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THE PHONE SWAP de Lia Louis

When a scientist and movie star accidentally swap phones on a busy flight, they must oversee each other’s digital lives until they meet again to swap them back.

THE PHONE SWAP
by Lia Louis
Zaffre (UK)/Emily Bester Books (US), July 2025
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Private, never-been-love scientist Allie Lake is on a busy held-up flight on her way back home when she is seated next to troubled, hopeless romantic movie star Milo Ford. She is in no mood to talk. Her most recent project at a research station has just come to an end and she really doesn’t want to go home. Especially to what’s waiting for her.

As for Milo? Milo wants nothing more than to be at home hiding out with a little normality. Instead, he has to go and film a movie in the Romanian mountains… all the while, the press are getting closer, circling his secret. A secret he’s scared will come to light.

Allie lands and goes home.
Milo lands and heads to the mountains.

And both quickly realise they don’t have their phones – except they’re not lost. They’ve just picked up each other’s, forcing them to stay connected as they try to find a way to swap back.

Lia Louis has written five books, Better Left Unsent, The Key to My Heart, Eight Perfect Hours, Dear Emmie Blue and Somewhere Close to Happy. Somewhere Close to Happy was pre-empted in Italy and sold at auction in Spain, and Dear Emmie Blue took the rights world by storm and has sold in a total of 16 territories apart from the UK, including Germany where it became a bestseller.

THE NEW NEIGHBOURS de Claire Douglas

You know your neighbours are plotting a crime but no one believes you . . .

THE NEW NEIGHBOURS
by Claire Douglas
Penguin UK, March 2025
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Do you trust the couple next door?

When Lena overhears a conversation between her next-door neighbours, she thinks she must have misheard.

After all, the Morgans are a kind, retired couple who have moved to a suburban street in Bristol where nothing ever happens.

But it sounded like they were planning a crime.

Her family and friends tell her she’s made a mistake.

Yet the more Lena looks into the Morgans, the darker things seem.

And the more she fears it might be linked to a secret from her own past.

Because, if her suspicions are true, then someone is in real danger.

And it might just be her…

Claire Douglas worked as a journalist for fifteen years, but had dreamed of being a novelist since the age of seven. She finally got her wish after winning the Marie Claire Debut Novel Award with her first novel, The Sisters. She is a Sunday Times bestseller and a frequent Richard & Judy Book Club pick. Her books have sold nearly two million copies in the UK alone. She lives in Bath with her husband and two children.

A PRINCE AMONG PIRATES de Katie Abdou

A foppish nobleman accidentally joins a pirate ship and falls for his debonair captain.

A PRINCE AMONG PIRATES
by Katie Abdou
Simon & Schuster, Spring 2026
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Kit Davenport is impulsive, headstrong, a little too sure of himself, and desperate to get out from under his father’s thumb. Oh—he’s also the son of a Viscount, and days away from marrying a future marchioness.

But Kit doesn’t want to marry and become trapped in his father’s world of white wigs, dull dinner parties, and odious meetings in the House of Lords.

A string of dubious choices lands him on the crew of Captain Reggie Sharpe’s galleon, the Deliverance. There’s just one problem: Kit has no idea they’re pirates.

PS: Kit can’t swim.

Katie Abdou was born and raised in historic coastal Massachusetts, USA—where she cultivated a love of history, the occult, and piracy. Her goal is for her work to be a safe space for teens and young adults to experience both the good and bad in the world by exploring topics of self-discovery, ethnicity, sexuality, found family, and acceptance—with a dash of myth and magic.

PAPER DOLLS d’Andrea Stewart

The daughter of a famous YouTube family – who left her past long behind her – is forced to go home to save her sister. The debut thriller from two times Sunday Times bestselling fantasy novelist Andrea Stewart that will appeal to readers of Girl A, Sharp Objects and Luckiest Girl Alive.

PAPER DOLLS
by Andrea Stewart
on submission
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Ellie Campbell grew up online: the child of YouTubers, everything from her first period to first boyfriend was put up for the world to pick over, and her family to monetise. Until she grew up. She changed her name. She changed her hair. She barely speaks to her family anymore.

But when she spots some unnerving details in her parents’ videos, and gets the news that a close family friend has gone missing – she decides that she has to go back, to make sure that her younger sister Olivia is safe.

She arrives to a house full of secrets, including one that her parents have kept from the world: Olivia has run away. But Olivia would have come to Ellie if she’d run. Ellie knows it. So where is she? And could it be connected to the disappearance of their neighbour? When a body is found, Ellie is forced to confront the realities of her childhood – and the darkness that lies beneath the perfect façade.

Andrea Stewart is the daughter of immigrants, and was raised in a number of places across the United States. She now lives in sunny California. Her debut fantasy novel, Bone Shard Daughter, was published in the US and UK by Orbit, as well as in 7 other translation territories. Bone Shard War, and the first in her next trilogy, The Gods Below, were both Sunday Times bestsellers.

STAR AND THE STOLEN WISH de Stephanie Sosa

A standalone middle-grade adventure with a touch of magic and series potential that is perfect for fans of The Manifestor Prophecy and The Last Cuentista.

STAR AND THE STOLEN WISH
by Stephanie Sosa
on submission
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Twelve-year-old Star has only ever had one dream: to sail the high seas with el Capi, her ex-pirate father, his crew of pirate hunters, and her best friend Maite. But with her disposition for seasickness, and a surprise visit from her estranged Lady Mother, Star’s dream is sinking fast. Her Lady Mother plans to take her far away from both her beloved father and any chance of an adventurous life as soon as she turns thirteen, instead mooring her to a landlocked capital city she has never seen.

With just one week before her dreams are swept away, Star catches a break when she overhears the notorious Coralillos gang, el Capi’s nemeses, plotting to steal a Wish from the governor. If she can stop them and save the day, then her parents would have to see that she is meant to spend her life protecting the seas.

After surviving her mother’s shopping trips, she meets a nosey young boy, Ciro, who warns her that wishes can be dangerous if not used with great care, convincing Star even more that she’s doing the right thing. With Ciro and Maite’s help, Star is able sneak into the governor’s mansion just in time to stop the thieves from stealing the wish. Unfortunately, she absorbs its magical powers when the vial containing it breaks in her hand.

Now in hiding from the guards, the gang, and her family, and with only Maite and Ciro left to confide in, she has to protect the wish from those who want nothing less than to eradicate her family and put themselves in power—all while resisting the urge to use the life-changing magic for herself.

Stephanie Sosa was born and raised in Mexico, and received a bachelor’s degree in English and French from Amherst College, and a master’s degree in Publishing and Writing from Emerson. She now continues to live in New England, where she fights the colder temperatures with tea and blankets. In her writing, she combines her Mexican heritage with magic, and a healthy pinch of complicated family dynamics. When she’s not writing, she can be found at the movies or deeply immersed in a DnD campaign.