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Rachel Iacovone @racheliacovone.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Today, @ctpublic.bsky.social’s Where We Live dives into dark academia with author Kamilah Cole (@wordsiren.bsky.social), whose adult debut, “An Arcane Inheritance,” is based right here in Hartford, Connecticut. It’s romantasy, academic rivals, enemies to lovers, AND unapologetically BIPOC and queer.

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Author Kamilah Cole explores Hartford and Jamaican-American experience in latest novel

“An Arcane Inheritance," weaves dark academia with occult secrets at a fictional Ivy League school based in Hartford.

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

begged my editor for a deadline extension and she didn't answer me within ten seconds which obviously means she hates me and thinks i'm a flake she regrets signing, right?

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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

🩸COVER REVEAL! 🩸 Arthur and Sal are back for another romp in SUMMER COVEN! This time, the summer solstice festival plays host to a mysterious coven of witches, some bold fashion choices, and one horrible murder. Artist: Liam Eisenberg Designer: Colleen Reinhart www.rosieethor.com/summer-coven

In the foreground, two vampires ride a teal tandem bicycle. In front, a white man with graying hair, a light gray suit, and bright red tie holds a pink slushie and looks adoringly at his husband behind him, who has luscious curly black hair, a plum purple suit, puffy cravat, and is holding a blood red popsicle. In the front basket, a black cat perches with her paws up. Behind them, a festival is underway with bright pink tents and red flags in front of dark green trees. People mill about, some wearing pointy witch hats. Yellow text with a pink drop shadow spells out "SUMMER COVEN" over a dark blue sky with a yellow crescent moon at the top, and at the bottom in yellow text is "Authors of Dead & Breakfast" just above "Kat Hillis & Rosiee Thor"

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

all right, i'm ready. i'm FINALLY going to watch full metal alchemist: brotherhood* *i watched the 2003 anime and read the manga and it traumatized me so much i've not been able to watch FMAB without crying five minutes in over what these kids have gone and will go through. but it's time

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I'm so excited to announce that award-winning author of the Sandsea Trilogy @chelsabdullah.bsky.social will be doing a B&N live with me on Friday, January 23, at 3:30 PT/6:30 ET! Are you ready for the bestie power hour? Tune in to the B&N account on Friday for SHENANIGANS.

KAMILAH COLE
Live with Barnes and Noble
THE ASHFIRE KING - Chelsea Abdullah
AN ARCANE INHERITANCE - Kamilah Cole
BARNES AND NOBLE
January 23, 2026 @ 6:30 PM EST
LIVE ON INSTAGRAM @barnesandnoble
In conversation with Chelsea Abdullah

Chelsea holding up THE ASHFIRE KING AND THE STARDUST THIEF while I hold up SO LET THEM BURN and THIS ENDS IN EMBERS

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Dr. Lara Ameen @trucherrygirl.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

@wordsiren.bsky.social Hey, I just finished reading the Kindle ebook I bought of AN ARCANE INHERITANCE! I absolutely loved it! I would like to believe that Ellory and Hudson end up together foreve! Their banter was great and I love university set stories! Congratulations on an amazing book! 🥰🤗

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ Artist: cocorrina Design: jennykimuradesign Art Commission: joleanart WICKED ENDEAVORS, my YA romantasy, is available for preorder and hits shelves on September 8, 2026! Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/wick... Read Now: www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainmen...

AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER
[wicked endeavors cover]
ON SALE SEPTEMBER 8, 2026

Artist: cocorrina | Designer: Jenny Kimura | Author: Kamilah Cole

Little, Brown Young Readers

Description
Perfect for fans of The Shadows Between Us and Powerless, this high stakes romantasy follows a vengeful teen who cons her way into an elite society of tyrannical witches. But her warring feelings for two people—an enemy prince and her childhood friend—could ruin everything.

Caya was once the ward of Coventry’s royal family…until they were killed by the three witch Houses that now rule the peninsula.

Now eighteen, Caya plans to infiltrate the witches’ glittering world to enact justice. With the help of a mysterious benefactor, she adopts the persona of Marisol Vinyet, a disarmingly beautiful aristocrat. As Marisol, she’ll attend the annual Coronet, a cutthroat social season during which witches increase their power by binding new members to their Houses. The Coronet will draw even the prince of neighboring Domingo—Tomás Castellan—to the peninsula just in time for “Marisol” to kill him. After all, his family set the witches upon Coventry in the first place.

