Laura Trentham’s A BRAZEN BARGAIN, in which the sister of a duke is forced to settle her brother’s gaming debt by working as a servant at the country estate of the gruff, scarred former spy, not expecting the passion that flares between them even as her brother’s past threatens their chance at a future together, to Jessica Corra at Samhain Publishing.

DOLLFACE and WHAT THE LADY WANTS author Renee Rosen’s untitled third novel, about a female cub reporter at the Chicago Tribune in the 1950s caught between her personal desires and professional ambitions becomes embroiled in a national conspiracy to steal the presidential election for JFK, pitched as House of Cards meets Mad Men, again to Claire Zion at Penguin, for publication in Fall 2015.