… secrets tests old friends seeking a second chance at life and love. Hunter Cabot deeply loves two things: the international tea company On the second anniversary of her husband’s suicide, Colby Cabot- he’s helped his father build, and his wife, Sara. From the moment he Baxter is ready to let go of her grief and the mistakes made during her first saw her wide smile on their college campus years ago, Hunter fell turbulent marriage. Her fresh start comes in the form of A Certain Tea, hard. Yet now, with other family members pushing to sell the thriving the restaurant she’s set to open along Lake Sandy, Oregon, with help business and Sara grieving their failure to start a family, he’s suddenly from her family. But when her executive chef quits just weeks before facing the crushing loss of both. the grand opening, Colby is pressured to hire old family friend Alec Morgan. His award-winning reputation could generate buzz, but their The relentless ambition that Sara once admired in Hunter is now driving friendship has withered since her husband’s reckless dare cost Alec’s them apart. Each missed doctor’s appointment, neglected dinner date, brother his life. and family squabble accentuates their differing priorities. Still, Sara struggles to create the home life they’d envisioned, until unsettling Distracted by guilty secrets concerning the tragedy that changed his developments—both personal and professional—push them to the and Colby’s lives, Alec self-destructed and lost his famed restaurant. breaking point. With his career in tatters, he’s determined to use this opportunity to redeem his reputation and to help the woman he’s loved from afar find When love is put to the ultimate test, can Hunter and Sara stop fighting happiness again. But secrets have a way of coming out. When Alec’s each other long enough to fight for their marriage? do, they might destroy the new life he and Colby have rebuilt together.

Romance | 114 When Love Wears My Next Happiness Cowboy Boots (Wenn Delivery (Ma Prochaine Liebe Cowboystiefel Livraison de bonheur) trägt) Judicaëlle Bouget Emily Bold Contemporary Contemporary Romance Imprint: Amazon Publishing - French Imprint: Montlake Romance - German Language Language Publication Date: 4/3/2018 Publication Date: 3/28/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 302 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

When Avery Davis returns to her hometown, Littletree, after eight years Romy, a serious medical student, is about to approach one of the most and a strenuous fight against cancer, she stands before the ruins of her feared courses: orthopedic surgery. While her first morning ends life. No job, no partner—and no hair. without a hitch, she encounters Dr. Marco Latoré, a handsome surgeon with undeniable charm. Romy is determined not to be intimidated, and But Avery’s involuntary new start is complicated when she remains convinced that the discovery of the surgical world can only unexpectedly comes across her childhood sweetheart, Mason King. bring new knowledge. A great romantic at heart, she does not expect to The daredevil rodeo rider and local hero amuses Avery with some be bothered by this macho atmosphere. Will she succeed at her interesting sound bites, and he awakens fond memories. But a man internship, or will she have to give it up? who risks his life with every ride will never understand how hard she fought for her own. She cannot get involved with such a man—no My Next Happiness Delivery plunges into the daily life of a young matter what her heart says. woman, punctuated by her courses, friendships, and studies, as well as her inner conflict between reason and feelings.

Worked Up Series Trillium Bay Novels

Fired (Book One) My Kind of You Cora Brent (Book One) Contemporary Romance Tracy Brogan Imprint: Montlake Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 10/31/2017 Imprint: Montlake Romance Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 4/18/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 318 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In this fiery series debut from New York Times and USA Today Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Brogan is back with a sweet, bestselling author Cora Brent, a workplace romance might prove too hot hilarious series about family, forgiveness, and what it means to go back to handle. home.

Still reeling from a nasty divorce, Melanie Cruz’s pride takes another Emily Callaghan never expected to spend another summer on Wenniway beating when she loses her enviable job at an upscale resort. After a Island. Yet here she is, back in her quaint Northern Michigan hometown flurry of unsuccessful interviews, she finally—desperately—accepts a job of Trillium Bay, divorced, flat broke, and dragging along her precocious managing a small chain of family-owned pizzerias in a quaint downtown twelve-year-old. It’s a simple arrangement: Emily, a house flipper, will Phoenix neighborhood. The job also comes with Dominic Esposito, her renovate one of her grandmother’s rental properties in exchange for a overbearing but ridiculously handsome boss. Falling for him might be the much-needed loan. Once a wild child, the reformed Emily also hopes to last thing she expects, but maybe it’s the one thing she needs. remodel her reputation and show her family she’s all grown up.

As hard as they try to resist, Melanie and Dominic embark on a romance But coming home is never simple. Emily’s dad is more distant than ever. as hot as a brick oven, and Melanie has every reason to believe that Her younger sister is dating a much older man, and Emily’s worried it’s a maybe, this time, she’s finally found “the one.” mistake. The cottage remodel grows increasingly daunting. And then there’s handsome out-of-towner Ryan Taggert…There’s no denying the But Dominic has a secret—one even his family doesn’t know. And the attraction between Emily and Ryan. But will their conflicting interests scandal could threaten everything he and Melanie have worked for…in destroy any chance at love? Or will Emily finally get the chance to rebuild business and in love. Stay tuned for the second book in the series, which her life—and repair her heart? Stay tuned for the next book in the series, will be released in Spring 2018! which will be released in Spring 2018!

Romance | 115 The Barefoot Summer The Lilac Bouquet The Strawberry Hearts Diner The Sometimes Sisters Carolyn Brown Carolyn Brown Carolyn Brown Carolyn Brown Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Small Town Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 1/3/2017 Publication Date: 3/28/2017 Publication Date: 7/18/2017 Publication Date: 2/6/2018 Page Count: 300 Page Count: 304 Page Count: 288 Page Count: 272 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Large Print (English) Rights Sold: Large Print (English) Rights Sold: Large Print (English)

An Amazon Charts bestseller. Come hell or high water, Emmy Jo Being broke, unemployed, and stranded New York Times and Amazon Charts Massey will have a wedding. After three back in the tiny town of Pick, Texas, was bestselling author Carolyn Brown A heartbreakingly hilarious novel about generations of Massey women with not part of Jancy Wilson’s plan. Yet here continues to delight readers with her three women who had nothing in children out of wedlock, she wants the she is, watching her car literally go up in next stand-alone novel. Her stories of common, except their husband. whole town of Hickory, Texas, to witness smoke—along with her last-ditch hope family and friendship speak directly to her union with Logan Grady. But dream of staying with her cousin in Louisiana. the heart, and readers will fall in love Oil heiress Kate Steele knew her weddings aren’t cheap. So she accepts When Jancy spies a Help Wanted sign with The Sometimes Sisters. departed husband was a con man, but a stint as a home health assistant to hanging in the window of the Strawberry she’s shocked that Conrad racked up retired Realtor, and town recluse, Seth Hearts Diner, the memories of the two two more wives without divorcing her Thomas—a decision her great- years she spent there as a teenager— first. The only remnant of their marriage grandmother Tandy is dead set against. and the lure of the diner’s beloved she plans to keep is their lakeside cabin strawberry tarts—are enough to draw in Bootleg, Texas. Unfortunately, she’s Seth isn’t happy about it, either. The her in and plant her feet…temporarily. not the only woman with that idea. eighty-two-year-old doesn’t want a Jamie wishes Conrad were still alive— “babysitter”—something he makes clear Raised by parents who refused to settle so she could kill him herself. But for their when Emmy arrives at his house. But as anywhere for long, Jancy has never daughter’s sake, she needs that Emmy stays and the two open up to known what it is to have roots. Now that property. As does Amanda—twenty- each other, she learns the reason Jancy’s swept up by the warmth and eight, pregnant, and still weeping over behind a feud among Seth, Tandy, and character of this community—and by the the loss of her true love. On a July day, Logan’s grandfather Jesse Grady that pull of an old crush—it’s beginning to all three arrive in Bootleg…with a goes back six decades. She also feel like home. But when the town is detective who’s convinced that one of uncovers a secret that forever changes threatened, Jancy knows it will take them conspired to commit murder. how she sees her past and her future… more than its legendary tarts to save it.

Forgotten Files Series

The Hangman The Last Move (Book Three) Mary Burton Mary Burton Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 9/19/2017 Publication Date: 4/25/2017 Page Count: 338 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Julia Vargas is a cop with a mission. When she’s not chasing down bad In this gripping stand-alone from bestselling author Mary Burton, an FBI guys, Julia dedicates her time to investigating the Hangman serial agent must catch a copycat killer. The only difference this time: she’s killer…the same unsolved case that her father, Jim Vargas, was the final victim. working on when he supposedly shot and killed himself three decades before. While rumors continue to swirl around her father’s death, Julia Catching monsters helps FBI agent Kate Hayden keep her nightmares attempts to hunt down the truth. at bay. Now an urgent call brings her back to San Antonio, the scene of her violent past. A brutal new murder shows hallmarks of a serial killer The case once again hits dangerously close, however, when a nicknamed the Samaritan. Tricky part is, Kate already caught him. woman’s bones are discovered in a historic downtown home, together with a photograph of Jim and Julia as a young girl. As horrifying as this Either Kate made a deadly error, or she’s got a copycat on her hands. discovery is, it may just be the break Julia has waited for. Working Paired with homicide detective Theo Mazur, she quickly realizes this alongside Tobias Novak, a homicide detective with whom she shares a murder is more twisted than it first appeared. Then a second body is complicated—and steamy—history, she’s forced to confront her own found, the mode of death identical to a different case that Kate thought past even as the Hangman looms in the shadows. But as the she’d put behind her. mysterious killer circles closer, Julia can feel her own noose begin to tighten… Now Kate and Detective Mazur aren’t just working a homicide; the investigative pair is facing a formidable enemy who knows Kate intimately. While Mazur is personally trying to protect Kate, the closer they are drawn to the killer, the clearer it becomes that in this terrifying game, there is only one rule: Don’t believe everything you see…

Romance | 116 Most Likely To Novels

Doing It Over Staying For Good Making It Right (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 4/19/2016 Publication Date: 1/24/2017 Publication Date: 5/9/2017 Page Count: 334 Page Count: 322 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages Rights Sold: Estonian and Rights Sold: German Rights Sold: German German Voted Most Likely to Succeed, Melanie Bartlett A Wall Street Journal bestseller. An Amazon Charts and #1 Wall Street ended up anything but. The down-on-her-luck Journal bestseller. single mom wants a complete do-over—is that Zoe Brown may have been voted Most Likely too much to ask? With her family long gone to Never Leave River Bend, but the paper-thin Some kids inherit a family business; Jo Ward from River Bend, strong, independent Mel is walls and suffocating air of her family’s double inherited a badge. Once voted Most Likely to as surprised as anyone to end up in the quaint -wide trailer were not what she wanted for her End Up in Jail, the town wild child has become small town she once called home. But with her life. Other than BFFs Melanie and Jo, the only sheriff—hell-bent on uncovering the truth friends Jo and Zoe by her side, and a thing that kept Zoe sane during high school about her father’s death. Life is quiet in River comfortable room at Miss Gina’s quirky bed- was her boyfriend, Luke. So, she escaped— Bend, but Jo longs for something beyond her and-breakfast, she just might have turned the turning her back on the shame of her black- hometown and the painful memories it holds. corner on a new life. sheep siblings and imprisoned dad. Now a All that keeps her sane is the support of her celebrity chef in Dallas, she can afford all the best friends, Melanie and Zoe. Wyatt Gibson never liked the big city. River things she never could have growing up. But Bend suits the ruggedly handsome builder just when she returns to River Bend, Zoe has to But when Jo signs up for an expert law- fine. Wyatt knows he’s home, even if that face all that she abandoned—including Luke. enforcement training seminar, she meets Gill means being charmed by the appearance of Clausen, whose haunting eyes and Melanie and her spunky, adorable daughter. Is While Luke was a refuge for Zoe in the past, dangerously sexy vibe just may challenge her Wyatt’s calm devotion—even amid a coming he knows they inhabit totally different worlds single-minded focus. Commitment-phobic Jo storm—enough to convince Mel she may have now. Anchored by his parents and his job as a can’t deny her attraction to the arrogant found a home to call her own, a family that mechanic in his father’s shop, Luke never felt federal agent, and when odd things start never leaves, and a true love to last a lifetime? the urge to leave River Bend—until Zoe’s happening around River Bend and danger return. But when the two rekindle their old surrounds her, she realizes she’ll need his flame, Zoe is forced to make the hardest help to discover who’s out to remove her from decision of her life: remain in River Bend and River Bend…permanently. confront her past before it destroys her, or say good-bye to everyone she’s ever loved… again, this time for good. First Wives Series Fool Me Once (Book One) Catherine Bybee Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 9/19/2017 Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages

From Weekday Brides to First Wives, a dazzling series about four women and their alliance of newfound friendship, unexpected love, and second chances.

Cynical divorce attorney Lori Cumberland lives by one motto: Love is grand, but divorce is a hundred grand. With one failed marriage under her own personal belt, Lori had fallen hard and early—and it isn’t something she plans on repeating. She’s content focusing on the temporary marriages of her rich and famous clients. When she joins some of her recent divorcées on a celebratory cruise, her only vow is fun, sun, and new friends. But Lori finds herself tempted by a jury of one.

For Reed Barlow, falling into the world of private investigation was easy. He knows the law and knows how to avoid breaking it—all while doing his job. His rule to live by? No emotion, no involvement…until Lori. His charming smile and cocky attitude distracts Lori and lowers her guard, which is exactly what Reed desires.

But what appears as a one-time-only flirtation may be a plot orchestrated by Reed. As he’s taking his investigation to a dangerous level, it’s Lori who could end up in jeopardy. Reed has only one shot for Lori to grant him a second chance. But if he comes clean with her, he blows his cover. And that just might cost him the opportunity for an alliance of family…and of love. Stay tuned for the next book in the series, which will be released in Summer 2018!

Romance | 117 Weekday Brides Series Wall Street Journal Bestselling Series

Wife by Wednesday Married by Monday Fiancé by Friday (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 2/12/2013 Publication Date: 3/19/2013 Publication Date: 8/13/2013 Page Count: 206 Page Count: 306 Page Count: 341 Rights Acquired: All Languages, Rights Acquired: All Languages, Rights Acquired: All excluding Spanish and excluding Spanish and Languages Portuguese Portuguese Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Slovenian, Thai, and Japanese, Slovenian, Thai, Slovenian, Thai, and Turkish Turkish Turkish, and Large Print (English) The New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Carter Billings: Sandy-blond hair and Hollywood Gwen Harrison: The beautiful, highborn daughter Street Journal bestselling novel that launches good looks, Carter could have any woman he of an English duke came to America to take over Bybee’s popular Weekday Brides series. wants. When he makes his bid for governor of her sister-in-law’s matchmaking business. But just California, he knows he must settle down and because she’s the boss doesn’t mean she can’t Blake Harrison: Rich, titled, and charming…and in become a family man. His choice for a running fantasize about making her own perfect match need of a wife by Wednesday. Blake turns to Sam mate between the sheets: matchmaker Eliza with bodyguard Neil MacBain. Will the enigmatic Elliot, who isn’t the businessman he expected. Havens. man who haunts her dreams cost her more than Instead, Blake is faced with Samantha Elliot, she bargained for? beautiful and feisty with a voice men call 1-900 Eliza Havens: Eliza’s happy that her best friend numbers to hear. has a wealthy, adoring husband. It’s the Neil MacBain: The retired marine can’t deny the husband’s best friend—sexy, dashing Carter effect blue-blooded Gwen has on his troubled Samantha Elliot: Owner of matchmaking firm Billings—that drives her crazy. No man has ever soul or his battle-hardened body. But as a client, Alliance and not on the marital menu…that is, squabbled with Eliza this much…or made her Gwen is off-limits—until a threat from Neil’s past until Blake offers her $10 million for a one-year heart race this fast. Matching couples is how she returns…and Gwen is caught in the cross fire. contract. The money will really help with her earns a living, but long-held secrets mean getting Now to keep her safe he will risk it all: his career, family’s medical bills. All Samantha will need to married isn’t an option. Until now. his life…and his heart. do is keep her attraction to her new husband to herself and avoid his bed. But Blake’s sexy charm proves too difficult for Sam to resist. It was a marriage contract that planned for everything… except falling in love.

Single by Saturday (Book Four) Taken by Tuesday (Book Five) Seduced by Sunday (Book Six) Treasured by Thursday Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee (Book Seven) Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Catherine Bybee Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 1/7/2014 Publication Date: 8/12/2014 Publication Date: 4/14/2015 Imprint: Montlake Romance Page Count: 315 Page Count: 309 Page Count: 320 Publication Date: 8/18/2015 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 370 Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, Brazilian Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, Brazilian Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, Brazilian Rights Acquired: All Languages Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, German, Indonesian, Rights Sold: Azerbaijani, Brazilian Indonesian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Indonesian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Portuguese, Slovenian, and Thai Portuguese, German, Indonesian, and Thai and Thai Slovenian, and Thai Karen Jones: The petite blonde married Judy Gardner: College graduate Judy Meg Rosenthal: Matchmaker by day, Gabriella Masini: She’s a woman a Hollywood star, yet she’s the one who stands ready to conquer the world…if realist by night, Meg is not about to get haunted by her past, with the scars to spends every day playing a part: the she can get a job. Hoping to transition swept away by a charming, darkly prove it. An elite matchmaker at Alliance, part of a happy wife. A year ago, she from aspiring architect to famous handsome businessman in a designer she’s great at crunching numbers, but agreed to wed a famous actor to defuse architect as quickly as possible, the suit. She’s come to a beautiful, secluded something doesn’t add up with her latest rumors about his personal life. Now, her dark-haired beauty moves to LA, staying resort to evaluate the private island’s prospective client: a billionaire bad boy divorce sits around the corner, along in the home of her celebrity brother, potential for her agency, not to ogle its with his own secrets. When Gabi refuses with a $5 million payout. However, as Michael Wolfe. But it’s hard for Judy to owner. But there’s something about the to be his temporary wife, Hunter forces she prepares to exit her fake marriage focus on work when the sexy bodyguard magnetic man that’s hard to resist, even her hand with an offer she can’t refuse. gracefully, her gorgeous brother-in-law she fell for last summer keeps showing for a woman who refuses to fall in love. But marriage to a man like that could walks through the door… up in her life and leaving her breathless. never last…or could it? Valentino Masini: A successful and Zach Gardner: Hunk Zach crashes Rick Evans: With his hard body, green drop-dead sexy businessman, Valentino Hunter Blackwell: Only his bank account Michael and Karen’s one-year eyes, and easy smile, Rick could have is used to having the finer things in life. is bigger than his ability to obtain anniversary party, determined to meet any woman he wants. But the marine- Yet he’s never wanted someone the way anything he wants. These days, he has a the wife his brother hid from their family. turned-bodyguard only has eyes for he wants Meg, who’s stirring up a secret reason to settle down, at least for But sparks fly the moment he and Karen Judy and her spitfire attitude. When a hurricane of trouble in his heart. But just a while—and he thinks the sensual and see each other. When the couple faceless villain attacks Judy, Rick will as he decides to convince her to stay, sassy Gabi will fit the bill perfectly. But decides to visit the whole Gardner clan, stop at nothing to protect the woman someone else decides it might be time when their marriage of convenience Karen must keep Michael’s secret under who opened his heart from the monster to get Meg off the island…permanently. becomes downright dangerous, Hunter wraps in front of his questioning hunting her. must decide how far to take his vow to relatives…including Zach. honor and protect Gabi forever. Romance | 118 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) Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee (Book Three) Catherine Bybee Catherine Bybee Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Catherine Bybee Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 11/13/2012 Publication Date: 5/7/2013 Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 11/4/2014 Publication Date: 9/20/2016 Page Count: 259 Page Count: 302 Publication Date: 10/8/2013 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, French, German, Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German and Turkish Rights Sold: German Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian, Portuguese, and Turkish Rights Sold: German and Turkish Turkish Waitress and single mom Jessica Gorgeous hotel heiress Katelyn Monica Mann has made it her Romance author Dakota Laurens Mary Kildare knows how to read “Jessie” Mann is practical to a fault. “Katie” Morrison seems to have it all. life’s work to save lives. After an believes that happily ever afters exist people. It’s why she makes a great Even if she had time to date, which But when she crosses paths with earthquake and tsunami hit the only between the covers of her sexy therapist and also why she refuses to she doesn’t, she’d be determined to Dean Prescott—the only man she’s shores of Jamaica, she volunteers novels. But to her surprise, she finds trust the average bachelor. Staying provide her son with a more secure ever loved—at her brother’s wedding, her trauma skills with Borderless a real-life hero when she meets a fiercely independent has been her upbringing than the one she had— Katie realizes there’s a gaping hole in Nurses. Calculating and methodical, handsome emergency-room doctor. primary relationship strategy—until and that would mean a husband with her life. After the ceremony she gets Monica creates order out of whatever The outspoken author feels an instant wealthy playboy pilot Glen Fairchild big bucks. When Jack Morrison— an even bigger surprise: a baby girl chaos she finds. and intense attraction to Dr. Walt reappears in her life. After a yearlong, a sexy-as-sin, seemingly broke left on her doorstep. Determined to Eddy, and the feeling is mutual. teasing tug-of-war, Mary and Glen customer with a cowboy hat and a keep the newborn until she learns Until she finds the perpetually When the globe-trotting doctor pulls a test the waters of attraction, only to seductive grin—tries to flirt with her, who her mother is, Katie has her barefoot, impossibly masculine Trent disappearing act on Dakota, she’s find that their physical chemistry runs she shoots him down. She doubts a hands full and doesn’t need Dean Fairchild. No one can pin him down. prepared to write him off…until fate deeper than flirtation. Jack can provide the financial stability snooping around…especially when No, really. He's a pilot and manages brings a blindsiding twist to her story. she needs. Yet with Christmas just his presence stirs feelings she a small fleet of choppers on his At first, a bicoastal romance suits weeks away, and Jessie not wanting thought were long gone. adopted island home. Hopelessly Still scarred from a past tragedy, Walt them both—especially since Glen can to spend it alone, the charming Texan drawn to one another, they manage may have disappeared on Dakota, swoop in and whisk Mary away on is proving hard to resist. Dean Prescott knows Katie is lying to to slip away from the wreckage to but now he’s determined to win her one of his company’s planes. But no him about the baby. He shouldn’t get a little closer. And they get a lot back. For the first time in years, he matter how close they get, they’re still As the heir to a luxury hotel empire, care what the woman who broke his closer than expected when after- knows he’s ready for a new chance at three thousand miles apart. And Jack is used to being fawned over. heart is up to…and he most certainly shocks from the earthquake trap love. Yet between Dakota’s doubts when Mary’s life is threatened, Glen But he needs someone to fall in love shouldn’t still be aching for her. Yet them in their own life-or-death and two sets of meddling parents, realizes the one luxury he doesn’t with him—not his wealth. He’s set his Dean can’t ignore the need to protect scenario. Paradise has brought them can the once-blissful couple finally have is time. Stay tuned for the sixth sights on Jessie, but her hardened Katie—or the desire to be near her together. Now will it tear them apart? create the bright, loving future they book in the series, which will be heart might get in the way… every chance he gets. desperately want? released in Spring 2018!

