Merrie Destefano’s VALIANT, pitched as The 5th Wave meets Edge of Tomorrow, in which a 17-year-old is near-future Earth’s only hope when a space-mining mission meant to save America leads to an alien invasion, to Heather Howland at Entangled Teen, in a two-book deal, for publication in winter 2019, by Natalie Lakosil at Bradford Literary Agency (world).