Lucy Connelly’s third book in the AN AMERICAN IN SCOTLAND series, in which it’s Christmas time in Sea Isle, Scotland, and the town doctor has her hands full with her holiday event responsibilities and the discovery of a dead body.

Author of DUST and the Life of a Cactus series Dusti Bowling’s SIR EDMUND OF THE WILD WEST, a humorous and mildly haunted chapter book series exploring ghost legends of the West and featuring a seizure alert dog who thinks he’s British, with the first book exploring the mystery and lore of the Grand Canyon, to Sally Morgridge at Holiday House, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2026 and spring 2027.

Emma Dues’s RETURN TO MIDNIGHT, in which a true-crime novelist, returns to the “Midnight House,” where several of her college friends were murdered to write the story she’s been too scared to tell, but as she dives into a case that many would like to keep closed, she starts receiving threats pushing her to reveal her well-guarded and deadly secrets.

NYT bestselling author Lynn Cahoon’s AN AMATEUR SLEUTH’S GUIDE TO MURDER, the first in a new series set in Bainbridge, Washington, follows a woman who returns home after a broken engagement with one skill set and one desire – to solve crimes like Nancy Drew, but now she just has to stumble into a mystery to solve and discover a dead body (that’s not her cheating ex-fiance), in a 3-book deal.

Rachel Magee’s IT’S ALL RELATIVE, inspired by Shakespeare’s famous comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a lighthearted women’s fiction celebrating the age-old-adage that “the course of true love”—or family, or careers, or a lot of things, actually—”never did run smooth”, in a 2-book deal.

Sandra Block’s THE BACHELORETTE PARTY, when a true-crime-loving bachelorette wakes up from her party to find her best friends missing and blood everywhere, she must solve her own case to save them and herself, with a final twist even she doesn’t see coming.

Author of SCRITCH SCRATCH Lindsay Currie’s IT’S WATCHING, pitched as a nod to The Ring, set in the most haunted cemetery in the country on Halloween night, where three kids must discover who—or what—is terrorizing them after receiving an ominous meme, to Alison Romig at Delacorte, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2025 and spring 2026.

USA Today bestselling author Ella Quinn’s NEXT THREE BOOKS IN THE POPULAR WORTHINGTON series, a happy, closeknit, and slightly chaotic family as they help each other find their happily ever afters during the Regency period.

Rebecca Allensworth’s BOARD TO DEATH: WHY PROFESSIONAL LICENSING ISN’T KEEPING YOU SAFE, told through stories of professionals and their regulators, and revealing that the way we regulate almost a quarter of American workers is deeply dysfunctional and surprisingly dangerous, especially for society’s most marginalized.

Hugh Blane’s LEAD BOLDLY,  the book every leader needs when they first become a leader offering imminently practical and real world advice.