Breaking Cover by Michele Rigby Assad (Tyndale Momentum, February), about the author and her husband training to be CIA undercover agents, has been optioned by Middleton Media Group. (Deadline Hollywood)

Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (Houghton Mifflin, 1979), a biography of the wife of Winston Churchill, written by their youngest daughter, has been optioned by Maven Pictures. (Deadline Hollywood)

EveryWhere Studios has optioned Liane Moriarty's Three Wishes (Harper, 2004), about a set of triplets in their 30s. (Deadline Hollywood)

The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes (Random House, June), by the deputy National Security adviser who started working for Obama when he was 29, has been optioned by Likely Story, who plans a film for 2020 release. (Deadline Hollywood)

Aaron Magnani Productions has optioned Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017), about two survivors of a plane crash who end up on a tropical island. (Deadline Hollywood)