Danica Winters’ next series, in which four siblings must unravel a mystery that led to the death of one of their own, in a four-book deal.

Golden Heart and Maggie Award-winning author Carrie Nichols’s The Sheriff’s Little Matchmaker, about a sexy single dad trying to convince a wary widow to take a second chance on love, in a 3-book deal.

Minka Kent’s STILLWATER DARLINGS, in which a young woman finds a cheap room to rent—perfect roommate included, but what starts out as an ideal arrangement fast becomes a living nightmare one twisted lie at a time in a 2-book deal.

Julie Chase’s CAT GOT YOUR CROWN, when a man is murdered during dress rehearsal for the National Pet Pageant in New Orleans, a local pet lover and animal costume designer aims to uncover the truth about his death, but finds herself in the killer’s clutches instead.

Kerry McDonald’s Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Kids Without Conventional Schooling, sharing stories and strategies for exploring self-directed education and encouraging natural learning.

Mollie Cox Bryan’s first book in a new cozy mystery series set on a dairy farm in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, in which the heroine cares for her herd of Devon milking cows, creates cheese and cream from their milk, and solves a murder, all during the Christmas season, in a 2-book deal.

Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novella A Bone to Pick, part of the new The Widow’s Island series, in which the discovery of a child’s bones reopens a missing child’s cold case and old wounds for a sheriff’s deputy and an FBI agent who were changed forever twenty years before when their childhood friend disappearedr twenty years before when their childhood friend disappeared.

Lauren Canan’s MASTER OF THE GAME, in which a dark, brooding billionaire rancher meets his match in a marriage of convenience with a woman whose amnesia hides an explosive secret in a three-book deal.

Winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition Joanna Schaffhausen’s second novel NO MERCY, in which, forced into group therapy for victims of violent crime, police officer Ellery Hathaway begins digging around in everyone’s past but her own—a move that, at best, could put her out of work permanently, and at worst, could put her in the city morgue, in a 2-book deal.

Joy Avon’s ‘TIS THE SEASON FOR TRIPLE-TIERED TROUBLE, first in the new Book Tea Mysteries, in which an organizer of book-themed tea parties and her lovable Boston terrier have to conquer threefold trouble – a mysterious will, a missing heirloom and a dead body – to restore the Christmas spirit for her unhappy client and squabbling tea party guests, at auction, in a three-book deal.