Deal Announcement

Berkley pre-empts Darby Bozeman's debut SUMMER'S NEVER OVER in a two-book deal

From Publishers Marketplace:

Darby Bozeman's SUMMER'S NEVER OVER, pitched as if Carley Fortune wrote a murder mystery, about a woman who inherits the summer camp where her friend died five years earlier, and on returning discovers shocking secrets and faces a new threat, forcing her to finally confront the truth about that summer and her relationships, to Lisa Bonvissuto at Berkley, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2026, by Hannah Schofield at Luigi Bonomi Associates (world English).