CamCat 2023 Catalog

CAMCAT PUBLISHING 2023 Catalog

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About Us SHORT HISTORY

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amCat Publishing was incorporated in 2018 as an independent publisher of print, digital, and audio titles. In the spring of 2019, we formed our first imprint, CamCat Books, and opened for submissions of quality genre fiction. In 2020, we released our first titles to critical acclaim.

Our books regularly earn rave reviews from trade publications and are featured in the general press.

Our books and authors have also been finalists and award-winners in numerous competitions.

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WHAT IS A CAMCAT BOOK?

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e aim to provide an exceptional reading experience for every reader.

Therefore we are committed to excellence in all things publishing, from the high readability of our stories to the cover design and overall packaging of the book to the production studio we partner with for our audiobook versions.

THE REGISTRATION MADISON LAWSON ISBN 9780744307023 Price 25.99 Page Count 320 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Thriller

Each member of our team is an acquisitions editor with different ages and tastes representing the market we aim to reach, resulting in a catalog covering a wide array of genres and styles of storytelling.

SUPPORT INDIE Independent publishers are a rare breed these days. Shop indie, and you’ll support authors with unique voices.

MADE IN USA We proudly package and print our books in the United States.

THE MAN WHO FELL FROM THE SKY The Bizarre Life and Death of ‘20s Tycoon Alfred Loewenstein

WILLIAM NORRIS ISBN 9781931540278 Price 26.99 Page Count 336 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Biography

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NOTEWORTHY OPTIONS OPTIONED FOR FILM BY SONY PICTURES THE REGISTRATION, a dystopian sci-fi thriller,

by Madison Lawson, has been optioned for film

by Sony Pictures. The project will star Sydney Sweeney (EUPHORIA) with Brad Fuller (A QUIET PLACE, THE PURGE) and Sydney Sweeney to produce.

For book-to-film inquiries, please contact Bill Lehto (bill [at] camcatpublishing [dot] com) or Helga Schier (helga [at] camcatpublishing [dot] com).

OPTIONED FOR FILM BY SPROUT PICTURES, LTD. THE MAN WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, by William Norris, a journalistic investigation into the mysterious events surrouding the sudden death of multi-millionaire Alfred Loewenstein, has been optioned for film/TV by Sprout Pictures, LTD. The studio is helmed by actor and producer Stephen Fry.

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Spring 2024 Preview 6

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e’re excited to share with you our Spring 2024 list! Everyone loves an amateur sleuth, and readers hoping to tag along with the next unsuspecting detective will delight as BONE PENDANT GIRLS and CALYPSO DOWN find them searching for clues from the rural heartland to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Strong female protagonists—and villains—remain popular, and readers are sure to cheer and jeer for the leading women of HIDDEN ROOMS, GRAND TOUR: THE BRASS QUEEN II, and SANCTUARY. LGBT+ stories where all kinds of readers can see themselves represented front-and-center on the page, such as ANGOLIN, have never been more important, while readers clamoring for social commentary will applaud as SPACE HOLES: FIRST TRANSMISSION takes aim at intergalactic corporate greed.

Younger readers are always looking for the next enchanting high fantasy, and WITHOUT A SHADOW and THE STRICKEN, where desert kingdoms and parallel worlds abound, will be sure to sweep them to immersive, magical universes. Edgy realism also remains popular among young readers, and KILL CALL, a paranormal thriller set in a not-so-sleepy Arkansas town, is sure to be a crowd-pleaser.

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HIDDEN ROOMS

04/30/24

KATE MICHAELSON 9780744310153 $28.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 352 pages Thriller Riley Svenson is reluctantly visiting her rural hometown when her brother’s fiancée is mysteriously murdered, and as her brother becomes the prime suspect, Riley must push aside all of her looming medical symptoms to hunt down the real killer.

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GRAND TOUR

ELIZABETH CHATSWORTH

04/23/24 The Brass Queen II

9780744306293 $29.99 6“ x 9” 400 pages Fantasy Blackmailed into stealing artifacts from the crown heads of Europe, eccentric aristocrat Constance Haltwhistle and the annoyingly hand-some US spy “Liberty” Trusdale team up to execute perfect palace heists while keeping monstrous otherworldy creatures from invading Earth.

SANCTUARY

VALENTINA CANO REPETTO

04/16/24

9780744309461 $28.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 352 pages Horror In 1930s Italy, a woman must battle sinister forces threatening her life and sanity when she and her husband move into a rundown and isolated watermill that had been abandoned since a family’s mysterious death centuries earlier.

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WITHOUT A SHADOW H. J. REYNOLDS

04/09/24

9780744308341 $19.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 368 pages YA Fantasy Adlai Bringer is a thief who can steal with the slip of her shadow, but when one of her marks turns out to be a shadow hunterkiller, she becomes his next target.