Sinful Brides Series Wicked Wallflowers Series

The Scoundrel’s Honor The Lady’s Guard (Book Three) The Heiress’s Deception The Hellion (Book One) (Book Two) Christi Caldwell (Book Four) Christi Caldwell Christi Caldwell Regency Romance Christi Caldwell Regency Romance Historical Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Regency Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 7/25/2017 Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 4/3/2018 Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Page Count: 322 Publication Date: 12/12/2017 Page Count: 312 Page Count: 354 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Czech, German, and Slovak

In the second installment of USA Today A kingpin of London’s underbelly risks his A runaway heiress entrusts her fate to Bestselling author Christi Caldwell bestselling author Christi Caldwell’s heart on the woman he’s hired to protect. the man she betrayed. launches a spin-off series from her Sinful Brides series, a noblewoman risks wildly successful Sinful Brides series. her reputation—and her heart. At the Hell and Sin Club, Niall Marksman Lady Eve Pruitt has never forgotten her relishes taking the fortunes of the same childhood friend, the young pickpocket Fans of Sinful Brides will reunite with London, 1822. Thanks to her older society that once disregarded his Calum, who she feared had been beloved characters and meet an entirely siblings, Lady Penelope Tidemore is no existence. Oh, yes, Niall has sold his soul condemned to the gallows. Now, years new set of heroes and heroines to fall in stranger to scandal. In order for her to to the devil and paid dearly. It’s only later, Eve is the one in danger. Her love with. No one writes Regency make a good match, her longings for when Lady Diana Verney appears at the brother, made desperate by gambling romance like Christi Caldwell—her intrigue and romance must be quelled. club looking for help that Niall knows that debts, threatens to steal her inheritance, elegant voice is full of heart and Yet it is through terrible mischance that the devil has come to collect…by forcing and Eve has no choice but to run. passion, and she is a master of the Penelope is caught in a compromising him to protect the duke’s daughter. historical happily ever after. Stay tuned position with the viscount Ryker Black. Under an assumed name, she takes a for the next book in the series, which Disdained by the peerage and ignored by job as a bookkeeper at the notorious will be released in Summer 2018! Proprietor of the most notorious gaming her father, Diana knows that someone Hell and Sin Club. Nothing in this bawdy hell in London, Mr. Black lives in a world wants to harm her. Her only protection is den shocks her more than discovering filled with debauchery and danger. Niall; now her life and safety are in the that her employer is none other than Taking a Society wife from the very ton hands of the most dangerous man in Calum. Keeping her identity a secret is he despises is not part of his plan, even London. But Niall is adept at stealing one thing—but hiding her feelings for if the innocent Penelope turns his blood anything he wishes—including a lady’s him is another. hot with desire. reputation and her heart. Romance | 119 Dragonfury Series Westerly Billionaire Series

Fury of Surrender In the Heir (Book One) Up for Heir (Book Two) (Book Six) Ruth Cardello Ruth Cardello Coreene Callahan Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Paranormal Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 5/23/2017 Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/11/2017 Page Count: 242 11/14/2017 Page Count: 354 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Rights Sold: French and German

In the sixth installment of the bestselling New York Times and USA Today bestselling A Boston billionaire takes a second chance on Dragonfury series, a tormented dragon shifter author Ruth Cardello returns with an the woman of his dreams. finds solace in the healing powers of a irresistible series about sexy billionaires and woman—one who needs her own salvation. the strong-willed women who tame them. Spencer Westerly is his own man. He didn’t need his father’s money to build his wildly Dragon warrior Forge has been sentenced to Brett Westerly is his father’s golden child, but successful tech company—and he doesn’t death by the Dragonkind elite. Recalling the it’s come at a cost. As head of the family want to deal with the fallout from old family memories of his family’s murders could drive corporation, he throws himself into his work, to secrets. But as much as Spencer wants to him to the edge of insanity, but it’s the only avoid confronting his broken family. After a avoid Westerly drama, his grandmother—the way to remove the target on his back. Fiercely bitter divorce, the wealthy Westerly matriarch family matriarch—is determined to pull him determined to protect his pack and his offers an early inheritance to any grandchild back into the fold. And she’s discovered the newborn son, Forge agrees to undergo who marries and invites the entire family to the perfect lure: his college sweetheart, Hailey. harrowing treatments to help him remember wedding. Brett’s brother, Spencer, rashly gets Although she broke his heart, Hailey is still the the trauma buried deep inside his heart and engaged, and Brett knows it’s his duty to only woman he’s ever loved. Now that she’s mind. When nothing works, a woman of intervene. But he never imagined the back and looking as desirable as ever, unprecedented power is brought in to help. unwelcome desire Spencer’s fiery fiancée Spencer is determined to get a second would spark in him. chance. Young, bright, and haunted by her own demons, hypnotherapist Hope Cunningham Ever since she was a girl, Alisha Coventry A lot has changed for Hailey Tiverton. The helps patients recover from their darkest considered Spencer and his sister, Rachelle, only thing that hasn’t? The inexplicable pull memories. But each time she liberates a the family she didn’t have. When Spencer she feels toward Spencer. When they were wayward soul, Hope’s personal pain digs asks for her help, Alisha has no problem younger, his work was his priority. Now, he’d deeper—until one patient ignites an becoming his fake fiancée—until she meets better be willing to prove that, this time, love unforgettable passion. Spencer’s sexy older brother, Brett. comes first…

Red Hot Love Series The Bourbon Street Boys

Amber (Book One) Wrong Turn, Right Elle Casey Direction (Book Four) Contemporary Romance Elle Casey Imprint: Montlake Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 1/9/2018 Imprint: Montlake Romance Page Count: 434 Publication Date: 3/21/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 350 Rights Acquired: All Languages

From the author of the bestselling Bourbon Street Boys series comes Tamika Cleary takes a wrong turn up a one-way street—and straight the first book in the Red Hot Love series. into Thibault Delacroix’s leg as he steps into the road. But Mika’s in a hurry, and she certainly doesn’t have time for a guy who can’t even Fiery, free-loving Amber Huey has just discovered she’s the daughter look both ways before crossing, even if he does have a cute face, a of a nineties rock god. Her quiet life in Maine is about to change with body to die for, and the darkest, thickest eyelashes she’s ever seen. the promise of fortune, but there’s one condition: her father wants her to come to New York to meet him. Angry and in search of answers, Unfortunately for Mika, fate has other ideas. When she’s threatened by Amber heads to the city. When the band arrives with a replacement her employer, a Russian mafia boss known as “The Thief,” she’s forced guitarist in tow, the hotter and younger Ty Stanz, Amber’s thoughts to accept Thibault’s help. As the co-owner of the Bourbon Street Boys stray to something much more exciting. Ty’s not into commitment and security firm, he believes he can keep her safe. But Mika has a whole Amber’s not into the music but they’re both tied to the band, and the load of trust issues—and the pushier Thibault is about helping, the sparks begin to fly. more stubbornly she tries to resist.

Red Hot is the name of the band, but the music Amber and Ty make is Mika may have taken a wrong turn the day they met, but will she finally scorching. Stay tuned for the next two books in the series, which will be let someone steer her in the right direction? released in Spring and Summer 2018!

Romance | 120 The Lion of Rome The Scent of the (Il leone di Roma) Countryside Adele Vieri Castellano (Landluftduft) Historical Romance Johanna Danninger Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Contemporary Romance Italian Language Imprint: Montlake Romance - Publication Date: 9/26/2017 German Language Page Count: 507 Publication Date: 5/23/2017 Rights Acquired: English, Page Count: 258 Portuguese, French, Chinese, Rights Acquired: All Languages German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese

Rome, A.D. 50. Massimo Valerio Messalla is noble by birth, cultured by A humorous new romance novel from the bestselling author of education, and a warrior by choice, but his freedom is about to end: his Neighborly Relations. father requires him to marry, to ensure an offspring to the lineage of the Valeri. The village of Wammling in lower Bavaria is in revolt. A spa hotel with golf course in the middle of their rural idyll. It has to be stopped! Ottavia Lenate is a restless and curious young woman, with a passion for science and astronomy and a desire for knowledge, not for a Anna takes up the fight against the planned construction project, as it husband—especially not a rough and fascinating one like Messalla, the will tear down a farmhouse her heart has been set on since her man she discovers she is destined to marry. childhood. To make things worse, the sanctimonious author Ben Hager moves into her grandfather’s vacation apartment and nearly drives her Massimo and Ottavia are thus forced into a union decided by others, crazy with his arrogance. When Ben compels her to teach him about until fate takes them to Alexandria of Egypt. In that arid land, sterile as country ways for his research, Anna is forced to realize that he is not the soul of Messalla and rich in hidden treasures as the spirit of Ottavia, stealing the last of her composure but something else entirely... a terrible threat coming from the past will put at risk everything that Massimo, the lion of Rome, loves and wants to protect...

Juniper Hills Series Somerton Security Series

All There Is (Book One) Defenseless (Book One) Violet Duke Elizabeth Dyer Contemporary Romance Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 6/27/2017 Publication Date: 12/1/2017 Page Count: 286 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Violet Duke debuts When ex-marine Georgia Bennett left the military for high-end private an emotional series about letting go, starting over, and trusting in the security, it was supposed to soften her snarky attitude. Instead, her redemptive power of love. short fuse just earned her a punishment of an assignment: protect smart-ass tech genius and Department of Defense contractor Parker Emma Stevens made a fresh start in the town of Juniper Hills, but she Livingston. It should have been easy—only no one warned Georgia that still lives with the guilt of an impossible choice from her past: saving her Parker was one seriously drop-dead-gorgeous geek. sister—but leaving her stepbrother behind—in a fire that destroyed their home. The boy next door may have dragged them to safety, but he also The last thing Parker needs is a bodyguard, especially not one with caused the fire that devastated her family. She swore she’d never killer curves and a sassy mouth who tempts him to do something forgive him, so she’s stunned when he shows up on her doorstep. incredibly stupid. He’s too busy investigating whoever is turning his technology against him and threatening his team of covert operatives. Jake Rowan has never been able to escape the worst day of his life, But when an assassin sends Georgia and Parker running for their lives, when he took the fall for his older brother, who started a tragic fire. it might just be the explosive sexual chemistry and the trust that’s Years later, he’s carved out a life as a carpenter, but when he runs into building between them that saves their necks. Because the only thing Emma again, he’s reminded of everything he’s lost—and everything he more dangerous than the combination of Parker’s intellect and still longs for. Georgia’s aim is their steadfast desire to protect each other, no matter the cost. Stay tuned for the next book in the series, which will be As Emma and Jake grow closer, will they be able to help each other released in Spring 2018! heal, or will their hearts remain broken and burdened by the past? Stay tuned for the next book in the series, which will be released in Spring 2019!

Romance | 121 Mercy Kilpatrick Series

A Merciful Death A Merciful Truth A Merciful Secret (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) Kendra Elliot Kendra Elliot Kendra Elliot Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 1/17/2017 Publication Date: 6/6/2017 Publication Date: 1/16/2018 Page Count: 353 Page Count: 322 Page Count: 272 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

An Amazon Charts bestseller. An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal From award-winning author Kendra Elliot bestseller. comes the third book in the Amazon Charts FBI special agent Mercy Kilpatrick has been and Wall Street Journal bestselling Mercy waiting her whole life for disaster to strike. A Raised by a family of survivalists, FBI agent Kilpatrick romantic-suspense series. In this prepper since childhood, Mercy grew up living Mercy Kilpatrick can take on any challenge— gripping novel, an FBI agent believes she’s off the land—and off the grid—in rural Eagle’s even the hostile reception to her homecoming. buried her past, but she can’t hide her Nest, Oregon...until a shocking tragedy tore her But she’s not the only one causing chaos in survivalist instincts. family apart and forced her to leave home. Now the rural community of Eagle’s Nest, Oregon. a predator known as the cave man is targeting At first believed to be teenage pranks, a series the survivalists in her hometown, murdering of fires takes a deadly turn with the murder of them in their homes, stealing huge numbers of two sheriff’s deputies. Now, along with police weapons, and creating federal suspicion of a chief Truman Daly, Mercy is on the hunt for an possible domestic-terrorism event. But the arsonist turned killer. crime-scene details are eerily familiar to an unsolved mystery from Mercy’s past. Still shunned by her family and members of the community, Mercy must keep her ear Sent by the FBI to assist local law enforcement, close to the ground to pick up any leads. And Mercy returns to Eagle’s Nest to face the family it’s not long before she hears rumors of the who shunned her. There, she meets police area’s growing antigovernment militia chief Truman Daly, whose uncle was the cave movement. If the arsonist is among their man’s latest victim. He sees the survivalist side ranks, Mercy is determined to smoke the of her that she desperately tries to hide, but if culprit out. But when her investigation she lets him get close enough to learn her uncovers a shocking secret, will this hunt for a secret, she might not survive the fallout… madman turn into her own trial by fire?

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 Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance 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: Estonian and Large Print Rights Sold: Large Print (English) (English)

2015 Overall Daphne du Maurier A Wall Street Journal bestseller. A Wall Street Journal bestseller and A Wall Street Journal bestseller. Award Winner. Daphne du Maurier Award winner. After a congressman’s tortured body is All Detective Mason Callahan wanted When an eleven-year-old is abducted on found dangling from a Portland bridge, FBI Special Agent Ava McLane solves was a quiet fishing trip with the guys—a her way to school, the FBI doesn’t waste the FBI joins the Oregon State Police to crimes; she doesn’t witness them. When chance to get away and unwind before a moment, sending agents to scour the investigate the case—and FBI Special she’s trapped in a mall without her Halloween. Until he finds the body of his area and embedding Special Agent Ava Agent Ava McLane, still recovering from weapon as a shooter picks off victims, boss, Denny Schefte, near their remote McLane with the distraught family. In the a bullet wound, hunts the twisted killer she hides with a wounded teen and Oregon cabin. Now all he wants is to eye of the storm is local detective alongside the man who captured her prays for her survival. catch the sadist who slit Denny’s throat Mason Callahan, whose life is crumbling heart, police detective Mason Callahan. and covered his face with a mask. to pieces—he’s related to the victim, and But once a third body appears and all But that’s only the beginning…an Mason was the last person to see him his longtime confidential informant has evidence points to a serial killer, the epidemic of mass shootings has swept alive and will stop at nothing to find his just been murdered. Both he and Agent public furiously clamors for answers— across Oregon. The young shooters friend’s murderer. McLane hole up in the victim’s family and the couple’s relationship grows terrify the public, committing random home. Every second counts in a fractured under the pressure. Ava and murders before taking their own lives. When the FBI learns of the mask left at kidnapping case, and the stakes keep Mason search in the past for clues that The task force assembled to solve the the scene, they realize they have a rising the longer the girl is missing. As predict the future. And when Ava’s case—which includes Ava’s boyfriend, serial killer on their hands—one who is Ava and Mason struggle to hold the mentally ill twin spins out of control, the detective Mason Callahan—remains targeting cops. They assign the case to family together in their darkest hour, the FBI agent who battles monsters every stumped. And on top of this chaos, Special Agent Ava McLane, despite her two investigators find themselves drawn day wonders if she shares her sister’s Ava’s troubled twin sister reappears, engagement to Mason. The killer may to each other. self-destructive streak… throwing Ava’s life into a tailspin. be closer than expected...

Romance | 122 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 Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance 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, Italian, Rights Sold: German, Italian, and Rights Sold: Czech, German, and Rights Sold: German and Norwegian Rights Sold: Norwegian Norwegian, Simplified Chinese, and Norwegian Norwegian Spanish Kendra Elliot combines chilling As a forensic nurse on a search-and- 2014 Daphne du Maurier Award RT Magazine 2014 Reviewers' A Wall Street Journal bestseller. suspense and steamy romance in a rescue team, Brynn Nealey braves a Winner. Choice Finalist – Best Romantic gripping tale, uniting in-depth forensic dangerous blizzard to find the Suspense After a brutal snowstorm in the knowledge with a passion for thrillers. survivors of a plane crash in the International Thriller Writers 2014 Cascade Mountains, Chris Jacobs Cascade Mountains. Joining her is Thriller Award nominee—Best Suspense Magazine Best of 2014 discovers two things he never Eleven years ago, the Co-ed Slayer Alex Kinton, a former US marshal Paperback Original Novel. expected to see: the charred shell of murdered nine female students on with self-destructive tendencies. Alex One rainy night in the woods, Dr. a cabin, and Gianna Trask and her the Oregon State University campus. lies his way onto Brynn’s team to find Eighteen years ago, Chris Jacobs Victoria Peres is called to the site of a sixteen-year-old daughter huddled in Lacey Campbell barely escaped his the man who killed his brother—and walked out of the forest, the lone haunting crime scene. Six beautiful an SUV, having barely escaped from attack, but lost her best friend whose then administer his own brand of survivor of a school busload of young girls—all in white dresses and their burning vacation rental. Still remains were never found. As the vigilante justice. But once the team children who’d vanished two years arranged in a perfect circle—have scarred from a childhood ordeal, sole surviving victim, Lacey helped members reach the plane’s before. His memory was gone, his been left for dead. Only one girl, Chris knows there’s something send the serial killer to prison for life. wreckage, they discover everyone body beaten and emaciated. Today, fighting for her life at a nearby sinister about the scene—it’s the Now a forensic odontologist aboard has perished…except for the the sad remains of the missing hospital, has survived the carnage. stench of burned flesh. examining teeth and bones for the man Alex is hunting. Alex will do children have been discovered, along Things get stranger still when Victoria state medical examiner, Lacey is whatever it takes to track his target. with evidence that they were held and the police discover that the Forced to wait out the blizzard in their devastated when she arrives at a captive for years. But investigative disturbing arrangement of the bodies rescuer’s retreat, medical examiner crime scene and identifies the As the temperatures drop, so do reporter Michael Brody’s brother is is straight from the pages of a Gianna Trask wonders if her hidden skeletal remains as her college Alex’s defenses. His contact with the still missing. He sets out to question decades-old cold case. Victoria is past has finally caught up with her. friend’s. The remains are discovered sharp, kindhearted Brynn makes his Chris, hoping his memory has called on to do what she does best: When a body is found in the on the land of ex-cop Jack Harper. lust for vengeance difficult to returned. Constant fear of being read the bones of the dead for destroyed cabin’s ashes and a forest Sparks fly between him and Lacey, reconcile with his growing feelings for found by his kidnapper has driven clues…while dealing with the surprise ranger is brutally murdered, both even as they realize that the a woman who risks her life to help Chris into hiding. The only lead return of her first love, medical Gianna and Chris must confront their prosecution’s witnesses from a others. What will happen when he Michael has is Chris’s sister, Jamie. examiner Seth Rutledge. Only this secrets if they want to escape the decade ago are now being murdered finally has the opportunity to confront As they race to find Chris, Michael time she must figure out how the violent threat lurking outside. one by one. his brother’s killer? and Jamie somehow find each other two cases, fifty years apart, are among the decades of wreckage. connected.

This Time Around At the Heart of It Tawna Fenske Tawna Fenske Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 4/4/2017 Publication Date: 10/3/2017 Page Count: 318 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

From USA Today bestselling author Tawna Fenske comes a refreshing Love doesn’t stick to the script in this witty romance from USA Today take on second-chance love—and the hilarious hurdles along the way. bestselling author Tawna Fenske.

Allie Ross is not living the life she once dreamed. Her law career ended TV producer Kate Geary is in unscripted heaven. She’s piloting a reality before it ever started, her parents landed in jail for running a Ponzi series featuring her favorite self-help guru, Dr. Vivienne Brandt. The Dr. scheme, and she just inherited her grandmother’s B and B—which is Viv—whose nuggets of wisdom helped Kate get through some of her nice, even if it is full of extratoed cats. As for her love life…she’d rather toughest times. Thanks to Dr. Viv, Kate is almost on the verge of not talk about it. figuring everything out. That is, until Jonah Porter, the superhot book nerd Kate just spent an amazing date with, appears at the show’s first When Jack Carpenter reaches out to reconnect with Allie, the girl who meeting. broke his heart in college, his plan is to impress her with the adult he’s become. Sure, he was a deadbeat then, but life has forced him to grow Jonah did not want to get reeled into a world filled with invasive crews, up. And it’s a relief to find out that things didn’t necessarily go the way pushy network execs, and over-the-top drama, but a connection to the Allie expected, either. story leaves him no choice. Fortunately, Kate—hot, smart, and funny— helps make it bearable. Now they’re both on the verge of violating their As Allie and Jack get reacquainted, they rediscover the things they contracts as they find themselves sneaking around off set. But the loved—and hated—about each other. But who they are now isn’t who cameras have a way of finding out everyone’s secrets…especially the they were then, and secrets—old and new—will test whether they have ones that can break hearts. a future together, or if the past is destined to repeat itself.

Romance | 123 Bad Boy Royals Series

Royally Bad (Book One) Royally Ruined Nora Flite (Book Two) Contemporary Romance Nora Flite Imprint: Montlake Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 4/1/2017 Imprint: Montlake Romance Page Count: 268 Publication Date: 10/3/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 242 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Getting close to an arrogant bad boy like him is dangerous. Too bad it’s Sinful passion and delicious danger await in the second installment of her only choice. USA Today bestselling author Nora Flite’s Bad Boy Royals series.

Kain Badd looks great on paper: rich, handsome, and he’s even a Scotch never runs from difficult situations. That is, until she rescues her prince. But after spending a few minutes together, Sammy sees the bestie from a violent Mafia member. Now Scotch is running for her life. real him—arrogant, possessive, and too hot for his own good. If she The only thing standing between her and certain death? The most hadn’t agreed to help plan his sister’s wedding, she could have avoided dangerous man in the criminal underworld—and one of the sexiest. But him. Instead, she’s waking up in his bed after an unforgettable night just when Scotch thought she could keep her hands out of trouble, they she definitely wants to forget. But he won’t let her. end up all over Costello Badd’s hot, hard, tattooed body…

When Sammy thinks her life can’t get any crazier, the wedding is raided Once upon a time, Costello’s blue blood might have ruled a nation. by the police, and she spends her first-ever night in jail. The irresistible Instead, he is heir to one of the criminal underworld’s most lethal Kain isn’t just bad in name—his family is connected to a dangerous families. Now he’s risking his life and betraying his clan for one sexy, underworld. Now she’s mixed up in a power struggle between his resourceful waitress with a penchant for all the wrong kinds of trouble. family’s empire and their rivals. She has no choice but to put herself No matter how badly Costello wants Scotch, he can never make her back in this filthy prince’s extremely capable hands. his. Ever.

Sammy must trust Kain to keep her safe. She’s just not sure she can A deliciously hot little hookup is one thing…but falling in love could ruin trust herself to resist temptation. both of them—royally.

Sugar Lake Series

The Real Thing Only for You (Book Two) (Book One) Melissa Foster Melissa Foster Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 12/5/2017 Publication Date: 9/5/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 288 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Bakery owner Willow Dalton’s friendship with Zane Walker has always Love only works when your heart is in the right place. Hers could be been a bit complicated. Now a scrumptiously hot A-list actor, Zane’s right next door… always had a reputation as a player. He’s arrogant, and he’s definitely not boyfriend material. Sure, he did Willow a favor by agreeing to take Single mom Bridgette Dalton doesn’t have time to stop and smell the her virginity before college, but is that reason enough for her to go roses—not even in her own flower shop. But that doesn’t mean she along with a fake engagement a decade later—even if it comes with a hasn’t noticed Bodhi Booker. Her ruggedly handsome next-door real diamond ring? neighbor would be the perfect candidate for a no-strings fling. Having loved and lost, Bridgette’s not ready to hand over her heart…but she Zane should have known better. Nothing involving Willow has ever could use a distraction. been easy. Still, he knows her better than anyone, and becoming America’s hottest new leading man means cleaning up his reputation. Bodhi has one rule: Never leave anyone behind. As a special operative, An “engagement” to curvy, sass-mouthed Willow is the perfect PR he knows that each new mission is more dangerous than the last. He’s move…provided no one gets hurt. never made a promise of forever to a woman, not even to the beautiful widow who has him tied in knots. And if there was anyone who could Now Zane and Willow’s little white lie has turned into an irresistible tempt him into putting down roots, it would be Bridgette and her recipe for sweet temptation. And soon no one will be able to tell the adorable son. difference between their fake engagement and the real thing—including them. But as his next deployment nears, they make a startling discovery. Their passion, meant only for the here and now, might already be blossoming into something more…

Romance | 124 Colorado Hearts Series Bad Habit Series Slow Burn Series

Heart of Eden Sin With Me Burn for You (Book One) (Book Three) (Book One) Caroline Fyffe J.T. Geissinger J.T. Geissinger Historical Western Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 4/25/2017 Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/23/2018 Page Count: 384 10/17/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 348 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

From USA Today bestselling author Caroline The past she can’t remember. The secret he The marriage is fake. But for a sassy chef and Fyffe comes a new historical western romance hides. And a love that’s worth risking it all. an arrogant billionaire, the sparks are real… series. After a devastating car crash stole both her Jackson “The Beast” Boudreaux is rich, The first book in Fyffe’s award-winning Prairie family and her memory, Grace Stanton was gorgeous, and unbelievably rude to the staff Hearts series, Where the Wind Blows, won the left with no past and an uncertain future. Now at Chef Bianca Hardwick’s New Orleans prestigious Golden Heart Award from the Grace likes to keep things simple. No restaurant. Bianca would sooner douse herself Romance Writers of America. Stay tuned for sleepovers, never date a guy more than a in hot sauce than cook for Jackson again, but the next book in the series, which will be month, and never, ever fall in love. Which is when he asks her to cater his fund-raiser, released in Spring 2018! exactly why Grace avoids Bad Habit’s lead Bianca can’t refuse, knowing the cash will help guitarist, Brody Scott, at all costs. The green- pay her mother’s medical bills. Then Jackson eyed, sexy-as-hell musician has “trouble” makes another request: Marry me. The offer tattooed all over him, and Grace isn’t taking includes an enormous sum—money Bianca any chances with her heart. needs, even if it does come with a contract.

