Sam Lansky is lingering in the fiction world and staying close to his friends at Harlequin/HarperCollins imprint Hanover Square Press. The Time West Coast editor has struck a deal with the publisher for a sophomore novel, Close Friends, which tells the story of Walker Stevenson and his three best female friends as their lives are upended during senior year of high school by a shocking moment of violence.It is due out in 2022.