But Tomás is more charming than Caya ever anticipated. Worse, her estranged childhood friend, Bas Arroyo, is the prince’s protector, and she struggles to control her complicated feelings for him.

To take down the witches from within, Caya will have to keep both her identity and her desperate heart under wraps: Although she’s made herself a weapon, she might be the one to bleed.

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🧍🏿‍♀️ i've just been informed that An Arcane Inheritance (Deluxe Edition) is now out of stock at my publisher. i repeat: my publisher has no more copies and will NOT be printing more. if you want these gorgeous edges then grab one from your local store ASAP. bookshop.org/p/books/an-a...

An Arcane Inheritance with the gorgeous sprayed edges

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🌟 COSMOPOLITAN COVER REVEAL 🌟 Thank you to Cosmo for helping me reveal the cover of my YA romantasy, WICKED ENDEAVORS. Head over to the link to see the cover and read an exclusive excerpt from the book! Artist: cocorrina Design: jennykimuradesign 🔗: www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainmen...

Cosmopolitan
Wicked Endeavors Exclusive Cover and Excerpt Reveal

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

it has been brought to my attention (by my sister) that i received a two page spread in locus magazine???? this is an incredible honor wow 🥹 you can grab a digital or physical issue here: subscribers.locusmag.com/subscribe

a two-page spread of little me talking about AN ARCANE INHERITANCE

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

i'm speechless thank you all so much 😭

AN ARCANE INHERITANCE
the instant USA TODAY bestseller

NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
An Arcane Inheritance
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readyourwrites.bsky.social @readyourwrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

AN ARCANE INHERITANCE by Kamilah Cole was my first read of the year. I highly recommend this dark academia fantasy read. amzn.to/4qcOxNE @wordsiren.bsky.social #newrelease #nafantasy #fantasyread #darkacademia #fantasybooks #BIPOCFantasy #blackauthor #poisonedpenpress @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Thank you again for having me!!

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Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

And now, ep. 383D: Kamilah Cole makes the leap from YA to adult fiction with AN ARCANE INHERITANCE, a delicious Dark Academia book that will absorb you as soon as you turn the first page. @wordsiren.bsky.social @sbkslibrary.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2026/01/01/t...

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Heads up, the annual year-end free trial period for Publishers Marketplace is live. Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

💞 AN ARCANE INHERITANCE IS OUT NOW 💞 This book has been mine for so long. Now it's yours. Thank you to @emilykaitlin.bsky.social and @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social for believing in me and this story. You can find An Arcane Inheritance wherever books are sold. Purchase: linktr.ee/kamilahcole

Me smiling in my glasses while holding three copies of AN ARCANE INHERITANCE

Me smiling in my glasses, doing a little head tilt, while holding three copies of AN ARCANE INHERITANCE, one of which is up by my smiling face

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Ron Chan @rondanchan.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas fam!

Color sketch of Tifa, Cloud, and Aerith from Final Fantasy 7. Cloud lies flat on his stomach with a grumpy expression. Tifa sits on him triumphantly, wearing a Santa hat. Aerith crouches next to them. She wears decorative reindeer antlers and happily places an elf hat on Cloud.

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Anja Bohlman is querying 🌒🌕🌘 @anjabohlman.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I'm currently reading So Let Them Burn and keep thinking "omg this is soooo kingdom hearts" and then I remember that Kamilah Cole is a huge kingdom hearts fan. It makes me smile:) @wordsiren.bsky.social 🗝️🤍

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

i'm not saying reeve is roxas but i AM saying they would have a lot to talk about

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Connecticut friends, a tour stop's been added at River Bend Bookshop on Sunday, January 11 at 5 PM! Join me and my beloved Kelly as she tries to talk about AN ARCANE INHERITANCE and I derail the conversation to talk about the upcoming THE GRAVEWOOD instead :) riverbendbookshop.com/event/2026-0...

Author Event
Kamilah Cole
in conversation with Kelly Andrew
Sunday January 11th at 5 PM
River Bend Bookshop
An Arcane Inheritance

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

✨ LAUNCH EVENT REMINDER ✨ if you're in the seattle area, or can be, please join me and elaine for my launch of AN ARCANE INHERITANCE at third place books ravenna! i will have swag, AND if you preorder the book from third place books you get even MORE swag www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/kamila...