Brody knows he doesn’t deserve an amazing The heir to a bourbon dynasty, Jackson knows woman like Grace—her creamy skin, red hair, the rumors swirling around him. Still, he needs or that smart mouth that fuels his every a wife to secure his inheritance, and free- fantasy—but there’s something between them spirited, sassy Bianca would play the part that’s more than chemistry. Something real. beautifully. Soon, though, their simple He’ll just have to convince Grace that he’s business deal evolves into an emotional worth the risk—and hide the secret that haunts intimacy he’s built walls to avoid. Stay tuned his worst dreams. for the next two books in the series, which will be released in Spring and Fall 2018!

The Grim Series

It’s a Beautiful Day Man with a Sea View Storm Crossed (E un giorno (Mann mit Meerblick) (Book Four) bellissimo) Sandra Grauer Dani Harper Amabile Giusti Contemporary Romance Paranormal Romance Contemporary Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance - German Language Imprint: Amazon Publishing Publication Date: 1/9/2018 - Italian Language Publication Date: 1/24/2017 Page Count: 272 Publication Date: 5/9/2017 Page Count: 302 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 378 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

Grace Gilmore, a blonde eighteen-year-old How do you find the perfect house for a From the bestselling author of Changeling good daughter, lives in a crystal mosaic in successful single woman or a newly married Moon comes the long-awaited fourth book in which each tile has its precise place: her couple? By exerting yourself or asking a the Grim Series. Storm Crossed is a parents are beautiful, rich, and affectionate, necromancer for advice. The fun-loving paranormal romance novel you can sink your the doors of Yale University will open to her Realtor, Charlotte, sometimes has her own teeth into. after the summer, and Cedric is the perfect methods, and until now all of her customers boyfriend ready to marry her. Yet in one night have been satisfied. three little twists of fate will make them question the whole world. But then Charlotte is given the task of finding a new home in Florida for Henry. The disgruntled Brit turns out to be quite a challenge, because he wants to move into an apartment, but a house by the sea would be much better-suited to his aura.

What now? The answer is clear: Charlotte must take unusual measures. Especially when love becomes part of the mix.

Romance | 125 Quarry Road Series

After You Were Gone All the Lies We Tell All the Secrets We Alexis Harrington (Book One) Keep (Book Two) Contemporary Romance Megan Hart Megan Hart Imprint: Montlake Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Page Count: 258 Publication Date: 5/1/2017 Publication Date: 6/13/2017 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 306 Page Count: 306 Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

Mitchell Tucker has come back to the small This sexy, romantic drama from New York In the riveting conclusion to Megan Hart’s Texas town of Gila Rock looking for something Times and USA Today bestselling author passionate new family drama, the secrets they Julianne Boyce has no intention of giving him: Megan Hart explores the tangled lives—and keep are no match for the truths their hearts forgiveness. It’s been eight years since Mitch loves—of childhood friends. will never let go. went to jail for starting a fire that claimed her husband’s life…and longer still since Juli and Everyone knew Alicia Harrison’s marriage to Still stuck in his small Pennsylvania Mitch fell into a forbidden first love that their Ilya Stern wouldn’t last. They’d grown up on a hometown, Ilya Stern is used to feeling like a feuding families brought to an end. She’s lost remote stretch of Quarry Street, where there disappointment. After his high school too much because of his thoughtlessness to were two houses, two sets of siblings, and girlfriend, Jennilynn, drowned, he married her let herself fall under that familiar spell again. eventually, a tangled mess of betrayal, sister, Alicia, only to divorce later. The longing, and loss. Tragedy catapulted Allie business they started together is threatened But no matter how much she ignores him, and Ilya together, but divorce—even as by a luxury development—and Alicia has Mitch isn’t leaving. Soon he’s helping out at neighbors—has been uncomplicated. already sold her stake. Now that Babulya, her farm and her new store, trying to make Ilya’s Russian grandmother, has died, there’s amends, and melting the cold shell Juli’s built Then Ilya’s brother, Nikolai, comes home for no one who believes in him. Or so he thinks. around her heart. There’s a world of hurt and their grandmother’s last days. He’s the guy mistrust between them—but there’s also one who teased and fought with Allie, then fled Theresa Malone was Ilya’s stepsister for only last chance to uncover the truths that might town without a goodbye. Now Niko makes her a year, until his mother threw Theresa’s pill- bring them back together once more… feel something else—a rush of connection and popping father out of the house in the middle desire that she’s been trying to quench since of the night, forcing teenage Theresa to follow. one secret kiss years ago. Niko’s not sticking Now she’s returned for Babulya’s funeral—and around. She’s not going to leave. And after all to facilitate the quarry-development deal. As that’s happened between their families, this she tries to convince Ilya to sell, she realizes can’t be anything more than brief pleasure and her feelings for him have ignited—from sisterly a bad idea. into something more.

A Second Glances Novella Wager of Hearts Series

Song of the Cicadas Second to None: The VIP Doubles Down (Gesang der Zikaden) A Novella (Book Three) Heike Franke Nancy Herkness Nancy Herkness Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance - German Language Publication Date: 9/12/2017 Publication Date: 4/18/2017 Publication Date: 9/26/2017 Page Count: 124 Page Count: 384 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Young Berlin architect Feline inherits a Billionaire chemist Max Varela is selling his In the witty, sizzling finale to award-winning guesthouse on Mallorca from her father. It company and leaving New York for good when author Nancy Herkness’s Wager of Hearts came as a surprise; she did not think he had Emily Wade bursts into his office, desperate series, a haunted writer conquers his demons any property. Feline has almost no memories for his help in funding her program for with the help of a feisty muse and a passion of him anyway, as he disappeared from her disadvantaged kids and shelter dogs. Seven that doesn’t play by the book. life when she was a small child. What should years ago, he fell in love with her when she she make of her inheritance? Feline travels to was married to another man. To fight the Gavin Miller, the billionaire author of a Mallorca with the full intention of selling the unbidden attraction, he cut off all contact—but bestselling thriller series, struggles with a grim property even though her father’s second wife he’s never forgotten her. secret: he hasn’t written a word in more than a has the right to remain in the house for the year. Writer’s block is killing his spirit and rest of her life. Ever since her husband died, Emily has jeopardizing his contracts with his publisher poured her heart and soul into the after-school and his Hollywood producers. Prodded by his She finds the house a charming old building care center. Seeing Max reawakens the pain agent, Gavin reluctantly agrees to see Allie on a beautiful piece of earth. For the first time of her loss, but it also brings unexpected hope Nichols, a sassy physical therapist tasked with in her life, Feline feels close to her father, for the future. As emotions thought long gone treating the novelist’s severe neck and whom she never really knew when he was resurface, the two begin a passionate affair shoulder pain—and maybe his writer’s block, alive. And even though she has no money that seems destined for a fairy-tale ending. too. and the house is in dire need of renovation—is selling the right thing to do? And then there is That is, until Max reveals that he’s moving to The tempestuous Gavin and no-nonsense the guesthouse’s only guest, American Chicago in a matter of weeks and wants Emily Allie soon find themselves entangled in a musician Steven Taylor, and she is more to uproot her daughter and her life to come steamy affair that sparks Gavin’s creativity interested in him than is good for her. with him. If a second chance at love is again. But their manipulative ex-lovers and possible, someone’s got to give. Gavin’s lingering childhood scars threaten their happily ever after. Can Gavin and Allie find their way to love when the stakes are high and the obstacles are overwhelming? Romance | 126 The Keepers Series Paradise, Idaho Series Wildwood Series

Pretty Little Killers Take Me Back Wild Kisses (Book One) (Book Four) Skye Jordan Rita Herron Rosalind James Contemporary Romance Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Publication Date: 2/20/2018 Publication Date: 2/28/2017 Page Count: 267 Page Count: 272 Page Count: 482 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Rita Herron has had a long career of leaving Hallie Cavanaugh’s late father just left her Newly divorced, Avery Hart returns home readers sleeping with the lights on, and we’re millions of reasons to stay away from Jim to Wildwood eager to take on her dream delighted to launch her new romantic-suspense Lawson, deputy sheriff of Paradise, Idaho, and opportunity and transform her family’s dive bar title. Rita’s books blend passion and danger in the man who broke her heart fourteen years into her own bakery. The contractor for hire the most unputdownable reads that will have ago. Hallie has worked hard for independence, isn’t just a master with his hands—he’s big, readers turning pages long into the night. Stay but she can’t dismiss a massive inheritance, built, and wears a tool belt like nobody’s tuned for the next book in the series, which even if she has to follow her father’s business. Despite being an ex-con, Trace will be released in Summer 2018! manipulative terms to get it. How hard can it Hutton is irresistible. Too bad he’d never go be to spend six months back in Paradise—and for someone as inexperienced as Avery. not sleep with her old flame? Trace needs to focus on the job at hand, not Former Army Ranger Jim just wants to do daydream about smearing icing all over the his job, raise his daughter…and resist the sexy baker…and licking it off. This job is the gorgeous, redheaded reminder of his bad-boy key to getting his construction company back past. Their one unforgettably hot night on its feet after his time in prison. Besides, no together had major consequences, and now one deserves a fresh start more than Avery, there’s a fortune and a family legacy at stake. and she certainly won’t get that with him. But when Hallie is threatened amid a storm of uncovered secrets and conflicted loyalties, After a night of passion (and pie), Trace protecting her becomes more than a duty: it’s craves something more. And as Avery starts a deeply personal fight Jim’s heart won’t let to realize how Trace fulfills more than just her him lose. physical needs, she struggles with whether to let her history decide her future, or explore the wild new possibilities of forever…

The Cross Creek Series

You Drive Me Crazy Crossing Hearts Crossing the Line (Me vuelves loco) (Book One) (Book Two) Isabel Keats Kimberly Kincaid Kimberly Kincaid Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Amazon Publishing Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance - Spanish Language Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Publication Date: 8/8/2017 Publication Date: 9/5/2017 Page Count: 319 Page Count: 318 Page Count: 390 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Ali is an obsessive woman, with a hyperactive Hunter Cross has no regrets. Having left Cocky farmer Eli Cross plays twice as hard as mind and a passion for cleanliness that his football prospects behind the day he he works. When his latest stunt drums up a borders on the obscene—not to mention a graduated high school, he’s happy to carry out heap of negative PR for the family farm, he fanatical enthusiasm for sunrise jogs and high- his legacy on his family’s farm in the foothills grudgingly agrees to play host to an ambitious protein breakfasts. Underneath her eccentric of the Shenandoah. But when a shoulder New York City photographer. Her feature on behavior and perfect body lies a girl who’s injury puts him face-to-face with the high Cross Creek could be just the ticket to show desperately seeking to figure out her feelings. school sweetheart who abandoned town—and the country what the Cross brothers do best… She’s not happy (yet). him—twelve years ago, Hunter’s simple life which is more problem than solution for Eli. gets a lot more complicated. Konrad is a disaster: no schedule, no order, Scarlett Edwards-Stewart has photographed no restraint…not when it comes to love, food, Emerson Montgomery has secrets. Refusing everything from end zones to war zones. or money. Fortunately, his natural creativity to divulge why she left her job as a hotshot She’s confident she can ace this one little allows him to live well and want for nothing! physical therapist for a pro football team, she story to help her best friend’s failing magazine. He thinks he’s happy, until he meets Ali. struggles to readjust to life in the hometown At least she would be if her super sexy host she left behind. The more time she spends wasn’t so tight lipped. But the more Scarlett This is not (just) a story of how opposites with Hunter, the more Emerson finds herself works with Eli, the more she discovers that attract. Nor is it (just) a novel to brighten up wanting to trust him with the diagnosis of MS he’s not who he seems. Can his secret bring those rainy days you want to stay snuggled that has turned her world upside down. them closer together? Or will it be the very underneath your duvet. You Drive Me Crazy is thing that tears them apart? a delicious way to find a little happiness and But revealing secrets comes with a price. Can remind yourself of how friendships can form Hunter and Emerson rekindle their past love? over time and of the wonder of falling in love. Or will the realities of the present—and the trust that goes with them—burn that bridge for good?

Romance | 127 Good Hope Novels

Be Mine in Good Hope Forever in Good Hope (Book Three) (Book Four) Cindy Kirk Cindy Kirk Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 1/31/2017 Publication Date: 8/15/2017 Page Count: 316 Page Count: 306 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Celebrated hairstylist Marigold Bloom knows how to tease beauty In the fourth installment of Cindy Kirk’s beloved Good Hope series, a out of chaos…until her own life becomes untamable. After losing her ruse with an old flame grows into romance. prestigious job in Chicago, Marigold returns home to Good Hope, Wisconsin. But her plan to lay low and consider her next move is Delphinium “Fin” Bloom returns to her hometown with one goal: get the complicated by an unexpected blast from the past. mayor—her former flame—to approve a location shoot in Good Hope. But business turns personal when the two become entangled in a fake Sheriff Cade Rallis has never forgotten the blissful weekend he spent engagement to comfort his ailing grandmother. with the irresistible Marigold in Door County. Seeing her again is like a one-two punch to his heart, and he knows he can’t lose her a second For Jeremy, the romantic facade hits close to his heart. Still reeling time. from the way things ended between Fin and him all those years ago, he sees the fake engagement as an opportunity to get her out of his Marigold never meant her stay in Good Hope to be permanent, and she system once and for all. But instead of laying the past to rest, Jeremy certainly never meant to fall for Cade. As Valentine’s Day approaches quickly discovers he can’t envision a life without her. and her dream job beckons, will Cupid’s grip on Marigold be strong enough to keep her in Good Hope? Or will the lure of fame and fortune Now engaged to another man, Fin had long ago given up on the dream in the big city prove impossible to resist? of a life with Jeremy. Why is it, then, that her fake engagement feels more genuine than her real one? As the sleepy days of summer come to a close in Good Hope, will Fin and Jeremy give love a second chance? Or will the revelation of a devastating secret put an end to the fairy tale?

Starfish Series

Time of Starfish, Book The Song of the Starfish, One (Zeit der Seesterne) Book Two (Lied der Frieda Lamberti Seesterne) Contemporary Romance Frieda Lamberti Imprint: Montlake Romance - Contemporary Romance German Language Imprint: Montlake Romance - Publication Date: 4/11/2017 German Language Page Count: 236 Publication Date: 7/25/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 240 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The young architect Olivia is completely satisfied with her existence. Young child psychologist Tori is ready for a vacation. She is looking She is passionate about her job and feels comfortable in the apartment forward to traveling alone with her husband for the first time in fifteen she shares with her friend. Men are not very important in her life. years. She wants to use the time off to see where her marriage is heading. But it never happens. Olivia does not want a long-term relationship. Certainly not with Tim, with whom she has spent the weekends for the last couple of months. Tori’s husband, Konstantin, makes sure his friends are along for the Marry? Never, is her motto. When she finds Tim with a costly ring, she ride once again. They return to the place where they met as young fears that he will ask for her hand. Presumably it will happen during the university students. What was supposed to be a harmonious excursion Pentecost weekend, because he asks her to accompany him to the to the past turned out completely different than planned. More than one Baltic. However, the turbulent getaway develops completely differently secret is brought to light. The group of friends is forced to reconcile than planned and brings untold secrets to light that turn her current life their long-held prejudices and lifelong lies with the value of true love and future upside down. and friendship.

Three couples—two weeks—one beach house. Can it work?

Romance | 128 Deep in the Heart Series The Wildes of Birch Bay Series

Hardheaded (Book One) Montana Mornings Kim Law (Book Three) Contemporary Romance Kim Law Imprint: Montlake Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 10/31/2017 Imprint: Montlake Romance Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 2/28/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Construction tip #1: Never anger a hot-tempered woman who knows Gabe Wilde has never been more ready for a change. Thirty-three and how to wield a sledgehammer. And right now, Jill Sadler is spitting in the midst of a divorce, he’s packed up his second-grade daughter mad. Her company is competing on the wildly popular show Texas and come home to Birch Bay, Montana. New house, new career, new Dream Home, and she intends to give it her all. The opposition: We life. Only, with changes come stress. His daughter is struggling with the Nail It Contractors, helmed by the man who once married her…and transition to their new norm—and Gabe is out of ideas as to how to walked out twenty-four hours later. Jill can’t let Cal Reynolds take this help. round. Not when she has her foster sisters and years of righteous resentment spurring her on. Erica Bird is mired in her own worries. After impulsively leaving the teaching job she loved, she may finally be free from her cheating ex, Winning the contest would do wonders for Cal’s firm. Getting under but separated from her family and everything she’s ever known, second Jill’s skin is just a bonus. She paints him as a villain, though Cal had no guesses linger. Substitute teaching in Birch Bay is fine for the time choice but to leave. Yet being around Jill again—fiery on the outside, being, but what will her future hold? vulnerable and warm underneath—is setting off sparks that can’t be blamed on faulty wiring. And the only way to fix the Jill-size hole in his When Gabe’s daughter winds up in Erica’s class, the two meet—or heart is to risk everything and see if this love is built to last… rather, reunite. Neither has forgotten their college romance or the tender feelings they once shared, but will their complicated pasts Stay tuned for the next book in the series, which will be released destroy their second chance? Or will old desire lead to a new love in Spring 2018! when each needs it most?

21 Wall Street Series

Hot Asset (Book One) The Night, the Day and Lauren Layne the Entire Life (Die Contemporary Romance Nächte, die Tage und das Imprint: Montlake Romance ganze Leben) Publication Date: 5/1/2018 Barbara Leciejewski Page Count: 272 Contemporary Romance Rights Acquired: All Languages Imprint: Montlake Romance - German Language Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Page Count: 274 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Hot Asset is the first book in Lauren Layne’s 21 Wall Street series. Clairvoyance? Complete nonsense! Written with Layne’s trademark sparkling wit, readers will love this smart, sexy, fast-paced contemporary romance. At least that is what Fanni has always believed. She decides to see for herself in the middle of the Tollwood winter festival in Munich. Her Stay tuned for the next book in the series, which will be released impulsive nature leads her to borrow a completely unknown young man in Summer 2018! from his girlfriend. As an alleged pair, they want to unmask the local clairvoyant as fibber. Less than an hour later, their lives are turned upside down. Their visit to the clairvoyant is the prelude to a tragicomic story that ranges from heavenly joy to sorrowful death. Fanni experiences great love as well as great heartbreak, but above all she learns a lot about herself. And at the very end, she finds herself seeing the clairvoyant again...

Romance | 129 Morgan Dane Series

Say You’re Sorry Her Last Goodbye (Book One) (Book Two) Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 5/16/2017 Publication Date: 9/26/2017 Page Count: 338 Page Count: 336 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Hungarian and Rights Sold: Hungarian Simplified Chinese

An Amazon Charts bestseller. Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s Morgan Dane series continues as the fearless attorney and her In this thrilling series from bestselling author Melinda Leigh, former partner, investigator Lance Kruger, take on a disturbing prosecutor Morgan Dane faces the most personal—and deadly—case disappearance… of her lifetime. Young mother Chelsea Clark leaves the house for a girls’ night out… After the devastating loss of her husband in Iraq, Morgan Dane and vanishes. Her family knows she would never voluntarily leave her returns to Scarlet Falls, seeking the comfort of her hometown. Now, two small children. Her desperate husband—also the prime suspect— surrounded by family, she’s finally found peace and a promising career hires Morgan to find his wife and prove his innocence. opportunity—until her babysitter is killed and her neighbor asks her to defend his son, Nick, who stands accused of the murder. As a single mother, Morgan sympathizes with Chelsea’s family and is determined to find her. She teams up with private investigator Lance Tessa was the ultimate girl next door, and the community is outraged Kruger. But the deeper they dig, the deadlier their investigation gets. by her death. But Morgan has known Nick for years and can’t believe When Morgan is stalked by a violent predator, everything—and he’s guilty, despite the damning evidence stacked against him. She everyone—she holds dear is in grave danger. asks her friend Lance Kruger, an ex-cop turned private eye, for help. Taking on the town, the police, and a zealous DA, Morgan and Lance Now, Morgan must track down a deranged criminal to protect her own plunge into the investigation, determined to find the real killer. But as family…but she won’t need to leave home to find him. She’s his next they uncover secrets that rock the community, they become targets for target. Stay tuned for the third book in the series, which will be released the madman hiding in plain sight. in Spring 2018!

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 Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance 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 Rights Sold: Estonian, German, and Italian

2015 Daphne du Maurier Award Finalist. 2015 Golden Leaf Award Finalist. A Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Bestselling author Melinda Leigh delivers 2016 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award 2016 Golden Leaf Award Winner. another gritty mystery simmering with spine- Winner. tingling passion in this first Scarlet Falls novel. Wildlife biologist Mac Barrett avoided his After corporate attorney Hannah Barrett hometown of Scarlet Falls for years—too While fighting in Afghanistan, Major Grant tries—and fails—to stop a kidnapping in many bad memories. But when he receives Barrett receives devastating news: his brother Vegas, she can’t shake the haunting image of the news that his father is dying, he rushes and sister-in-law have been murdered in the terrified young girl she couldn’t save. She home only to discover he’s too late. Shaken, Scarlet Falls, the sleepy suburb of Grant’s tells herself that a visit to her hometown in Mac retreats to his remote cabin seeking youth. Emotionally scarred from war, the Scarlet Falls could be a welcome distraction. peace and solace. Instead, he crashes his career soldier returns home on emergency But soon, Hannah realizes the kidnappers Jeep to narrowly avoid running over the naked leave to temporarily care for his orphaned have all the info they need to track her every body of a woman lying in the road. Even more nephew and niece. But when someone tries to move. And when e-mails about the victim disturbing, when he regains consciousness, kidnap the kids and their teenage babysitter, appear in her in-box, it’s clear what happened the body is gone. Grant knows it’s not a random act… in Vegas has followed her home. Police detective Stella Dane wants to believe Already devastated by her neighbors’ Eight months after a terrible family tragedy, Mac, even if his story about the vanishing violent deaths, Ellie Ross is shattered by the Hannah turns to Detective Brody McNamara body seems far-fetched. But when Mac’s attempted abduction of her teenage daughter, once again. Brody is eager to help, though description matches the missing woman she’s so she desperately turns to Grant for help. As he’s embroiled in the investigation of a brutal been searching for, it raises a disturbing they navigate a deadly search for the truth, murder. But the closer they work together, the question: How does a dead body disappear? they struggle with growing feelings for each stronger their feelings grow…and the more Mac and Stella will have to work together to other as well as Grant’s impending return to they stand to lose when two seemingly find the answer and catch a psychotic Afghanistan. But time is running out. unrelated, but equally deadly, cases collide. kidnapper—and quickly.

