ORION FICTION FEBRUARY

Erica James The Queen of New Beginnings

If you’ve ever dreamt of starting over, then this sparkling new bestseller is just what you need... Clayton Miller’s life is a mess. His career as a scriptwriter has stalled and his girlfriend has left him. Just when he thinks life couldn’t get any worse, he commits a spectacularly public fall from grace. With the press hounding him, his agent banishes him to a remote country house where he meets Alice, a voiceover artist who avoids telling the truth. She soon becomes suspicious that this strange and obnoxiously rude man has something to hide. As does she... Erica James is the author of thirteen bestselling novels. She lives in Cheshire.

Fiction Cased/Trade Paperback (export only) February/January £14.99/£12.99 432pp 234 x 153mm 978 1 4091 0184 0/978 1 4091 0185 7 Markets: World XUSA USA, Translation & Serial: Curtis Brown

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Dan Smith Dry Season

One man’s search for redemption deep in the badlands of South America On the banks of a sprawling Brazilian river lies São Tiago. It’s a lawless town for people with nowhere left to run and it’s where Sam, a former priest, has ended up. He left England to help people, but what he’s seen has damaged him. One night everything changes. What starts as a fight to save a life becomes a battle for friends and lovers to survive, and for one man to find redemption in a town without a soul. Dan Smith’s first eighteen years were spent following his parents around the world. Dry Season is inspired by the four years he spent living in the interior of Brazil. He lives in Newcastle with his family.

Fiction Cased/Trade Paperback February £18.99/£10.99 352pp 234 x 153mm 978 1 4091 0821 4/978 1 4091 0822 1 Markets: World USA, Translation & Serial: Orion