Caroline Abbey at Random House has preempted Breeana Shields’s debut YA fantasy novel, The Serpent’s Promise, set in an alternate world based on the mythology of ancient India, in which a girl has been trained since birth as a “poison maiden” in the Raja’s service. When she is ordered to kill a boy she has feelings for, she begins to question not only her role but the Raja’s end game. Publication is scheduled for 2017.

Sara Jane Stone’s sexy, emotional FOREVER WILD trilogy about three returning soldiers who find a second chance at love, in a 3-book deal.

Tamra Baumann’s IT HAD TO BE LOVE, in which the quiet sheriff unexpectedly falls for the beautiful new dentist who’s hiding a dangerous secret that could cost her life if she can’t overcome her past and learn to trust him.

Joya Ryan’s PLAYING WITH TROUBLE, the story of a woman who comes back to her small hometown to run her father’s business — but she only has ninety days to get in the black or it forfeits to the one man she hates…and yet can’t keep her hands off.

YOU REALLY GOT ME author Erika Kelly’s next book in her Rock Star Romance series, in which a bad boy keyboard player from a family of rock ‘n roll legacies has lost touch with the joy of music – until he meets a feisty, spirited chef who helps him reconnect to his roots, to Leis Pederson at Berkley.

Logan Miller and Noah Miller’s LET THE GOOD PREVAIL, being adapted as the brothers’ third feature film starring Josh Hartnett and Ed Harris, delivering a potent mix of violence and humor when a logger steals a marijuana harvest and drags his war-hero brother into a collision course with an eccentric drug lord and corrupt sheriff  in the badlands of New Mexico, to Tyson Cornell at Rare Bird Books.

Sold! FOR THE LONGEST TIME author Kendra Leigh Castle’s next two books in her Harvest Cove contemporary romance series, starting with COME ON CLOSER, in which a free-spirited bakery owner must decide if she can trust the town’s resident bad boy lawyer with her heart when attraction sizzles between them, to Kerry Donovan at NAL, in a two-book deal.

Professor William Hansen’s Helen’s Chalice: A New Anthology of Myths, Legends, Folktales, Fables, and Jokes of the Greeks and Romans, a compilation—the largest ever made–of ancient Greek and Roman popular tales, bringing to light a new canon of classical stories that illuminate Greek and Roman daily life.

USA Today bestselling author J.L Berg’s FORGETTING AUGUST, in which a woman, who started over, never expected her world to suddenly be turned upside down by the reawakening of the one man who could destroy it all, in a 2 book deal.

So You Think You Can Write Top 10 finalist Katie Meyer’s THE PUPPY PROPOSAL, the story of a veterinary technician, a troublemaking border collie, and the sexy stranger in town who falls for them both.