Romance | 130 The Midnight Series

Midnight Exposure (Book One) Midnight Sacrifice (Book Two) Midnight Betrayal (Book Three) Midnight Obsession (Book Four) Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 8/21/2012 Publication Date: 4/16/2013 Publication Date: 9/2/2014 Publication Date: 1/3/2017 Page Count: 315 Page Count: 315 Page Count: 336 Page Count: 338 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Czech Rights Sold: Czech

When two hikers disappear from their “An impeccable, unpredictable package “Any time you see Melinda Leigh’s name Louisa Hancock thought she was safe… hometown in Maine, everyone blames of suspense, mystery, romance, and on a book cover, you know you’re in for but there’s a new killer in town. the storms. But the truth is more sinister. passion.” —USA Today a sexy, sinister, twist-ridden read.” —USA Today When a mysterious package lands Unaware of the danger, tabloid One by one, people are mysteriously on Louisa Hancock’s doorstep, the photographer Jayne Sullivan follows an disappearing from a small Maine town. Curator Dr. Louisa Hancock left behind Philadelphia museum curator can hardly anonymous tip to find the most reclusive Four months ago, a ruthless murderer Maine and her troubled past for anticipate the nightmare that’s about to sculptor in the art world. Instead, she killed two people and kidnapped three Philadelphia and a job at a prominent envelop her. The package is addressed finds mysterious handyman Reed more, including Danny Sullivan’s sister, museum. Just when it seems that to her father—an expert in Viking Kimball—and a small town full of fatal who barely escaped. Unfortunately so Louisa’s new life is safe from her dark culture—and inside is a ninth-century secrets. Five years ago, Reed buried his did the killer, vanishing without a trace secrets, the body of a museum intern is sword, a chilling thank-you note, and homicide-detective career along with his into the vast wilderness. When the found—the victim of a brutal and baffling photos of two dead bodies in a tableau wife. But when a hiker is found dead, the police fail to find his sister’s captor, murder. Louisa realizes this is no evoking a Nordic funeral. The gruesome local police chief asks Reed for help. Danny returns to Maine to hunt him random crime. And when another intern images match a recent crime scene. But Why was a Celtic coin found under the down. He begins his search with another goes missing, the abduction is linked to before the police can investigate the body? And where is the second hiker? survivor, bed-and-breakfast owner the only man who has ever tempted killer’s connection to Louisa’s father, Desperate to avoid the media, Reed Mandy Brown, but her refusal to Louisa’s heart—Conor Sullivan, the Ward Hancock vanishes. doesn’t need a murder, a missing cooperate raises Danny’s suspicions. owner of a Philly sports bar. Louisa’s person, or a nosy photographer—until What is the beautiful innkeeper hiding? past has taught her to be wary, but her Soon another ritualistic slaying makes it Jayne is attacked, and he realizes that heart refuses to believe Conor is guilty. clear there’s a Viking-obsessed serial her courage is his undoing. Reed must killer on the loose. And he has a new risk everything to protect her and find a target: Louisa. cunning killer.

She Can Series

She Can Run (Book One) She Can Tell (Book Two) She Can Scream (Book Three) She Can Hide (Book Four) She Can Kill (Book Five) Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Melinda Leigh Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 11/28/2011 Publication Date: 12/4/2012 Publication Date: 9/17/2013 Publication Date: 3/18/2014 Publication Date: 12/8/2015 Page Count: 327 Page Count: 346 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 Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: French excluding Dutch

2012 International Thriller Award When a terrible accident abruptly Winner of the 2014 Golden Leaf From the moment Officer Ethan Hale RITA Award Finalist. nominee for Best First Novel. ends her riding career, Rachel Parker Award. pulls Abby Foster from icy waters, returns to Pennsylvania to rebuild her he senses there’s more to her than You can’t run forever…Twelve years Elizabeth was a young widow with family’s horse farm. But her welcome In one moment, high school teacher meets the eye. Abby has no memory ago, Cristan’s wife was murdered. He two small children when she met home is anything but warm. Her and single mother Brooke Davenport of the accident that submerged her was forced to go on the run to keep Congressman Richard Baker. sister’s abusive husband and a interrupts a vicious assault, saves a car in the frozen river. Three years his infant daughter safe. They’ve Handsome and wealthy, with a violent vandal threaten Rachel’s new young woman’s life, and attracts the ago, Abby was kidnapped and finally settled in a small Pennsylvania sparkling public image, Richard business and her life. Someone is attention of a serial killer. abandoned in a well for a week. The town, but he can’t shake the feeling seemed like the perfect man to systematically trying to destroy her. botched police investigation nearly that they are being watched. provide the security that Beth and her Someone who knows private things Sixteen years ago, Brooke lost her killed her. Abby had moved to the kids were craving. But when she about her. Someone who’s been roommate to a brutal murder. Now mountains for a fresh start, but when Newly divorced, Sarah is ready to uncovers a dangerous secret about watching her. Now Rachel must face she teaches women’s self-defense, it becomes clear that this car crash start over. As her ex becomes her new husband, Beth realizes he the fact that the sins of her past have still trying to heal from the guilt and wasn’t an accident, she knows the increasingly hostile, she appreciates will go to any lengths—even returned to haunt her… grief that plague her. Convinced the violence from her past has caught up help from a neighbor. But the murder—to keep it. After barely predator knows his victims and is with her. But Abby’s former assailant violence she senses beneath escaping with her life, she and her Police chief Mike O’Connell never stalking his prey online, she is was convicted and imprisoned, so Cristan’s polished manners makes children flee. They eventually make had trouble drawing the line between determined to find him before he who else wants her dead? her wary. Then she discovers their way to a secluded estate in the his personal life and his job—until strikes again. Her brother’s friend someone else is stalking her— Pennsylvania countryside, where he met Rachel Parker. Mike’s Luke has the computer expertise to Ethan uncovers a fresh string of someone much more dangerous than Beth dares to hope she has found a investigation uncovers a shocking help. But Brooke’s unexpected murders tied to Abby’s past. a jealous ex. safe place at last... number of secrets and suspects. But desire for Luke complicates her Someone is trying to kill her, and this the stalker’s escalating violence investigation, and her fixation with the time the stalker seems determined to Cristan fears his wife’s killers have convinces him he doesn’t have much case provokes a deadly reaction from finish the task. As the killer grows caught up with them. Now he must time to sort through it all. Whoever is the killer. bolder, Abby begins to trust Ethan face his past and hope his decision watching Rachel wants her dead. enough to share the truth, her heart, doesn’t get them killed. and her life. Romance | 131 Rogue Justice Novellas

Twisted Truth Truth Be Told (Book One) (Book Two) Melinda Leigh Kendra Elliot Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 10/31/2017 Publication Date: 11/7/2017 Page Count: 272 Page Count: 272 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh comes the Truth Be Told is the pulse-pounding second book in the Rogue Justice first thrilling novella in the Rogue Justice series. Novellas series, from Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and #1 Kindle bestselling, award-winning author Kendra Elliot. When Detective Seth Harding responds to shots being fired, he faces a familiar sight: a double homicide. However, he is shocked to find a “Elliot is a master of romantic suspense.” —Adrian Liang, Amazon young boy chained in the basement. The terrified child refuses to Book Review speak, but Seth knows he is the key to something sinister.

Reluctantly, Seth calls the only social worker he trusts with the traumatized boy—his wife. Carly is recovering from her own trauma suffered on the job, but she can’t turn away from this case, not from another child in trouble. With torrential rain bearing down, threatening to isolate their little town in a killer flood, Seth and Carly know the best way to keep the boy safe from danger is to take him back to their farm.

But danger is as relentless as the storm. And it’s following them all the way home.

Rogue River Novellas

On Her Father’s Grave Gone to Her Grave (Book Two) Her Grave Secrets (Book Three) Walking on Her Grave (Book One) Melinda Leigh Kendra Elliot (Book Four) Kendra Elliot Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Melinda Leigh Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 10/21/2014 Publication Date: 11/4/2014 Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 10/7/2014 Page Count: 97 Page Count: 93 Publication Date: 11/18/2014 Page Count: 100 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 100 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 of the keeping a secret can be murder. secrets…and some will kill to keep until someone has one worth dying for. romantic suspense novella series from them. Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot. Stevie Taylor had left her sleepy Oregon Local cop Stevie Taylor and police chief hometown for a more exciting life. But When she believes a teen is falsely Zane Duncan have startling new proof The sleepy town of Solitude, Oregon, after her police-chief father passes accused of drug dealing, social worker that a deadly street drug is expanding its has turned into ground zero for a turf away, the LAPD cop returns to Solitude Carly Taylor takes on a high-risk case poisonous grip on their small town: a war between the manufacturers and and signs on as a patrol officer, hoping and her estranged husband—the skull found on the banks of the Rogue distributors of a lethal new drug. When a to heal from her loss…and from the detective in charge of the investigation— River has two bullet holes in the back. teenage witness disappears, social horrific things she’s seen in the city. to prove the boy innocent. A deadly new Still caught up in the excitement of their worker Carly Taylor must find him before designer drug has taken hold of her new relationship, Stevie and Zane are he’s silenced permanently. In Solitude, everyone knows everyone small rural hometown, and Carly is determined to track down the drug’s else’s business—and, to Stevie’s determined to find the real dealer and source before more lives in Solitude, Rogue County investigator Seth Harding dismay, local gossip soon ties her to the clear the teen’s name. But the deeper Oregon, are lost. wants to keep Carly, his estranged wife, new police chief and a man from her she digs into the case, the more danger out of harm’s way, but she refuses to let past. Tragedy then shakes up the small she unearths, until someone decides it’s Then one death strikes especially close his concern keep her from doing her job. town when a teenager dies after taking a time for Carly to move on…permanently. to home, leading to heartache and When one of her young charges strange new drug. Now, the seasoned confusion for Stevie. As the drug vanishes, Carly gets pulled even deeper LA cop must hunt down the dealer while Investigator Seth Harding knows he distributers strike hard and the body into the deadly case, and Seth knows he investigating the most important case of can’t stop his wife when she has a child count in Solitude grows higher, she and must help her…even if it leads them her life, one that could divide her tranquil to protect. But when a drug dealer Zane must hunt down the deadly killer— right into the criminals’ crosshairs. hometown. decides Carly is getting too close, will but are they the predators...or the prey? Seth lose her altogether? Romance | 132 Rogue Vows Novellas

Death and Her Devotion Burned by Her Devotion (Book One) (Book Two) Kendra Elliot Melinda Leigh Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 10/25/2016 Publication Date: 11/1/2016 Page Count: 98 Page Count: 108 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the first Rogue Vows novella, Zane and Stevie are about to get an In the second Rogue Vows novella, the town of Solitude, Oregon, will unexpected wedding present…and it’s a deadly one. learn that good TV makes for terrible reality.

It should be the happiest weekend of Officer Stevie Taylor’s life. She’s When Chase Ryan, a popular crime TV star, turns up dead, the entire finally going to marry police chief Zane Duncan and live happily ever town of Solitude is shaken—but the show isn’t over yet. The confessed after in Solitude, Oregon. But all wedding plans grind to a halt when a murderer is violently abducted on the way to the county jail, and now dead body is found at a nearby campground. A vacationing A-list TV Detective Seth Harding must find both the killer and the kidnapper. actor has been murdered…and all hell is about to break loose. Seth’s investigation unearths unsavory secrets from the celebrity’s life When it comes to a celebrity murder, everyone has a motive—and that incriminate a cast of suspects: Chase’s family, his sleazy agent, everyone wants a piece of the action. As news media and paparazzi and a fanatical stalker with a troubled thirteen-year-old daughter. When swarm their sleepy town, Stevie and Zane must dig deep to untangle a that same teen disappears from her temporary foster home, Seth’s web of lies, dirty little secrets, and betrayals—and uncover the killer. wife, social worker Carly Taylor, is drawn into the search. But the closer they get to the truth, the deadlier their investigation becomes. And if they don’t act quickly, “’Til death do us part” may come Dodging paparazzi and peril, Seth and Carly track the girl. But as they sooner than they thought. get closer to uncovering the truth, the abductor sets the stage for a chilling finale…

Rogue Winter Novella

Tracks of Her Tears Dead in Her Tracks (Book One) (Book Two) Melinda Leigh Kendra Elliot Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 11/10/2015 Publication Date: 11/17/2015 Page Count: 205 Page Count: 203 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the first thrilling Rogue Winter Novella, sleepy little Solitude, Oregon, On Christmas morning, Solitude, Oregon, unwraps murder… wakes up to another deadly threat. This wasn’t how police chief Zane Duncan expected to spend his first County investigator Seth Harding intends to spend the holidays with his Christmas with fellow officer and girlfriend, Stevie Taylor. But when a newly reconciled family, but a few days before Christmas, a homicide local motel calls in the discovery of a dead body, the couple’s holiday thwarts his plan. Seth arrives at the scene and makes a painful takes a grim turn. This is the second murder in Solitude within the discovery: the victim is his brother-in-law’s girlfriend. Her apartment has week, despite the fact that their primary suspect is already in custody. been ransacked and her toddler left motherless. To make matters Together, Zane and Stevie must face a disturbing truth—their small worse, Seth’s brother-in-law, Bruce, is missing. With Solitude locked in town may be harboring two killers. 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 adjust Seth calls his wife, social worker Carly Taylor, to take the case so the to life under the same roof. Even if the stress of homicides and little girl doesn’t get lost in the foster-care system. With the holidays cohabitation don’t bring an end to the couple, the murderer lying in wait near, Carly brings the child home with them to celebrate Christmas. But just might. 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.

Romance | 133 Lake Haven Novels The Haneys Series The McCarthy Sisters Series

Suddenly Engaged Whatever You Need Tangled in Time (Book Three) (Book Two) Barbara Longley Julia London Barbara Longley Time-Travel Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/25/2017 Publication Date: 4/11/2017 10/24/2017 Page Count: 334 Page Count: 270 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Single mother Kyra Kokinos spends her days In the second novel in award-winning author To set him free from an ancient curse, she waiting tables, her nights working on her real Barbara Longley’s sweet and sexy Haneys must travel to a time of myth and legend… estate license, and every spare moment with series, an introverted electrician rewires a her precocious six-year-old daughter, Ruby— young widow’s apartment—and attempts to Regan MacCarthy’s ability to see ghosts is a especially when Ruby won’t stop pestering mend her heart. gift inherited from her Irish ancestors, but it’s their grumpy next-door neighbor. At first one she’d dearly like to give back. In an glance, Dax Bishop seems like the kind of Electrician Wyatt Haney is a pro at complex attempt to return her powers to their source, gruff, solitary guy who’d be unlikely to offer a wiring jobs, but when it comes to women, he she travels to Ireland to harness the ancient cup of sugar, let alone a marriage proposal. just can’t seem to make a lasting connection. magic that still permeates the mystical site of But that’s exactly what happens when Ruby If he had even half the courage of the Newgrange. Instead, something unexpected needs life-saving surgery. superhero he penned for his comic-book awaits her: a strapping, gorgeous stranger series, he’d finally be able to talk to his who insists he’s a centuries-old Celtic warrior. Dax showed up in East Beach a year ago, beautiful neighbor, Kayla. When an electrical fresh from a painful divorce and looking for a fire breaks out in Kayla’s apartment, Wyatt Fáelán was one of Fionn MacCumhaill’s elite place where he could make furniture and comes to the rescue, sparking an attraction soldiers before being cursed by a resentful fae avoid people. Suddenly his life is invaded by neither of them expected. princess. The only way to free himself is to fall an inquisitive munchkin in sparkly cowboy so deeply in love that he’d sacrifice his life. boots—and her frazzled, too-tempting mother. Kayla Malone has had enough surprises. First Not an easy matter when he’s invisible to So he presents a practical plan: his insurance an unplanned pregnancy at eighteen, then most. Yet Regan sees him—not just the will help Ruby, and then they can divorce— losing her husband in war, and now a fire in proud, handsome warrior on the surface, but zero strings attached. But soon Kyra and Dax her apartment. Thank God her hot neighbor the complex man beneath. Only when it’s too find their engagement of convenience is has the skills to help. As Wyatt repairs Kayla’s late does Fáelán realize that drawing this simple in name only. Can Kyra and Dax let go apartment and forges a relationship with her beautiful mortal into his world has endangered so easily—or has love become a preexisting son, he also makes inroads to her heart. them both… condition?

Colorado Hearts Series Mission Recovery Series

Meant for You Silent Threat (Book One) (Book Four) Dana Marton Michelle Major Romantic Suspense Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 1/2/2018 Publication Date: 3/28/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 268 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Single mom Jenny Castelli has a temper to match her red hair. When A former Navy SEAL, Cole Makani Hunter has returned home from a the former mean girls of her high school insult her son, Jenny fires off a disastrous black-ops mission without his best friend, his hearing, or the big lie—that she’s engaged to a rich, handsome guy and is bringing him use of his right arm. So when his ex–commanding officer assigns him to their ten-year reunion. Now she needs to find the perfect fake fiancé to an undercover mission at a rehab center for vets to discover who for one night. And only one man fits the bill. leaked sensitive military information to an enemy, he’d rather be anywhere but there. Almost immediately, Cole finds himself at odds Geek turned tech entrepreneur Owen Dalton already had his heart with Annie Murray—a peace-loving ecotherapist whose dream is to broken by Jenny Castelli. Still, he finds himself agreeing to her open an animal sanctuary out of her home. While the two seemingly proposition—even as he struggles to remember that the chemistry have nothing in common, their spirited arguments soon fuel a passion sparking between them isn’t real. But when Jenny’s ex makes a play for for each other. custody and Owen is forced to deal with the family who always treated him as “second best,” their arrangement suddenly becomes very But just as things begin to heat up between therapist and patient, personal. And that lie they’ve been telling everyone? It isn’t nearly as dangerous complications arise. So does the past—and a shocking big as the one they’ve been telling themselves. revelation that puts Cole and everything he now holds dear in the path of a murderous traitor. Stay tuned for the next book in the series, which will be released in Summer 2018!

Romance | 134 Hudson Kings Series

The Transporter The Financier Fish Loves Bird (Book One) (Book Two) (Fisch liebt Vogel) Liz Maverick Liz Maverick Lana N. May Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 8/1/2017 Publication Date: - German Language Page Count: 271 11/21/2017 Publication Date: 3/28/2017 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Page Count: 284 Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages

Shane Sullivan, a.k.a. the Transporter, A job to die for. Women to kill for. Dangerous Valerie has never had a master plan for life, channels his need for speed into top-secret times call for men like the Hudson Kings—and and she is also convinced that none is delivery runs for the Hudson Kings, an elite making it out alive is only half the fun. needed. She spontaneously drops out of band of mercenaries. His precious cargo has school to sign up as a waitress on a river- never talked back—until now. He’s riding to Nick Dawes had to prove something to cruise ship. When Valerie gets to know the the rescue of his fellow team member’s sister, himself. The brilliant moneyman of the Hudson ambitious restaurant chef Alexander, two who’s fleeing her abusive boyfriend. His job: Kings is in deeeep trouble after losing $20 worlds collide. Initially he is unapproachable, a steer clear of trouble and get her to New York million during a “freelance” heist, and now a man who is pursuing his career plans with City in one piece. But he didn’t count on her Russian crime boss wants the money and determination, and does not find anything driving him to distraction. Now he needs to Nick’s head. Nick needs to make himself attractive in Valerie’s carefree attitude toward keep both hands on the wheel—and off his scarce—and find someone to babysit his fish. life. Despite their differences, they feel best friend’s sister. Someone like gorgeous Jane MacGregor, who strongly attracted to each other and begin a might just be the death of him… passionate affair. Valerie does not suspect Cecily Keegan has a poor track record when it that an old secret weighs heavily on comes to falling for charming bad guys. So After being swindled by her jerk of an ex, Jane Alexander’s soul. A secret that could destroy although she’s grateful for this hard-bodied can’t say no to house-sitting a luxurious Fifth their love. wheelman’s protection, she’s terrified of Avenue penthouse. The only downfall—aside listening to her heart, which has been racing from Nick’s tendency to show up covered in Fish Loves Bird is the touching love story of since she got into his back seat. But when she bruises and blood—is an increasingly strong the career-minded Alexander and the lively learns that the danger is far greater than a attraction to her super hot and expensively Valerie—and the art of finding a common possessive ex, she has to trust Shane—and suited-up new boss. But when Nick’s future despite different life philosophies. The the strength inside herself—to deliver her from dangerous profession crashes in on Jane’s romantic-tragic story is a wistful journey in the evil. quiet little world, all hell breaks loose. river of love—with emotional moments as well as an abundance of cheerful ones.

Butterfly Row Series Boot Creek

Bastian’s Butterfly It Happened One Until Tomorrow (Bastians Summer Night Nancy Naigle Schmetterling) (Accadde una notte Contemporary Small Town Greta Milán d’estate) Imprint: Montlake Romance Contemporary Romance Rosy Milicia Publication Date: 5/2/2017 Imprint: Montlake Romance Contemporary Page Count: 274 - German Language Imprint: Amazon Publishing Rights Acquired: All Publication Date: 1/17/2017 - Italian Language Languages Page Count: 352 Publication Date: 5/2/2017 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 264 Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Juli and Bastian have finally come together The intense colors of the Sicilian sea, the After yet another heartbreak, Flynn Crane is again and are overjoyed when their daughter, exotic sounds of the local dialect, the taste of pretty much done with dating. She’s not even Matilda, comes unscathed into the world. lemon granita, the scent of books endlessly sure she can keep her grandparents’ Everything seems to be good, and the two leafed through and reread. This is the world of struggling bed-and-breakfast afloat. But just as enjoy their young family. But as it becomes Eva Catalano, San Saba’s most beautiful lady, she’s about to give up on both her business clear that Matilda is affected by the same known throughout the town. and her dream of settling down in Boot Creek, incurable skin disease as Bastian, the pair Ford Morton walks back into her life. faces a huge challenge. Old wounds open up Eva Catalano’s peaceful existence comprises as concerns grow over the well-being of their the love of words: she writes them in the Even from thousands of miles away, Ford child. Bastian’s fears return in full force, while novels she dreams of publishing, she never forgot the spark that ignited when he Juli is struggling with her own insecurities. And composes them in songs in her Sicilian first met Flynn. Now a monthlong artists’ above all, the question remains whether their dialect, she guards them in the depths of her residency near Boot Creek gives him the love will be strong enough or if it will break soul, and sometimes they cause her pain. perfect opportunity to find out just how intense because of their daughter’s hardship... That pain comes from the past and is named the fire between them can get. Massimo De Santis: her childhood friend and companion each summer, and her first love, Neither of them expected just how that little who has now been out of her life for more than spark would turn into heated passion. With ten years. One day Massimo reappears: will Ford’s return to Alaska looming near, Flynn is the memory of a kiss be enough to reattach torn between her life in Boot Creek and a the thin threads of their relationship? chance to move to the wilderness for love. Can Ford and Flynn find a way to share tomorrow together—before they both lose their hearts in Boot Creek?

Romance | 135 Deadly Secrets Series Boys of the Big Easy

Repressed (Book One) Gone (Book Two) Going Down Easy Elisabeth Naughton Elisabeth Naughton Erin Nicholas Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 7/6/2016 Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Publication Date: 3/6/2018 Page Count: 318 Page Count: 305 Page Count: 272 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages Rights Sold: Estonian

RITA Award winner, Romantic Suspense. Three years ago, Alec McClane and Raegan A brand-new series from New York Times Devereaux lived every parent’s worst bestselling author Erin Nicholas. Hidden Falls is exactly as Samantha Parker nightmare: their one-year-old daughter, left it—small, insular, and prone to gossip. Emma, was abducted from a park when Alec Life is good for single dad Gabe Trahan. He’s Eighteen years have passed since she turned his back for just a moment. Emma taken over his family’s tavern on Beacon witnessed her brother’s murder, but she’s still was never found, and presumed dead. The Street in New Orleans with his brother, the talk of the town. Until a handsome child crushing trauma, plus Alec’s unbearable guilt, Logan, and they now have the funds for the psychologist with haunting memories of his ended the couple’s marriage. restoration and preservation project that they own arrives. want to do on the nearly two-hundred-year-old Now a four-year-old girl matching Emma’s building. On top of that, over the past seven Dr. Ethan McClane isn’t exactly a newcomer. profile is found wandering a local park. Alec months, Gabe has been having a hot, once-a- If it weren’t for his latest case, he’d never set and Raegan are heartbroken to discover she’s month fling with the sexiest, most fun woman foot back in Hidden Falls. Thankfully, no one not their daughter but are newly motivated to he’s ever met, New York native, Addison seems to recognize him as the troubled teen find closure…and each secretly feels Sloan. And even though he can’t stop thinking from years past. Not even Sam, the desperate to be in the other’s presence again. about her when she leaves town, the setup is delightfully sharp and sexy high school just about perfect—fun, hot sex, with a few chemistry teacher he can’t stop thinking about. Alec suspects his vengeful biological father is laughs once a month, but nothing to get in the behind Emma’s disappearance. But as way of his business or his relationship with his When Sam and Ethan work together to help Raegan investigates other abductions in the five-year-old son, Nathan. one of her students, sparks ignite. But Sam’s area, she sees a pattern—and begins to hazy memories of a long-ago night concern wonder if Emma’s kidnapping is actually linked Ethan, and unlocking the repressed images to something more sinister. Stay tuned for the reveals a dark connection between them. next book in the series, which will be released in Spring 2018!

