Joanna Shupe’s MAGNATE, set in New York City in 1888, in which a rebellious Knickerbocker beauty wants to open her own brokerage firm to save her family’s finances, and approaches a self-made steel magnate for a partnership that may end up giving them both more than they bargained for, to Peter Senftleben at Kensington Zebra, in a three-book deal + a novella, for publication in Spring 2016, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.