LONG WAY DOWN
She thinks she’s marrying the perfect man. But nothing is as it seems.
Perfect for fans of Rachel Hawkins and Darby Kane, this suspense-packed novel entangles readers in family lies and shocking secrets that will leave you breathless.
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OCT. 21
2025
Deni Rydell believes her life is finally about to change for the better just as soon as she marries Cal Cooper Jr., heir to a massive California mining fortune.
When Cal and his parents perish in a plane crash, Deni’s dreams are shattered. She’s hoping to find solace with Cal’s brother Grant, who only recently returned to the small town of Gold Hills after a year’s stay in rehab. Too bad Grant is caught up trying to please Erika, the mysterious woman he brought home with him.
Meanwhile, Gold Hills detective Robyn Torres is assigned to investigate a vicious murder which she assumes to be a drug robbery that turned deadly. The deeper she digs, though, the clearer it is that she couldn’t be further from the truth. Soon enough, Torres begins to uncover a series of disturbing family secrets and dark lies connected to the Cooper family that threaten to destroy everything Deni knew to be true.
THE WIDOW ON DWYER COURT
Kate Burke has a perfect life. She is married to the handsome, successful Matt Parsons, and she’s Mom to Finley. To top it all off, her secret career writing erotic romance novels is flourishing. Kate may not enjoy sex, but Matt sure does, and if she lets him have one-night stands on his business trips, he’s happy to let her use the details as inspiration for her steamy stories.
Their arrangement is a thing of beauty.
Kate’s seemingly well-ordered world shifts unexpectedly when Annie Meyers, an eccentric young widow, moves to Kate’s neighborhood with her daughter. Kate suddenly finds herself wanting to be Annie’s best—and only—friend; someone with whom she can share her alternative life. Little does Kate know that Annie’s arrival in Rayburne, Vermont isn’t just about the fantastic Waldorf school; it’s about secrets, desires, and a twist that even a bestselling author like Kate didn’t see coming.
RASH: A MEMOIR
Writer Lisa Kusel, while living comfortably in her California home, feels an unsettling lack of personal contentment. When she sees a job posting for a new international school in Bali, she convinces her schoolteacher husband Victor to apply.
Six weeks after his interview, Lisa, Victor, and their six-year-old daughter, Loy, move halfway around the world to paradise. But instead of luxuriating in ocean breezes, renewed passion, and first-rate schooling, what Lisa and her family find are burning corpses, biting ants, and a millionaire founder who cares more about selling bamboo furniture than educating young minds. Not to mention Lisa’s fear that one morning she might see the Dengue Fever rash on her young daughter.
Rash is an unfiltered, sharply-written memoir about a woman who goes looking for happiness on the Island of the Gods, and nearly destroys her marriage in the process. For anyone who has ever dreamed of starting over in an exotic locale, this is a poignant reminder that no matter where you go, there you are.
HAT TRICK: A NOVEL
Mona and Hannah were best friends in high school, but they let their friendship slip away in the aftermath of a complicated love triangle with Peter, a man ten years older. Now in their thirties, Mona is a Hollywood movie producer and Hannah imports African goods for her store on the Northern California coast. In an ironic twist of fate, the two women and Peter cross paths again on the exotic island of Zanzibar.
When they meet again, the bonds of love, guilt, and responsibility that kept them tied to one another are brought to the surface. Told in alternating voices and taking readers from California to New York to East Africa, Hat Trick is the richly compelling story of three people reunited — or forever divided.
OTHER FISH IN THE SEAS: STORIES
Elly Fisher is searching for her place in the world and for the love of her life. Leading us through these 10 interconnected stories, Elly links one intimate tale to the next as she drifts through Europe, sleeps with a married man, tangles with a roommate from hell, creates a stir on a cattle ranch in Colorado, answers singles ads from a Seattle newspaper, and more.
Clever and original, Kusel offers readers a kaleidoscopic perspective of a young woman’s life, told from many points of view and in the voices of several related characters. Each of the stories build upon one another to create an effect like that of a novel. What shines through is Elly’s delightfully unique journey of self-discovery. Other Fish in the Sea is an intricate, involving, disarmingly funny, and powerfully personal work, in the tradition of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LISA KUSEL
Before publishing her first novel in 2002, Lisa Kusel created Microsoft’s first online arts magazine; coordinated recycling for the EPA; and sold Maybelline cosmetics in Russia. When she’s not volunteering with the local food shelf, meditating or cooking, Kusel can be found wrangling words (as well as her crazy cat, Dave) at her desk overlooking Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont.
CONTACT
Literary Representation
Stacey Donaghy
Donaghy Literary Group
stacey@donaghyliterary.com
TV/Film Agent
Dana Spector
Creative Artists Agency dana.spector@caa.com
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