Taking Chances Series

Tangled Up Turned Up Macchiato Love (Book Two) (Book Three) (Liebe Macchiato) Erin Nicholas Erin Nicholas Eva Nordmann Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 1/17/2017 Publication Date: 8/29/2017 - German Language Page Count: 322 Page Count: 254 Publication Date: 5/9/2017 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 304 Languages Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Storm chaser Max Grady can already feel it: Dillon Alexander has been Kit Derby’s Freya is happy. She can freely express her full there’s a tornado coming to his hometown of nemesis since third grade, when he beat her passion for coffee in an Italian espresso bar. Chance, Nebraska. Max is going after it, and in the school spelling bee. They’ve been However, her world starts to fall apart when the only person he wants by his side is police competing ever since, driving each other to be the café is sold to an international chain. She officer Bree McDermott, fellow adrenaline the best at everything from science fairs to feels betrayed by her boss Lorenzo who is like junkie, his best friend, and the woman Max bake sales. While working together one night a father to her, and she wants to give up. has secretly been in love with for years. But during their senior year, they stopped However, she had not reckoned with the when a close call with a tornado leaves them bickering long enough to share an emotionally irresistible charm of her new boss, who tries to lip-locked, Max knows that the danger is only charged kiss. But a tragedy that same night tempt her with a large raise and trendy cars. beginning. left them both racked with guilt, driving Dillon Freya is just about to give up on her dream of out of town and leaving Kit determined to keep winning the German Barista Championships. Bree is always up for excitement. Her close her distance. and sexy encounter with Max is unlike When Freya hears about the reason for the anything she’s felt before, and she wants Now an emergency-room physician, Dillon has sale and finds true love, she discovers that life more. As they work together to help clean up returned to their hometown of Chance, and the perfect cup of coffee have a lot in Chance, the air between them crackles with Nebraska. Soon he and Kit fall back into old common: sweet promises, slightly bitter notes, sexual tension. But Bree has a tendency to habits, sparring in public while trying to stay and the tragic moments that lend so much look ahead to the next thrill, and Max knows it. out of each other’s arms. But when a blizzard spice to life. Now they’re all tangled up as they chase the traps them overnight at Kit’s grandmother’s strongest force of nature on earth: love. farmhouse, the real competition begins: Who will be the first to give in to the feelings they’ve denied for a decade?

Romance | 136 A Shooting Stars Novel Ardent Springs Series

Rising Star (Book One) The Last in Love Terri Osburn (Book Five) Contemporary Romance Terri Osburn Imprint: Montlake Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 9/12/2017 Imprint: Montlake Romance Page Count: 257 Publication Date: 5/30/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 269 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Can love survive the bright lights of fame? Abby Williams lost her husband—and the future she envisioned—to a roadside bomb in a foreign land, so a kitchen fire is no big deal. When A popular DJ at the hottest station in Nashville, Charley Layton is doing the local firemen show up to put out the blaze, the army widow finds what she’s always wanted to do: living in the heart of country music. herself attracted to one hot volunteer firefighter…until she realizes it’s Charley puts her career first and relationships second, but when a Justin Donovan, a man five years her junior. charismatic stranger in a black cowboy hat invites her back to his place, she decides to give herself one night of no-strings fun. Justin has long carried a torch for Abby. But after she got married ten years ago, he put her out of his mind, left Ardent Springs for Chicago, But Dylan Monroe isn’t a no-strings kind of guy. Charley is beautiful, and got a job as a real estate developer. Now he’s back—for reasons brainy, and brassy as hell—the kind of girl he’s always wanted. When he’d rather not share—and he wants to prove to Abby that age is his record label books him an interview on Charley’s show, he’s nothing but a number. Will Abby’s reluctance and Justin’s secrets determined to find out why he woke up alone, and when he can see her extinguish any attempts at romance? Or will the sparks between them again. ignite a second chance at love?

With Dylan now the most eligible bachelor in country music, Charley doubts their fling stands a chance, but she’s willing to try. Dylan dreams of fame, but he also craves a life offstage with Charley. Can he convince her that both of their dreams are worth chasing, and that love is still possible, even in the spotlight?

Aces & Eights Series

Jack of Hearts King of Clubs (Book One) (Book Two) Sandra Owens Sandra Owens Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Publication Date: 6/27/2017 Page Count: 286 Page Count: 302 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Jack of Hearts launches a new contemporary romance series by Passions—and tempers—flare as one star-crossed couple gets a acclaimed author Sandera Owens. second chance at love.

Alex Gentry doesn’t scare easily. Working as an undercover FBI agent Covert FBI agent Court Gentry loves his brothers, his job, and his in the biker bar he and his brothers co-own, he hangs with deadly Harley-Davidson. Once he loved a girl, too, but when she broke his criminals in order to gather information. Danger is just part of the family heart, he put his emotions on lockdown…until she crosses his path business. But one thing has him terrified: his attraction to Madison again. Parker. On vacation six years ago, free-spirited Lauren Montgomery fell hard Madison is the cousin of Ramon Alonzo, son and second in command for Court Gentry. She returned home happier than ever, only to to a notorious drug lord Alex is trying to bust. Alex has befriended descend into a spiral of abuse by her ex-husband, Stephan. When Ramon as part of his cover, and Madison has unknowingly become his Stephan threatened to kill any man who touched her, Lauren cut Court informant. Falling for her could risk this case—and both their lives. from her life—but not from her heart.

All Madison wants is to get her new bookstore business off the ground, When Lauren and Court reunite after her friend marries his brother, and for her creepy cousin Ramon—to whom she’s unfortunately Court guards himself against the person who made him feel such indebted—to leave her alone. If she could only stop fantasizing about intense passion and pain. Except the undeniable spark between them his mysterious new friend, Alex… is impossible to contain and heating up fast. Six years ago, it was love. Now, it’s just lust. Keeping it merely physical is a foolproof plan…right? As the Alonzo cartel investigation heats up, so does their relationship. Stay tuned for the third book in the series, which will be released But will the secrets they’re keeping tear them apart—or get them killed? in Spring 2018!

Romance | 137 Hollywood A-List Series Fluke My Life

Bombshell (Book One) Bodyguard (Book Two) Running into Love CD Reiss CD Reiss Aurora Rose Reynolds Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 5/1/2017 Publication Date: Publication Date: 9/26/2017 Page Count: 366 11/14/2017 Page Count: 211 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 272 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German Languages

From New York Times bestselling author CD The second book in CD Reiss’s smoking-hot Fawn Callaghan has kissed one too many Reiss comes a romance about a nanny, a Hollywood A-List series. toads and has finally decided that Prince Hollywood star, and a love they never Charming doesn’t exist. After countless expected. Emily enjoys all the perks of fame—the mishaps, mistakes, and unmitigated disasters parties, the glamour, the tours—but they’ve on the dating scene, she’s decided to give up Hollywood bad boy Brad Sinclair always gets brought her back to the attention of a and move on with her life…solo. his way, whether it’s the role he wants or the dangerous ex-boyfriend hell-bent on getting bikini-clad model he has to have. But when a her back. Everything changes, however, after Fawn runs bombshell gets dropped in his lap in the form into Levi Fremont, a homicide detective new to of a dimpled five-year-old from a forgotten Enter Carter Kincaid, a bodyguard so New York City. relationship, he knows his life is about to crushingly sexy he takes her breath away. change forever. Dedication to the job has rendered Levi’s love Carter’s the best in the business and Emily life nonexistent—until he moves in next door Cara DuMont isn’t exactly thrilled when she is—professionally speaking—off-limits. But to the free-spirited Fawn. After a series of gets assigned to be the nanny for the latest when it comes to stirring his desires, she’s comedic run-ins push them together, will they box-office king. She has one rule: no celebrity hitting all the right notes. What’s happening finally give in to the inevitable and realize— fathers, especially single ones with devilish between them is so hot it could get both of maybe—they are perfect for each other? good looks and rock-hard abs. But as soon as them burned. As Emily’s past gets closer, Cara meets Brad and his adorable little girl, Carter is willing to break every rule of the job she knows she’s in for a world of trouble. to save her. But letting Emily into his life also Because there’s something about the way means letting her in on the secrets of his own Brad looks at her that makes her believe that past. For both of them, falling in love could be some rules are meant to be broken… the greatest risk of all.

Hidden Sins Series

The Devil’s Daughter (Book One) The Hunting Grounds Resist Temptation Beyond Temptation Katee Robert (Book Two) Lina Roberts Lina Roberts Romantic Suspense Katee Robert Contemporary Erotic Romance Contemporary Erotic Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance - Imprint: Montlake Romance - Publication Date: 1/24/2017 Imprint: Montlake Romance German Language German Language Page Count: 318 Publication Date: 7/25/2017 Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Publication Date: 10/24/2017 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 318 Page Count: 318 Page Count: TBD Rights Sold: Estonian Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

“A captivating read, made all the more For two FBI agents, love becomes a Not too long ago Matt was a star. But his Maddox Black is both extremely rewarding when good triumphs.” matter of life and death in the newest divorce takes him back to where he attractive and a successful —Washington Post novel from New York Times and USA originally came from: the streets. businessman. Working with lawyer Kate Today bestselling author Katee Robert. Penniless and without knowing how to Valentino, he buys the television Growing up in a small town isn’t easy, go on, he takes the train to Los Angeles. channel Joy Media. The party to especially when you’re the daughter of a Maggie Gaines used to be an FBI celebrate the deal is wild, and local cult leader. Ten years ago, Eden agent—one of the bright, up-and-coming But when he meets the beautiful and champagne flows in rivers. The only Collins left and never once looked back. stars—until she fell apart during her first rich Kate in a bar, he suddenly finds person able to resist Maddox is Kate’s But when the bodies of murdered young high-profile case. Now she’s a ranger at himself with a surprising opportunity. sister, Reese. The ambitious law student women surface, their corpses marked Glacier National Park, and she’s found However, Kate’s offer has an immoral has just one goal: successfully passing with tattoos worn by her mother’s some measure of peace. But when the component: $1 million for three months her exams. Wild parties and hot Maddox followers, Eden, now an FBI agent, can’t body of a murdered woman is at her side. But can a deal of this kind are of no use to her whatsoever—she turn a blind eye. To catch the killer, discovered, she must finally put the past work, without getting emotional? After prefers to ignore how she gets weak in she’s going to have to return to the fold. behind her and work with the one man all, Matt and Kate find each other the knees just thinking about him. she thought she’d never see again. extremely attractive. And Kate seems to Sheriff Zach Owens isn’t comfortable have more to do with Matt’s past than he Maddox the womanizer could have putting Eden in danger, even if she is an Vic Sutherland has been hunting a killer had bargained for. anyone he wants and cannot have elite agent. And he certainly wasn’t who’s been targeting hikers in national Reese constantly on his mind. He wants expecting to be so attracted to her. Zach parks. Vic knows the case will bring him A story unfolds that moves between big to spend the night with her so he can wants to protect her—from her mother, face-to-face with his former partner, yet money and true love and between deep move on. But what works with every the cult, and the evil that lurks behind its nothing prepares him for seeing Maggie disappointment and boundless other woman does not work with Reese locked gates. But Eden is his only key to again after all these years, or for the confidence. Their mutually signed at all... the cult, and she may be closer to the passion it stirs in both of them. Stay contract leads Matt and Kate on an killer than either one of them suspects… tuned for the next book in the series, uncertain journey through their emotions which will be released in Spring 2018! and, finally, to the core of their identities. Romance | 138 Desire Bay Series

The First Word Playing with Trouble Playing with Danger Isley Robson (Book One) (Book Two) Contemporary Romance Joya Ryan Joya Ryan Imprint: Montlake Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 6/1/2017 Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Page Count: 338 Publication Date: 3/21/2017 Publication Date: Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 210 10/10/2017 Languages Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

To stay sane, Andie Tilly must keep her She’s all snark. He’s sexy as sin. And there’s They married on a whim, and then she mind on her work. Her job as a pediatric nothing like competition to turn up the heat… disappeared from his life. Now he’s occupational therapist is the perfect determined to find her and convince her to distraction from the unspeakable tragedy she Laura Baughman is taking her life back. After make their marriage work... experienced as a child. But when she meets a decade away, she’s returning to the town alternative-energy magnate Rhys Griffiths and she couldn’t wait to leave after graduation—to It’s all happening for Hannah Hastings. After his autistic toddler, Will, she quickly realizes take over her late mother’s beloved flower ten years of slinging drinks, she’s about to go her heart will never be the same. Especially shop. Yet once she arrives, Laura discovers from bartender to bar owner. But before she when her name becomes Will’s first word. the store has been neglected and her father can sign her name to the deed, a blast from has partnered in construction with Jake Lock. her not-so-distant past comes blowing into her After accepting a position as a live-in therapist The once-scrawny high school band geek is hometown of Yachats, Oregon. It’s Grant for Will, Andie steels herself against the now successful—and irresistibly sexy—and Laythem, the man it seems she can’t resist. appeal of the disconcertingly attractive—and set to inherit her family’s business. That is, And he’s come looking for his runaway bride… attracted—Rhys. But their chemistry can no unless Laura can prove in the next thirty days longer be denied, and their heated affair that she has what it takes to run the company. Set to inherit a multi-million-dollar company, seems destined for happily ever after. A Grant is used to women wanting to get him destiny Andie’s terrified to embrace. Despite the heat between Jake and Laura, into bed—and get into his bank account. romance is out of the question. After her last But not Hannah. Bedded, wedded, and When Andie’s guilt, Rhys’s awkwardness, disastrous relationship, Laura has sworn off abandoned after a passionate two-week fling, and the abrupt appearance of an erratic ex men—especially one bent on crushing her he never even had the chance to tell her who threaten to dismantle their delicately blooming dreams. That’s just fine with Jake, who thinks he really was. All he knows is that she wanted relationship, they must decide if love is worth the gorgeous blonde is a pain in the neck… him, no strings attached. And now that he’s the challenge. Can Andie and Rhys find their though admittedly one he’d like to put his lips had a taste of something real, he’s not about way back to each other? Or will the demons of all over. to let it slip away. the past simply prove too strong?

A Haven, Montana Novel

Closer to You I Always Wanted You (Ho Jill Sanders sempre voluto te) Contemporary Romance Marta Savarino Imprint: Montlake Romance Contemporary Publication Date: 10/10/2017 Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Page Count: TBD Italian Language Rights Acquired: All Languages Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Page Count: 376 Rights Acquired: All Languages

New York Times bestselling author Jill Sanders strikes gold with a Is there a woman out there who hasn’t fallen in love with her best sizzling series about oil-rich playboys whose hearts are up for grabs. friend?

No one’s more surprised than Tyler McGowan when he discovers he Today Anna is extremely attractive, a journalist, seemingly self- has a knack for running the family’s oil business—a role he took on confident, but fragile and hopeless on the inside—living proof that a after his father’s sudden passing. Now, to keep the old man’s legacy man and a woman cannot be friends. Not even in a novel. Especially if afloat, Tyler’s giving up his playboy ways and settling into small-town the best friend in question is Danish, six feet four inches tall, blond, and life. But his newfound resolve is tested when trouble strides into his with the physique of a swimmer. office in five-inch heels. Aksel and Anna grew up together. Shy Anna had been in love with Kristen Howell has spent the last five years working her way up the Aksel since they met, and at eighteen she told him so. But Aksel corporate ladder. And somehow it’s landed her smack-dab in the revealed an uncomfortable and unexpected truth: he’s gay. The pair middle of nowhere: Haven, Montana. It’s her job to convince the head went their separate ways: Aksel left for Denmark, and Anna stayed in of McGowan Enterprises to sell. But the tall and rangy hunk is proving Turin. Fourteen years passed, and one day fate made them meet once to be exceedingly stubborn—and overwhelmingly hot. When someone more. Anna has transformed from an ugly duckling into a swan, and attempts to derail her negotiations, Kristen is ready to get down and Aksel is a journalist, too, successful, and even more attractive than he dirty. But the sparks she and Tyler are throwing near the oil field may was as a teen. But he’s hiding a secret, a reality that’s hard to share be dangerously combustible…Stay tuned for the next book in the with his childhood best friend. And when love doesn’t come easy, what series, which will be released in Spring 2018! better support than female solidarity?

Romance | 139 The Sinclairs Series

The Billionaire’s No Ordinary Billionaire The Forbidden Billionaire Christmas: A Novella (Book One) (Book Two) J. S. Scott J. S. Scott J. S. Scott Contemporary Erotic Contemporary Erotic Romance Contemporary Erotic Romance Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 3/31/2015 Publication Date: 7/28/2015 Publication Date: Page Count: 242 Page Count: 242 10/14/2014 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 102 Languages, excluding German Languages, excluding German Rights Acquired: All and Portuguese and Portuguese Languages, excluding Rights Sold: Indonesian, Rights Sold: Indonesian and German and Portuguese Norwegian, and Spanish Norwegian Called an eccentric beast by the citizens of Dante Sinclair never cared about his family’s A Wall Street Journal bestseller. Amesport, Maine, handsome, sensual money. All the ultrasexy billionaire ever billionaire Grady Sinclair stays isolated in his wanted was to be a cop, and now that he’s a All of Jared Sinclair’s wealth still can’t ease the mansion on a private peninsula. The homicide detective in Los Angeles, he’s a pain from his terrible childhood…or his guilt arrangement suits Grady just fine—until an damn good one. But when he is injured and over a recent tragedy. Unable to forgive unassuming woman rings his doorbell, loses his partner in the line of duty, he returns himself, the billionaire property investor buries awaking his long-dormant passion with her to his vacation home in Amesport, Maine, to his emotions, toughens his skin, and becomes fearlessness. All he wants is to make the fiery recover. With a mouth as dangerous as the a notorious womanizer, refusing to commit his blonde his forever. But will he have to become streets he protects, Dante knows no one can heart to a woman when he’s convinced she the monster everyone thinks he is to get his ever heal or tame him. wants only his wallet. Christmas wish? Sarah Baxter, a brilliant young doctor still But ever since Jared arrived in Amesport, Emily Ashworth is desperate. The Youth struggling with her stifled upbringing, has Maine, he’s been intrigued by Mara Ross, the Center has been robbed of all its money, and recently moved from Chicago to sleepy petite and sexy shop owner who asks nothing as the director, she has to find a way to give Amesport to escape her past, hoping to find of him. When Mara’s store is purchased the town’s needy children the Christmas they peace. When Sarah is assigned to Dante’s without her knowledge, she stands on the deserve. With nowhere else to turn, she case, there’s an instant heat between them. brink of losing her home, her livelihood, and ventures to the mansion of a mysterious They couldn’t possibly be more different, yet generations of family history. Then the billionaire to ask for help. Warned to expect a their intense passion is impossible to ignore. irresistibly persuasive Jared proposes a beast, Emily is shocked to find that Grady As burning desires awaken within Sarah, her business deal to Mara…and soon draws her Sinclair is a handsome and sensual man. With haunted past returns, threatening her once into a steamy, sensual affair, convincing her steamy kisses under the mistletoe, Emily finds again. Can Dante overcome his grief and that he’s anything but cold. there’s more to Grady than meets the eye. unravel the secrets Sarah is hiding?

The Billionaire’s Touch The Billionaire’s Voice The Billionaire Takes All The Billionaire’s Secrets (Book Three) (Book Four) (Book Five) (Book Six) J. S. Scott J. S. Scott J. S. Scott J. S. Scott Contemporary Romance Contemporary Erotic Romance Contemporary Erotic Romance Contemporary Erotic Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 2/2/2016 Publication Date: 8/30/2016 Publication Date: 3/7/2017 Publication Date: 11/7/2017 Page Count: 254 Page Count: 240 Page Count: 254 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages, Rights Acquired: All Languages, Rights Acquired: All Languages, Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding German and Portuguese excluding German and Portuguese excluding German and Portuguese excluding German and Portuguese Rights Sold: Indonesian and Norwegian Rights Sold: Indonesian

A Wall Street Journal bestseller. A Wall Street Journal bestseller. A Wall Street Journal bestseller. Former rock star Xander Sinclair may be out of rehab, but he’s not out of the After a troubling childhood, wealthy As an extreme-sports mogul, billionaire A-list movie star and billionaire Julian woods. Still haunted by his parents’ Evan Sinclair likes his life orderly and Micah Sinclair is comfortable taking Sinclair learned from past tragedy that murders, he has secluded himself in his controlled. He rarely gives in to risks. But nothing—and no one—has life doesn’t come with multiple takes. Amesport mansion and dodges any spontaneous urges—until he begins a ever challenged him like Tessa Sullivan. Now that he’s figured out what he attempted contact from his two brothers. chance correspondence with a mystery He’s fascinated by the woman who’s wants—in the lush form of redheaded Struggling not to relapse, he believes woman who sounds like his complete overcome so much, including the loss of Kristin Moore—he’s got one chance to he’s battling his demons alone. opposite. She intrigues and amuses her hearing. The petite blonde dynamo, claim it. Between working as a medical him, and the interest seems mutual… a small-town restaurateur on the Maine assistant and filling in at her parents’ That is, until Samantha arrives to work which is more than he can say for his coast, is the most courageous person he bar, Kristin has no time for pleasure. So as his live-in housekeeper. Effortlessly current obsession, Miranda Tyler, the knows, and he wants her in his bed. Julian is bringing her to his brother’s charming and cheerful and wickedly sexy schoolteacher who’s made it clear Now all he has to do is convince Tessa Vegas wedding, where their mutual sexy, she challenges Xander to she’s not impressed—or interested. to explore their desire. attraction can finally get a starring role. abandon his isolation. The two embark on a fiery relationship—one that could Miranda finally has it all: a good job, After a lifetime of loss, Tessa’s finally What happened in Vegas has followed change them both forever. friends, and the security of living in a come to terms with her limitations. Kristin home. In the space of one quaint coastal town. She even has an Or she would, if a certain sexy magical weekend, the leading man in all Just when Xander is on the verge of anonymous pen pal—a man she’s never businessman wasn’t pushing her to want her X-rated fantasies whisked her off to reclaiming his life, he discovers that met yet has bonded with almost more. And to want him. All her Sin City for breathtaking sex, followed Samantha has been hiding things from effortlessly. The only thing unsettling her remaining senses are clamoring for her by an “accidental” marriage she doesn’t him…things that could shatter the fragile life is Evan Sinclair. The handsome to touch, taste, and feel. But her doubts remember. Kristin fully expects Julian to future they’ve begun to build together. billionaire is arrogant, pompous, and far tell her to go slow when their passion demand a quickie divorce. But instead too used to getting his way. gets too hot. he’s daring her to go all in. Romance | 140 Corrupted Hearts Series

Follow Me (Book One) Break Me (Book Two) Find Me (Book Three) Tiffany Snow Tiffany Snow Tiffany Snow Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 10/4/2016 Publication Date: 3/14/2017 Publication Date: 9/19/2017 Page Count: 304 Page Count: 316 Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Brilliant, quirky twenty-three-year-old China Just a few weeks ago, computer prodigy As the head of the government’s secret Mack is totally satisfied with her carefully China Mack’s typical night in involved Endor Vigilance spy program, computer guru China ordered, data-driven life. A computer prodigy Star Wars pajamas and a sensible bedtime. Mack already has her hands full when her who landed a coveted programming job at the Now she’s dating gorgeous tech guru Jackson billionaire boyfriend, Jackson Cooper, asks for cutting-edge tech company Cysnet before Cooper—one of Forbes’s Top Ten Eligible one of them in marriage. even graduating from MIT, China is happiest Billionaires—much to the Twitterverse’s when following her routine: shower before delight. Thrown for a loop by the sudden proposal, coffee, pizza only on Mondays, bedtime at ten China’s usually well-ordered life takes another thirty sharp. But then things start to get a Turns out, going from socially inept hermit to hit when someone tries to assassinate the little…unpredictable. poster girl for geek chic has its challenges. president. Even that comes with a shocking China’s relationship gets even more twist: the primary suspect is none other than First Jackson Cooper—Cysnet’s rich, complicated because her role heading the top- her ex-partner, Clark Slattery. With nowhere gorgeous, genius CEO—assigns China to a secret Vigilance program—where she’s else to turn, the sexy loner needs China’s dangerous and highly classified project for a partnered with Superman clone Clark help and expertise. Clark has linked the government defense contractor. Her sixteen- Slattery—makes her a target. And when assassination attempt to a failed secret year-old runaway niece suddenly arrives in ruthless businessman Simon Lu plans to operation undertaken six years ago—and a town, begging to move in with China. And then co-opt Vigilance software to blackmail deadly cover-up that’s putting the leader of the there’s her sexy but oddly unsettling new government and military employees, he’ll need free world in the crosshairs. But the president neighbor, Clark…Quickly the Cysnet China’s cooperation—willing or otherwise. isn’t the only one in harm’s way. assignment becomes disconcerting—and then downright scary—as key staffers turn up dead. But not every enemy is so easily identified. Now, China is going to have to dig deep for China suspects she’s being followed and isn’t Some hide in plain sight, in very high places, information that’s beyond even her clearance. sure whom she can trust. For the first time and mistaking foe for friend could be the last And what she discovers may have far- ever, she’ll have to follow her instincts, rather mistake China ever makes… reaching consequences for her life and than logic, if she’s going to survive. everyone else in it.

