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Immortal the Blood by Molly X. Chang (Random House)
A Spell to Wake the Dead by Nicole Lesperance (G. P. Putnam and Sons)
Gretchen Durning at Putnam has bought North American rights to Nicole Lesperance's A Spell to Wake the Dead, an occult YA thriller set on Cape Cod, about two best friends who unwittingly summon a vengeful spirit and uncover a dangerous mystical cult while trying to solve the mystery of a dead woman who washed up on their local beach. Publication is scheduled for summer 2025; Kathleen Rushall at Andrea Brown Literary Agency did the deal.
Into the Deep Blue by Jennifer E. Archer (Marble Press) - moved from 2024.
Jodi Keller at Marble Press has acquired Into the Deep Blue, a YA contemporary novel by debut author and Nicholl Fellowship winner Jennifer E. Archer, which follows human hurricane Nick and always-fine Fiona, whose mothers have both died, leaving them to work through insurmountable grief—and maybe fall for each other. The novel, which is being made into a movie starring Sabrina Carpenter, is set for fall 2024; Christa Heschke and Daniele Hunter at McIntosh & Otis brokered the deal for world English rights.
Love Unmasked by Becky Dean (Delacorte)
July 1st
Den of Liars by Jessica S. Olson (Feiwel and Friends)
Lola St. James is the world’s best kept secret. When her father’s loss in the Liar’s Dice Tournament–a high-stakes competition where players are forced to gamble with their deepest secrets–made her a target, she was rescued by the Thief, the notorious leader of the Tentacles. But the Thief’s kindness came with a price: Lola’s heart. In the years that followed, she and the Thief formed a bond like no other, able to feel each other’s emotions because of their shared heart.
Now, living under the pseudonym Astra, she is determined to prove herself and become a full-fledged Tentacle. But when a critical heist goes sideways, the only way forward is for Lola to compete in the Liar’s Dice Tournament herself. Lola is confident in her ability to pull off any heist, but the Thief's mysterious brother, the Liar, runs the game and he turns out to be more than she bargained for. As her attraction for him grows and illusions run wild, she will be forced to confront the secrets of her past, the truth of the brothers’ shared history, and the lies she tells herself.
Tenderly, I Am Devoured by Lyndall Clipstone (Henry Holt) - moved from May 2025.
But when her betrothal goes horribly wrong, Lark begins to vanish from the mortal realm. Her only hope is to seek help from Alastair Felimath: the brilliant, arrogant boy who was her first heartbreak, and his alluring older sister, Camille. As the trio delve into the folklore of gods, Lark falls under the spell of the Felimath siblings.
Ensnared by a fervent romance, they perform a bacchanalia with hopes the hedonistic ritual will repair the connection between Lark and her bridegroom. Instead, they draw the ire of something much darker, which seeks to destroy Therion—and Lark as well.
Soulmatch by Rebecca Danzenbaker (Simon and Schuster)
1. Report to the government institute on your 18th birthday.
2. Get scanned and matched to your past lives.
3. Receive a career path and inheritance (if you’re lucky, a soulmate too).
4. Go about your merry way, knowing who you were and who you are.
Sivon should’ve known her visit wouldn’t be that simple. The signs were there - her uncanny knack for winning strategic games as well as her mom’s ability to read everyone’s auras, everyone's except Sivon's. With her indecipherable colors, she was just hoping she wasn’t a bad soul. You know, the tragic ones with criminal histories who leave the institute in handcuffs.
Sivon couldn’t have guessed her results would stir international frenzy, saddling her with an infuriating bodyguard who’s as stand-offish as he is off-limits. Hounded by the masses, driven into hiding, and hanging on to the guy she can never have, Sivon realizes the painful truth - this life isn’t a game, but to survive, she needs to play like it is.
Like We Were in Paris by Stephan Lee (Scholastic) - moved from June 2025.
Aimee
Friedman at Scholastic has bought world rights to Like We Were in Paris
by Stephan Lee (K-Pop Confidential). Billed as Before Sunrise meets
Heartstopper , this YA rom-com follows two sparring teen boys who fall
in love over the course of one madcap night in the City of Light.
Publication is planned for summer 2025. Brenda Bowen at the Book Group
brokered the deal; the book is currently being developed as a
limited-series or original movie by Scholastic Entertainment.
July 3rd
Run Like a Girl by Amaka Egbe (Harlequin) - moved from 2024, changed publisher due to closure of Inkyard Press.
