Congratulations to Aileen Bordman and Jeanne Kelley who made the USAToday top ten annual summer cookbook list!

Cheryl Ann Smith’s THE SWEETHEART RACKET, the first in a romance suspense trilogy pitched as a take-off on Charlie’s Angels, in which a former NFL cheerleader is recruited as a PI at an all-female detective agency, and sparks fly when she signs on to help a handsome DEA Special Agent hunt down a sweetheart con man on the run, to Tara Gavin at Lyrical Press, in a three-book deal.

Tessa Arlen’s THE LAST AUGUST ROSE, the next book in her mystery series featuring an elegant lady and her redoubtable housekeeper, as they investigate a murder of concealed passions and secret desires to discover a villain of audacious cunning among a group of mild-mannered, amateur rose-breeders while the idyllic English summer days count-down to the start of WWI.

Josh Funk’s JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, in which a young Jack is not keen on climbing any beanstalks and would much prefer to tell his own story, to Marilyn Brigham at Two Lions.

Alison Goldberg’s debut I LOVE YOU FOR MILES AND MILES, comparing a parent’s love for a child to all manner of vehicles, distances, and modes of transportation, to Janine O’Malley at Farrar, Straus Children’s.

NYT bestselling author J. Kenner’s untitled new erotic romance trilogy, featuring a bad boy hero with a tortured past and the one woman who is absolutely forbidden to him, again to Shauna Summers at Bantam Dell, in a major deal, in a three-book deal, for publication in Spring 2016.

NYT bestselling Tracers series author Laura Griffin’s new e-serial, starring Navy SEALs who will risk their lives to protect their country and the women they love, to Abby Zidle at Gallery and Pocket Star.

Susan Bishop Crispell’s WISHES TO NOWHERE, pitched in the vein of Sarah Addison Allen and Alice Hoffman, in which a young woman, hiding the secret that she can make wishes come true, finds herself in a charming North Carolina small town that was not on her map, to Kat Brzozowski at Thomas Dunne Books, in a very nice deal, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal.

Aileen Bordman signing copies of the just released Monet’s Palate Cookbook: The Artist and his Kitchen Garden at Giverny at Barnes & Noble NYC, Tuesday, May 13.

Sold! NYT bestselling author Molly McAdams’ untitled next book, in which a young woman just out of college is convinced she’s building a fairytale life with her boyfriend, but when the hot Marine she once had an intense weekend fling with reenters her life, choosing between the nice guy and the bad boy will test her heart and force her to decide what matters to her most, to Tessa Woodward at William Morrow.