Ghost Gifts Series

Ghost Gifts Foretold (Book Two) Unstrung (Book One) Laura Spinella Laura Spinella Laura Spinella Romantic Suspense Contemporary Romance Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/21/2017 Publication Date: 3/1/2016 10/24/2017 Page Count: 417 Page Count: 386 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

An Audie Award winner, Paranormal Aubrey’s otherworldly talents—and a visit from Even as a violin prodigy, Olivia Klein courted Fiction, and a RITA Award finalist, a past lover—threaten to tear apart her family. trouble. But when her marriage to high-stakes Paranormal Romance. investor Rob Van Doren takes another wrong A mysterious death in a muddy swamp, turn, Olivia acts out once too often. A night of All Aubrey Ellis wants is a normal life, one that missing children in different states…psychic bad behavior results in community-service doesn’t include desperate pleas from the Aubrey Ellis and her partner, investigative hours. Time is to be served with Theo dead. Her remarkable gift may help others rest reporter Levi St John, have their hands full. McAdams, an inner-city teacher whose in peace, but it also made for an unsettling The added strain of raising their son, who passion for music eclipses Olivia’s. As she childhood and destroyed her marriage. Finally struggles with his own psychic gift, pushes life inches toward a better place, life surprises content as the real estate writer for a local to the brink of collapse. Enter Zeke Dublin— Olivia in the form of her first husband— newspaper, Aubrey keeps her extraordinary Aubrey’s first love from her carnival past. baseball legend Sam Nash. ability hidden—until she is unexpectedly Tensions escalate when it’s clear that the assigned the story of a decades-old murder. attraction between them is alive and well. But Years ago, Olivia fell in love with Sam. Their as Levi discovers disturbing clues about the impulsive marriage imploded with a fateful car Rocked by the discovery of a young woman’s body pulled from the swamp, he begins to crash and harsh parting words. Olivia never skeletal remains, the New England town of suspect Zeke’s sudden presence is more than expected to see him again. But now Sam is Surrey wants answers. Hard-nosed coincidence. back, and he wants her forgiveness. He also investigative reporter Levi St John is wants to recapture their volatile love affair. determined to get them. Aubrey has no choice As Aubrey’s uncanny abilities take an Olivia is torn between rekindling romance and but to get involved, even at the terrifying risk of unsettling turn, she fears that this time her saving her marriage. To her surprise, it’s the stirring spirits connected to a dead woman’s own child is in danger. Stay tuned for the third presence of the young music teacher—and demise and piquing her new reporting book in the series, which will be released the lessons from a reckless past—that may partner’s suspicions. in Spring 2018! bring harmony to Olivia’s off-key life.

Romance | 141 Ace Security Series

Claiming Grace Claiming Alexis Claiming Bailey (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) Susan Stoker Susan Stoker Susan Stoker Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 3/14/2017 Publication Date: 7/4/2017 Publication Date: 12/5/2017 Page Count: 286 Page Count: 258 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

For Logan Anderson, moving on from a Nothing is more important to Blake Anderson His two brothers are super alpha, ex-military traumatic past means moving back to his than the work he does with his brothers at Ace men, while he’s the “accountant” of the hometown of Castle Rock, Colorado, to start a Security. At least that’s what he thinks until he family...but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t personal-security business with his brothers. meets the fiercely independent Alexis Grant. have some alpha tendencies of his own. But it’s not long before Logan runs into Grace The security firm’s new intern pushes all his Especially when the woman he’s come to love, Mason, his best friend from high school…and buttons—and makes his temperature rise. But and her brother, are being hunted by a the woman who never answered his letters giving in to temptation might be risky business. member of the same gang that has caused all during his army years. of the brothers trouble. Alexis can tell that Blake has his doubts about Grace was pleasantly surprised to see Logan her ability to commit. But while most people Stay tuned for the next book in the series, return to Castle Rock, despite their falling-out look at her and see only a flighty rich girl, she which will be released in Spring 2018! ten years ago. Everyone always assumed they knows he sees much more. Determined to would end up together, including Grace, who prove herself to Blake, Alexis jumps at the had eyes only for him. But as Logan chance to work undercover. And when her eventually escaped their town, Grace got case takes a dangerous turn, she puts her pulled further into her family’s controlling trust—and her heart—in his hands. grasp—and farther away from the man she loved. Now, as Alexis digs into the deadly secrets of a local gang, Blake will lay everything on the Now, united by scars both visible and not, line to protect the woman he’s come to love. the two must fight to free Grace from the suffocating hold of her family. But the Masons won’t let go easily—and they’ll do whatever it takes to keep the couple apart.

The Fire Series

Tell Me Show Me Wildfire (Book Three) Abigail Strom Abigail Strom Anne Stuart Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Romantic Suspense Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 10/1/2017 Publication Date: 1/2/2018 Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Page Count: 254 Page Count: 272 Page Count: 290 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

Shy bookstore owner Jane Finch grew up “Houston, we have a major attraction.” Her power-hungry husband takes pleasure in hiding in the margins of her own life while her her pain, but she’s done playing the victim. vibrant, adventure-loving sister, Samantha, After years of dealing with a heart condition dominated every plotline. She’s made peace and an overprotective mother, Airin Delaney is Three years ago, ex-operative Sophie Jordan with it, unlike Sam’s business partner, Caleb, finally having her first taste of freedom in made the mistake of falling in love—and who’s always nudging Jane to go after what Waikiki—and it’s intoxicating. But it’s nothing marrying—her target. Now she’s paying for it she really wants. Why should she care what compared to the out-of-this-world attraction tenfold. Her husband might be one of the blunt, brash Caleb thinks? They’ve never had between her and astronaut Hunter Bryce. Airin sexiest men alive, but he’s also a psychopath. much in common, except for Sam. is determined to shoot for the stars and She’s been a virtual prisoner, and the time has experience her first real kiss. come for retribution—and escape. After tragedy strikes, they don’t even have that. All Hunter has ever wanted is to explore the Undercover agent Malcolm Gunnison has his universe. That is, until a certain black-haired, orders: get intel from Sophie’s arms-dealer Caleb can’t quite remember when Sam’s little wide-eyed beauty shakes him to the core. husband, then kill him. He plans to get rid of sister stopped being like a surrogate sibling to Hunter knows almost nothing about Airin, not her, too, if she gets in his way, but he’s him and became just…Jane. She’s the most even her last name. All he knows is that she’s unprepared when she gets under his skin intriguing woman he’s ever met, and so much the kind of girl he could fall over the moon in instead. Whose side is she on? And what is sexier and stronger than she thinks. On the love with. Unfortunately, the timing couldn’t be she hiding behind those mesmerizing eyes? emotional journey to honor Sam’s memory, worse. While Airin is celebrating her first night the spark they’ve tried to deny becomes an of freedom, Hunter is celebrating his last— Sophie vowed to never fall for another man inferno. This journey was meant to be an before embarking on an eight-month mission. again, but this sexy undercover agent is ending, but will they discover an unexpected different. With danger mounting, can Malcolm new beginning? It was only supposed to be one night. But and Sophie trust each other—and their sometimes that’s all fate needs to change two growing passion—enough to get out of this lives forever. operation alive?

Romance | 142 Instafame or Rubber Facebook Romance or Twinder or Confusions Boots in Acrylic After All These Years of Love (Twinder oder (Instafame oder (Facebook Romance die Irrungen und Gummistiefel in Acryl) oder nach all den Wirrungen der Liebe) Mila Summers Jahren) Mila Summers Contemporary Romance Mila Summers Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance - Contemporary Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance - German Language Imprint: Montlake Romance - German Language Publication Date: 7/4/2017 German Language Publication Date: 11/21/2017 Page Count: 274 Publication Date: 9/19/2017 Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Rubber Boots in Acrylic is the first volume in a A romance novel filled with love, humor, and A fast-paced comedy and romantic mix-up romance-novel trilogy bubbling over with funny heartache, both digital and analog, which can story, Twinder or Confusions of Love is the ideas and creative energy. be read as part of Mila Summers’s romance- third volume in Mila Summers’s romance- novel trilogy or as a stand-alone. novel trilogy. It can also be read as a stand- An old hippy father, a childhood love trying to alone. make it as an artist and a grandmother, with a After father Frank falls severely ill, he has one rubber-boot obsession—make of it what you wish to make with his two daughters: Find Sue is going through a tough time: after will! Fun is had by all as Marianne searches Dörte! The old hippie lost sight of his young almost twenty years of marriage, Jakob wants for a good idea to take off on Instagram. After love in the confusion of the late sixties, but he a divorce. Devastated, she swears off men all, she has fallen a bit behind in her romantic has never forgotten about her. In order to forever—actually. On the same day she signs and life planning. Even though she had plans distract him from his illness and give his two the divorce papers in Grandma Käthe’s as a child to become famous and successful— daughters something to do, he has them both apartment, her resolve begins to collapse. On along with other goals like breeding frogs and search her out. In the era of Facebook and a whim, Sue registers with Tinder in order to making jam in piggy banks. So...back to her other social media, the mission should be an find a potential life partner. The only problem home village, start working through Grandma easy one. However, Marianne and her sister is, she places her ad on Twitter... Käthe’s rubber boots, and embark on the have no idea what awaits them. Marianne, for Instafame adventure. example, soon finds herself with Grandma Käthe and other women of the Apron in Paris. The mixture of big plants, even bigger love, They want to look for Dörte there. However, and the path to it in the time of social media, she is also carrying her own worries and make Instafame or Rubber Boots in Acrylic a demands with her, which also need to be declaration of love for life. resolved.

Darling Investigations Series Shifters Undercover Series

Deadly Summer Fur Fox’s Sake Carolina Moon (Book One) (Book Two) Liz Talley Denise Grover Swank Milly Taiden Crossover Romance Romantic Suspense Paranormal Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 4/3/2018 Publication Date: 1/9/2018 Publication Date: 4/25/2017 Page Count: 272 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 210 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages

New York Times bestselling author Denise In the second novel from bestselling author In Carolina Moon, Liz Talley, the author of the Grover Swank gives a former TV star one Milly Taiden’s Shifters Undercover series, two Morning Glory Novels, blends romance and more shot at fame—and it proves to be a killer shifters must work together to unravel a women’s fiction. This crossover novel will comeback… gripping mystery while fighting their passion… appeal to readers of both genres, and Talley’s signature voice will entice an entirely new Ten years ago, Summer Butler was Marika Paters has an energy coursing through base of readers. Talley is beloved by readers television’s most popular teenage sleuth. her that others can’t explain. Maybe it’s the for her smart, gorgeous prose, and Carolina Since then, she’s hit—what gossip sites just curious fox that lies within that gives Marika Moon is her at her finest. love to call—the gutter. Nearly bankrupt, joy in her work as a geneticist for the only estranged from her greedy mother, and just forensic laboratory for animals. But while her about unemployable, she’s coaxed into that research unravels mysteries—like startling desperate haven for has-beens: reality TV. new data that threatens to dismantle Winging it as a faux PI, she’ll solve off-the-cuff everything science knows about shifters— mysteries in her hometown of Sweet Briar, Marika has always felt incomplete, just Alabama. For added drama, there’s police another lonely shifter looking for her mate. chief Luke Montgomery, inconveniently Summer’s first and only love. Following a family tragedy, Fellowship agent Devin Sonder believes he will never find love. It’s when Summer stumbles upon a very real But the panther inside knows his mate is out corpse that Darling Investigations takes an there somewhere—and he can’t give up. unexpected twist. Stay tuned for the next book When the bodies of a senator and a in the series, which will be released in mysterious dead wolf lead Devin to kind, Spring 2018! playful Marika, he feels a powerful, magnetic attraction…even though their personalities clash.

Romance | 143 You Are My Truth Restart - The Encounter Restart - Today, Just (Sei la mia verità) (Restart - Die Like in the Past (Restart Miriam Tocci Begegnung) - Heute wie damals) Contemporary Romance Mela Wagner Mela Wagner Imprint: Amazon Publishing Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance - Italian Language Imprint: Montlake Romance - Imprint: Montlake Romance - Publication Date: 6/20/2017 German Language German Language Page Count: 382 Publication Date: 12/20/2016 Publication Date: 2/28/2017 Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 418 Page Count: 414 Languages Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages, excluding English Languages, excluding English

An encounter between two sensitive souls, First love is overwhelming, intense, and The story of Leni and Paul continues... both in love with art and the simple pleasures stormy. And so it also happens to Leni and of life, ignites a spark that lights the fire of a Paul. Until that fateful day when an Leni decides to live in Paris despite a life- new passion. But what if the weight of a secret unexpected message changed everything. changing message. She becomes more and loomed over their destiny? more aware of her own mistakes, and the Leni and Paul make a momentous decision desire to return home increases. Shortly after Mia Galanti and Jerome Chevallier are that destroys the young couple and ends up in her return, she meets Paul. But he has trapped in this delicate situation. She, a young separation. They meet again at a ten-year changed and seems cold and emotionless. architect of great talent, is starting to allow school reunion. The memories and emotions Both want to try living without each other—but herself to feel, after so many years spent of the past can no longer be hidden, and it nevertheless they can’t separate themselves denying her emotions. He, president of the invades their lives. What really happened back from each other. They enter into a roller corporation for which Mia works, lives on the then? What happened to the girl Paul fell head coaster of emotions once again. Why has Paul margins of himself, secluded in a hut in the over heels in love with? Leni hides behind the changed so much? What secrets does he French Alps, crushed by his past and by the facade of a successful editor of an guard? But he is not the only one who hides a lack of affection in a family where the only international fashion magazine, but the walls secret ... interest is wealth. But the mountain refuge start to crumble, and the story begins again... must be restored, and the delicate task is entrusted to Mia. Jerome, never seen by any of his employees, continues to stifle his inner evil wearing the mask of Jerry, the surly guardian. The passion that inevitably arises between them, and that threatens to become an exceptional love story, will need to be stronger than the painful web of lies that rests between them.

Angie Pallorino Series

Deadly Embrace - The Drowned Girls The Lullaby Girl Dangerous Memory (Book One) (Book Two) (Gefährliche Loreth Anne White Loreth Anne White Erinnerung) Romantic Suspense Romantic Suspense Ylvi Walker Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Romantic Suspense Publication Date: 6/20/2017 Publication Date: Imprint: Montlake Romance Page Count: 526 11/14/2017 - German Language Rights Acquired: All Page Count: TBD Publication Date: 5/9/2017 Languages Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 318 Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Catherine Russell is a doctor in the He surfaced two years ago. Then he Detective Angie Pallorino took down a serial emergency room of Temple University disappeared. But Detective Angie Pallorino killer permanently and, according to her Hospital in Philadelphia. One evening a hasn’t forgotten the rapist who left a distinctive superiors, with excessive force. Benched on a foreigner is admitted after a car accident. She calling card—crosses etched into the flesh of desk assignment for twelve months, Angie applies all her skills in order to save him, and his victims’ foreheads. When a comatose Jane struggles to maintain her sense of identity—if eventually she succeeds. Doe is found in a local cemetery, sexually she’s not a detective, who is she? Then a assaulted, mutilated, and nearly drowned, decades-old cold case washes ashore, pulling He has no papers with him and cannot Angie is struck by the eerie similarities to her her into a deeply personal investigation. remember anything, the result of severe head earlier unsolved rapes. Could he be back? injury he has suffered. Besides the clothes Angie’s lover and partner, James Maddocks, and a SEAL tattoo there is nothing to identify Then the body of a drowned young woman, sees it, too. But spearheading an ongoing him. He is not wanted, and no one seems to also bearing the marks of the serial rapist, probe into a sex-trafficking ring while keeping miss him. floats up in the Gorge, and the hunt for a Angie’s increasing obsession with her case in predator becomes a hunt for a killer. Assigned check is taking its toll. As startling connections A dangerous sense of mystery, which entraps to the joint investigative task force, Angie is between the parallel investigations emerge, her and does not let her go, emanates from more than ready to prove that she has what it Maddocks realizes he has even more than him. But who is the beautiful stranger? Does takes to break into the all-male homicide Angie’s emotional state to worry about. he have a family? division. But her private life collides with her professional ambitions when she’s introduced Driven and desperate to solve her case, Angie When his supposed fiancée shows up at the to her temporary partner, James Maddocks—a goes rogue, risking her relationship, career, clinic, strange things happen, and Catherine man she’d met just the night before in an and very life in pursuit of answers. Stay tuned ends up in the crossfire of a war that could intense, anonymous encounter. Together, for the third book in the series, which will mean certain death. Angie and Maddocks agree to put that night be released in Spring 2018! behind them. But as their search for the killer intensifies, so does their mutual desire. Romance | 144 Payne Series

Goodnight to Those #Starstruck Royal Design: A Who Are Not There, (Book One) Novella Book One (Buonanotte a Sariah Wilson Sariah Wilson chi non c’è) Contemporary Romance Contemporary Romance Angela White Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Contemporary Romance Publication Date: 1/16/2018 Publication Date: 2/14/2017 Imprint: Amazon Publishing - Page Count: 272 Page Count: 137 Italian Language Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Publication Date: 11/21/2017 Languages Languages Page Count: TBD Rights Acquired: All Languages

A young man plays his violin from dusk till Sariah Wilson delivers the feel-good Bellamy Sullivan’s life is hardly regal. She’s a dawn in the heart of the London Underground, contemporary romance readers have been waitress from Ohio who’s been on her own obtaining a few coins from indifferent waiting for! If you are looking for a since she was sixteen, while her dreams of passersby moving quickly during rush hour. contemporary romance that’s as sweet as it is being a fashion designer stay just that. But sexy, Sariah’s #Starstuck will leave you everything changes when PR maven and Except for Alice, an Italian girl with the gift to swooning. soon-to-be-royal Lemon Beauchamp drops in evaluate rare and precious things: she is a to announce that Bellamy is a princess. chineur, a treasure hunter, an antique dealer. Stay tuned for the next book in the series, Unfortunately, Bellamy’s newly assigned And she is astonished: that incredible music is which will be released in Summer 2018! bodyguard is the last man she wants to see. a violin concerto by Sibelius; that instrument is a Stradivarius; and that musician is Nicholas A year ago, the royal family of Monterra Payne, one of the greatest contemporary tasked Enzo Rannalli with confirming violinists. And he is also the one who broke Bellamy’s heritage, which meant he had to get her heart ten years before in New York City, very close to her. Enzo got the confirmation he where she used to live as a teen with her needed, but he didn’t expect their connection mother. Although they fell in love easily back to be so meaningful. And he didn’t expect his then, they both resisted, and Alice buried her sudden departure to break the young feelings deep inside her heart. But now the princess’s heart. In exchange for a once-in-a- spark of passion and love burns again, and lifetime chance to kick-start her fashion career, Alice will have to reconcile with Nicholas’s Bellamy agrees to star on a royal reality show dark past, facing her weaknesses and that will match her with the world’s most discovering her hidden, unknown power. And eligible bachelors. But after a series of she will need to see herself from Nicholas’s disastrous dates make her even more grateful eyes, and listen to the song of a Stradivarius for Enzo’s company, she wonders if her fairy- to understand what words cannot explain. tale ending is waiting to happen off camera.

Mercury Pack Series The Phoenix Pack Series

Lure of Oblivion Fierce Obsessions (Book Three) (Book Six) Suzanne Wright Suzanne Wright Paranormal Romance Paranormal Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Imprint: Montlake Romance Publication Date: 11/21/2017 Publication Date: 6/13/2017 Page Count: TBD Page Count: 306 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: French

Gwen Miller may be a human, but she has no problem taking a When raven shifter Riley Porter was given sanctuary by the stand against her own kind. She’s going to testify against the Phoenix Pack, she let them believe she had left her flock. teenage boy she saw viciously assault a lone shifter female—and Reluctant to divulge the secrets of her past, she was still embraced no amount of pressure from the boy’s wealthy family will make her as family. Only Tao Lukas, the protective and passionate Head back down. But when the harassment turns violent, help comes in Enforcer of the pack, was resistant to the enigmatic shifter. Until the form of a lean, toned wolf with winter-gray eyes. Riley started to arouse in him something other than suspicion.

As a guest at Gwen’s inn, shifter enforcer Zander Devlin can’t help Tao doesn’t trust lone shifters, especially ones so guarded—and but notice that the fierce and leggy brunette is in serious trouble. tempting. But the sexual tension between them is making them Since she’s putting herself at risk for one of his kind, keeping her both come undone, and vulnerable to more than desire. All Tao safe is the least he can do. That’s not the only reason Zander wants is for Riley to stay with him and to trust him with the truth of wants her close. He desires her, even as the wolf inside him backs her past. away from her. But his feral instincts are hard to keep down, and as they take shape, they’re harder for Gwen to resist. Then again, As Riley’s mysteries come to light, so does a danger that threatens embracing them could be the only thing that could save her life. not only her life but the safety of the entire pack. For Tao, keeping Stay tuned for the 4th book in the series, which will be Riley safe means keeping her close—forever—as his mate. Stay released in Fall 2018! tuned for the 7th book in the series, which will be released in Spring 2018!

Romance | 145 Romance | 146 Science Fiction and Fantasy

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 147 Secondborn Series

Secondborn (Book One) Traitor Born (Book Two) Amy A. Bartol Amy A. Bartol Dystopian Dystopian Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 8/1/2017 Publication Date: 4/17/2018 Page Count: 320 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Firstborns rule society. Secondborns are the property of the In the sequel to USA Today bestselling author Amy A. Bartol’s government. Thirdborns are not tolerated. Long live the Fates Secondborn, Roselle’s allegiance is torn between the rebels and Republic. Firstborns, her feelings for two suspicious allies, and a host of duplicitous characters whose shifting motivations leave her On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by the constantly assessing her own choices even as the rebellion stirs government and forced into servitude. Roselle St. Sismode’s amid an action-packed matrix of deception and lies. eighteenth birthday arrives with harsh realizations: she’s to become a soldier for the Fate of Swords military arm of the Stay tuned for Book Three, Rebel Born, in Winter 2018! Republic during the bloodiest rebellion in history, and her elite firstborn mother is happy to see her go.Televised since her early childhood, Roselle’s privileged upbringing has earned her the resentment of her secondborn peers. Now her decision to spare an enemy on the battlefield marks her as a traitor to the state.

But Roselle finds an ally—and more—in fellow secondborn conscript Hawthorne Trugrave. As the consequences of her actions ripple throughout the Fates Republic, can Roselle create a destiny of her own? Or will her Fate override everything she fights for—even love?

Finding Paradise

Fate of Perfection Fate of Devotion (Book One) (Book Two) K.F. Breene K.F. Breene Science-Fiction Adventure Science-Fiction Adventure Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 1/1/2017 Publication Date: 4/11/2017 Page Count: 332 Page Count: 274 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In a corporate-controlled future where the ruling conglomerates After rescuing their daughter, Marie, from corporate-controlled genetically engineer their employees, Millicent Foster is the best of Earth, Millicent and Ryker thought they were safe on their off-world the best. paradise. They were wrong.

Physically perfect and exceptionally intelligent, Millicent is granted Toton, once thought the weakest conglomerate, is now dominating the uncommon privilege of breeding. But her daughter inherits ruined Earth with a sinister new technology. By harvesting minds more than superior genetics…little Marie has a rare ability that the for use in their supercomputers, they’re enslaving the best and world has never seen, and her conglomerate, Moxidone, will stop brightest humans to further their agenda. Millie and Ryker know at nothing to have sole possession of the child. that it’s just a matter of time before Toton realizes the biggest prize—Marie’s “gifted” mind—is merely a rocket ride away. Teamed with Ryker, the formidable master of security, Millicent must risk everything in a life-and-death struggle to tear her As the anticorporate Rebel Nation and rival companies alike daughter away from the ruling force who wants to own them all. scramble to thwart Toton’s inhuman machinations, society teeters The odds are stacked against them, but Moxidone will learn that on the brink. No longer safe, Millie and Ryker must sacrifice their the pursuit of perfection comes at a perilous cost—and that love hard-won freedom to return home and stand with the burgeoning can’t be bought at any price. revolution—outmanned, outgunned, and aided only by a most unexpected ally on the inside: Millie’s nemesis and estranged sister, Danissa. But can a family’s love survive greed gone mad in a world that measures human life on a balance sheet?