SPACE HOLES: FIRST TRANSMISSION

03/26/24

B. R. LOUIS

9780744308129 $27.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 256 pages Sci-Fi The fate of the frog-like alien civilization of Nerelkor is left in the hands of an intergalactic sales team and an underqualified tag-along on a mission to sell misprinted merchandise.

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CALYPSO DOWN

JAMES LINDHOLM

03/19/24

9780744307443 $27.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 240 pages Thriller On a mission on an underwater vessel that allows scientists to live and dive for days, indomitable marine biologist Chris Black faces a series of mysterious attacks that suggest the mission is a target of terrorists.

THE STRICKEN

MORGAN SHAMY

03/05/24

9780744307696 $19.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 320 pages YA Fantasy When Clara’s father dies, she is hunted down by the Diviners, an army of captive souls, and she escapes to the magical city of Khalom, a city in a parallel world.

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KILL CALL: A YOUNG ADULT THRILLER

02/20/24

JEFF WOOTEN 9780744307597 $19.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 288 pages YA Thriller It’s Jude’s job to make sure the murders he dreams of don’t come true, but when one of the foretold victims saves herself before he can intervene, they team up to stop the would-be killer.

ANGOLIN

C. E. TAYLOR

02/13/24

9780744306750 $29.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 400 pages Sci-Fi The hidden society of Angolin is discovered by a dangerous enemy bent on conquest, and it’s up to its people to stop the threat from without—and also within.

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BONE PENDANT GIRLS

TERRY S. FRIEDMAN

01/30/24

9780744307924 $27.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 320 pages Thriller Andi, a clairvoyant, buys two bone pendants she believes are carved to look like the faces of two missing teens, and as she begins to unravel the mystery of their disappearances and deaths, she becomes the killer’s next target.

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2023 Frontlist

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OVERVIEW Our 2023 list is one not to miss. You’ll find genre-bending reads, a wide range of mysteries and thrillers to suit any reader tastes, space adventures, romance, wacky sci-fi and fantasy books, topical YA fiction, spooky horror and paranormal reads, and much much more.

Each of our books features a strong sense of setting or escapism that will whisk readers away, whether in print, ebook, or audio.

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LEST SHE FORGET LISA MALICE A young woman, left with a battered face and amnesia after a car crash, races to remember her dark, tragic past before the killer has the chance to wipe her memory clean—permanently.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744307153 Price 27.99 Page Count 304 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Thriller

12/12/23

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THE OXYGEN FARMER COLIN HOLMES A cranky old oxygen farmer on the Moon stumbles onto a century old secret that threatens to derail the first mission to Mars, destroy the Luna colony, and maybe even life on Earth.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744306675 Price 28.99 Page Count 304 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Sci-Fi

12/05/23

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BLADESTAY JACKIE JOHNSON Seventeen-year-old Theo Creed disguises herself as a boy to take down a violent gang from the inside, but her subterfuge gets complicated when she becomes undeniably attracted to one of the outlaws.

Hardcover with dust jacket Ages 13-18 ISBN 9780744306941 Price 19.99 Page Count 304 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Young Adult Western

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KEN ALLEN | SUPER SLEUTH SERIES

KING ME J. A. CRAWFORD

KING

ME J. A. CRAWFORD

Ken Allen Super Sleuth #3 Super sleuth Ken Allen is called into action when the creator of an immensely popular fantasy television series is murdered, and his notebook— which holds all the show’s secrets, twists, and endings—goes missing.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744305760 Price 27.99 Page Count 288 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Mystery

11/14/23

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GIRL AMONG CROWS BRENDON VAYO A woman investigates the disappearances of children in her small town with eerie similarities to her brother’s vanishing thirty years ago, but connecting the past with the present could bring to light her family’s dark secrets—and the town’s monstrous history.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744306552 Price 28.99 Page Count 416 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Horror

11/07/23

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GIRL ON TRIAL KATHLEEN FINE Sixteen-year-old Emily Keller is charged with causing the deaths of four members of the family she babysits for, but what really happened that fateful night—and who’s responsible—is anything but straightforward.

Hardcover with dust jacket Ages 15-18 ISBN 9780744306835 Price 19.99 Page Count 336 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Young Adult Thriller

10/24/23

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PHANTOM HELEN POWER When down-on-her-luck Regan Osbourne sells her hand for quick cash, debilitating phantom limb pain causes her to try an experimental drug and soon she feels an eerie psychic connection to her missing limb that is being used . . . to kill.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744302660 Price 27.99 Page Count 384 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Thriller

10/10/23

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THE CONFESSION OF HEMINGWAY JONES KATHLEEN HANNON

Hemingway Jones does what no doctor has been able to do: revive his father from the dead, but the billionaire owner of the research center will stop at nothing to repeat the experiment.

