Nina Croft’s UNTHINKABLE, in which, hunted by the governments they once worked for, the Tribe, a covert group of powerful telepaths, must uncover the secret of their origins, or face total annihilation, in a 4-book deal.

The Double Energy Twins Judi Zucker and Shari Zucker’s The Memory Diet: More Than 150 Healthy Recipes for the Proper Care and Feeding of Your Brain, introducing a powerful, plant-based diet of leafy greens, vegetables, berries, nuts, beans, and whole grains that can slow down or even eliminate cognitive decline using recipes all free of white sugar, processed ingredients, and gluten.

Blacklist Royals drummer Rob Rufus’s DIE YOUNG WITH ME, an intimate account of a punk musician’s battle with cancer in his teens and an ode to music’s ability to make sense of our lives, also the basis of a concept album released by Universal, to Matthew Benjamin at Touchstone, for publication in 2017.

Kristi Wientge’s debut KARMA KHULLAR’S MUSTACHE, in which a biracial Indian-American girl must navigate big changes in her friendships and family life as she starts sixth grade, all while trying to rid herself of an unexpected problem: seventeen hairs that have sprouted on her upper lip, to Liz Kossnar at Simon & Schuster Children’s, for publication in summer 2017.

Lauren Canan’s REDEEMING THE BILLIONAIRE SEAL, in which a billionaire bad boy-turned-US Navy SEAL returns home on leave and encounters the woman from his past and the baby she’s raising, who will challenge his vow of “bachelorhood forever” in a 2-book deal.

DEAD TO ME author Mary McCoy’s CAMP SO AND SO, in which twenty-five teenage girls are invited to a mysterious summer camp in the Appalachian Mountains where all is not as it appears, pitched as Cabin in the Woods meets Wet Hot American Summer with the interlocking mystery structure of The Westing Game, to Alix Reid at Carolrhoda Lab, for publication in spring 2017.

Christina June’s debut VALEDICTIONS, in which a sixteen-year-old girl spending the summer on stepmother-imposed house arrest starts a secret graphic design business, and in the process not only reconnects with her family and friends but also strikes up a sweet, unexpected romance with a cute cello player, pitched as a contemporary twist on Cinderella, to Jillian Manning at Blink.

Finalist in the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature Julie Christine Johnson’s THE CROWS OF BEARA, in which a struggling PR executive and an enigmatic artist face off over the development of a copper mine in rural Ireland, finding love and redemption amid the mystical land.

Camille DiMaio’s THE MEMORY OF US, in which a Protestant socialite and a Catholic seminarian can no longer resist the love that will bring scandal to their families in the dawn of World War II England, but when a Blitz bombing brings devastation to an underground shelter, choices are forged, lies are created, and decades pass before the truth brings the two lovers face to face with the consequences of their decisions.

Candis Terry’s next contemporary romance in the Sunshine Creek Vineyards series, in which a young entrepreneur determined to never mix business with pleasure finally realizes the woman he relies on every day to keep his business on track is worth the risk of putting happiness at the top of his to-do list, to Amanda Bergeron at Avon, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal.