SPRING 2020 ST. MARTIN’S PRESS St. Martin’s Griffin This edition of the catalogue was printed on November 12, 2019. To view updates, please see the Spring 2020 Raincoast eCatalogue or visit www.raincoast.com 20S Macm SMP Griffin Sunset Beach A Novel by Mary Kay Andrews The New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads delivers her next blockbuster: Sunset Beach is a compelling ride, full of Mary Kay Andrews' signature wit, heart, and charm. Pull up a lounge chair and have a cocktail at Sunset Beach - it comes with a twist. Drue Campbell's life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn't seem to be getting any better when her estranged father, Brice Campbell, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows up at her mother's funeral after a twenty-year absence. Worse, he's remarried - to Drue's eighth grade frenemy, Wendy, now his office manager. And they're offering her a job. It seems like the job from hell, but the offer is sweetened by the news of her inheritance - her grandparents' beach bungalow in the sleepy town of Sunset Beach, a charming but storm-damaged eyesore now surrounded by waterfront McMansions. With no other prospects, Drue begrudgingly joins the firm, spending her days St. Martin's Press screening out the grifters whose phone calls flood the law office. Working with On Sale: Apr 28/20 Wendy is no picnic either. But when a suspicious death at an exclusive beach 5.38 x 8.25 • 448 pages resort nearby exposes possible corruption at her father's firm, she goes from 9781250126115 • $22.99 • pb unwilling cubicle rat to unwitting investigator, and is drawn into a case that Fiction / Contemporary Women may - or may not - involve her father. With an office romance building, a decades-old missing persons case re- Notes opened, and a cottage in rehab, one thing is for sure at Sunset Beach: there's a storm on the horizon. Promotion Online Publicity "Andrews's gift for drawing fascinating characters and her captivating (...) Online Advertising Book Club Outreach Author Bio Email Marketing Campaign Social Media Campaign Mary Kay Andrews is The New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Cookbook and more than twenty novels, including The Weekenders, Ladies' Night, Spring Fever, Summer Rental, The Fixer Upper, Deep Dish, Blue Christmas, Savannah Breeze, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies, and Savannah Blues. A former journalist for The Atlanta Journal Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Page 1 of 64 20S Macm SMP Griffin The Night Before by Wendy Walker A Today Show and New York Post Summer Reads Selection! Riveting and compulsive, national bestselling author Wendy Walker's The Night Before takes you to deep, dark places few thrillers dare to go" as two sisters uncover long-buried secrets when an internet date spirals out of control. "Ferociously smart." - AJ Finn "Riveting." - Riley Sager "Addictive." - Liv Constantine "Wonderfully tense." - Aimee Molloy "Irresistible." - Mary Kubica "Impossible to put down." - Megan Miranda First dates can be murder. Laura Lochner has never been lucky in love. She falls too hard and too fast, always choosing the wrong men. Devastated by the end of her last St. Martin's Press relationship, she fled her Wall Street job and New York City apartment for her On Sale: Apr 28/20 sister's home in the Connecticut suburb where they both grew up. Though still 5.38 x 8.25 • 320 pages haunted by the tragedy that's defined her entire life, Laura is determined to 9781250198686 • $22.99 • pb take one more chance on love with a man she's met on an Internet (...) Fiction / Suspense Author Bio Notes Wendy Walker is a former commercial litigator and investment banker who now works at home in Connecticut writing and raising her children. She is the Promotion author of the novels Four Wives and Social Lives, and is the editor of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Power Moms, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom, and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad. She is currently working on her next book. Page 2 of 64 20S Macm SMP Griffin Under Currents A Novel by Nora Roberts From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, Under Currents is a novel about the power of family to harm - and to heal. For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they've come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under? Inside a pristine home in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, Zane Bigelow has learned to keep secrets. Strangers see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, proud of their children. Only Zane and his sister know the terrible truth. Dominated by his father's rages - and his mother's complicity - Zane fears for his and little Britt's lives. Still he maintains the insidious lie that all is fine, while scribbling his real thoughts in a secret journal he must carefully hide away. Now, as a grown man struggling to build a new life, Zane will find that while his past may always shadow him, it will also show him that love and goodness can triumph - and give him strength to draw on when we once again must St. Martin's Press stand up and defend himself and the woman he loves. Strict On Sale: May 5/20 5.38 x 8.25 • 448 pages 9781250213266 • $24.50 • pb Author Bio Fiction / Contemporary Women Nora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including Shelter in Place, Year One, Come Sundown, and many Notes more. