Here is the new update for my Books to Watch list.  Suzanne Young’s A Need So Beautiful sounds like an interesting premise.  I can’t wait to learn more about this book.  You can view my previous Books to Watch posts here.

Synopsis (Publishers Marketplace):

1. Brenda Cooper’s MAYAN DECEMBER, about an American archeologist who travels to a 2012 Festival in Mexico and is caught in a timeline from one thousand years earlier at the same site, and she tries to save a doomed couple in that past while dealing with current problems and a budding romance.

2. Susanne Lakin’s THE WOLF OF TEBRON, telling in traditional fairy tale fashion how a young blacksmith must undertake a perilous journey to the four ends of the world to rescue his wife, who is held captive by the Moon; along the way, he befriends a powerful wolf who encourages, protects, and ultimately sacrifices his life to save his human friend.

3. Joss Ware’s next three books in the ENVY CHRONICLES, a post-apocalyptic romance series that follows a group of men and women surviving in a dark new world.

4. Tracy Deebs’s RIP TIDE, a dark mermaid/surfer tale that explores a teen-age girl’s struggle between her desires and her destiny as she faces down a powerful evil, for publication in Spring 2011.

5. Cyn Balog’s LIVING BACKWARDS, in which a man cannot only see his own future, but how that future changes (for better or worse) every time he diverts from what he’s supposed to do, for publication in Summer 2012.

6. Suzanne Young’s A NEED SO BEAUTIFUL, in which a 17-year-old discovers that by performing the good deeds that her body compels her to, she will disappear into the Light and be forgotten, but by fighting “the Need,” her fate could be even more dire, in a two-book deal, in a pre-empt.

7. Debbie Viguie’s FAERIE LAND, in which a girl arrives in Kilally, Ireland and must come to terms with the fact that she has faerie blood, FAERIE WAR and FAERIE QUEEN, for publication in August 2011, April 2012, and January 2013.

8. Kristina Cook’s debut HAVEN, about a teenager struggling to find her place in the world after having visions of her father’s murder.

9. SOME GIRLS ARE and CRACKED UP TO BE author Courtney Summers’s gritty story of one girl’s attempt to make sense of her father’s untimely death, in a two-book deal.

10. Sarah Porter’s LOST VOICES, in which a troubled 14-year-old’s delight at becoming a mermaid and finding a home with these beautiful, mysterious creatures is tempered when she discovers their darker impulses, in a three-book deal, for publication in Spring 2011.

11. Stefan Petrucha’s BLOOD PROPHECY, set during Napoleon’s late-18th-century invasion of Egypt, featuring a “vampire Indiana Jones” who searches for ancient clues in an effort to become human again.

12. Doug Magee’s NEVER WAVE GOODBYE, minutes after a couple put their only child on a van for sleepaway camp, a second van arrives to pick the girl up and no one at the camp has any knowledge of the first van or its driver, in a two-book deal, for publication in June 2010.

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