Hardcover with dust jacket Ages 13-18 ISBN 9780744302578 Price 19.99 Page Count 336 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Young Adult Sci-Fi

09/26/23

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GHOST TAMER MEREDITH R. LYONS Raely survives a train wreck that kills her best friend and awakens her ability to see ghosts, including one who has watched over her all her life, and another who is hell-bent on destroying her.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744302790 Price 27.99 Page Count 336 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Paranormal

09/19/23

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THE DARKNESS SURROUNDS US GAIL LUKASIK

A nurse flees the 1918 Spanish flu in Chicago to take a nursing job at a decrepit manor on a desolate island, where she must to find out if the murder of the prior nurse is connected to her own family’s past.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744302899 Price 27.99 Page Count 352 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Gothic | Thriller

09/05/23

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NEW EDEN RUTH FOX Ark Trilogy #2 Kim Teng is shepherding Earth’s last whales to their new home planet, but the arrival of the whales is far from peaceful, and their new home might not actually be uninhabited.

Hardcover with dust jacket Ages 13-18 ISBN 9780744309706 Price 19.99 Page Count 368 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Young Adult Sci-Fi

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THE WOODKIN ALEXANDER JAMES When detouring through a small mountain town with missing hiker posters, a hiker is chased back on the trail by the hostile residents. Beneath a full moon, the woods awaken, and he fears that he won’t make it out alive.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744302356 Price 26.99 Page Count 288 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Horror

08/22/23

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MANAGING THE MATTHEWS HALEIGH WENGER As the talent manager for the three hottest stars in Hollywood, Kell’s heartache becomes real as she helps foster fake romantic drama on their reality TV show.

Trade Paperback ISBN 9780744300116 Price 16.99 Page Count 288 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Romance

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SUMMER PEOPLE SARA HOSEY When Sweet Lake becomes polluted and the neighbors around her start getting hurt, Christmas must investigate the secrets of her beloved Sweet Lake community and face profound problems in her own family.

Hardcover with dust jacket Ages 13-18 ISBN 9780744302509 Price 19.99 Page Count 288 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Young Adult Thriller

08/08/23

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VAULTING THROUGH TIME NANCY MCCABE Sixteen-year-old gymnast Elizabeth finds herself catapulting through time in order to solve the mystery of her own birth and stop a fellow time traveler, whose actions may prevent her from being born.

Hardcover with dust jacket Ages 13-18 ISBN 9780744309362 Price 19.99 Page Count 368 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Young Adult Sci-Fi

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THE HOROSCOPE WRITER ASH BISHOP An ex-Olympian and novice horoscope writer starts receiving gruesome, highly detailed horoscope predictions from a mysterious anonymous source with a chilling ultimatum: print them and one will come true, or ignore them and all of them will.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744309294 Price 27.99 Page Count 320 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Mystery

07/18/23

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THEY SPLIT THE PARTY ELIJAH MENCHACA Glintchasers #2 The Starbreakers split up to recapture escapees of Oblivion prison, hoping to stop them from bringing the already wounded nation from crumbling down.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744309201 Price 28.99 Page Count 384 Trim Size 6” x 9” Genre Fantasy

06/27/23

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LADIES’ DAY LISA WILLIAMS KLINE When late in life Beth meets Mr. Right and the granddaughter she never knew she had, she must find the courage to start all over.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744309157 Price 27.99 Page Count 304 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Women’s Fiction

06/20/23

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OUR VENGEFUL SOULS KRISTI MCMANUS A cursed mermaid seeks revenge against the brother who betrayed her while fighting to protect her secrets and her life in the realm of Atlantis.

Hardcover with dust jacket Ages 13-18 ISBN 9780744308914 Price 19.99 Page Count 304 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Young Adult Fantasy

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CITIZEN ORLOV JONATHAN PAYNE When Citizen Orlov, an unassuming fishmonger and upstanding citizen, answers a mysterious phone call, he is catapulted into a web of espionage and political maneuverings. Not every fishmonger can be a secret agent, but Orlov will certainly try.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744309010 Price 26.99 Page Count 288 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Thriller

05/23/23 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STARRED REVIEW

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THE WAYWARD TARGET SUSAN OUELLETTE Wayward Series #3 When a price is placed on her head, Maggie must face the terroristic mastermind to save her lover’s life without betraying her most loyal friend.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744308723 Price 26.99 Page Count 368 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Thriller

