Amazon Publishing London 2017 - Adult Fiction Titles

197 Pages·2017·9.97 MB·English

by  Jodi Marchowsky

London 2017 Rights Guide

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Foreign Language Titles — Amazon Publishing . . . . . .25
Jet City Comics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Lake Union Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Little A (Fiction and Poetry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Montlake Romance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
StoryFront . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Thomas & Mercer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Waterfall Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

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47North is the science-fiction and fantasy imprint of Amazon Publishing. From
international bestsellers to debut fiction to critically acclaimed novels, 47North
offers great reads across a wide array of subgenres. 47North publishes critically
acclaimed writers such as Marko Kloos and Anne Charnock; as well as bestselling
authors Robert Masello, Jeff Wheeler, Charlie N. Holmberg, and Sarah Fine.
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Secondborn Series
Secondborn (Book One)
Amy A. Bartol
Dystopian
Publication Date: 7/18/2017
Page Count: 400
Rights Acquired: All Languages
Roselle St. Sismode is secondborn, daughter to the leader of the military branch of government known
as the Fate of Swords. Firstborns of each family are the ruling class, and secondborn offspring are given
to the government in exchange for the firstborn’s life of power and privilege.

On Roselle’s Transition Day, she leaves her powerful family to become a ward of the state. Roselle loves
Hawthrone Hargrave, but their love is forbidden and thus kept secret. When Hawthorne’s older brother
dies, he is elevated to firstborn, and their love is an even greater danger. When Roselle spares a rebel
soldier on the battlefield, she becomes unwittingly embroiled in a rebellion that will lead to the death
of her own brother, her elevation to Firstborn, and her part in a vast conspiracy that will bring her to
the heights of power. Stay tuned for Book Two in Winter 2018!
Finding Paradise
Fate of Perfection (Book One)
K.F. Breene
Science-Fiction Adventure
Publication Date: 1/1/2017
Page Count: 332
Rights Acquired: All Languages
In a corporate-controlled future where the ruling conglomerates genetically engineer their employees,
Millicent Foster is the best of the best. Physically perfect and exceptionally intelligent, Millicent is
granted the uncommon privilege of breeding. But her daughter inherits more than superior genetics…
little Marie has a rare ability that the world has never seen, and her conglomerate, Moxidone, will stop
at nothing to have sole possession of the child. Teamed with Ryker, the formidable master of security,
Millicent must risk everything in a life-and-death struggle to tear her daughter away from the ruling
force who wants to own them all. The odds are stacked against them, but Moxidone will learn that the
pursuit of perfection comes at a perilous cost—and that love can’t be bought at any price.
Fate of Devotion (Book Two)
K.F. Breene
Science-Fiction Adventure
Publication Date: 4/11/2017
Page Count: 274
Rights Acquired: All Languages
After rescuing their daughter, Marie, from corporate-controlled Earth, Millicent and Ryker thought they
were safe on their off-world paradise. They were wrong. Toton, once thought the weakest conglomerate,
is now dominating ruined Earth with a sinister new technology. By harvesting minds for use in their
supercomputers, they’re enslaving the brightest humans to further their agenda. Millie and Ryker know it’s
just a matter of time before Toton realizes that Marie’s “gifted” mind is merely a rocket ride away.

As the anticorporate Rebel Nation and rival companies alike scramble to thwart Toton’s inhuman
machinations, society teeters on the brink. No longer safe, Millie and Ryker must sacrifice their freedom to
return home and stand with the burgeoning revolution—outmanned, outgunned, and aided only by a most
unexpected ally on the inside: Millie’s nemesis and estranged sister, Danissa.
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Zero Limit
Jeremy K. Brown
Science-Fiction Adventure
Publication Date: 3/6/2018
Page Count: 375
Rights Acquired: All Languages
Gravity meets The Martian in the story of Caitlin Taggart, head of the Guanghan Mining Company’s top
lunar-based Helium-3 recovery crew. Born on the Moon but raised on Earth, Caitlin is a decorated
veteran who now works in the lunar mining colony, thanks to a directive from the new US president
claiming “Earth for Terrans” and banishing lunar-born citizens back to the satellite.

