Music, Fantasy Horror, Gossip, and a Time-Bending Saga: Our Latest Fall Fiction
This Is Epic by Joan Bauer
Published by Greenleaf Book Group
World Rights Available
Joan Bauer is a New York Times best-selling author, screenwriter, songwriter, and speaker who has won numerous awards for her novels.
Epic Dupree played along . . . until she couldn’t.
Everyone thought The Duprees were the perfect family band.
But behind the Billboard chart successes were the family lies, behind those lies were the abuse and gaslighting, and then came the ultimate upending.
And so Epic left her home and her music in Savannah, Georgia, in search of a new city and a new life. She didn’t want to sing again. She couldn’t. She folded up her voice in a packing box, labeled it miscellaneous, and put it in her storage locker.
Now, ten years later, Epic’s manager reaches out because the fans haven’t forgotten about The Duprees. People want a reunion. They need one. The money could be amazing. But what about the wounds?
Ten years is long enough to heal the pain.
Well, isn’t it?
Joan Bauer is a New York Times best-selling author, screenwriter, songwriter, and speaker who has won numerous awards for her novels. Those prizes include: the Newbery Honor Medal, the American Library Association’s Schneider Family Book Award, three Christopher Awards, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Chicago Tribune Young Adult Literary Prize, the Golden Kite Award of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the St. Katherine Drexel Award of the Catholic Library Association, the New England Booksellers Award; and the Boston Public Library’s “Literary Light” Award.
Joan has twice participated in the US State Department’s Professional Speakers Program, traveling to both Croatia and Kazakhstan. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America East, the Authors Guild, and PEN.
House of the Chosen by Hayley Reese Chow
Published by Quill & Crow Publishing House
World Rights Available
Hayley Reese Chow is a multi-genre, award-winning author of fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal mystery.
A fantasy horror with a side of slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance
As the illegitimate daughter of a drunk and a harlot, eighteen-year-old Remy struggles to be seen as worthy of her Monarch gift to control the minds of the zombie-like Husks that have destroyed the outside world. So when she’s chosen to be considered as the great Shepherd’s possible successor, she’s overjoyed at the chance to prove herself. Except the murdering Monarch who’s promised to kill her for the last decade has also been chosen, so she’ll have to guard her mind closely if she wants to survive alongside him in the Shepherd’s Manor.
Nineteen-year-old Silas has been in chains since he tried to escape the Bastion ten years ago, and his jailer has done everything in his power to make sure he will be the strongest, deadliest Monarch vying for the Shepherd’s throne. Because they both know that for all the chosen except the successor, the Manor is a death sentence. Still, Silas is eager for the Shepherd to destroy the idealistic notions of the girl who condemned him to slavery.
But when the reality of the Manor and the secrets it hides are so much more horrific than Silas imagined, he’ll have to join forces with Remy if he wants to uncover the truth of their world and, just maybe, survive it.
Hayley Reese Chow is the multi-award-winning author of Odriel’s Heirs—which earned honors from the YA IndieReader Discovery Awards and the Florida Author Project, among others—as well as the Into the Churn series. Her short and flash fiction has appeared across numerous literary publications and anthologies. Before diving full-time into writing, she lived several eclectic lives as an engineer, USAF veteran and reservist, four-time All-American fencer, 100-mile ultramarathoner, and triathlete.
It Started with a Whisper by Rob Shuter
Published by Post Hill Press
World Rights Available
As seen on Access Hollywood, Page Six, Good Morning America, Good Day New York, and Megyn Kelly.
It started with a whisper…
Secrets are currency, and one juicy quote can destroy a career. In this cutthroat world of celebrity gossip, four unlikely friends rise to the top, armed with ambition, charm, and a Rolodex of the powerful and problematic. They trade in scandal, survive by instinct, and thrive on betrayal.
But as the headlines get bigger and the stakes grow higher, the cost of success becomes harder to ignore. Behind every blind item is a truth, behind every scoop, a sacrifice. And when the gossip gets personal, even the most loyal friendships can’t escape unscathed.
It Started with a Whisper is a razor-sharp tale about the business of gossip, the hunger for relevance, and the blurred line between loyalty and ambition. Addictive, fast-paced, and full of bite, it’s the story behind the stories—and the people who live to tell them.
Rob Shuter is a British-American celebrity journalist, author, and TV personality known for his witty takes on Hollywood’s biggest stars. A former Executive Editor of OK! Magazine, he later launched Naughty But Nice with Rob on Mark Cuban’s HDNet and co-hosted VH1’s The Gossip Table. Dubbed “America’s Number ONE Gossip Columnist” by The National Enquirer, he is a regular contributor to Good Day New York and CNN.
Arcanum - In The Temple Shadows by Kelly O'Hearn
Published by Global Entanglement
World Rights Available
In the Temple Shadows is the first novel in the Arcanum series, a dual-timeline story weaving contemporary Manhattan, ancient Egypt, past-life romance, and self-discovery into a tale about soulmates, destiny, and the choices that follow us from one lifetime to the next.
What if happily ever after takes more than one lifetime?
Sarah Fuller seems to have everything. She’s the founder of a luxury fragrance company, married to a successful financial executive, raising twins, and living in a New York City penthouse overlooking Central Park.
On the day of her fortieth birthday, things start getting weird.
Sarah meets a dark, handsome stranger who feels seductively familiar. She can’t explain why she’s drawn to him, or shake the feeling that somehow, somewhere, they’ve met before.
Then an alluring psychic and her tarot cards offer an explanation Sarah never could have imagined: she may have known him in another lifetime in ancient Egypt, where she was a powerful mystic and the Pharaoh’s lover.
Is it déjà vu? A midlife crisis? A nervous breakdown?
Sarah has always been a skeptic. Her husband, her best friend, her shrink: everyone seems to think they know what’s best for her. But the more impossible it all sounds, the more something about it feels strangely right. And Sarah is determined to find out more.
As the mysteries of ancient Egypt begin to collide with her present, Sarah is forced to reconcile the life she knows with a past she can’t explain and a connection she can’t seem to ignore.
But if the past can explain the life she chose, can it also change what she chooses next?
Kelly O’Hearn’s intuitive journey, from professional sommelier to sought-after tarot reader, inspired the Arcanum book series, a time-bending saga of six storylines following the same soul through the lives of powerful women across different eras and cultures, united by their quest for happiness and true love. The series draws on O’Hearn’s own tarot readings during the pandemic. Arcanum, Book One: In the Temple Shadows and Book Two: Whispers in the Forest are available now, with Book Three: Secrets of the Madonna released on June 9, 2026.