04/25/23

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LEWIS SINCLAIR AND THE GENTLEMEN COWBOYS D. M. S. FICK

Country musician Lewis Sinclair gets dumped by his girlfriend right before taking the stage at a top music festival. The man she dumped him for? His manager, who later turns up dead. No wonder Lew is the prime suspect.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744308815 Price 26.99 Page Count 288 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Mystery

04/11/23

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The Murder of Madison Garcia I A F O R D FA M I LY M Y S T E R Y i

Marcy McCreary

THE MURDER OF MADISON GARCIA

MARCY MCCREARY

A Ford Family Mystery #2 Detective Susan Ford and her father, retired Detective Will Ford, team up to solve the brutal murder of a woman with ties to Monticello, New York and uncover sordid family secrets from the woman’s past.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744308303 Price 26.99 Page Count 336 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Mystery

03/28/23

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THE IMMORTAL DETECTIVE D. B. WOODLING The Immortal Detective #1 After Detective Celeste Crenshaw faces death and wakes up immortal, she reluctantly makes a promise to the Elders to grant immortality. But when she returns home, she battles mortal foes and her world spirals out of control.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744308013 Price 26.99 Page Count 336 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Paranormal

03/21/23

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QUEEN’S CATACOMBS JORDAN H. BARTLETT

Frean Chronicles #2 After winning the crown, Jacs learns that being queen is in title alone when the Council uses their leverage to control her. But she soon uncovers a much darker truth from the Queendom’s past that will forever change its future.

Hardcover with dust jacket Ages 13-18 ISBN 9780744307764 Price 19.99 Page Count 416 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Young Adult Fantasy

03/14/23

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THE MEISTER OF DECIMEN CITY BRENNA RANEY

A supergenius scientist extraordinaire lands in hot water with the government when her genetically-engineered dinosaurs rampage her city and her supervillain twin brother tries to use her to take over the world.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744307702 Price 27.99 Page Count 416 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Sci-Fi

03/07/23

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THE DOLLMAKER MORGAN SHAMY When a serial killer targets beautiful women, creating “art” from the bodies he leaves behind, it’s up to Dawn and her medical knowledge to find the murderer.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744308624 Price 25.99 Page Count 304 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Mystery

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HUNTERLAND DANA CLAIRE

Hunterland #1 Liam, a monster hunter, investigates a series of murders in Olivia’s small town, but things get complicated when Liam exposes Olivia to a world she never knew existed, and the walls to her heart come crashing down.

Hardcover with dust jacket Ages 13-18 ISBN 9780744307344 Price 19.99 Page Count 272 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Young Adult Paranormal

02/07/23

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CLAW HEART MOUNTAIN DAVID OPPEGAARD On their way to a remote mountain cabin, a group of college friends discover fifteen million dollars in an abandoned armored van. They take the money, unaware that a killer is after the cash and a legendary creature haunts the mountain.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744307504 Price 25.99 Page Count 320 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Horror

01/31/23

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KARMA OF THE SUN

BRANDON YING KIT BOEY In an imagined future of the earth’s last days, a young Tibetan Sherpa hunts for his missing father in the ruined nuclear winterland of the Himalayas, racing against a final calamity that threatens to destroy all humanity.

Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN 9780744307603 Price 25.99 Page Count 352 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Genre Sci-Fi | Literary

01/17/23 BOOKLIST STARRED REVIEW

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Young Adult Fiction FANTASY SERIES

A EMPIRE OF THE

HOUSE OF THORNS

CHRISTIAN KLAVER

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Ages 13-18 Hardcover with dust jacket Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” The Empire of the House of Thorns series follows Justice and the rest of the Kasric siblings through an intense Human-Faerie war on land, at sea, and everywhere magic can reach.

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SHADOWS OVER LONDON ISBN 9780744303766 Price 24.99 Page Count 320

JUSTICE AT SEA ISBN 9780744304275 Price 24.99 Page Count 416

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ARMADAS IN THE MIST ISBN 9780744305159 Price 19.99 Page Count 332

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GOLD SPUN DUOLOGY

GOLD SPUN

9780744301663 BRANDIE JUNE Hardcover with dust jacket ISBN Price 24.99 Page Count 368

Ages 13-18 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” The Gold Spun Duology follows Nor, the miller’s daughter from the “Rumpelstiltskin” fairy tale, as she finds herself caught in a web spun by her own deceptions.

CURSE UNDONE ISBN 9780744306224 Price 19.99 Page Count 336

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OVERVIEW These magical YA fantasy series will enrapture you with tales of forbidden romance, mythical creatures, and highstakes battles. Journey to lands unknown and on harrowing quests as you escape into each of these fantastical books.

C MARGHAZAR TRIALS AAMNA QURESHI

Hardcover with dust jacket Ages 13-18 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” The Marghazar Trials follow Durkhanai through a forbidden romance, betrayal, and the moral decisions she must make as the Shehzadi.