Caitlin receives a surprising offer from a rich senator’s son to visit and redirect a platinum-rich asteroid
in exchange for clearance to return to Earth and save her daughter from entering the foster system. She
accepts the job and embarks with an ensemble cast on an adventurous quest littered with life-and-
death setbacks and a series of surprises that reveal her benefactors to be not all that they seem.
The Fracture Worlds
Song of Edmon
Adam Burch
Science-Fiction Adventure
Publication Date: 8/29/2017
Page Count: 307
Rights Acquired: All Languages

Edmon wants only to live in peace, to study music, and to meet his lovely Nadia on the seaside cliffs at
the end of every day. But when he publicly denounces his father’s violence and sings a forbidden hymn
inciting the underclass of Tao to rise up, father will stop at nothing to silence son. Edmon is thrust from
his beloved island nation of Bone on Tao’s Dayside, into the politics and horrific machinations of the
sprawling metropolis of Meridian—an equatorial city perpetually bathed in twilight—and finally into the
icy labor camps of the Wendigo on the planet’s Nightside.

Stay tuned for Book Two in Winter 2018!
Dreams Before the Start of Time
Anne Charnock
Literary Science Fiction
Publication Date: 4/18/2017
Page Count: 224
Rights Acquired: All Languages
In a near-future London, Millie Dack places her hand on her belly to feel her baby kick, resolute in her
decision to be a single parent. Across town, her closest friend—a hungover Toni Munroe—steps into the
shower and places her hand on a medic console. The diagnosis is devastating.

In this stunning, bittersweet family saga, Millie and Toni experience the aftershocks of human progress as
their children and grandchildren embrace new ways of making babies. When infertility is a thing of the
past, a man can create a child without a woman, a woman can create a child without a man, and artificial
wombs eliminate the struggles of pregnancy. But what does it mean to be a parent? A child? A family?

Through a series of interconnected vignettes that spans five generations and three continents, this
emotionally taut story explores the anxieties that arise when the science of fertility claims to deliver all
the answers.
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Odyssey One
Warrior King (Book Five)
Evan Currie
Space Opera
Publication Date: 7/19/2016
Page Count: 334
Rights Acquired: All Languages
Rights Sold: Polish
Battle weary after a desperate fight to save Earth from the Drasin alien onslaught, Confederation
captain Eric Weston is tasked with a perilous new mission. He and the crew of the Odysseus must hunt
down those who unleashed the hellish attack on his homeworld and that of Earth’s Priminae allies.

But the situation turns dire when they catch sight of a ship belonging to the mysterious beings who
orchestrate the fearsome Drasin’s depredations. This powerful Empire, it seems, has two primary aims:
to conquer new worlds and settle old scores. Weston’s ultimate objective: keep humanity from
becoming collateral damage as the Drasin war expands to engulf the galaxy.
Untitled Odyssey One (Book Six)
Evan Currie
Space Opera
Publication Date: 12/1/2017
Page Count: TBD
Rights Acquired: All Languages
The next book in the Odyssey One series follows the buildup of both the Human/Priminae forces, and
the gathering of their enemy, the Imperial fleets, showing just how outnumbered and outgunned the
Earth allies are as the Empire moves inexorably into Priminae space. By the end of Warrior King, we
find out that the Drasin aliens, who have been attacking human space and threatening the Priminae, are
actually controlled by an Empire behind the scenes. Now the allies must band together to prevent
annihilation.

