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ST. MARTIN'S PAPERBACKS OCTOBER 2017 SPECTACULAR Iris Johansen No Easy Target From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an explosive thriller featuring fan favorite Margaret Douglas, an animal psychic When an enemy from her past threatens to return, Margaret Douglas must go on the run. But danger is in hot pursuit, and Margaret finds herself matching wits with a man who refuses to be stopped. Turning from the hunted to the hunter, Margaret must use everything she has to not only survive, but defeat evil and prove she’s No Easy Target in this high-octane thriller. KEY SELLING POINTS: • The character Margaret Douglas is a fan favorite, and readers will be excited to have a new book featuring the beloved character. • Iris Johansen is a consistent top-five New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ON-SALE DATE: 10/3/2017 Bookscan, and Publishers Weekly bestseller. With the mass market of ISBN-13: 9781250075918 Silencing Eve she reached #1 on the New York Times list. EBOOK ISBN: 9781466887220 • Iris Johansen knows how to engage her fans and keep them wanting more. PRICE: $9.99 / $13.99 CAN. Her Facebook fan page has more than 99k fans and is constantly growing. PAGES: 416 SPINE: 191MM H | 4IN W IN, TALL "This first-rate novel of romantic suspense will please Johansen’s many fans RACK and newcomers alike." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Hide Away CTN COUNT: 48 CPDA/CAT: 00/NOVEL “Eve Duncan novels by Johansen are so good that, supernatural or not, readers SETTING: SAN DIEGO, THE and fans remain completely engaged.” –Suspense Magazine on Shadow Play CARIBBEAN, MEXICO, THE “Delivering gut-wrenching emotion and spine-tingling suspense is what DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, TRINIDAD, Johansen does best, and when you add in a touch of the supernatural...you get JAMAICA, COLOMBIA the perfect storm of a thriller!” –RT Book Reviews (4 ½ stars) on Your Next ORIGIN: SMP HC (9781250075840, Breath 4/17, $27.99) AUTHOR HOME: ATLANTA, GA ALSO AVAILABLE: Night and Day | 2/17 | 9781250075901 | $8.99 / $12.99 Can. Hide Away | 9/16 | 9781250075895 | $8.99 / $12.99 Can. MARKETING Shadow Play | 5/16 | 9781250075819 | $8.99 / $12.99 Can. Online Promotion Your Next Breath | 9/15 | 9781250069467 | $7.99 / $9.99 Can. Visit IrisJohansen.com Active on Facebook: /OfficialIrisJohansen 99k likes 2 ST. MARTIN'S PAPERBACKS OCTOBER 2017 SUPER LEAD Clive Barker The Scarlet Gospels A good vs. evil saga that goes straight to Hell in Barker's first novel for adults since 2007. The Scarlet Gospels, debuted at #9 on the New York Times bestseller list in hard cover, takes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time. The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural, magical, and malevolent crimes, faces off against his formidable, and intensely evil rival, Pinhead, the priest of hell. Barker devotees have been waiting for The Scarlet Gospels with bated breath for years, and it's everything they've begged for and more. Bloody, terrifying, and brilliantly complex, fans and newcomers alike will not be disappointed by the epic, visionary tale that is The Scarlet Gospels. Barker's horror will make your worst nightmares seem like bedtime stories. The Gospels are coming. Are you ready? ON-SALE DATE: 10/3/2017 ISBN-13: 9781250136138 KEY SELLING POINTS: EBOOK ISBN: 9781466859555 • The hardcover edition of The Scarlet Gospels debuted at #9 on the New PRICE: $9.99 / $13.99 CAN. York Times bestseller list. Clive Barker is second only to Stephen King in PAGES: 480 this genre. The hardcover also made the Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and SPINE: 191MM H | 4IN W IN, TALL Ingram lists. RACK • The first Pinhead novel, Hellbound Heart, is a classic of the genre, CTN COUNT: 48 spawning eight feature films and selling millions of copies worldwide. The CPDA/CAT: 00/NOVEL Scarlet Gospels is the first book to feature Pinhead since 1986. SETTING: HELL, BETHLEHEM • Weinstein Co. is doing a Hellraiser reboot, Boom! Studios is getting ready to launch a new Hellraiser comic book mini-series, and Game