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THE LADY OR THE LION ISBN 9780744303445 Price 24.99 Page Count 400

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THE MAN OR THE MONSTER ISBN 9780744305579 Price 19.99 Page Count 320

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FREAN CHRONICLES

Available Now

JORDAN H. BARTLETT

Ages 13-18 Hardcover with dust jacket Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” The Frean Chronicles follow Jacs, an inventor’s apprentice from the Lower Realm, as she sets out to protect her people by proving herself worthy to be Frean’s queen.

CONTEST OF QUEENS

QUEEN’S CATACOMBS

ISBN 9780744304985 Price 24.99 Page Count

ISBN 9780744307764 Price 19.99 Page Count

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Young Adult Fiction MORE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY SERIES

OVERVIEW Travel across the galaxy and through dimensions with these fun-filled YA science fiction series!

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Here you’ll find young leaders tasked with protecting the earth, mysterious aliens occupying unknown planets, traversable dimensional rifts, and more!

Plus, don’t miss the genre-bending Misaligned series, full of magical adventures and string theory.

“Action-packed and thought-provoking.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, for UNDER THE HEAVENS TRILOGY A ARK RUTH FOX

Ages 15-18 Hardcover with dust jacket Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” The Ark Trilogy follows Kim Teng as she travels with the last of Earth’s whales across the galaxy in search of a new home for them.

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UNDER THE HEAVENS ISBN 9780744304763 Price 24.99 Page Count 400

NEW EDEN ISBN 9780744309706 Price 19.99 Page Count 368

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MISALIGNED SERIES ARMEN POGHARIAN

Hardcover with dust jacket Ages 13-18 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Teenager Penny Preston can fix and prevent dimensional rifts.

When dangerous higher-dimensional beings threaten to invade Piper Falls, she embraces her special powers.

PENNY PRESTON AND THE RAVEN’S TALISMAN ISBN 9780744301960 Price 24.99 Page Count 336

PENNY PRESTON AND THE SILVER SCEPTER ISBN 9780744302172 Price 24.99 Page Count 336

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PENNY PRESTON AND THE KING’S BLADE ISBN 9780744302202 Price 24.99 Page Count 336

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EARTH UNITED

BRYAN PROSEK

“A solid space adventure for fans of the genre’s classics.”

—KIRKUS REVIEWS, for THE DARKER THE SKIES

Ages 13-18 Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Hardcover with dust jacket The Earth United series follows Legion soldier Jake Saunders and his friends as they find themselves caught up in intergalactic battles, perilous missions, and a fight to defend the Earth.

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THE BRIGHTER THE STARS

THE DARKER THE SKIES

ISBN 9780744301380 Price 24.99 Page Count 256

ISBN 9780744305548 Price 19.99 Page Count 292

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Young Adult Fiction Backlist These young adult titles are fun-filled and action-packed, with plenty of magic tricks, bizarre creatures, and parallel dimensions to go around. Perfect books for young readers and adults alike.

JESTER BRIELLE D. PORTER

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744305586 $19.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 320 pages YA Fantasy Desperate to survive in a city glutted with power, Lisette enters into a deadly competition to become the Queen’s Jester. But without the magic her disgraced father promised her, she might just lose her head.

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IMAGINING ELSEWHERE SARA HOSEY

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744305777 $19.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 368 pages YA Paranormal Former bully, Astrid, moves to the town of Elsewhere and becomes the target of teenage tyrant, Candi, who has Elsewhere wrapped around her finger.

Little does Astrid know, Candi’s hold over the town is darker than she could ever imagine.

A MEASURE OF SERENITY BRYAN PROSEK

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744303629 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 368 pages YA Sci-Fi In this novel of parallel worlds and doubled identities, a mathematically brilliant but awkward teen must impersonate her alter-ego as a resistance leader against dimension-hopping enemies, or else lose all hope of returning to her own world.

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THE OTHER SIDE OF WATER ERIKA ESPINOZA

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9780744301465 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 272 pages YA Fantasy A teen boy’s story of navigating grief and lost magic, for fans of Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse.

INFINITY DRIVE ROSS RICHDALE

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744301328 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 304 pages YA Sci-Fi A sci-fi story of discrimination and a crew of outcasts out to change their world.

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THE IMMORTAL TWIN D. B. WOODLING

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9780744302028 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 304 pages YA Paranormal Celeste Torok lives an ordinary life, aside from her immortal parents, a paranormal romance, and the future of the human race depending on her.

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MARCY MCCREARY Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Hardcover with dust jacket The Ford Family Mystery series follows Detective Susan Ford and her father, retired Detective Will Ford, as they clear cold and hot cases, uncovering secrets and lies hidden in the Catskills.