Stay tuned for Book Seven in 2018!
The Scourwind Legacy
An Empire Asunder (Book Two)
Evan Currie
Science-Fiction Adventure
Publication Date: 11/15/2016
Page Count: 334
Rights Acquired: All Languages
The coup that won traitor General Corian the Scourwind throne has been overturned, but his ongoing
rebellion has left the empire divided. Lydia’s birthright regained, she adjusts to her role as empress at
war, while Brennan begins training as an elite Cadreman soldier. With tensions rising between the empire
and the Alliance, this momentary lull seems to portend a gathering storm. Searching for a vanished supply
shipment vital to her own mission of vengeance against Corian, former Cadrewoman turned pirate Mira
Delsol makes a shocking discovery about the theft. As both Mira and Brennan follow similar clues to the
fate of the stolen supplies, their trajectories converge. Now Mira will embark on a perilous attempt to
infiltrate the heart of the enemy camp, while Brennan’s path will also lead him across Alliance lines, and
into a lethal confrontation with the Alliance air fleet. But will either of their efforts be enough to keep
Corian from executing his plan to bring the empire to its knees once again?
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The Memory Agent
Matthew B.J. Delaney
Science-Fiction Adventure
Publication Date: 7/11/2017
Page Count: 347
Rights Acquired: All Languages
Crime never changes. Punishment does. In a time when prisons no longer contain inmates behind
concrete and steel, the convicted serve their time while asleep, rehabilitating in virtual reality while
blissfully unaware of their crimes.

Roger Parker is a professional prison breaker, skilled at navigating these strange penal dreamworlds and
extracting those imprisoned there—for a price. Parker wants out of the game, but a powerful senator,
desperate to save his son, convinces Parker to pull one last job. The clincher? An opportunity for Parker
to find his wife. As Parker and his team make their hallucinatory journey between worlds, memory and
motive lose coherence and integrity, and the clock begins to run out: internal security detects the
breaker. Unable to rely on his perceptions, unsure of the truth or even his very identity, will Parker
break out...or be broken?
Black Rain
Matthew B.J. Delaney
Science-Fiction Adventure
Publication Date: 8/16/2016
Page Count: 386
Rights Acquired: All Languages
In a darkly warped near future, lucrative disease cures are brokered on Wall Street’s Genetic Stock
Exchange. And the hottest consumer products are artificially synthesized humans who serve as everything
from domestic slaves to combatants in savage gladiatorial games. For Jack Saxton, the young heir to
genetic design powerhouse Genico Inc., these Synthates are just a fact of life…until the murder of a high-
profile genetic scientist leads a pair of seasoned NYPD detectives to Genico’s door. As a small band of
Synthate rebels steps up its attacks, Jack encounters a pleasure-parlor girl who opens his eyes to their
cause. When he dares to sympathize with the rebels, Jack is hunted down and arrested for the murder.
Sentenced to die in the brutal games on Bloomberg Island, Jack will be forced to fight—for his life, for the
future of all Synthates, and for a chance to uncover the mind-bending secret buried in his past.
On the Bones of Gods
Outlaw (Book Two)
K. Eason
Historical Fantasy
Publication Date: 7/12/2016
Page Count: 322
Rights Acquired: English and German
Snowdenaelikk never planned to return to the city of Illharek, but that was before the siege in Cardik,
before the violent and once-forgotten goddess Tal’Shik came looking for revenge at the head of a Taliri
army.The only people who can save the Republic are Snow, her partner, Veiko, and the highborn scout,
Dekklis. Together they mean to muster the power of the Senate and leverage the arcane knowledge of the
Academy’s Archives.

Once in the city, however, they discover the situation is already dire. A rash of disappearances among
highborn men and the resurgence of old heresies suggest that Tal’Shik’s godsworn have already infiltrated
the city. When Veiko is added to the ranks of the missing, Snow is done waiting. She brokers a deal with a
rival god to get the power she needs to stop Tal’Shik. But Snow has never been good at making bargains,
and this deal is going to cost her...
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The Road to Nowhere
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Book One)
Meg Elison
Postapocalyptic Science Fiction
Publication Date: 10/11/2016
Page Count: 300
Rights Acquired: All Languages
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip K. Dick Award Winner

When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead.

