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Table of Contents

“This debut novel has a delightful premise, crisply drawn characters, and a subtle sense of humor….the very definition of a promising debut.” —Booklist on BROKEN TEAGLASS

“Arsenault’s quirky, arresting debut….[is] an absorbing, offbeat mystery-meets-coming-of-age novel that’s as sweet as it is suspenseful.” —Publishers Weekly on BROKEN TEAGLASS

From the critically acclaimed author of BROKEN TEAGLASS and IN SEARCH OF THE ROSE NOTES comes a brand new literary mystery for fans of Laura Lippman. Eliza Waters is most famous for her book Tammyland, a “honky-tonk Eat, Pray, Love” that is all about Tammy Wynett. When Eliza dies in a drug store shooting, everyone thinks it is a tragically botched mugging. Jen, Eliza’s best friend from college, had no reason to suspect foul play until she becomes Eliza’s literary executor. The manuscript Eliza was working on most recently is about an old child abuse case. The more Jen reads, the more sinister things become. From beyond the grave, Eliza’s writing opens up a different world to Jen. Eliza’s death seems suspicious and Jen soon finds herself in danger as well. William Morrow Paperbacks

Estimated length: 320 pages

Manuscript available
Ballantine, Pip and Morris, Tee

*THE JANUS AFFAIR

The second in an exciting and fun Edwardian steampunk adventure series, featuring two secret agents from the “Ministry of Peculiar Occurences,” who investigate a startling conspiracy. In the vein of Gail Carriger’s bestselling SOULLESS and CHANGELESS, this is lush and intricate—a bit proper, and a bit naughty—with lots of adventure and period setting. The women in London are disappearing—young and old, rich and poor, and from all walks of society. The only thing they have in common is their belief that women deserve the vote. It’s up to the Ministry to find out why these women are vanishing, but agents Brooks and Braun have their own challenges. There’s a turncoat with nefarious plans within the Ministry itself, and the reappearance of an old flame means their growing friendship is threatened. Harper Voyager

Publication: June 2012

Estimated length: 432 pages

Manuscript available

Neil Gaiman meets Tim Burton in this Victorian gothic tale of the world beyond the living and the price you pay to save those you love. In this imaginative and haunting debut, feisty young governess Charlotte Markham is employed at a dilapidated manor where she falls in love with her widower employer, Henry Darrow. While walking near a forest with the boys in her care she discovers a dark alternate world called The Ending, the place for things that cannot die. They encounter the deceased mother of the two boys, who has been waiting to pick up where she left off in the ominous House of Darkling—a wondrous, dangerous placed filled with enchantment, mystery and strange creatures that appear to be, but are not quite, human. They secretly visit the House of Darkling repeatedly until the two boys are trapped inside with their mother. Charlotte confides everything to Henry, and together they must decide whether to risk their lives in order to reclaim what has been ripped from them. A fantastic journey that is splendidly strange, frightening, and exhilarating. William Morrow Paperbacks

Rights sold in Brazil/Leya; Germany/Lubbe; Russia/AST; UK/Titan
Publication: August 2012 (CB)

Estimated length: 320 pages

Manuscript available

Brom

Brom, author of the acclaimed illustrated novel THE CHILD THIEF, returns with a spectacular retelling of the story of Krampus, a.k.a. Black Peter, the dark enemy of Santa Claus. When failed songwriter Jesse witnesses a strange encounter on Christmas Eve—seven men cloaked in black beating up a man in a red suit and a sleigh, he steps in, but all of the strange denizens disappear, leaving only a large sack. He discovers that Santa (the interloper) has stolen the magical bag of Krampus, the ancient trickster demon who punishes evildoers. By picking it up, Jesse becomes one of Krampus’s followers. The former Yule Lord will stop at nothing to reclaim his holiday, and return wild magic to the desperately poor denizens of Boone County. But in every fairytale, a strange gift always has a price—and soon Jesse is pulled into a dark, wild adventure that will span the globe, from the beginnings of Krampus himself to his own search to save his daughter and his own broken dreams. Harper Voyager