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THE DISAPPEARANCE OF TRUDY SOLOMON ISBN 9780744303308 Price 24.99 Page Count 400

THE MURDER OF MADISON GARCIA

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ISBN 9780744308303 Price 26.99 Page Count 336

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KEN ALLEN SUPER SLEUTH J. A. CRAWFORD

Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Hardcover with dust jacket The Ken Allen Super Sleuth series blends pop culture and mystery as D-list actor turned private detective Ken Allen dives into high-profile cases in this action-packed, tonguein-cheek series.

JOVE BRAND IS NEAR DEATH ISBN 9780744301700 Price 24.99 Page Count 336

HEROES EVER DIE ISBN 9780744305920 Price 24.99 Page Count 304

KING ME ISBN 9780744305760 Price 27.99 Page Count 288

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A CHRIS BLACK ADVENTURE SERIES JAMES LINDHOLM

Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Hardcover with dust jacket In the Chris Black adventure series, marine biologists armed with knowledge and physical prowess fight crime on the open sea and deep under the ocean’s surface. Dr. James Lindholm’s firsthand experience with the extreme survival conditions of underwater research missions informs all his stories.

INTO A CANYON DEEP ISBN 9781931540360 Price 24.99 Page Count 304

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BLOOD COLD ISBN 9781931540353 Price 24.99 Page Count 256

DEAD MEN’S SILENCE ISBN 9780744300710 Price 24.99 Page Count 272

CALYPSO DOWN

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ISBN 9780744307443 Price 27.99 Page Count 240

THE WAYWARD SPY, A Top 12 Book of the Year SUSAN OUELLETTE Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” —The Strand Magazine Hardcover with dust jacket WAYWARD SERIES

Former CIA Intelligence Analyst Susan Ouellette’s Wayward series follows intelligence analyst Maggie Jenkins on a perilous mission from Russia to England to the US to defuse a new terrorist threat.

THE WAYWARD ASSASSIN ISBN 9780744304787 Price 24.99 Page Count 416

THE WAYWARD SPY

THE WAYWARD TARGET

ISBN 9780744300536 Price 24.99 Page Count 352

ISBN 9780744308723 Price 26.99 Page Count 368

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Mystery & Thriller Backlist Regardless of whether you’re looking for a historical noir mystery, a fast-paced psych thriller, a classic detective tale, or if you like your stories with a speculative bend, we guarantee to have a book here for you among our collection of mystery and thriller titles.

HER SISTER’S DEATH K. L. MURPHY

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744307399 $25.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 352 pages Thriller When a reporter’s sister is found dead in a swanky Baltimore hotel, the police suspect suicide. Determined to prove them wrong, she partners with a detective who knows more than he admits about her sister, the hotel, and its history of death.

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THE SECRET GARDEN OF YANGI INN AMBER A. LOGAN

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744306064 $26.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 336 pages Mystery An adult retelling of the classic children’s book THE SECRET GARDEN about an American woman who, while grieving her mother’s death, travels to Japan to photograph a dilapidated inn only to find herself mysteriously tied to the inn’s haunted past.

THE PHOTO THIEF J. L. DELOZIER

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744307221 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 304 pages Thriller Drawn into a wealthy family’s long, sordid history, a grieving detective faces a choice: overlook a socialite’s death and save his career, or risk it all for the chance to hear his daughter’s voice again.

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THE REGISTRATION MADISON LAWSON

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9780744307023 $25.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 320 pages Thriller In the near-future, everyone has the legal right to murder one person in their life. While waiting in line to offer a name for The Registration, Lynell Mize hears her name called and now has only 14 days to figure out who wants her killed and to survive.

THE DEAD WON’T TELL S. K. WATERS

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744306019 $25.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 368 pages Mystery Hired to investigate a cold-case murder involving her former mentor, a novice journalist’s questions about race and police coverups in the 1960s ruffles one too many feathers, putting her family into the real killer’s crosshairs.

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NONE WITHOUT SIN MICHAEL BRADLEY

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744305951 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 400 pages Mystery A small-town journalist and a faithless minister race to end the murderous spree of a serial killer who practices the Victorian symbolism of sin eating, while keeping their own sins a secret from the Sin Eater.

DEATH WARRANT BRYAN JOHNSTON

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744305081 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 352 pages Thriller Frankie Percival has agreed to be assassinated on the most popular TV show on the planet. Once she has signed her Death Warrant, her memory is wiped clean. Anyone could be her assassin. Even the latest love of her life.

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FOOL HER ONCE JOANNA ELM

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744304930 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 416 pages Thriller Investigative reporter Jenna Sinclair, convinced that the man who attacked her former lover is now stalking her family, must find the man she exposed as a serial killer’s illegitimate son, and follows a trail that leads to a devastating discovery.