In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and
children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife
must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her
place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that
remains is power—and the strong who possess it. A few women like her survived,
though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven
by fear, seek to control those remaining. To preserve her freedom, she dons
men’s clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people as possible. But
as the world continues to grapple with its terrible circumstances, she’ll discover
a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of independence.

After all, if humanity is to be reborn, someone must be its guide.
The Book of Etta (Book Two)
Meg Elison
Postapocalyptic Science Fiction
Publication Date: 2/21/2017
Page Count: 316
Rights Acquired: All Languages

Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped
away the world that was. In the world that is, women are scarce and
childbearing is dangerous...yet desperately necessary for humankind’s future.
Mothers and midwives are sacred, but Etta has a different calling. As a
scavenger. Loyal to the village but living on her own terms, Etta roams the
desolate territory beyond: salvaging useful relics of the ruined past and braving
the threat of brutal slave traders, who are seeking women and girls to sell and
subjugate.

When slavers seize those she loves, Etta vows to release and avenge them. But
her mission will lead her to the stronghold of the Lion—a tyrant who dominates
the innocent with terror and violence. There, with no allies and few weapons
besides her wits and will, she will risk both body and spirit not only to save lives
but also to liberate a new world’s destiny.
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Reliquary Series
Reliquary (Book One)
Sarah Fine
Fantasy
Publication Date: 6/14/2016
Page Count: 290
Rights Acquired: English and German

Mattie Carver’s engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale. But
when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her
away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real—and Ben is hooked. It’s not the
stuff of storybooks. It’s wildly addictive, capable of producing everything from hellish anguish to sensual
ecstasy almost beyond human endurance.

Determined to find out who took Ben and why, Mattie immerses herself in a shadowy underworld and
comes face-to-face with the darkly alluring Asa Ward, a rogue magic dealer, infamous hustler…and her
missing fiancé’s estranged brother. Asa has the power to sense magic, and he realizes Mattie is a
reliquary, someone with the rare ability to carry magic within her own body, undetected. Asa agrees to
help find Ben on one condition: Mattie must use her uncommon talent to assist his smuggling operations.
Splinter (Book Two)
Sarah Fine
Fantasy
Publication Date: 8/2/2016
Page Count: 306
Rights Acquired: English and German

Mattie Carver has relinquished the world of magic, with all its dark temptations. In six weeks, she’ll
marry Ben Ward and claim the safe, small-town life she craves. But Mattie’s talents as a reliquary—
someone able to smuggle magic within her body—make her a valuable commodity, even to those she
trusts the most. Forced out of retirement by a painful betrayal, she must seek the help of the man she’s
tried desperately to stay away from: Ben’s estranged brother, Asa.

Asa, a sensor and magic dealer, may have saved Ben months ago, but he’s complicated Mattie’s life
beyond imagining. Trailed by lethal mobsters through Chicago’s seamy magical underbelly and an eerie
traveling carnival, Mattie struggles to endure the priceless magic she’s holding and her feelings for Asa.
Once, she thought she’d chosen her path. Now the only option may be to succumb to the destiny that’s
choosing her, and hope she’s strong enough to survive.
Mosaic (Book Three)
Sarah Fine
Fantasy
Publication Date: 11/15/2016
Page Count: 320
Rights Acquired: English and German

Mattie Carver never thought she’d give up her small-town life to become one half of the best magic-
smuggling duo in the business. Until recently, she didn’t even know such a business existed. But as an
unusually strong reliquary—able to carry vast quantities of magic in her body, undetected—she’s been
pulled into an underworld of organized crime and addictive enchantments. And although she’s
determined to keep things professional, her partner, Asa Ward, is a temptation she finds increasingly
hard to resist.

