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      <image:caption>I’m the author of UNFINISHED BUSINESS, an adult speculative workplace rom com about a lost young woman who takes a job at the megacorporation her recently deceased mother worked at for decades and realizes her mom’s ghost is trapped in the company Slack server. Her efforts to free her mom inadvertently send her into a love triangle with two men at work who might be able to help: the estranged childhood friend her mom never approved of, and the hot but vaguely sinister new junior executive. Get your copy here!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Clare Osongco is a mixed Filipino American author living in Los Angeles who likes to write about falling in love, messy family relationships, and ghosts. (In other words: she writes happy endings for haunted people). She is the author of Unfinished Business and Midnights With You. You can find her on Instagram at @clareosongco. For updates, you can subscribe to her newsletter here. (For the latest events and promotions, please check over here). Photo credit: Trinity Nguyen</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In this funny, warmly chaotic novel, a floundering office worker discovers her mother’s ghost is trapped in the company Slack server, and must free her by resolving her own troubled love life. “Deeply satisfying . . . such a unique, surprising, and fun tale with a swoony romance perfectly woven together.”—Natalie Sue, bestselling author of I Hope This Finds You Well A few months ago, Ruby Ocampo’s mother, Adela, died at her desk at work. Now, lost and driven by a misplaced sense of obligation, Ruby’s taken a job at the megacorporation where Adela worked for decades—and, to her horror, she discovers her mother’s ghost is trapped in the company Slack. Ruby has never lived up to her mother’s expectations in life, but to set her free, she’ll have to resolve Adela’s unfinished business. She makes a list of all the ways she could live more like her mother would have wanted, covering everything from her stunted career to her love life (#5 on the list: date someone in a higher tax bracket!). Soon her quest to free Adela gets Ruby entangled with two men at the office who might be able to help: the estranged childhood friend her mom never approved of—who’s the only one she can confide in about this supernatural crisis—and the hot but vaguely sinister junior executive who’s been paying her a confusing amount of attention. In order to give her mom a chance at the afterlife, Ruby must address her shortcomings one by one—and reevaluate her inherited ideas about love, work, and what’s truly important along the way. OUT NOW! GET YOUR COPY | EVENTS + UPDATES | LISTEN ON LIBRO.FM Book cover art and design by Sarah Horgan.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>She thinks love always leads to heartbreak. He can't stop loving her, even though he's tried. Tessa’s family moves around a lot, and for years, she pulled out all the stops to stay in touch with her long-distance best friends. But after her dad died, she cut everyone off suddenly. Now she just wants to be left alone—no attachments, no missing anyone, no more chances to get hurt. Then, the summer before senior year arrives, in order to make her long-suffering mom happy, Tessa agrees to go on a road trip through all the towns they used to live in with her meddling older sister, Jenna—who, unbeknownst to their mom, has planned this as a ghost-hunting adventure for her secret YouTube channel. The night before they leave, Jenna sends off a bunch of drafts she found sitting in Tessa's email—messages filled with Tessa’s rawest feelings that she never planned for anyone to read. Now Tessa has to face all the ex-friends she’d ghosted. And to make matters worse, Justin—Tessa’s longtime crush and the recipient of one of the dreaded emails—will be joining them on the road trip. As the trip unfolds, old memories, unresolved feelings, and unexpected moments bring them closer, pushing Tessa to confront what’s really keeping her from living in the present. OUT MARCH 9, 2027 FROM HYPERION PREORDER | GET UPDATES Book cover art by Dion MBD and design by Zareen Johnson.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Books - Midnights With You</image:title>
      <image:caption>“An achingly beautiful coming-of-age story…Midnights With You is everything I’ve ever wanted in a book.” —Ann Liang, New York Times best-selling author of I Hope This Doesn’t Find You *** “Where were you thinking of going?” “Nowhere.” “Great,” he says lightly, putting the car in gear. “Then we’ll go there.” Seventeen-year-old Deedee’s life is full of family ghosts and questions she can’t ask. She longs for an escape, but guilt holds her back—that, and the fact that her strict Filipino single mom won’t let her learn to drive. But one sleepless night leads Deedee down a road she never thought possible: secret driving lessons with the new boy next door, Jay, whose turbulent family life also keeps him up until sunrise. As midnights stretch into days, Jay helps Deedee begin to unravel her past, and as shared secrets blossom into love, Deedee starts to imagine a life where happiness is possible. But the deeper she digs into the trauma that has shaped her, the more that trauma threatens to tear Deedee and Jay apart. Together, these two must decide if the pain they’ve both inherited has the power to choose their fate, or if they have the power to choose for themselves. OUT NOW GET YOUR COPY | GET UPDATES | LISTEN ON LIBRO.FM Book cover art by Dana Lédl and design by Marci Senders.</image:caption>
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