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(Forge, October 2024)

Private Detective Evander “Andy” Mills has been drawn back to the Lavender House estate for a missing person case. Pat, the family butler, has been volunteering for a book service, one that specializes in mailing queer books to a carefully guarded list of subscribers. With bookseller Howard Salzberger gone suspiciously missing along with his address book, everyone on that list, including some of Andy’s closest friends, is now in danger.

A search of Howard’s bookstore reveals that someone wanted to stop him and his co-owner, Dorothea Lamb, from sending out their next book. The evidence points not just to the Feds, but to the Mafia, who would be happy to use the subscriber list for blackmail.

Andy has to maneuver through both the government and the criminal world, all while dealing with a nosy reporter who remembers him from his days as a police detective and wants to know why he’s no longer a cop. With his own secrets closing in on him, can Andy find the list before all the lives on it are at risk?

Set in atmospheric 1950s San Francisco, Rough Pages asks who is allowed to tell their own stories, and how far would you go to seek out the truth.

About the Author
Lev AC Rosen writes books for people of all ages, including the Evander Mills series, which began with the Macavity Award winning Lavender House, and continues with The Bell in the Fog. His most recent young adult novels are Emmett, Lion’s Legacy, and Camp. Rosen’s books have been nominated for Anthony and Lambda Awards and have been selected for Best of lists from The Today Show, Amazon, Library Journal, Buzzfeed, Autostraddle, Forbes, and many others. He lives in NYC with his husband and a very small cat. You can find him online at LevACRosen.com and @LevACRosen

The Memory Wall by Lev AC Rosen

An engrossing middle grade novel that’s part Kathryn Erskine’s Mockingbird, part Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls, set in a high-fantasy video game world.

12-year-old Nick Reeves’s mother has just moved into an assisted living home equipped to handle early onset Alzheimer’s. Nick has done his research and is sure that there are alternative explanations behind his mother’s declining memory–and her strange outbursts, like the scene she caused at school that made him a target of constant bullying.

Nick’s only escape from a torturous junior high experience is the high-fantasy world of Wellhall, an online video game that he and his mom used to play together. At first Nick seeks distraction in the game, but he soon becomes convinced that his mom is playing the game as a character named Reuenne, dropping him in-game hints about her diagnosis and how he can help her return home.

As Nick becomes more and more certain that Reuenne is actually his mother, Nick’s father and his new friend encourage Nick to confront the possibility that the game is just a game, and that he needs to be prepared to say goodbye to his mother as he knows her…

Lev AC Rosen is the critically-acclaimed author of two books for adults: All Men of Genius, and Depth, as well as one books for young readers: Woundabout (illustrated by his brother, Ellis Rosen). He received his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. He is originally from Lower Manhattan and now lives in even lower Manhattan with his husband and a very small cat. Find him online at LevACRosen.com

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