Even as their relationship reaches a tipping point, Mattie is wary; Asa already told her he hates cages—
literal or otherwise. But when an international black-market magic exchange goes awry, Asa falls into
the hands of his enemies. Now, with the man who refuses to be controlled under the command of a
ruthless captor, Mattie must decide how far she’s willing to go to rescue him—assuming there’s anything
left to save.
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Lost in Arcadia The Argus Deceit
Sean Gandert Chuck Grossart
Literary Science Fiction Science-Fiction Adventure
Publication Date: 7/1/2017 Publication Date: 5/9/2017
Page Count: TBD Page Count: 316
Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

The America of 2037 is a country distracted by, infatuated with, and From bestselling author Chuck Grossart comes a genre-bending
addicted to, Arcadia. The brainchild of reclusive genius Juan Diego psychological thriller that explores the limits of reality and the
Reyes, Arcadia is a wickedly immersive, all-encompassing social-media dizzying destruction of consciousness.
platform and virtual-reality interface. Although Arcadia has made the
Reyes family fabulously wealthy, it’s left them—and the rest of the Brody Quail is a man without dreams...but he’s beginning to live a
country—impoverished of intimacy. When Juan Diego mysteriously nightmare. He exists in four different lives, in four simultaneous
vanishes, the consequences shatter the lives of the entire Reyes clan. identities: happy young boy, lovelorn teenager, damaged young
man, and a pitiable middle-aged loner. He lives blissfully unaware
Outside the artificial safety of Arcadia, America has crumbled into an of his divided nature until a series of increasingly surreal
unrecognizable nation where a fundamentalist ex-preacher occupies experiences shakes this already fragile equilibrium. Time begins to
the Oval Office, megacorporations blithely exploit their full stop and start for him alone. Intimations of a recurring event haunt
citizenship, and a twenty-foot-high Great Wall of Freedom plastered his thoughts, and a silent, shadowy presence watches and stalks
with lucrative advertising bestrides the US-Mexican border. him. As the barriers between his realities begin to flicker and blur,
Brody’s confusion and fear find sympathetic understanding in
In a polarized society now cripplingly hooked on manufactured highs, Constance Drake, whose own sense of reality seems to be fraying
the Reyes family must overcome the seduction of simulation to find into terrifying incoherence. Threatened by madness and oblivion,
the kind of authentic human connection that offers salvation for all. Brody and Constance embark on a desperate search for answers.
The truth may set them free—or utterly destroy them.
Extracted Trilogy
Extracted (Book One) Executed (Book Two)
RR Haywood RR Haywood
Science-Fiction Adventure Science-Fiction Adventure
Publication Date: 3/1/2017 Publication Date: 6/6/2017
Page Count: 400 Page Count: 385
Rights Acquired: All Languages Rights Acquired: All Languages

In 2061, a young scientist invents a time machine to fix a tragedy in The team of heroes extracted from their timelines to prevent the
his past. But his good intentions turn catastrophic when an early apocalypse weren’t aware they needed a leader. But they’ve got
test reveals something unexpected: the end of the world. one anyway. With their mission in tatters, Miri has been called in to
steady the ship. And to push them toward their goal of preventing
A desperate plan is formed. Recruit three heroes, ordinary humans the end of the world.
capable of extraordinary things, and change the future.
The problem is, the world doesn’t seem very interested in saving
Safa Patel is an elite police officer, on duty when Downing Street itself. Governments are pursuing the team relentlessly, attempting
comes under terrorist attack. As armed men storm through the to steal the time-travel device to use for their own ends. The team
breach, she dispatches them all. Mad Harry Madden is a legend of is permanently on the run, and fighting for survival.
the Second World War. Not only did he complete an impossible
mission—to plant charges on a heavily defended submarine base— Meanwhile, Miri has motives of her own. And when the existence of
but he also escaped with his life. Ben Ryder is just an insurance a second device is discovered, the team’s mission, and their lives,
investigator. But as a young man, he witnessed a gang assaulting a are in mortal danger...
woman and her child. He went to their rescue, and killed all five.

Can these three heroes, extracted from their timelines at the point
of death, save the world?
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