Julie Crisp, at Tor UK has pre-empted World English Language rights for
False Hearts and an untitled novel by Laura Lam from Juliet Mushens at The Agency Group in a six figure deal.
Julie
Crisp, Editorial Director at Pan Macmillan said: ‘I was completely
hooked from the first page by Laura’s writing. To me it was like reading
Hunger Games meets Blade Runner meets The Shining Girls.
Thrilling, addictive and completely page-turning. Laura’s an amazing
storyteller and I’m thrilled to be working with her and Juliet on this
exciting novel’
Raised
in Mana’s Hearth, a retreat that’s closed off from the rest of society;
denied access to technology or modern medicine, twin sisters Taema and
Tila dream
of a life beyond the walls of the compound. When their lives are
threatened they finally manage escape to San Francisco and a life that’s
beyond anything they could have imagined.
Ten
years later, Tila returns to the twins’ home in the city, terrified and
covered in blood, just before the Police arrive and arrest her for
murder - the first homicide by a civilian in decades.
Taema is given a proposition: go undercover as her sister and perhaps
save her twin’s life. For the police believe that Tila was involved with
the Ratel, a powerful crime syndicate.
But during
her investigation she discovers disturbing links between the twins’ past
and their present. Once unable to keep anything from each other, the
sisters now discover the true cost of secrets.
Juliet Mushens from The Agency Group said 'False Hearts
is an adrenaline-fuelled thriller, packed full of twists and turns with a
compelling heroine at its heart. Laura is very talented and I am
thrilled that Pan Macmillan will be her publisher.'
I somehow never got round to reading Laura Lam's 'Pantomime' (but then I never get round to reading a lot of books) but heard enough good things said about it to be very interested in reading 'False Hearts' when it is published (at the beginning of 2016). I know it's a way off yet but will you be reading 'False Hearts'? And what have I been missing with 'Pantomime'?
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