DEAD DEAD GIRLS author Nekesa Afia’s AS LONG AS YOU’RE MINE, a dual-timeline mystery, in which a Black woman who’s passing as white in 1933 must fight against enemies and rivals as Sunset Studio’s newest rising star, while a young woman in the 1950s reckons with a dark secret that’s been hidden for twenty-one years, to Melissa Valentine at Lake Union Publishing, in a nice deal, in an exclusive submission, for publication in fall 2025, by Travis Pennington