Claire Stetzer at Inkyard Press has bought debut author Amaka Egbe's Run Like a Girl,
which follows 17-year-old Jadera, a high school track star who moves in
with her estranged father only to find out her new school doesn't have a
female track team, so she joins the boys' team instead. Publication is
scheduled for summer 2024; Jemiscoe Chambers-Black at Andrea Brown
Literary Agency brokered the deal for world rights.
July 8th
Of Flame and Fury by Mikayla Bridge (FSG)
Fourth Wing meets The Fast and the Furious in Of
Flame and Fury – the explosive YA fantasy by debut author Mikayla
Bridge. With deadly phoenixes, edge-of-your-seat action and a
smouldering enemies-to-lovers romance, you won't want to miss the
hottest YA fantasy of the summer.
On an island built from ash and
shrouded in fire, phoenix racing is the most profitable – and deadly –
work you can find. No one knows that better than Kelyn Varra and her
crew, the Crimson Howlers.
When the Howler's rider is gravely
injured during a race, Kel is forced to join forces with arrogant,
hot-headed Warren Coupers – the last person she would ever want on her
team. But with her rising debts and threats to her beloved phoenix,
Savita, the pressure to win has never been higher; and Kel is left with
no other choice.
But then mysterious tech mogul Canen Cristo
takes an unsettling interest in the team. Amidst perilous races, the
threat of an unstoppable disease and her growing attraction to Coup, Kel
soon uncovers a sinister plot that will threaten everything she cares
for, as she fights to keep Savita and her magic out of the hands of
those who would use it for their own gain...
Difficult Girls by Veronica Bane (Delacorte) - moved from June 2025.
Krista
Marino at Delacorte Press has acquired debut author Veronica Bane's
Difficult Girls, a YA thriller in which high school junior Greta's life
goes off the rails when she suspects the disappearance of the star
performer at the amusement park where she works is connected to a past
murder, entangling her in the mystery while she struggles to keep her
own secrets hidden. Publication is planned for summer 2025; Michelle
Wolfson at Wolfson Literary Agency brokered the deal for world English
rights.
July 15th
Of Earthly Delights by Goldy Moldavsky (Henry Holt) - moved from May 2025.
Aspiring artist Rose Pauly is not happy moving from her home in New York City right before her senior year of high school. But on her first miserable day in Connecticut, she meets Hart Hargrove. The two share an immediate, undeniable connection.
Hart introduces Rose to his slice of paradise–the immense private garden nestled behind the Hargrove family mansion. There, the two spend a fever dream of a summer together. But as their bond blossoms into love, Rose can't shake the feeling that all is not as it seems.
When Rose uncovers the truth about the garden, she's forced to question how genuine her love story truly is. But Hart can't bear to lose Rose, and he will stop at nothing to save their relationship.
Posing haunting questions about beauty and desire, this is an atmospheric and darkly romantic tale that will enthrall readers.
Wish You Were Her by Elle McNicoll (Wedneday Books)
Book Lovers meets Notting Hill with a slice of You've Got Mail in this rivals-to-lovers romance from bestselling, award-winning author Elle McNicoll.
18-year-old Allegra Brooks has skyrocketed to fame after starring in a hit television show, and she's the overnight success that everyone's talking about. They just don't know she's autistic. And now all she wants is a normal teenage summer.
Her destination for escape is the remote Lake Pristine and its annual Book Festival, organized by the dedicated but unfriendly senior bookseller, Jonah Thorne.
In small towns like Lake Pristine, misunderstandings abound, and before long the two are drawn into high-profile hostility that's a far cry from the drama-free holiday Allegra was craving. Thank goodness for her saving grace: the increasingly personal emails she's been sharing with a charming and anonymous bookseller who is definitely not Jonah Thorne...
An unforgettable romcom about finding the one person who makes you feel like yourself when the whole world is watching.
July 22nd
Steel & Spellfire by Laura E. Weymouth (Margaret K. McElderry Books) - moved from August 2025.
A devastatingly gifted mage with clandestine romantic connections to a Royal Guard joins the court social season in an attempt to undo past wrongs, only to fall under suspicion when a creature with powers shockingly like her own begins slaughtering her fellow debutantes.Pandora Small has two ruling objectives: first, to keep the prodigious extent of her power secret, in a world where mages are feared and governed by suffocating laws. Second, to find her wealthy and noble-born patron, a shadowy figure bound to Pandora by magic, who stole her childhood and grew her power until she became a weapon rather than a girl. To that end, she’s posing as an Ingenue, a privileged and petted young woman of strictly limited abilities, who is allowed access to the royal court’s social season in order to find a husband and patron to control her magic.