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 148 Zero Limit Jeremy K. Brown Science-Fiction Adventure Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 3/6/2018 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The coauthor of Ocean of Storms now thrusts readers into the 250,000 miles of space between a mother and her daughter—and into the path of an asteroid that could save them…or destroy everything.

In the future, the Moon has become a profitable mining colony, but not for all its inhabitants. For divorced mother and war veteran Caitlin Taggart, mining work on the Moon is dirty, with low pay and high risk. But no risk seems too extreme if it helps her return to Earth and the daughter she loves more than life itself.

Offered a dangerous, long-shot chance to realize that dream, Caitlin will gamble with more than just her life. To pay for a coveted trip back home to be with the daughter who’s growing up without her, Caitlin will lead a ragtag crew of miner friends on a perilous assignment to harvest an asteroid worth trillions of dollars. But when an unexpected disaster strikes the mission, Caitlin is plunged into a race to save not only herself but every human being on Earth.

The Fracture Worlds

Song of Edmon (Book One) Adam Burch Science-Fiction Adventure Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 9/1/2017 Page Count: 446 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In Adam Burch’s thrilling series debut, a young man must choose between violence and peace in a distant world divided between those who thrive in endless sunlight and those who survive in eternal darkness.The isolated planet of Tao is a house divided: the peaceful Daysiders live in harmony while the pale Nightsiders pursue power and racial purity through the violent ritual of the Combat. Edmon Leontes, the gentle son of a ruthless warrior noble and a proud Daysider, embodies Tao’s split nature. The product of diametrically opposed races, Edmon hopes to live a quiet life pursuing the music of his mother’s people, but his Nightsider father cruelly forces him to continue in his bloody footsteps to ensure his legacy.

Edmon’s defiance will cost him everything…and spark a revolution that will shake the foundations of Tao. His choice will shape his own fate and that of his divided world.

Roar of the Storm (Book Two) Adam Burch Science-Fiction Adventure Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 1/23/2018 Page Count: 322 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When he rebelled against his father, Edmon Leontes lost everything, but a lot has happened in the twelve years since he left his remote home planet of Tao. He has made a new life for himself as the medic aboard a starship, earning his keep traversing the galaxy with a misfit crew. Edmon thinks he has left his tumultuous past behind him, yet all that changes when his father dies.

Phaestion, the man he once called brother, has inherited Edmon’s birthright. But Phaestion’s ambitions of domination are not limited to Tao, and he is not inclined to let a rival—even one in exile—continue living. Phaestion’s pursuit of power spans the universe, running afoul of powers no one is fit to be meddling with. Edmon will need to confront his past as he and his crew race across worlds to uncover the origins of the Fracture…and save the universe from complete destruction.

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 149 Dreams Before the Start of Time Anne Charnock Literary Science Fiction Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 4/18/2017 Page Count: 226 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In a near-future London, Millie Dack places her hand on her belly to feel her baby kick, resolute in her decision to be a single parent. Across town, her closest friend—a hungover Toni Munroe—steps into the shower and places her hand on a medic console. The diagnosis is devastating.

In this stunning, bittersweet family saga, Millie and Toni experience the aftershocks of human progress as their children and grandchildren embrace new ways of making babies. When infertility is a thing of the past, a man can create a child without a woman, a woman can create a child without a man, and artificial wombs eliminate the struggles of pregnancy. But what does it mean to be a parent? A child? A family?

Through a series of interconnected vignettes that spans five generations and three continents, this emotionally taut story explores the anxieties that arise when the science of fertility claims to deliver all the answers.

Odyssey One

Odysseus Awakening (Book Six) Evan Currie Space Opera Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 12/12/2017 Page Count: 234 Rights Acquired: All Languages Defy the inevitable. Such is the stance of Confederation captain Eric Weston and the crew of the starship Odysseus, patrolling the outer limits of Priminae space, anticipating the Empire’s next attacks. Connected with the Terran FTL tech—the transition drive—humanity might stand a chance against the overwhelming forces. Until the entire planetary system goes dark.

Outnumbered and outgunned, the Odysseus arrives to find the Empire securing critical intelligence from Priminae ships—data that could prove disastrous in the wrong hands.

As the Odysseus enters the fray, the ship’s systems exhibit increasingly chaotic glitches, while haunting apparitions stalk the crew. As they struggle to control their own ship—and their sanity—against the tide of battle, how can they hope to grasp victory when the Odysseus itself appears to be coming to life?

Stay tuned for Book Seven in Spring 2018!

The Memory Agent Matthew B.J. Delaney Science-Fiction Adventure Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 7/18/2017 Page Count: 334 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Crime never changes. Punishment does.

In a time when prisons no longer contain inmates behind concrete and steel, the convicted serve their time while asleep, rehabilitating in virtual reality while blissfully unaware of their crimes. Roger Parker is a professional prison breaker, skilled at navigating these strange penal dreamworlds and extracting those imprisoned there—for a price. Parker wants out of the game, but a powerful senator, desperate to save his son, convinces Parker to pull one last job. The clincher? An opportunity for Parker to find his wife, herself interned, lost somewhere in a treacherous, time-shifting Manhattan cyberscape.

As Parker and his team make their hallucinatory journey between worlds, memory and motive lose coherence and integrity, and the clock begins to run out: internal security detects the breaker and sets out to remove him—permanently. Unable to rely on his perceptions, unsure of the truth or even his very identity, will Parker break out…or be broken? Science Fiction and Fantasy | 150 The Road to Nowhere

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Book One) Meg Elison Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 10/11/2016 Page Count: 300 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip K. Dick Award Winner.

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 Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 2/21/2017 Page Count: 316 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In the gripping sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award--winning novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future.

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.

When slavers seize those she loves, Etta vows to release and avenge them. But her mission will lead her to the stronghold of the Lion—a tyrant who dominates the innocent with terror and violence. There, with no allies and few weapons besides her wits and determination, she will risk both body and spirit not only to save lives but also to liberate a new world’s destiny.

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 151 Lost in Arcadia Sean Gandert Literary Science Fiction Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 7/1/2017 Page Count: 414 Rights Acquired: All Languages

“A fascinating and ambitious first novel by a very talented writer…An indispensable read.” —Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Ultima

The America of 2037 is a country distracted by, infatuated with, and addicted to Arcadia. The brainchild of reclusive genius Juan Diego Reyes, Arcadia is a wickedly immersive, all-encompassing social-media platform and virtual-reality interface. Although Arcadia has made the Reyes family fabulously wealthy, it’s left them—and the rest of the country—impoverished of that rare currency: intimacy. When Juan Diego mysteriously vanishes, the consequences shatter the lives of the entire Reyes clan.

As matriarch Autumn struggles to hold the family together, siblings Gideon, Holly, and Devon wrestle with questions of purpose and meaning—seeking self-worth in a world where everything has been cheapened.

American Saint Sean Gandert Literary Science Fiction Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 1/29/2019 Page Count: 400 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Sean Gandert (Lost in Arcadia) explores the relationship between stories and reality in the tale of Father Gabriel Quintana—a New Mexican priest whose works some ascribe as miracles—in a David Mitchell- esque array of narrative voices, from his family, his followers, and those seeking to discredit him. This Sci-Fi novel bridges commercial and literary fiction in exploring themes of faith, family, reconciliation, and power.

The Argus Deceit Chuck Grossart Science-Fiction Adventure Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 5/9/2017 Page Count: 316 Rights Acquired: All Languages

From bestselling author Chuck Grossart comes a genre-bending psychological thriller that explores the limits of reality and the dizzying destruction of consciousness.

Brody Quail is a man without dreams…but he’s beginning to live a nightmare. He exists in four different lives, in four simultaneous identities: happy young boy, lovelorn teenager, damaged young man, and a pitiable middle-aged loner. He lives blissfully unaware of his divided nature until a series of increasingly surreal experiences shakes this already fragile equilibrium. Time begins to stop and start for him alone. Intimations of a recurring event haunt his thoughts, and a silent, shadowy presence watches and stalks him. As the barriers between his realities begin to flicker and blur, Brody’s confusion and fear find sympathetic understanding in Constance Drake, whose own sense of reality seems to be fraying into terrifying incoherence. Threatened by madness and oblivion, Brody and Constance embark on a desperate search for answers. The truth may set them free—or utterly destroy them.

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 152 The Paper Magician Series

The Paper Magician The Glass Magician (Book One) (Book Two) Charlie N. Holmberg Charlie N. Holmberg Historical Fantasy Historical Fantasy Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 9/1/2014 Publication Date: 11/4/2014 Page Count: 226 Page Count: 224 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: German, Italian, French, Rights Sold: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Complex Portuguese, Portuguese, Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Hungarian, Russian, Czech, Thai, Hungarian, Russian, Thai, and Hebrew, and Azerbaijani Azerbaijani

Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a Three months after returning Magician Emery Thane’s heart to his broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis body, Ceony Twill is well on her way to becoming a Folder. Praff School for the Magically Inclined, she is assigned an Unfortunately, not all of Ceony’s thoughts have been focused on apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling paper magic. Though she was promised romance by a fortuity box, metal. Once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic Ceony still hasn’t broken the teacher-student barrier with Emery, forever. despite their growing closeness.

Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out When a magician with a penchant for revenge believes that Ceony to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined—animating possesses a secret, he vows to discover it…even if it tears apart paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even the very fabric of their magical world. reading fortunes. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic. After a series of attacks target Ceony and catch those she holds most dear in the crossfire, Ceony knows she must find the true An Excisioner—a practitioner of dark, flesh magic—invades the limits of her powers…and keep her knowledge from falling into cottage and rips Thane’s heart from his chest. To save her teacher’s wayward hands. 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 Master Magician The Plastic Magician (Book Three) (Book Four) Charlie N. Holmberg Charlie N. Holmberg Historical Fantasy Historical Fantasy Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 6/2/2015 Publication Date: 5/15/2018 Page Count: 226 Page Count: 226 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Hungarian, Russian, Czech, Thai, and Azerbaijani Throughout her studies, Ceony Twill has harbored a secret, one The long-awaited fourth book in Wall Street Journal bestelling she’s kept from even her mentor, Emery Thane. She’s discovered author Charlie N. Homberg’s Paper Magician series raises the how to practice forms of magic other than her own—an ability long stakes with a new heroine, a bold expansion of the series’ magic thought impossible. system, and cameos from beloved characters in the original trilogy.

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.

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 153 Followed by Frost Charlie N. Holmberg Coming-of-Age Fantasy Imprint: 47North 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?

Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet Charlie N. Holmberg Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 6/28/2016 Page Count: 306 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese

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.

The Fifth Doll Charlie N. Holmberg Historical Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 7/25/2017 Page Count: 253 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The bestselling author of the Paper Magician series transports readers to a darkly whimsical world where strange magic threatens a quiet village that only a courageous woman can save.

Matrona lives in an isolated village, where her life is centered on pleasing her parents. She’s diligent in her chores and has agreed to marry a man of their choosing. But a visit to Slava, the local tradesman, threatens to upend her entire life. Entering his empty house, Matrona discovers a strange collection of painted nesting dolls—one for every villager. Fascinated, she can’t resist the urge to open the doll with her father’s face. But when her father begins acting strangely, she realizes Slava’s dolls are much more than they seem. Slava seizes the opportunity to give Matrona stewardship over the dolls—whether she wants it or not. Forced to open one of her own dolls every three days, she falls deeper into the grim power of Slava’s creations. But nothing can prepare her for the profound secret hiding inside the fifth doll.

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 154 Extracted Trilogy

Extracted (Book One) RR Haywood Science-Fiction Adventure Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 3/1/2017 Page Count: 402 Rights Acquired: All Languages

In 2061, a young scientist invents a time machine to fix a tragedy in his past. But his good intentions turn catastrophic when an early test reveals 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.

Safa Patel is an elite police officer who’s on duty when Downing Street comes under terrorist attack. As armed men storm through the breach, she dispatches them all. “Mad” Harry Madden is a legend of the Second World War. Not only did he complete an impossible mission—to plant charges on a heavily defended submarine base—but he also escaped with his life.

Ben Ryder is just an insurance investigator. But as a young man he witnessed a gang assaulting a woman and her child. He went to their rescue, and killed all five.

Can these three heroes, extracted from their timelines at the point of death, save the world?

Executed (Book Two) RR Haywood Science-Fiction Adventure Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 6/6/2017 Page Count: 398 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The team of heroes extracted from their timelines to stop the impending apocalypse didn’t think they needed a leader.

But they’ve got one anyway. With their mission in tatters, Miri has been called in to steady the ship. And to make them focus on their assignment: preventing the end of the world.

The problem is, the world doesn’t know it’s in danger. With governments pursuing them relentlessly, attempting to steal the time-travel device to use for their own ends, the heroes are on the run—fighting for survival in a world they’re supposed to save. Meanwhile, Miri has motives of her own. And when the existence of a second device is discovered, the team’s mission and their lives are in mortal danger…

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 155 Witches of New Orleans

The King of Bones and Ashes (Book One) J.D. Horn Contemporary Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 1/23/2018 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Languages

From the bestselling author of the Witching Savannah series comes the first book in a fascinating trilogy following the quest of a young witch to uncover her family’s terrifying secret history…

Magic is seeping out of the world, leaving the witches who’ve relied on it for countless centuries increasingly hopeless. While some see an inevitable end of their era, others are courting madness—willing to sacrifice former allies, friends, and family to retain the power they covet. While the other witches watch their reality unravel, young Alice Marin is using magic’s waning days to delve into the mystery of numerous disappearances in the occult circles of New Orleans. Alice disappeared once, too—caged in an asylum by blood relatives. Recently freed, she fears her family may be more involved with the growing crisis than she ever dared imagine.

Stay tuned for Book Two, The Book of the Unwinding, in Summer 2018!

The Man of Legends Kenneth Johnson Contemporary Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 7/1/2017 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Languages

New York City, New Year’s weekend, 2001. Jillian Guthrie, a troubled young journalist, stumbles onto a tantalizing mystery: the same man, unaged, stands alongside Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gandhi in three different photographs spanning eighty-five years of history.

In another part of town, Will—an enigmatic thirty-three-year-old of immense charm, wit, and intelligence— looks forward to the new year with hope and trepidation. Haunted by his secret past and shadowed by a dangerous stranger, he finds himself the object of an intense manhunt.

Award-winning science-fiction mastermind Kenneth Johnson blends epic adventure, romance, and evocative drama into an intense supernatural thriller rooted in one of the great untold legends of human history.

The Darwin Variant Kenneth Johnson Science-Fiction Adventure Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 6/12/2018 Page Count: 430 Rights Acquired: All Languages

A comet the size of Mount Everest has deviated from its normal orbit and is on a collision course with Earth. An armada of nuclear missiles destroys the comet, but small icy fragments fall across a swath of the southern United States.

Within the icy shards is an unknown virus that instantly accelerates the evolution of whatever organism it enters. Some people begin to be driven by an unquenchable desire for dominance and power. Many unaffected people ally with them, hoping to be given “The Gift,” but the bravest form an active grassroots resistance against the growing tyranny.

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 156 Phoenix Horizon

(ID)entity (Book Two) (CON)science PJ Manney (Book Three) Science-Fiction Thriller PJ Manney Imprint: 47North Science-Fiction Thriller Publication Date: 10/10/2017 Imprint: 47North Page Count: 340 Publication Date: 9/18/2018 Rights Acquired: All Languages Page Count: 340 Rights Acquired: All Languages

PJ Manney continues her action-packed, thought-provoking In the thrilling conclusion to PJ Manney’s Philip K. Dick Award- science-fiction series with the sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award– nominated Phoenix Horizon trilogy, the first artificial human nominated (R)evolution. intelligence—Major Tom—must align against his former allies and attempt to bring peace to a world turned upside-down in the wake In the guise of political revolutionary Thomas Paine, bioengineer of the paradigm-shattering global changes that arise in response to Peter Bernhardt brought down the corrupt and powerful Phoenix his unprecedented digital existence. Club—and then turned revolution into evolution by becoming the first artificial human intelligence: Major Tom. In the two years since Major Tom revealed his digital existence and spread his freedom manifesto, he has been revered as a god and vilified as a demon. The US and Europe have splintered into ideologically independent regions. Russia and China prepare to expand their empires.

In the midst of the chaos, pirates attack a seastead in the Pacific Ocean, capturing one of Major Tom’s allies. A mysterious and powerful group wages a secret war. To rescue his ally, Major Tom must first regain his own humanity and somehow save a species he no longer identifies with...and that seems determined to destroy itself.

Blades of the Fallen

Nightblade’s Vengeance The Beachhead (Book One) Christopher Mari Ryan Kirk Science-Fiction Adventure Epic Fantasy Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 3/21/2017 Publication Date: 10/24/2017 Page Count: 334 Page Count: 335 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In a thrilling fantasy series from the author of the Nightblade After Earth is decimated, the entire remaining human population is novels, revenge becomes a quest for a young female warrior. marooned on an unfamiliar beach. The enigmatic winged Orangemen leave the survivors with instructions to remake their In a feudal land, a Kingdom is at risk. With no heir to the fragile society, basic tools and weapons, and a few thousand books, throne, its future rests with the powerful members of the dying including Bibles in many languages. As two generations are born king’s Council, including Minori, a nightblade warrior, and Kiyoshi, and raised, conflicting theories as to the nature of the apocalypse a dayblade healer. The two men are bound by the sword but continue to simmer. divided by two opposing principles: rule the land, or serve it. In their challenge for supremacy, a spark has been lit. Fifty years later, the arrival of a new family that shouldn’t exist threatens the delicate peace holding humanity together. Two young Her name is Asa. Her creed is revenge. A fierce nightblade warrior, soldiers, John Giordano and Kendra McQueen, venture into the she’s spent a decade in pursuit of the general who killed her father unexplored wilderness beyond the city walls in search of answers. in a revolt—then mysteriously vanished from all records. Now, her But their disquieting discoveries only raise more questions, forcing desire for reckoning has led her to the village of Two Falls—and mankind to reconsider what it means to be human. straight into the heart of an impending civil war. Minori and Kiyoshi are vying for her loyalty. As fresh betrayals unfold and a new In this reflective, provocative postapocalyptic novel, John, Kendra, uprising looms, Asa knows that chasing a ghost is no longer just a and the remnants of humanity must find the strength to love and the personal quest. It’s going to alter the fate of the entire Kingdom. will to forgive—or they will all perish.

Stay tuned for Book Two in Spring 2018! Science Fiction and Fantasy | 157 The Einstein Prophecy Robert Masello Science-Fiction Thriller Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 8/1/2015 Page Count: 338 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Sold: Czech, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Hungarian, Turkish, and Large Print (English)

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.

The Jekyll Revelation Robert Masello Supernatural Thriller Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 11/8/2016 Page Count: 493 Rights Acquired: All Languages

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 Stoker Legacy Robert Masello Supernatural Thriller Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 9/18/2018 Page Count: 460 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Bestselling author and award-winning journalist Robert Masello (The Einstein Prophecy) returns with a supernatural/historical thriller that reimagines the life of Bram Stoker, fictionalizes the roots of his world- famous Dracula, and culminates in a dramatic crescendo that takes place aboard the sinking Titanic.

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 158 The Shifting Tides

Golden Age (Book One) James Maxwell Epic Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 5/1/2016 Page Count: 382 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 Epic Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 11/8/2016 Page Count: 494 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…

Copper Chain (Book Three) James Maxwell Epic Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 8/3/2017 Page Count: 382 Rights Acquired: All Languages

When a desperate king threatens Dion and everything he loves, only dangerous magic can keep him safe. Dion, now king of Xanthos, is finally in command of the naval fleet he’s always dreamed of. But his hopes for peace are jeopardized when King Palemon, in dire need of ships to rescue his starving people from the frozen wastelands of the north, invades the Salesian city of Malakai. Too weak to confront Dion directly, Palemon turns to magic: mysterious copper chains from the lost civilization of Aleuthea, which have the potential to control dragons…and Dion.

With the people he loves in danger, and his own freedom at risk, Dion’s only hope is Chloe and the power she struggles to tame.

Stay tuned for the next book in the Shifting Tides series, which will be released in Spring 2018.

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 159 The Venom Trilogy

Fangs and Fennel Hisses and Honey (Book Two) (Book Three) Shannon Mayer Shannon Mayer Urban Fantasy Urban Fantasy Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 1/10/2017 Publication Date: 3/7/2017 Page Count: 258 Page Count: 242 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

The delicious sequel to Venom and Vanilla, from USA Today The climactic final volume of The Venom Trilogy by USA Today bestselling author Shannon Mayer. bestselling author Shannon Mayer.

Alena Budrene is not just a gifted Seattle baker—she’s also a Humble baker turned supernatural Alena Budrene is lovely and supernatural. Having survived the virus that made her lethal, and for the first time, she’s owning it. Finally rid of her low- transformation necessary and outwitted an attack by a Greek hero, life ex-husband, she’s free to date sexy vampire mob boss Remo, she’s ready to settle down and deal with the challenges of living as who respects her as both a Supe and a woman. She’s on good a “Super Duper.” terms with her difficult mother, and she’s growing comfortable with her powers. But nothing is easy for a woman who can turn into a giant snake. Threatened by her unprecedented strength, Alena’s enemies team But just when it seems things are falling into place for Alena, Hera up against her. What’s next on the menu? The duplicitous demigod strikes again: the Aegrus virus rages across Seattle, threatening Theseus—backed by a ruthless vampire gang and the power- the life of everyone in its path—including Remo, infected by hungry goddess Hera—is determined to lure her into a glorious, Hades. The only way to stop the carnage is to face Hera and her and rather public, battle to the death. Now humans, even the ones army in a no-prisoners battle to determine the fate of the human Alena risks her life to protect, are afraid to acknowledge her race. In a sweeping voyage from the bar scene to a netherworld existence. And when the friends who once rallied around her begin populated by murderous gods and monsters, Alena confronts one to fall prey to Theseus’s manipulative schemes, Alena realizes she adversary after another on a quest to set the world right for both must act before she loses everything. humans and Supes and demonstrate her power once and for all.

The Avalon Chronicles The Hellequin Chronicles

A Glimmer of Hope Scorched Shadows (Book One) (Book Seven) Steve McHugh Steve McHugh Urban Fantasy Urban Fantasy Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 4/1/2018 Publication Date: 10/17/2017 Page Count: 368 Page Count: 510 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

From Steve McHugh, the bestselling author of The Hellequin In the final chapter of The Hellequin Chronicles, secrets will be Chronicles series, comes a new urban fantasy series packed with revealed, friendships will be tested, and destinies will be fulfilled. mystery, action, and, above all, magic. Avalon is under siege. A shadowy cabal, headed by a mysterious Layla Cassidy has always wanted a normal life, and the chance to figure known only as “My Liege,” has launched a series of deadly put her father’s brutal legacy behind her. And in her final year of attacks across the globe, catching innocent human bystanders in college, she’s finally found it. Or so she thinks. the cross fire.

But when Layla accidentally activates an ancient scroll, she is Emerging from the debris of battle, Nate Garrett, the sixteen- bestowed with an incredible, inhuman power. She plunges into a hundred-year-old sorcerer also called Hellequin, and his friends dangerous new world full of mythical creatures and menace—all must stop My Liege once and for all. But powerful forces stand in while a group of fanatics will stop at nothing to turn her abilities to their way. To save Avalon, they will need to enlist the help of their cause. Mordred, once Nate’s greatest nemesis, now his most formidable ally. But Mordred is grappling with a dark prophecy that could spell To protect those she loves most, Layla must take control of her Nate’s doom…The fate of the world hangs in the balance. Even if new powers…before they destroy her. All is not yet lost—there is a Nate can halt the war, will there be anything left worth saving? light shining, but Layla must survive long enough to see it.

