Rights Report: Week of August 18, 2025

Hannah Pierdolla at Wednesday Books has bought Cavern F(r)iend by Lene D. Buttner, a debut YA horroromance pitched as Andrew Joseph White meets Someone You Can Build a Nest In, in which a search-and-recovery guide with a monstrous secret is enlisted to retrieve the body of his bosses' son from the cursed sinkhole/amusement park where he works—only to find him alive and on a quest of his own. Publication is tentatively set for winter 2027; Eric Showers at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency negotiated the deal for world English rights.