THUNDER ROAD COLIN HOLMES

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744304978 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 384 pages Noir Chasing down a small time gambling debt in the summer of 1947, down-onhis-luck former Ranger Jefferson Sharp realizes that more than a few poker chips are at stake when he stumbles upon an interplanetary cover up.

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THE GHOSTS OF THORWALD PLACE HELEN POWER

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744301434 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 416 pages Thriller Rachel Drake is murdered in the elevator of her apartment building, but that’s only the beginning of her story. Her spirit tethered to her death spot and the apartments nearby, she observes her neighbors’ lives, while trying to figure out who killed her and why.

BENEATH THE MARIGOLDS EMILY C. WHITSON

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744304206 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 320 pages Thriller Ann, a successful lawyer, infiltrates an exclusive single’s retreat on a remote island off the coast of Hawaii, risking everything to find her close friend Reese, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, only to realize that she herself may never get off the island alive.

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DEAD ON MY FEET PATRICIA BRODERICK

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9780744304800 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 320 pages Cozy Mystery A tongue-in-cheek adventure revealing the dark secrets of the quirky characters in a posh Southern California seaside community embroiled in scandalous murders.

DEAD AIR MICHAEL BRADLEY

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744300062 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 290 pages Thriller As anonymous letters threaten to destroy Kaitlyn Ashe’s reinvented life as the top-rated radio DJ in Philadelphia, her life spirals toward a reunion in the one place she’d hoped to never visit again: the Shallows.

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William Norris Backlist Follow investigative journalist William Norris as he takes a deep dive into several noteworthy true crime cases under our CamCat Perspectives imprint, covering the popular theories of the cause and perpetrator of the crimes in addition to his own theories. Norris also wrote fiction, and a couple of the titles were inspired by the nonfiction cases he wrote about.

THE BADGER GAME WILLIAM NORRIS

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9781931540322 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 320 pages Satire A liberal arts college on the brink of financial ruin unwittingly joins forces with the Mafia and involves students in rigging the next presidential election.

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A GRAVE TOO MANY WILLIAM NORRIS

Hardcover with dust jacket

9781931540292 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 272 pages Fiction History says that while practicing for an air display, WWI flying ace Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor lost control of his SE 5A and lost his life—but what really happened?

MAKE MAD THE GUILTY WILLIAM NORRIS

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9781931540339 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 368 pages Mystery All-American Hero Jason Verne, the first man to set foot on Mars, is the perfect candidate to move into the White House, until his son Timmy is kidnapped with eerie similarities to the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping. Is this coincidence, or is it something worse?

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THE MAN WHO FELL FROM THE SKY WILLIAM NORRIS

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9781931540278 $26.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 336 pages Biography When multimillionaire Alfred Lowenstein—loved by few and hated by many— fell out of an airplane in the 1920s, no one looked too closely. Until now.

A TALENT TO DECEIVE WILLIAM NORRIS

Hardcover with dust jacket

9781931540902 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 384 pages True Crime The Lindbergh Kidnapping has been a major topic of controversy and fascination for almost 90 years. Who really committed the crime? Follow this history-meets-mystery tale as Norris seeks the truth about The Case That Will Never Die. 39

WILLFUL MISCONDUCT WILLIAM NORRIS

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9781931540346 $26.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 416 pages True Crime The investigation into the crash of Pan American Flight 806 was the longest and most expensive trial in aviation history. In this careful reconstruction of what went wrong, Norris explores the consequences both personal and public.

SNOWBIRD WILLIAM NORRIS

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9781931540230 $26.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 288 pages True Crime Investigative journalist William Norris sits down with pilot Andrew Richard Barnes to recount the crimes and dangers that riddled his flights carrying the very first shipments of cocaine for the Medellín Cartel into the United States throughout the 1970s and ‘80s.

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Horror Backlist You’ll want to leave the lights on when you pick up these spine-tingling horror titles. From monsters in the night to the demons within, these books are the perfect nightmare fuel for all horror readers.

WHEN THE NIGHT BELLS RING JO KAPLAN

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744306118 $25.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 304 pages Horror Two climate refugees descend into the cool darkness of an old mine where they find a settler’s diary that whispers of horrors haunting the ghost town, only to realize that the caved-in tunnels are haunted still.

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THE GIRL IN THE CORN JASON OFFUTT

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9780744304992 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 400 pages Horror Thomas teams up with the girl in the corn to save her world, and his, only to realize that he may not be able to distinguish good from evil before evil swallows them whole.

THE TAXIDERMIST’S LOVER POLLY HALL

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744300376 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 256 pages Horror A contemporary Gothic tale of a woman haunted by her past and trapped in her husband’s passion on the Somerset moors.

