Carlie St. George's WE WERE MEANT TO ROT, in which a distraught mother embarks on the last road trip she'll ever take with the body of her dead daughter, only to have her daughter wake up to renew old arguments, reopen old wounds, and reveal dangerous secrets, to Rachel Gilmer at Poisoned Pen Press in a very nice two-book deal at auction, by Lucienne Diver Emma Lord's MJ LOVES SPIDER-MAN, a rom-com in which 17-year-old Mary Jane must help her best friend and longtime crush Peter Parker save the day when he suddenly forgets he's Spider-Man, to Brittany Rubiano at Random House Children's, by Lucienne Diver Former airline captain Dr. Jamie Cross PhD's LOCKED OUT, in which a seasoned airline captain searching for her missing daughter is locked out of her cockpit, setting off a chain of events that links the disappearance to a disturbed first officer and culminates in a desperate race to stop a passenger jet from being deliberately crashed, to Alex Lloyd at Pan Macmillan Australia (Australia) in a nice pre-empt, by Travis Pennington Deborah Blake's THE CRANKY CRONE'S GUIDE TO LIFE, blending wisdom and spells to help readers tackle life's frustrating problems, to Elysia Gallo at Llewellyn, by Elaine Spencer KD Casey's BREAKOUT YEAR, to Daniel Totten at Tantor Media, by Elaine Spencer Travis Pennington's DEAD AIR, in which a woman flying to Paris to reunite with the son she gave up wakes to find all 243 other passengers dead and the plane still flying, to Brendan Deneen at Blackstone Publishing in a nice deal, by Deidre Knigh | 
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