Ashley Elston’s FIRST LIE WINS, her first adult novel, a cat-and-mouse suspense story pitched for fans of Laura Dave and Liv Constantine, in which a woman is hired for various jobs under changing identities for her mysterious boss, always staying one step ahead of her past while making sure there’s still a future in front of her, to Pamela Dorman at Pamela Dorman Books, in a pre-empt, for publication in summer 2023, by Sarah Landis at Sterling Lord Literistic (NA).

Rights to Headline (UK), in a six-figure deal, in a pre-empt, by Vanessa Kerr at Abner Stein; to Intrinseca (Brazil), at auction, by Joao Paulo Riff at Riff Agency; to Volt (the Netherlands), at auction, by Diana Gvozden at Marianne Schoenbach Literary Agency; to Droemer Knaur (Germany), at auction, by Christian Dittus at Paul & Peter Fritz Agency; to Dioptra (Greece), by John Moukakos at JLM Agency; to Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir (Israel), in a pre-empt, by Jessica Kasmer-Jacobs at Deborah Harris Agency; to Baltos Lankos (Lithuania), by Tatjana Zoldnere at Andrew Nurnberg Associates; and too Zysk (Poland), at pre-empt, by Piotr Wawrzenczyk at Book/lab Literary Agency; all on behalf of Szilvia Molnar and Danielle Bukowski at Sterling Lord Literistic.