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More Fiction Backlist Travel back to the sixties, across the world to China in the eighties, or to an alternate Cold War era in these captivating fiction titles.

ECLIPSE OF THE BRIGHT MOON DONALD C. LEE

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744303193 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 384 pages Fiction A novel driven as much by memory as by imagination, Eclipse of the Bright Moon was inspired by the Tianenmen Square protests of 1989 as witnessed by author Donald C. Lee while living in Xi’an, China.

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REVISIONIST FUTURE LEE BUMBICKA

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744302134 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 268 pages Fiction While it is every writer’s dream is to write characters that come to life, Michael Schatten wakes up in a nightmare when he learns that his typewriter is part of a secret Cold War weapon that turns fiction into reality.

SUNSET TOMORROW E. ERVIN TIBBS

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744302066 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 224 pages Historical In this heartwarming story set on the California coastline against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, a group of beach bums have one night to grant the birthday wish of a child with cancer.

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Sci-Fi & Fantasy Backlist Discover hidden powers, save the world with a time machine, battle against heavily-armed aliens, and more with these sci-fi and fantasy books that will pull you in from the very first page.

INTERGALACTIC EXTERMINATORS, INC ASH BISHOP

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9780744305616 $26.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 416 pages Sci-Fi After exploring his grandparents’ bookstore, Russ finds a mysterious stone that attracts an alien predator and encounters Intergalactic Exterminators who insist he join their team—or else.

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THE BEACHED ONES COLLEEN M. STORY

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744305340 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 400 pages Paranormal After a stunt jump gone horribly wrong, Daniel finds himself lost far away from home without knowledge of the accident. Haunted by disjointed memories, all Daniel knows is that he must get to his younger brother before time runs out.

ANCIENT CANADA CLINTON FESTA

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9780744304350 $26.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 400 pages Fantasy Two sisters who were exiled from their home set off on a journey for justice and meet many characters along the way.

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HEX BREAKER STELLA DREXLER

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9780744301939 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 288 pages Fantasy A hex breaker, a former dark magician, and an expert on love magic race against time to figure out which enemy from their past wants them all dead.

TEMPLE OF CONQUEST MARK BROE

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9780744301311 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 304 pages Fantasy A thriving young rock climber based his life around his community’s teachings of human progress and expansion, but his faith is shaken after a catastrophic accident leads to the exile of his closest friends. His journey to find them will test his skills and his heart to the limit.

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SO YOU HAD TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE JASON OFFUTT

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744300147 $26.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 352 pages Sci-Fi A circus runaway in Kansas City embarks on a dimension-hopping race to shut down a time machine gone rogue.

2023 Audies Award Winner INTERGALACTIC EXTERMINATORS, INC written by Ash Bishop read by Scott Brick and Suzanne Elise Freeman

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Be enchanted by worlds unknown in these riveting fantasy series. Whether you like your fantasy with an extra dose of magic, clashing swords, or swoon-worthy romance, these series have it all.

SALT CHASERS DUOLOGY A. S. THORNTON

Award-Winning Series

Trim Size 5.5” x 8.5” Hardcover with dust jacket Emel lives in a world where love and freedom are at the mercy of capricious gods, but nothing will stop her from claiming what is rightfully hers in the Salt Chasers duology by A. S. Thornton.

FEATURES DAUGHTER OF THE SALT KING ISBN 9780744303919 Price 26.99 Page Count 448

Forbidden romance

SON OF THE SALT CHASER

Chaotic magic

ISBN 9780744306132 Price 27.99 Page Count 436

THE GLINTCHASERS SERIES

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ELIJAH MENCHACA Trim Size 6” x 9” Hardcover with dust jacket The Glintchasers series follows ex-heroes called out of retirement to re-defeat their old enemies and assert their place in the world.

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THEY MET IN A TAVERN

ISBN 9780744303834 Price 26.99 Page Count 416

THEY SPLIT THE PARTY ISBN 9780744309201 Price 28.99 Page Count 384

Ensemble cast Diverse representation Inspired by D&D

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Romance Backlist These two tantalizing romances will transport you across the world, and back in time, to tales of star-crossed lovers and risking everything for love.

BEWITCHING A HIGHLANDER ROMA CORDON

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9780744305036 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 368 pages Romance A healer with witchery in her blood and a future Highlander clan chief risk everything for family and a forbidden romance.

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THE SAINT’S MISSTRESS

KATHRYN BASHAAR

Hardcover with dust jacket

9780744301335 $24.99 5.5“ x 8.5” 336 pages Romance A love story for the ages, The Saint’s Mistress brings to life the monumental struggle between love, faith and religious office.

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