Clients ❭ Cassandra Newbould

Climate of Chaos

Peachtree Teen

The Hunger Games for the next generation, Climate of Chaos stars a disabled protagonist and explores the devastating potential of climate change left unchecked and the all-too-real consequences of outrageously expensive health insurance affecting millions today.

An exhilarating dystopian recalling The Last of Us and Divergent!

In dystopic Seattle, storms have devastated Earth’s population, a new virus is spreading, and the privileged live inside domes controlled by Aegis Corp. Healthcare is earned by hours accrued working in Aegis’s pharmaceutical factories. If you run short onhours, you’re sent to the Harvest House for debt collection—a place from which no one returns.

After a storm killed seventeen-year-old Fox LaRosa’s parents and left her disabled, Fox and her younger sister, Rabbit, join their fugitive aunt’s mercenary group Still Alive. Their mission is to restore the imbalance of medical access for post-storm survivors.

But when a med supply heist goes south, Rabbit is taken captive, and Still Alive refuses to rescue her. Fox must choose between duty and family, and leaves home to infiltrate Aegis’s interior domes where Rabbit is being held hostage. The more Fox learns about life in the domes, though, the more she realizes Still Alive isn’t as altruistic as they claim. In a world where everyone is out for themselves, Fox must rely on those she trusts least in order to reunite with her sister and expose those in power for who they really are.

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When the Forest Calls

Stars and Sabers Publishing

A dark fantasy horror novella pitched as Uprooted meets Winterwood, WHEN THE FOREST CALLS answers the question: What if The Giving Tree wanted revenge?

Anastasia Mayweather, a logger’s daughter, sits in protest of the planned felling of their forest's last remaining heartwood tree. But when a mysterious fog rolls in, shrouding Anastasia and the heartwood tree in a blanket of white, the Anastasia that returns from the wood isn't the same one who went in. She now seeks the forest’s vengeance—and her own—leaving a trail of disappearing townsfolk in her wake.

Publication is slated for December '26.

Things I'll Never Say

Peachtree Teen

A stunning and deeply personal debut novel from Cassanfra Newbould, this powerful coming-of-age story about teen mental health and navigating grief will ressonate with fans of You'd Be Home Now and The Way I Used to Be.

Ten years ago, the Scar Squad promised each other nothing would tear them apart. Even when Casey Jones Caruso lost her twin brother Sammy to an overdose, and their foursome became a threesome, the squad picked each other up. But when Casey’s feeling for the remaining members—Francesca and Benjamin—develop into romantic attraction, she worries the truth will dissolve them.

Casey tries to ignore her heart, until Ben kisses her at a summer party, and Frankie kisses another girl. Now Casey must confront all the complicated feelings she’s buried—for her friends and for the brother she’s totally pissed at for dying. Since Sammy’s death, Casey has spilled all the things she can no longer say to him in journals, and now more than ever, she wishes he were here to help her decide whether she should guard her heart or bet it all on love, before someone else decides for her.

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Every Body Shines

Bloomsbury Kids

A Junior Library Guild Selection, Every Body Shines is an intersectional, feminist YA anthology from some of today's most exciting voices across a span of genres, all celebrating body diversity and fat acceptance through short stories.

Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up, heroes who rescue themselves, big bodies in space, intellects taking up space, and bodies looking and feeling beautiful. They express themselves through fashion, sports and other physical pursuits, through food, and music, and art. They are flirting and falling in love. They are loving to themselves and one another. With stories that feature fat main characters starring in a multitude of settings, and written by authors who live these lives too, this is truly a unique collection that shows fat young people the representation they deserve.

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