Estimated length: 368 pages; 35 b&w illustrations; 8-page color insert

Manuscript available
Cabot, Meg

SIZE 12 AND READY TO ROCK

#1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot delivers the next installment in her incredibly funny and exciting Heather Wells mystery series. It’s summer break in New York College, and dorm director Heather Wells is watching over a bunch of 13-year-old girls attending “Tania Trace Rock Star” camp, hosted by pop sensation Tania Trace who happens to be married to Heather’s ex-boyfriend. A reality TV show is filming Tania’s every move, but when Tania’s producer ends up dead, followed by a cameraman, Heather soon finds herself involved in a mystery that is rocking one of New York City’s best universities. William Morrow Paperbacks

Estimated length: 304 pages

Manuscript available: May 2012
Caldwell, Megan

*VANITY FARE

“Vanity Fare made me laugh out loud…. It’s a fabulous book.”  New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries

For fans of Jennifer Crusie and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes this clever, hilarious, heartbreaking and charming debut novel about a 40-year-old Brooklyn mother, recently divorced with a son, who starts writing copy for a bakery, discovers a knack for food-related literary puns, and becomes entangled in a love triangle.  Molly Hagan is overwhelmed and forty. Her husband left her for a younger, blonder woman six months ago, her six-year-old son is questioning her authority, she has to get a job, and then her broke and bitter mother moves in.  So what does Molly do? She doesn’t just roll over, as she has for the first 40 years of her life. Instead, Molly makes lists. Lots of them. Lists of ways she can push herself, things she would never do, things she is proud of, things she is not so proud of— all to get her confidence up  So she's not thinking of romance when an old friend offers her a job writing copy for a new bakery. But the sexy British pastry chef has other thoughts--and so does Molly when she meets the chef's intimidating business partner -- who also happens to have a secret that might prevent Molly from getting her own Happily Ever After.  Megan Cladwell is a contributor to Marie Claire magazine and a Daily Writer for Clear Channel's Premiere Radio rep service.  She is also the Community Manager for Heroes and Heartbreakers, a romance novel website.  William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication: January 2013 (CB)

Estimated Length: 400 pages

Manuscript Available: May 2012

Chopra, Deepak

Beloved author and teacher Deepak Chopra takes us on an enlightening journey through history as we come to understand God through the lives of our most celebrated saints and sages. From Socrates to Joan of Arc, Rumi to Baal Shem Tov, Thomas the Apostle to Einstein, God emerges in times of conflict and sheds divine light. While God’s wisdom was often ignored and very often betrayed, we witness first-hand how His presence and influence evolved over time and in so doing experience the great inrush of spirit that arrives and turns confusion and conflict into clarity and inspiration. In the end, GOD: A Story of Revelation is about our very human journey to know and understand the divine. Deepak Chopra is the founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California, and is acknowledged as one of the master teachers of Eastern philosophy in the Western World. He has written more than fifty-five books and has been a bestselling author for decades with over a dozen titles on the New York Times bestseller lists, including BUDDHA, JESUS, MUHAMMAD and many others. HarperOne

Estimated length: 288 pages

Manuscript available: June 2012
Daniel, Susanna

*SEA CREATURES

“A deeply engrossing tale of love, family, friendship, and motherhood, Stiltsville is both an elegantly crafted work of art and a great read. Susanna Daniel is an extraordinary writer and Stiltsville is a beautiful book.” —Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep and American Wife on STILTSVILLE