AN ARCANE INHERITANCE book cover
my author photo
elaine's author photo
author event at ravenna

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

PREORDER CAMPAIGN. Every entry will be entered into a drawing to win a $100 gift card to their fave Indie bookseller, and every 20th can pick one annotated copy of my books. Submit receipts here: bit.ly/PreorderUtCSM If you don’t have Google, please write me on my website: www.alechiadow.com/contact

Preorder campaign graphic. All info above but it has a picture of my books on a green background with glittery gold

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Anna M @helgagrace.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

For day 9 of #libfaves25, a book that hasn't quiiiiite come out yet (12/30), but deserves love! AN ARCANE INHERITANCE by @wordsiren.bsky.social is a Ninth House x Get Out dark academia feast! #books #DarkAcademia #booksky @sbkslibrary.bsky.social

The book jacket for the novel "An Arcane Inheritance" by Kamilah Cole. A multi-story illustrated gothic tower dominates the center of this cover, with the rays a red light obscured by the tower radiating out from behind it about one third of the way down. The tower is flanked by dramatic dark clouds, while the bottom third is illustrated by photo negative trees behind the base of the building, and crumpled earth beneath it. The title is in white across the center in three lines, with the author's name a the bottom, also in while. The illustration is framed by gold rectangles, with a backward "E" at the very top and center.

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Tabrizia @cupofteawiththatbookplease.com · 11/12/2025

Most of us are in a rush for 2025 to end, but before we close out this tumultuous year, let us try to aim on a high note, particularly with a few highlighted book releases! 💙📚 #booksky #blacksky @zakiyanjamal.bsky.social @wordsiren.bsky.social cupofteawiththatbookplease.com/2025/12/02/b...

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

OMG?? AN ARCANE INHERITANCE IS ON THIS

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

i finally did it! my first newsletter in three months (and final newsletter of 2025) went out this morning, and it's pretty much a summary of my book news but i did it!!! if you don't see it, check your spam or promo folders~

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

thank you for sharing here too!!!

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

omg there's an excerpt from AN ARCANE INHERITANCE in Reactor! funnily enough, this is one of my favorite scenes, just for the sheer the sheer and obvious ust between hudson and ellory. check it ouuut

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

a final AN ARCANE INHERITANCE giveaway is running over at goodreads! 30 copies are available, so join the almost 10,000 people who have entered so far for a chance to get a copy before the book comes out on December 30, 2025~ www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Book giveaway for An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole Nov 24-Dec 22, 2025

Enter to win one of 30 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 24-Dec 22, 2025. Enter for the chance to win 1 of 30 copies of Kamilah Cole's AN AR...

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

AN ARCANE INHERITANCE is getting a special edition from Lit Pins! 10% of profits will be donated to Jamaicans Abroad Helping Jamaicans At Home, and there will be sprayed edges, a redesigned dust jacket, and more~ There are a limited amount available so preorder! litpinsandco.com/collections/...

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An Arcane Inheritance Signed Special Edition - PREORDER

Have you ever had a sense of deja vu? Meet Ellory Morgan in Kamilah's Cole's dark academia and see as memories unravel in this dark academia with a twist.

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 24/11/2025

AN ARCANE INHERITANCE by @wordsiren.bsky.social - bi MCs - Ivy League gothic - when you go to a college you've never been to before, but everything seems... familiar - to find out why, let's pair up with the guy we hate and dive into the world of secret societies - deja vu, but make it dangerous

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An Arcane Inheritance (Deluxe Edition)

Check out An Arcane Inheritance (Deluxe Edition) - A modern-day dark academia fantasy with a twist, perfect for fans of Babel and A Deadly Education.Warren ...

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

-vibrates with joy- AN ARCANE INHERITANCE is in the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...

These Campus Romance Novels Will Make You Swoon
The explosive potential of those years makes every emotion more intense — and a perfect combo for rich storytelling.
The illustration shows portions of eight book covers and one black-and-white author photo on a pink background.
Credit...The New York Times
By Ebony LaDelle
Ebony LaDelle is the author of the award-winning Y.A. romances “Love Radio” and “This Could Be Forever,” and the editor of “You’ve Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at H.B.C.U.s.”
Nov. 12, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET

An Arcane Inheritance
by Kamilah Cole
Cole’s dark academia fantasy follows Ellory Morgan, a 21-year-old Jamaican freshman who gets her chance at college after caring for an ailing aunt. As Ellory adjusts to university life, she gets a weird sense of déjà vu, which becomes tangible when a tattoo appears on her neck telling her to “remember.” To crack the mystery of her haunting, she works with a legacy student, Hudson Graves, and a charming, rivals-to-lovers romance unfolds as he helps her expose the prestigious school’s disturbing past. Put this one on your “to read” list: It comes out on Dec. 30.

