HarperCollins will publish a debut novel, A Woman of War by midwife Mandy Robotham, along with three other titles, following its first open submissions scheme which opened in February.
Along with Robotham's "heartbreaking and uplifting" tale, the Avon editorial team also snapped up The Widow Next Door, by Pennsylvania-based high school teacher and writer L A Detweiler, along with self-published author Jane Gilley's The Woman Who Kept Everything and The Man I Fell In Love With by Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA)-winner Kate Field.