Chandler Baker grew up in Florida, went to college at the University of Pennsylvania, and studied law at the University of Texas. She now lives in Austin with her husband, though her heart remains at the beach. She strongly believes that writing quality improves vastly if done while staring out at a large body of water and daydreaming. Chandler is the author of the young adult thriller Alive, as well as the High School Horror series.

about CUTTING TEETH

ā€œWith devourable writing and pitch-perfect humor, Cutting Teeth is a sharp, original, wickedly astute look at the sting of modern motherhood.ā€ ā€•Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push

New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker’s Cutting Teeth is a witty, thrilling story of parental love that asks: is there anything a mother wonā€™t do for her children?

Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhoodā€•their careers, their sex lives, their bodies. Their children, though, disrupt their plans when an unsettling medical condition begins to go around the Little Academy preschool: the kids are craving blood.

Then a young teacher is found dead, and the only potential witnesses are ten adorable four-year-olds.

Soon it becomes clear that the children are not just witnesses, but also suspects . . . and so are their mothers.

As the police begin to look more closely, the childrenā€™s ability to bleed their parents dry becomes deadly serious. Part murder mystery, part motherhood manifesto, Cutting Teeth explores the standards society holds mothers toā€•along with the ones to which we hold ourselvesā€•and the things no one tells you about becoming a parent.

about THE HUSBANDS

From Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network comes The Husbands, a novel that asks: to what lengths will a woman go for a little more help from her husband?

Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the holiday cards. Her husband works hard, tooā€¦ but why does it seem like she is always working so much harder?

When the Spanglers go house hunting in Dynasty Ranch, an exclusive suburban neighborhood, Nora meets a group of high-powered womenā€•a tech CEO, a neurosurgeon, an award-winning therapist, a bestselling authorā€•with enviably supportive husbands. When she agrees to help with a residentā€™s wrongful death case, she is pulled into the lives of the women there. She finds the air is different in Dynasty Ranch. The women arenā€™t hanging on by a thread.

But as the case unravels, Nora uncovers a plot that may explain the secret to having-it-all. One thatā€™s worth killing for. Calling to mind a Stepford Wives gender-swap, The Husbands imagines a world where the burden of the ā€œsecond shiftā€ is equally sharedā€•and what it may take to get there.

BookSparks is working in conjunction with Flatiron Books.

about WHISPER NETWORK

ā€œIf only youā€™d listened to us, none of this would have happened.ā€

Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truvivā€™s CEO means their boss, Ames, will likely take over the entire company. Each of the women has a different relationship with Ames, who has always been surrounded by whispers about how he treats women. Those whispers have been ignored, swept under the rug, hidden away by those in charge.

But the world has changed, and the women are watching this promotion differently. This time, when they find out Ames is making an inappropriate move on a colleague, they arenā€™t willing to let it go. This time, theyā€™ve decided enough is enough.

Sloane and her colleaguesā€™ decision to take a stand sets in motion a catastrophic shift in the office. Lies will be uncovered. Secrets will be exposed. And not everyone will survive. All of their livesā€•as women, colleagues, mothers, wives, friends, even adversariesā€•will change dramatically as a result.

“If only you had listened to us,ā€ they tell us on page one, ā€œnone of this would have happened.”

BookSparks is working in conjunction with Flatiron Books.

about THIS IS NOT THE END

On one cloudless, radiant summer afternoon, Lake Devereaux lost everything. The car crash claimed the lives of her best friend and boyfriend, the people who had become her family after her own fell apart. But she doesn’t have to lose them both.

The development of resurrection technology has changed the world. Under the new laws regulating the process, each person gets one resurrection to be used or forfeited on their eighteenth birthday. Mere weeks away from turning eighteen, Lake faces an impossible choice.

Envisioning life without one of the people she loves most is shattering enough, but Lake carries an additional burden: years ago, under family pressure, Lake secretly-and illegally-promised her resurrection to someone who isn’t even dead yet.

The search for answers about her future draws Lake more deeply into the secrets of her past until she begins to question everything about those closest to her. Betrayals and hurts both new and old threaten to eclipse the memories she once cherished.

Then Lake meets a boy unlike anyone she’s encountered before, who unflinchingly embraces the darkest parts of her life . . . and who believes that all resurrections are wrong.

Which path is the right one? And how can Lake start to heal when she can’t move on?