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than five hundred million copies of her books in print. Promotion Page 3 of 64 20S Macm SMP Griffin LEAD Swimming Lessons Poems by Lili Reinhart The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity. Swimming Lessons explores the euphoric beginnings of young love, battling anxiety and depression in the face of fame, and the inevitable heartbreak that stems from passion. Relatable yet deeply intimate, provocative yet comforting, bite-sized yet profound, Lili's poems reflect her trademark honesty and unique perspective. Accompanied by striking and evocative illustrations, Swimming Lessons reveals the depths of female experience, and is the work of a storyteller who is coming into her own. Author Bio LILI REINHART is an actress best known for her lead role of Betty Cooper in St. Martin's Press the series Riverdale, based on the famed Archie comics. Swimming Lessons Strict On Sale: May 5/20 is her first collection of poetry. 5 x 8 • 240 pages Includes 40 red-and-black illustrations throughout 9781250261755 • $24.50 • pb Poetry / American Notes Promotion Page 4 of 64 20S Macm SMP Griffin LEAD Swimming Lessons Poems by Lili Reinhart The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity. Swimming Lessons explores the euphoric beginnings of young love, battling anxiety and depression in the face of fame, and the inevitable heartbreak that stems from passion. Relatable yet deeply intimate, provocative yet comforting, bite-sized yet profound, Lili's poems reflect her trademark honesty and unique perspective. Accompanied by striking and evocative illustrations, Swimming Lessons reveals the depths of female experience, and is the work of a storyteller who is coming into her own. Author Bio LILI REINHART is an actress best known for her lead role of Betty Cooper in St. Martin's Press the series Riverdale, based on the famed Archie comics. Swimming Lessons Strict On Sale: May 5/20 is her first collection of poetry. 5 x 8 • 240 pages Includes 40 red-and-black illustrations throughout 9781250261748 • $32.50 • CL - With dust jacket Poetry / American Notes Promotion Page 5 of 64 20S Macm SMP Griffin Tom Clancy's Op-Center: God of War by Jeff Rovin, contributions by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik In Jeff Rovin's Tom Clancy's Op-Center: God of War, after the devastating outbreak of a killer super virus, the Black Wasp Team must prevent America's enemies from gaining access to the most dangerous weapon the world has ever seen. The passengers and crew on an Airbus en route to Australia suddenly begin coughing up blood and hemorrhaging violently as the plane plunges to the ground. There are no survivors. A luxury yacht in the South Indian Sea blows up, and a lone woman escapes the contagion that has inexplicably killed everyone else on the boat. A helicopter whose occupants have been stricken by an unknown illness crashes into a bridge in South Africa, killing motorists and pedestrians. The world is facing a devastating bio-terror event, and a game of brinksmanship gets underway as the major powers jockey for position: China sends a naval flotilla to seek the source of the plague and find a way to weaponize it; Russia maneuvers quietly on the sidelines to seize the deadly prize in its quest to regain an empire; while back in Washington D.C., Chase St. Martin's Press Williams and his top secret Black Wasp special ops team must find out who is On Sale: May 26/20 behind these deadly attacks before war is unleashed. 5.38 x 8.25 • 352 pages What is the secret linking an illegal diamond mining operation, a controversial 9781250209252 • $24.50 • pb cure for AIDS, an apartheid-era conspiracy to cover up attempted genocide, Fiction / Thrillers / Military and a brilliant but utterly amoral entrepreneur with a score to settle? Black Series: Tom Clancy's Op-Center Wasp mounts an ingenious attack on two fronts (...) Notes Author Bio Jeff Rovin has written dozens of novels, most notably Tom Clancy's Op- Promotion Center and its sequels, several of which have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list.