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Austin, TX, I'll see you this weekend! I'm so excited to be going to @texasbookfest.bsky.social~ I'll be walking around with prints and bookmarks, if you catch me. 🥰 I heard there might even be AN ARCANE INHERITANCE arcs available... THIS ENDS IN EMBERS comes out in paperback on February 10, 2026.

SATURDAY
3-3:50 PM
Author Signing
SteamyLit Booth #303-304
Kamilah Cole, Mai Corland, N.E. Davenport

SUNDAY
1-1:45PM
THIS IS HOW IT ENDS: FINALES TO EPIC FANTASY TALES
YA HQ Tent
Fly into these breathtaking finales on the back of a dragon or through Windwitchery! Learn how these epic stories are fated to end and what will remain of their worlds in this enthralling conversation with Susan Dennard and Kamilah Cole.

2-3 PM
Author Signing
Signing Tent - Table 10
Kamilah Cole and Susan Dennard

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

AN ARCANE INHERITANCE is an Adult dark academia fantasy with romance, thriller, and horror elements that comes out on December 30, 2025. I can't wait to share it with all of you! bookshop.org/p/books/an-a...

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An Arcane Inheritance (Deluxe Edition)

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

✨ BLURB REVEAL ✨ AN ARCANE INHERITANCE is for Adults, but I needed a blurb from YA author Kelly Andrew because I think about her dark academia THE WHISPERING DARK every day. An Arcane Inheritance is out December 30, 2025. Kelly's next book, The Gravewood, is out April 7, 2026. Check them out!

"Kamilah Cole's foray into the world of dark academia is nothing short of masterful. From the very first page, readers are transported into an academic hellscape that is as outwardly alluring as it is deadly... Romantic and meaningful and at times downright bone-chilling, An Arcane Inheritance is the sort of story that reminds us that all power comes with a cost." —Kelly Andrew, New York Times bestselling author of The Whispering Dark and The Gravewood

The covers of Kelly's books—THE WHISPERING DARK, YOUR BLOOD MY BONES, I AM MADE OF DEATH--and anthologies—IN THESE HALLOWED HALLS and THE SECRET ROMANTIC'S BOOK OF MAGIC—as well as a 3D image of the cover of her next book, THE GRAVEWOOD

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/11/2025

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

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Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin

More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

ICYMI, I'm writing an Adult vampire romantasy! The first book, HEIR UNDYING, comes out in Fall 2027 and it was bought by @sourcebookscasa.bsky.social in a six-figure, three book deal. You can learn more about it over on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DQejCT3kfYO/ In the meantime, enjoy this art~

A Black man smiling to show visible fang is holding a Black woman by the highs, her legs wrapped around him and her hands holding his face, as they press close to each other, smirking and sultry

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Category: Fiction: Romantasy
October 28, 2025

HEIR UNDYING by Kamilah Cole
Imprint: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Kamilah Cole's HEIR UNDYING, a paranormal romantasy about an ordinary girl whose life shatters when her estranged father dies and she learns he was the hidden world's vampire king... and she's his chosen heir, to Mary Altman at Sourcebooks Casablanca, in an exclusive submission, in a three-book deal, for publication in Fall 2027, by Emily Forney at BookEnds (world).

If Twilight, the vampire diaries, and vampire academy all had a baby with the princess diaries but for adults

Black vampires + Black royalty = Black vampire queen

Afro-Caribbean culture

Immortal family drama

Marriage before romance

Brothers with no love triangle

Curses and rights and murder, oh my!

A Black man smiling to show visible fang is holding a Black woman by the highs, her legs wrapped around him and her hands holding his face, as they press close to each other, smirking and sultry

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

✨ NEW BOOK DEAL ✨ If you’re not over Klaus and Caroline from TVD, if you’re mad the Vampire Academy series was cancelled, if you’ve wondered what if Twilight focused on the Volturi, or if like Black vampires, HEIR UNDYING, my Adult romantasy, is coming your way! www.instagram.com/p/DQcHcHWCeCP/

Publishers Marketplace
Deal Report
Category: Fiction: Romantasy
October 28, 2025

HEIR UNDYING by Kamilah Cole
Imprint: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Kamilah Cole's HEIR UNDYING, a paranormal romantasy about an ordinary girl whose life shatters when her estranged father dies and she learns he was the hidden world's vampire king... and she's his chosen heir, to Mary Altman at Sourcebooks Casablanca, in an exclusive submission, in a three-book deal, for publication in Fall 2027, by Emily Forney at BookEnds (world).

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