Stay tuned for the next two books in the series, which will be released in Spring and Fall 2018! Science Fiction and Fantasy | 160 The Revolutionary Series

Summon the Queen (Book Two) Jodi McIsaac Historical Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 1/17/2017 Page Count: 352 Rights Acquired: All Languages

It may be impossible to alter the past, but Irish revolutionary Nora O’Reilly is determined to try. Armed with a relic given to her by the goddess Brigid and joined by immortal Irish warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill, Nora is hurled back through time to the sixteenth century. There Nora and Fionn seek the infamous pirate queen Granuaile—Grace O’Malley—the one woman who may be fierce enough to stop Queen Elizabeth I’s tyranny over the Irish people.

But finding Granuaile is no easy feat, and securing her help is tougher still. Nora and Fionn face enemies at every turn, risking capture, separation, and even death in their quest to save Ireland and finally put an end to the centuries-long curse that torments Fionn. But as Nora’s connection to Fionn grows stronger, her loyalties are tested: she may not be able to save both her country and the man she’s grown to love. In Jodi McIsaac’s thrilling and heartbreaking sequel to Bury the Living, Nora will once again battle time, history, and her own intense desires in an attempt to rewrite the past—and to change the fate of all she holds dear.

Harmony Black

Glass Predator (Book Three) Craig Schaefer Urban Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 3/28/2017 Page Count: 315 Rights Acquired: All Languages

For Harmony Black, practicing witch and government agent, defeating criminal masterminds and eliminating supernatural threats are all in a day’s work. She’s ready to fight, as long as she can count on her partner, Jessie Temple; her team at off-the-books special FBI unit Vigilant Lock; and her magic. But her latest case threatens it all.

A high-profile bank robbery reveals thieves with the same unnatural strength and turquoise eyes as Jessie, who was touched by the King of Wolves. Jessie becomes unstable, struggling with her inner beast, and Harmony’s magic is threatened by unexpected interference. Even worse, the women discover a secret their own handler may kill to protect, forcing Vigilant Lock to go off the grid.

From the smoky back rooms of Washington, DC, inhabited by the crooked elite, to the astonishing high- rises of corrupt upper-crust Manhattan, Harmony and Jessie fight to uncover and halt a mass conspiracy threatening US soil in a race against time—and hell.

Cold Spectrum (Book Four) Craig Schaefer Urban Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 10/31/2017 Page Count: 242 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Criminologist Harmony Black is a witch with a loaded Glock. Her partner, Jessie Temple, is packing fierce lupine heat. Together, they’re part of Vigilant Lock, an elite FBI black-ops group dedicated to defeating criminals with supernatural connections. But when they uncover a demonic conspiracy in the highest ranks of the government, it appears that everything Harmony and her friends have worked for, fought for, and risked their lives for might be a lie.

Framed for a casino massacre, Harmony and Jessie are on the run—in the real world and in their own. From the seedy casinos of Atlantic City to the steamy bayous of Louisiana and the imposing facades of Washington, DC, there’s not a soul on earth they can trust. The only way they can clear their names is to take down the conspiracy from within and uncover the truth behind a secret that both the government and the powers of hell want to keep buried.

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 161 Angel in the Whirlwind

Cursed Command Desperate Fire (Book Three) (Book Four) Christopher G. Nuttall Christopher G. Nuttall Military Science Fiction Military Science Fiction Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 3/7/2017 Publication Date: 5/30/2017 Page Count: 416 Page Count: 416 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Captain Kat Falcone owes her life and career to her former right- In the fourth book in speculative-fiction master Christopher G. hand man, William McElney, and she did everything in her power Nuttall’s Angel in the Whirlwind series, an epic battle pits the to make sure he was front and center for a promotion. But now that survival of hope against the locus of destruction. he has it, she fears he’ll have to watch his back. Captain McElney has been assigned to HMS Uncanny—nicknamed Unlucky—a As the Commonwealth produces more starships and increases heavy cruiser tainted by the mysterious deaths of two former recruits, victory begins to slip from Theocratic control. This can captains and rumors of mutineers. Nevertheless, as the interstellar only make the Theocracy more desperate to win…and more war with the Theocracy rages on, the Uncanny will travel in tandem dangerous to fight. After a mission to liberate an occupied planet with Kat’s starship, HMS Lightning, to the lawless Jorlem Sector to ends in nuclear devastation, Kat Falcone—now a commodore in forge alliances for the Commonwealth and quash rampant piracy. command of HMS Queen Elizabeth—sees firsthand just how far the enemy will go. Suddenly dealing with the war effort and a As Captain McElney struggles to whip a hostile crew of miscreants humanitarian crisis, many in the Commonwealth want a truce. Kat into a disciplined fighting force, Kat is saddled with an undermining wants something else: to crush the Theocracy outright. It is a bold new executive officer—an untested aristocrat whose bigotry colors and risky plan, but the enemy has revealed there can be no middle his sense of duty. Both captains wage war against ruthless pirates ground. Can Kat break the galactic stalemate and deal a while conspirators aboard the Uncanny plot to seize the ship. deathblow to the Theocracy? When the starships find themselves locked in a death match with an enemy juggernaut, Kat must make a desperate and devastating sacrifice.

The Hyperspace Trap Bandwidth Christopher G. Nuttall Eliot Peper Military Science Fiction Technothriller Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 2/27/2018 Publication Date: 4/1/2018 Page Count: 311 Page Count: 192 Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

Captain Paul VanGundy is in command of a large cruise ship on its Everyone in the world has Feeds that are personalized and maiden voyage, and with the war over, there are no real threats to pervasive, and Dag Weston is no different. A rising star at a the ship, but they will be transporting Robert Cavendish, his family preeminent political lobbying firm, Dag represents the world’s most and entourage. Paul isn't too pleased, but as Cavendish is the owner powerful technology and energy executives. But when a close of the ship, there’s no choice. brush with death forces Dag to reassess his career and past, cracks begin to appear in his Feed and his life. Then Dag meets Midshipman Matt Evans is told to join staff, and he is instantly the mysterious Emily, who seems to know much more about him impressed by Angela Cavendish, a young woman his age. Angela’s than she should. younger sister Nancy is the first child to be born in hyperspace, and a celebrity. One day, Matt encounters Nancy staring out into Emily introduces Dag to an underground world of Feed hackers hyperspace. She tells him that she’s always heard voices out there. that claim to be acting in humanity’s best interests, to reverse the disastrous effects of climate change by manipulating influential At their first port, the ship takes onboard a group of religious zealots. political players. But they are playing a dangerous game, and They claim that God lives in hyperspace and they begin asking Emily and her crew may be too good to be true…What comes next questions about Nancy. When the ship enters hyperspace, it collides propels Dag into the midst of a shadow war for geopolitical with a pirate ship. In an effort to get back home, they find themselves influence that will shape the future of the planet even as it in an unexplored sector, with the hyperdrive burned out completely. dismantles Dag’s very identity—and forces him to decide what kind They are close to an uninhabited planet, and with no way home, they of man he will become. have to set up a colony and hope they can make it last long enough for exploring starships to find them. Science Fiction and Fantasy | 162 Disrupted Magic

Midnight Curse (Book One) Melissa F. Olson Urban Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 2/7/2017 Page Count: 317 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Scarlett Bernard is used to cleaning up messes. As a human who cancels out any magic around her, Scarlett’s job is to keep the supernatural world hidden—at any cost.

But on the eve of the Vampire Trials, a two-day tribunal that allows the otherworldly community to air their grievances, Scarlett receives a blood-soaked message from Molly, her estranged former roommate. Molly, a vampire, had been living with twelve human college students…and in one terrible night, she slaughtered them all.

Scarlett believes Molly’s been set up, but no one else in the Old World agrees with her. Meanwhile, the true perpetrator is determined to make sure Molly goes on trial for the massacre—and the penalty is death. With less than two days to prove her friend’s innocence, Scarlett calls on former LAPD detective Jesse Cruz to help her dig into Molly’s past. But no one—Molly included—wants Scarlett and Jesse to bring the terrible truth to light.

Blood Gamble (Book Two) Melissa F. Olson Urban Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 7/25/2017 Page Count: 301 Rights Acquired: All Languages

If there is one city that Scarlett Bernard hates, it’s Las Vegas. But when the cardinal vampire of Los Angeles convinces her to go investigate a new vampire-themed stage show, Scarlett quickly finds herself shoulder- deep in sequins, slot machines, and Old World intrigue.

The show’s creators are vampire celebrities Arthur and Lucy Holmwood, who once inspired characters from the original Dracula. Now, however, they have no qualms about announcing their true status to the human world, endangering the secrecy of the Old World and Scarlett’s mission to keep it hidden.

But before she can begin untangling the Holmwoods’ motives, Scarlett also discovers that their new production has attracted more than just fans: Las Vegas’s many vampires are suddenly disappearing, and rumors are flying that actual vampire hunters may have followed Arthur and Lucy to town. Now, without her allies, her bargest, or her frequent partner Jesse Cruz, Scarlett must navigate a new underworld of secrets and murders in a city where nothing is ever as it seems. And the stakes have never been higher.

Shadow Hunt (Book Three) Melissa F. Olson Urban Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 2/13/2018 Page Count: 214 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Book Three in the Disrupted Magic Series:

“Olson’s new Disrupted Magic series is starting out with a hit. Midnight Curse is what paranormal fans love: mystery, romance, supernatural beings, and suspense. Scarlett Bernard is fun and engaging; daring enough to keep things interesting, but not entirely reckless. Midnight Curse is somewhat of a cross between the Sookie Stackhouse series and Twilight, minus the sparkly vampires and lovesick teens.” —RT Book Reviews

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 163 The Endarian Prophecy

Mark of Fire (Book One) Richard Phillips Epic Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 11/1/2017 Page Count: 271 Rights Acquired: All Languages

An ancient prophecy. A young woman’s destiny.

Lorness Carol, coming of age in the kingdom of her warlord father, Lord Rafel, aspires to wield magic. But she’s also unknowingly become the obsession of Kragan, an avenging wielder as old as evil itself. He’s waited centuries to find and kill the female prophesied as the only human empowered to destroy him.

However, dispatching the king’s assassin, Blade, to Rafel’s Keep, ends in treason. For Blade arrives not with a weapon but rather a warning for the woman he’s known and loved since he was a child. With a price on his head, Blade flees—as Carol and her family are urged away on their own desperate route of escape. Now, traversing the lawless western borderlands, Carol struggles to understand the uncanny magic she possesses and must learn to master. Though separated, Carol and Blade are still united—not only by the darkness pursuing them both but by a quest toward destiny, revenge, and the revelations of an ancient prophecy that signal the ultimate war between good and evil.

Prophecy’s Daughter (Book Two) Richard Phillips Epic Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 1/16/2018 Page Count: 274 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The epic fantasy continues as Lorness Carol’s burgeoning magical powers are the only hope in a destined war between good and evil…”The silent one in the west has awakened.” A tantalizing message reignites Kragan’s centuries-old fury to exterminate the unwitting young adversary prophesied to destroy him.

One step ahead of her pursuer, Lorness Carol, a warlord’s daughter and magic wielder, has led her people to a new stronghold in a verdant valley. Here, she’s been reunited with Blade, the assassin she has loved since childhood. But her spell book holds the secrets to powers she never imagined—powers that are not only expanding her abilities but challenging her sanity.

As Carol grows more desperate to learn and control the powers of enchantment she was born to wield, Kragan and his minions wage a war to destroy Carol’s destiny before it’s realized. But if her people require the summoning of an ancient darkness to save them, then by all the gods, she will bring it.

The Harbinger Series

Storm Glass Jeff Wheeler Epic/Coming of Age Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 6/19/2018 Page Count: 320 Rights Acquired: All Languages

Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler begins a new, five-book series of coming-of-age-fantasy that takes place in a world of floating manors held aloft through “magical technology,” a world in which curses can trap the spirits of the dead and the use of magic is so secretive, its power is referred to as the Mysteries. This world of class struggle—where the rich live among the clouds and the poor and downtrodden are pressed to work in powerful factories to maintain the engine of commerce—is a world on the verge of war.

Science Fiction and Fantasy | 164 The Kingfountain Series

The Queen’s Poisoner The Thief’s Daughter The King’s Traitor (Book One) (Book Two) (Book Three) Jeff Wheeler Jeff Wheeler Jeff Wheeler Epic Fantasy Epic Fantasy Epic Fantasy Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 4/1/2016 Publication Date: 5/31/2016 Publication Date: 9/6/2016 Page Count: 336 Page Count: 366 Page Count: 386 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages Rights Sold: Hungarian, Rights Sold: Hungarian, Rights Sold: Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, and Simplified Chinese, and Simplified Chinese, and Turkish Turkish Turkish

King Severn Argentine’s fearsome reputation A Wall Street Journal bestseller. A Wall Street Journal bestseller. precedes him: usurper of the throne, killer of rightful heirs, ruthless punisher of traitors. Owen Kiskaddon first came to the court of the Against all odds, Owen Kiskaddon grew from Attempting to depose him, the Duke of formidable King Severn as a prisoner, winning frightened boy to confident youth to trusted Kiskaddon gambles…and loses. Now the duke favor by masquerading as a boy truly blessed officer in the court of Kingfountain—and must atone by handing over his young son, by the Fountain. Nine years hence, the once- watched its regent, Severn Argentine, grow Owen, as the king’s hostage. And should his fearful Owen has grown into a confident young ever more ruthless and power-mad. Robbed of loyalty falter again, the boy will pay with his man, mentored in battle and politics by Duke his beloved protector, his noble mentor, and life. Horwath and deeply in love with his childhood his true love, Owen has anticipated the day friend, the duke’s granddaughter. But the when the king he fears and reviles, yet loyally Seeking allies and eluding Severn’s spies, blissful future that Owen and Elysabeth serves, will be toppled. Now, as Severn plots a Owen learns to survive in the court of Mortimer anticipate seems doomed by the campaign of conquest, the time has come to Kingfountain. But when new evidence of his king’s machinations. take action…and Owen’s destiny demands father’s betrayal threatens to seal his fate, that he lead the strike. Owen must win the vengeful king’s favor by A pretender to Severn’s throne has vowed to proving his worth—through extraordinary seize the crown of Kingfountain. But Severn Ordered to incite war with a neighboring means. And only one person can aid his means to combat the threat by using kingdom, Owen discovers its beautiful, desperate cause: a mysterious woman, Elysabeth as bait to snare the imposter—and reclusive ruler, whose powerful magic might dwelling in secrecy, who truly wields power forcing Owen to be a pawn in the dangerous even exceed his own. Together they mount a over life, death, and destiny. charade With poisoners and spies circling daring plot to overthrow the corrupt monarch, ominously, Owen must make painful sacrifices crown the rightful heir, and defeat the to beat back the advancing shadows of death prophesied curse threatening Kingfountain and disaster. Will Owen’s heart follow the with wintry death. king’s path or will he risk everything for love?

The Hollow Crown The Silent Shield The Forsaken Throne (Book Four) (Book Five) (Book Six) Jeff Wheeler Jeff Wheeler Jeff Wheeler Historical Fantasy Historical Fantasy Historical Fantasy Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 6/13/2017 Publication Date: 8/22/2017 Publication Date: Page Count: 304 Page Count: 320 11/14/2017 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 320 Languages Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

A Wall Street Journal bestseller. Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff In the thrilling conclusion to the Wall Street Wheeler continues the acclaimed Kingfountain Journal bestselling Kingfountain Series, a Following the downfall of a tyrant, years have Series with a vast expansion of this conflicted champion must navigate a passed in prosperity for the kingdom of spellbinding world. treacherous world to secure the peace. Ceredigion. Now, as the time comes to celebrate the new king’s nuptials, the specter Thrust into the heart of events threatening to A devastating disaster has left the Forbidden of a new enemy emerges to destroy all that rip her kingdom apart, young Trynne Court in ashes, its fountains destroyed, and its has been painstakingly built in those years. Kiskaddon will gain new powers and see old magic at risk. It was destined as the site of allies fall and new heroes rise as the battle for Trynne Kiskaddon’s coronation as empress. Tryneowy Kiskaddon has grown up learning the kingdom and the lands beyond begins. Now, all Trynne can imagine is the roar of military and diplomatic strategy from her flames, the cries of Gahalatine’s people, and father, one of the king’s closest advisers. She Courtly intrigue and rumors of invasion plunge the smell of cinders in a city gone dark. Tragic feels her destiny lies in defending the kingdom Kingfountain into turmoil as the search for as the threat to Kingfountain is, it’s nowhere as a knight, not as a Wizr as her parents have Trynne’s father begins in earnest. But near as foul as the treachery posed by decided, though no lady of the realm has Trynne’s quest to learn the truth about Owen’s Morwenna. Saboteur, conspirator, and full- taken up the sword in a century. As she seeks sinister disappearance is sidetracked when blood sister of the king, she is prepared to set to understand her own Fountain-blessed tragedy strikes her family once again. forth a wave of destruction that will eliminate powers, she studies in the tradition of her Suddenly, the future of the kingdom rests in everything that stands between her and mother while training in secret and closely her hands as she struggles to learn—and possession of the throne. following the realm’s politics, alarmed by her control—the power that can keep the mother’s vision of an impending clash and a threatening Deep Fathoms at bay. When King But Trynne has her weapons, too—her magic, devastating future. But the pieces on fate’s Gahalatine unleashes his overwhelming forces her resilience, her skills at intrigue, and game board are in motion, and on the eve of against the realm, Trynne must draw on her especially, Fallon. The man who once swore battle, a threatening force irrevocably changes political instincts, training, and magic if she his allegiance to Morwenna now stands by the future of the kingdom and her own. hopes to survive the chaos to come. Trynne’s side. Science Fiction and Fantasy | 165 Covenant of Muirwood

The Banished of The Ciphers of The Void of Muirwood Muirwood (Book One) Muirwood (Book Two) (Book Three) Jeff Wheeler Jeff Wheeler Jeff Wheeler Epic Fantasy Epic Fantasy Epic Fantasy Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 8/18/2015 Publication Date: 9/15/2015 Publication Date: Page Count: 418 Page Count: 402 10/27/2015 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Page Count: 432 Languages Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In a world full of magic and mystery, eighteen- From the moment she was banished by her When banished Princess Maia is captured by year-old Maia is the exiled princess of father, the king, Princess Maia journeyed to her father and threatened with execution, it Comoros and rightful heir to the throne. seek sanctuary at Muirwood Abbey, the appears that all is lost…until the people rise in Forced to live as a servant in her enemy’s epicenter of magic and good in the land. Now rebellion against their king. Suddenly, Maia home, Maia flees her captors and begins a safe for the first time since her cruel finds herself crowned the first queen of perilous quest to save her people. abandonment, Maia must foster uneasy Comoros. But enemies appear on all sides as friendships with other girls training to be her father’s conniving supporters assemble a To survive, she must use magic she has Ciphers: women who learn to read and new army against the fledgling ruler. While learned in secret—despite the fact that women engrave tomes of ancient power, despite the Maia struggles to keep the peace within her are forbidden to control it. Hunted by enemies laws forbidding them to do so. own walls, she rushes to form historical at every turn, Maia realizes that danger lurks alliances with her neighboring kingdoms within her, too. Her powers threaten to steal As Maia tries to judge whom to trust, she against an impending invasion of the ruthless not only her consciousness but also her sense makes a shocking discovery: her destiny is to Naestors—led by the cruel Corriveaux—who of right and wrong. Can she set herself free open the Apse Veil and release trapped spirits will destroy anyone Maia loves in order to ruin and save the realm she loves—even if her from her world. Then she learns that her father her kingdom. people have forgotten her? is coming to Muirwood Abbey to celebrate the Whitsunday festival—and Maia’s estranged Realizing that Muirwood Abbey is once again In bestselling author Jeff Wheeler’s fantasy husband, whom she was forced to abandon, her only hope for survival, Maia gathers her epic, the answer may be only the beginning to will join him. Torn between deadly political people there for protection. When she Maia’s journey throughout the mystical land of machinations and unstoppable spiritual forces, discovers an adversary greater than she’s Muirwood. Maia must channel unknown powers within ever known, she must use all the magic, herself to save her friends, the abbey, and the strength, and wisdom gained to prevent the entire kingdom of Muirwood. Void that would bring destruction to herself, her true love, and the entire kingdom.

Legends of Muirwood

The Wretched of The Blight of The Scourge of Muirwood (Book One) Muirwood (Book Two) Muirwood (Book Three) Jeff Wheeler Jeff Wheeler Jeff Wheeler Epic Fantasy Epic Fantasy Epic Fantasy Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 1/15/2013 Publication Date: 1/15/2013 Publication Date: 1/15/2013 Page Count: 300 Page Count: 466 Page Count: 353 Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Rights Acquired: All Languages Languages Languages Rights Sold: German, Rights Sold: Simplified Rights Sold: Simplified Italian, and Simplified Chinese Chinese Chinese

In the ancient and mystical land of Muirwood, Lia finds herself filled with inner turmoil after When a deadly plague is unleashed in the Lia has known only a life of servitude. Labeled the great battle of Winterrowd that led to the land of Muirwood, the fate of the world is a “wretched,” an outcast unwanted and death of the wicked king and her closest ally. placed in the hands of a young woman named unworthy of respect, Lia is forbidden to realize Despite her reservations, Lia is called to be an Lia. Charged to be a magical protector, Lia her dream to read or write. All but doomed, official protector of Muirwood Abbey and is volunteers to be sent on a desperate quest to her days are spent toiling away as a kitchen charged to employ her magic to defend rescue the squire Colvin, her love, and his slave under the charge of the Aldermaston, Ellowyn Demont, the lost heir of the fallen pupil Ellowyn Demont, the alleged heir to the the Abbey’s watchful overseer. But when an kingdom of Pry-Ree. Her duties are put to the fallen kingdom of Pry-Ree. Still recovering injured squire named Colvin is abandoned at test when the Queen Dowager arrives in from the injuries of her last adventures, Lia the kitchen’s doorstep, an opportunity arises. Muirwood accusing the Aldermaston, the sets off across land and sea warning the abbey’s overseer, for the king’s death. kingdom of the oncoming plague. The journey The nefarious Sheriff Almaguer soon starts a leads her to Dochte Abbey, where her friends manhunt for Colvin, and Lia conspires to hide Amid the turmoil, battle ensues, and Lia learns are supposedly held. Instead, though, a fallen Colvin and change her fate. In the midst of a of a terrible plague that threatens to cover the enemy lies in wait for her, as well as an land torn by a treacherous war between a land in darkness and death. Atop it all, the unbearable new truth. The revelation will force ruthless king and a rebel army, Lia finds magic of the world begins to fail. In a quest to Lia to choose between the lives of her closest herself on an ominous journey that will push undo the devastation, Lia’s path brings her to friends and her deepest desires… her to wonder if her own hidden magic is a startling revelation that will change her life enough to set things right. At once captivating, forever. Fantastically epic and at all times engaging, mysterious, and magic-infused, The Wretched The Scourge of Muirwood is a monumental of Muirwood takes the classic fantasy finish to the Muirwood Trilogy. adventure and paints it with a story instantly epic, and yet, all its own.

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Fireblood (Book One) Jeff Wheeler Epic Fantasy Imprint: 47North 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. He believes the answer to ending the devastation lies in the Scourgelands. Yet, Tyrus’s first expedition into the cursed woods failed after being defeated by mysterious minions who stalked and killed most of his band.

Now a prisoner in his own tower, Tyrus has summoned his nephew, Annon. But in reality, Tyrus is using his niece and nephew, and their magic, as an opportunity to escape and resume his desperate mission. And to aid them, he has enlisted the warrior-monk Paedrin—who is almost as green as the siblings when it comes to traveling these troubled lands. The trio is determined, and along the way they grow to trust each other— and new additions to the group—in order to accomplish their missions…whether or not those missions are one and the same.

But the Arch-Rike—ruthless ruler of Kenatos—has learned of these plans, and has sent the fearsome Kishion to destroy all those that 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 on the world…

Dryad-Born (Book Two) Jeff Wheeler Epic Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 2/4/2014 Page Count: 463 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The struggle to save the plague-ridden kingdoms continues in this captivating novel.

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 now she is also 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 Epic Fantasy Imprint: 47North Publication Date: 2/24/2015 Page Count: 530 Rights Acquired: All Languages

The battle to save the kingdoms devastated by the Plague culminates in this exhilarating finale to the Whispers from Mirrowen trilogy.

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?

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