But on Pandora’s arrival at court, Kit Beacon, one of the most promising members of the Royal Guard, inadvertently learns the true scope of her power. Privately sympathetic towards mages and the difficulties they face, Beacon decides to keep Pandora’s secret. But when someone or something with powers terribly like Pandora’s own begins slaughtering her fellow Ingenues, Beacon’s resolve to keep what he knows about her private is put to the test.
Tasked with protecting all the girls in the palace, not just one, Beacon will have to decide whether Pandora is a suspect or an ally, while to win his trust, Pandora will have to let him know more of her still—the worst of who she is and what she’s done. Because only unity between them during the social whirlwind to come will enable Pan to find her patron and Beacon the killer, and ensure they both see justice meted out.
Codebreaker by Jay Martel (Wednesday Books)
This original, interactive thriller from debut author Jay Martel follows a brilliant teenage girl as she races across D.C. to decode the clues her father left behind, which may just be the key to saving the country from a devastating tragedy.
Mia Hayes has peaceful plans for the summer—find a part-time job at a coffee shop and work on her application for Harvard. Those plans are shattered one night when government agents arrive unannounced at her home seeking something they believe her father has taken. When the dust settles, her mother is dead and her father is gone, a fugitive on the run.
Three weeks later, and still reeling from her father’s betrayal, Mia spends her seventeenth birthday at a protest in the heart of D.C., where she meets Logan, a rebellious and charming hacker. Just as she’s enjoying her first happy moment since the night her world exploded, a voicemail from her father arrives to upend everything she believed about her family, her past, and what really happened that night three weeks ago. Even more, the voicemail hides another encoded message inside which, once Mia solves it, sets her and Logan off on a mission from her sleepy suburb straight into the heart of the federal government.
With the same agents now hot on their trail, Mia and Logan must navigate their way through American history’s most iconic sites and uncover its most well-hidden secrets to reveal the truth about her family and stop a deadly attack.
In this non-stop thrill ride, the reader has the chance to test their own codebreaking skills alongside Mia, lending an exciting interactive element to this page-turning thriller packed with action, romance, and life-changing revelations.
Evil-ish by Kennedy Tarrell (Feiwel and Friends) - YA graphic novel, moved from 2024. Description not yet updated on Goodreads.
A disillusioned teen dreams of fame and villainy in this hilarious and heartfelt young adult fantasy graphic novel from debut author/illustrator Kennedy Tarrell.
Hawthorne Vandercast has big plans: join the infamous Brigade of Shade, move into a glamorous castle, and leave their mundane life as a potion barista behind. But when they finally get the chance to join the Brigade, Hawthorne finds themself overshadowed by Maple, a bubbly, bright, flowery girl who could not look further from evil. After an accident ends in death and suddenly Hawthorne is leading the Brigade, they begin to realize that maybe villainy isn't actually all it's cracked up to be.
Evil-ish spins the classic tropes of good and evil on their heads in a hilarious and tender story about a teenager who feels bigger than their job, their town, and their circumstances... and finds out that what they thought they wanted might not be what they actually need.
July 29th
Glorious Rivals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown) - description not yet updated on Goodreads.
Soul of Shadow by Emma Noyes (Wednesday Books) - previously titled Mare of Night.
A thrilling Norse mythology inspired contemporary romantasy sure to excite fans of The Vampire Diaries and Atlas Six.
Charlie Hudson just wants to get through junior year. Since the death of her twin sister two years earlier, she’s drifted through life, going through the motions at school and parties and even at home. The spark that once burned so brightly within her has all but flickered out.
Until her classmate goes missing in the forest, leaving nothing behind but a pair of shoes and strange symbols carved into a tree.
Drawn to the disappearances by forces she can’t explain, she finds herself investigating the mysterious, alluring newcomer in town, Elias Everhart. With piercing eyes and sharp wit, he dances around her questions, only intriguing her further. Elias has a secret. More than one.
But what Charlie doesn’t know is that those secrets will lead her to a place she never imagined: a world hiding in plain sight, made of magic, gods, and monsters - and a first love fated to fall apart.
In Emma Noyes's Soul of Shadow, truths and temptations lurk in the darkness, and for Charlie, the only thing more dangerous than facing her past, is the boy with the power to change her future.
Very Dangerous Things by Lauren Muñoz (G.P. Putnam and Sons)
Polo Orozco at Putnam has bought Very Dangerous Things by Lauren Muñoz (Suddenly a Murder), a YA murder mystery with flair for fans of The Agathas and Truly Devious. The story follows Dulce Castillo, a student at a magnet school for criminology that stages a murder mystery game, which turns into a real investigation when the student playing the victim winds up dead. Publication is slated for summer 2025; Jodi Reamer at Writers House brokered the deal for North American rights.
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