“When you build a house beyond the edge of a continent, you’re not looking to make friends.” SEA CREATURES, the mesmerizing next novel by STILTSVILLE author and Pen/Bingham Award recipient Susanna Daniel, follows a young woman who, in the wake of a family crisis, uproots her husband and toddler from the Midwest and returns to her hometown of Miami, where her marriage starts to come apart at the seams when she takes a job as an assistant to an eccentric reclusive artist. A breathtaking exploration of the risks and rewards of attachment, set against the lush and tempestuous backdrop of Miami, Daniels brings to life the story of a woman who ultimately must face the unthinkable choice between her husband and young son. Susanna Daniel is a graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was a fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Harper
UK rights: HC-USA; Translation: The Weil Agency
Publication: August 2013 (CB)

Estimated length: 352 pages

Manuscript available: August 2012
de Jonge, Peter

BURIED ON AVENUE B

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as an “utterly irresistible heroine,” hard-living homicide detective Darlene O’Hara returns from Peter de Jonge’s first novel, SHADOWS STILL REMAIN, in this edgy noir thriller set on New York City’s Lower East Side. A nurse stops by the offices of Homicide South in Manhattan to report the confession of Gus Henderson, her elderly Alzheimer’s patient, a former junkie and petty criminal, who claims he murdered and buried a man in a park off Avenue B seventeen years ago. All signs point toward the man’s partner in crime as the victim—he’s been off the grid for exactly seventeen years. After threats from the presumed victim’s mother, the city reluctantly agrees to excavate the community garden where Henderson claimed to have buried the body. But it’s not her son they find buried beneath the willow tree. What they find is the skeleton of a ten-year-old boy, neatly dressed and buried ceremoniously with a comic book, a cd, some pot, and booze. O’Hara dives headlong into the city’s dark underbelly and is about to uncover a hidden, dangerous world of lost boys and girls. Peter de Jonge is the author of SHADOWS STILL REMAIN (2009), a Washington Post Book of the Year, and co-author, with James Patterson, of three books: Miracle on the 17th Green (Little, Brown, 1996), and the #1 New York Times bestsellers Beach Road (Little, Brown, 2003) and The Beach House (Little, Brown, 2006). He worked as a reporter at the Associated Press, and has been a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine since 1986. His writing has appeared in Best American Sports Writing, National Geographic, New York magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Details, and Manhattan, Inc. Harper

Estimated length: 336 pages

“Entertaining….Dietrich seamlessly blends historical figures such as Napoleon and Toussaint L’Ouverture, the liberator of Haiti, with fictional characters like Gage’s nemesis, renegade secret policeman Leon Martel, in this amusing swashbuckler.” -- Publishers Weekly

“The book is a breathlessly exciting adventure, as fast paced as an Indiana Jones movie and just about as entertaining." Starred review Booklist

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author William Dietrich delivers his fifth installment in the popular and bestselling Ethan Gage adventure series. The action races from the slopes of the Swiss Alps to the sultry tropics of the Caribbean, with a mysterious and magical Spanish treasure, the fate of England, and the first successful slave revolt in history hanging in the balance. Allied with his new wife, Astiza, Ethan Gage embarks in a desperate hunt in the isles of the Caribbean for the Lost Treasure of Montezuma, a legendary hoard that tradition says was saved and hidden from the Spanish conquistadors of Cortez. In pursuit are British agents who hope the gold will finance the black slave revolt in St. Dominique, or Haiti, robbing France of its richest colony. French agents are seeking the treasure for an even bigger prize: certain Aztec ornaments look like flying machines, and ruthless secret policeman Leon Martel dreams they could hold the key to a new weapon that could defeat Britain. THE TREASURE OF MONTEZUMA has William Dietrich’s trademark combination of humor, exotic geography, fascinating historical figures, and details of life at the dawn of the 19^th century. Harper

Estimated length: 368 pages

Galley available
Drake, Jocelynn

*ANGEL’S INK: The Asylum Tales

“A lot of fun, with a whole new take on the dark urban fantasy. Bright and breezy, with fascinating characters, and a background with hidden depths. Drake puts the ink in incredible.” -- New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green

Estimated length: 368 pages

Manuscript available
NIGHTWALKER sold in Germany/VGS; Poland/Amber; Turkey/Pegasus
Ephron, Hallie