of Thrones ORIGIN: GRIFFIN TP actress Lena Headey will star in the movie adaptation of Jacueline Ess. (9781250056177, 5/16, $16.99) • Visit CliveBarker.info AUTHOR HOME: LOS ANGELES "The Scarlet Gospels offers the pleasures of a tightly compressed epic. Its MARKETING visionary scenario and detailed account of apocalyptic events are as grand and sweeping as anything the earlier books had to offer...The Scarlet Gospels assumes Visit CliveBarker.info Facebook: Facebook.com/OfficialCliveBarker a prominent place in [Barker's] evolving catalog of mythic imaginings." —The Twitter: Twitter.com/RealCliveBarker Washington Post 3 ST. MARTIN'S PAPERBACKS OCTOBER 2017 SPOTLIGHT Brenda Novak Hello Again From NYT bestseller Brenda Novak comes the next installment of Dr. Evelyn Talbot and her murderous home for psychopaths. Evelyn Talbot, a psychiatrist at a maximum-security prison in remote Alaska, studies some of the world's worst serial killers. But she’s about to meet her most elusive patient at Hanover House yet: Dr. Lyman Bishop, AKA the Zombie Maker given his fondness for performing icepick lobotomies on his victims. A brilliant cancer researcher, Bishop is either the most cunning psychopath Evelyn has ever encountered—or he is wrongly convicted. When a new ice-pick fatality occurs, it seems Bishop really was wrongly convicted. Except...Evelyn has a personal connection to the murder victim ON-SALE DATE: 10/3/2017 and that suggests the killer may be someone from her own past: Jasper ISBN-13: 9781250076571 Moore, her high school boyfriend who tortured her and left her for dead EBOOK ISBN: 9781466888012 when she was only sixteen. Jasper murdered three of her friends back PRICE: $7.99 / $10.99 CAN. then—and was never caught. Is he trying to send a message with this copycat crime? Is he coming for her next? The only thing Evelyn knows PAGES: 384 for sure is that if Jasper is on her trail, she might not be able to escape again SPINE: 7IN H | 4IN W IN . CTN COUNT: 48 CPDA/CAT: 00/NOVEL KEY SELLING POINTS: RIGHTS: UK: ST. MARTIN'S PRESS • Brenda Novak is a New York Times bestseller and is the ITW Silver Bullet TRANSLATION: ST. MARTIN'S PRESS Award Winner, 4-time Rita nominee, RT Award winner in several categories, SETTING: ALASKA and multiple winner of the Book Buyer's Best, the Bookseller's Best, and the ORIGIN: ORIGINAL National Reader's Choice awards, among others. She is a beloved and AUTHOR HOME: SACRAMENTO, established author with a large fan-base. CALIFORNIA • This is the second novel in a popular new series by Brenda, which follows a female psychiatrist with a troubled past in a small town in Alaska. This is published in mass market, where Brenda has already established a strong MARKETING following. Sexy and suspenseful, it's everything her readers expect from her National Print Publicity and more. Online Publicity • Brenda Novak has an established brand name with lots of connections in Major Online Advertising Campaign the book world and huge online outreach. Social Media Campaign Early Reader Review Campaign Backlist Ebook Promotion Visit BrendaNovak.com ALSO AVAILABLE: Facebook: Facebook.com/BrendaNovakAuthor Her Darkest Nightmare | 8/16 | 9781250076564 | $7.99 / $10.99 Can. Twitter: Twitter.com/BrendaNovak 4 ST. MARTIN'S PAPERBACKS OCTOBER 2017 LEAD Kerrigan Byrne The Scot Beds His Wife The next stunning, captivating historical romance from Kerrigan Byrne! The notorious Gavin St. James, Earl of Thorne, has always used his seductive green eyes and slightly menacing charm to get what he wants— including too many women married to other men. But now, Gavin wants to put his shady past behind him. Step one: to take possession of the estate bordering Inverthorne Keep. The rightful owner of the land has been off in America for years, leaving the property ripe for the taking…until the missing heiress returns to Scotland to claim what is hers. Tessa Ross has come back with a vengeance—and in a pair of trousers. That’s just one way in which being abroad changed the beautiful lass. As ON-SALE DATE: 10/3/2017 Gavin is about to discover, Tessa has a whole world of dangerous secrets ISBN-13: 9781250122544 from her time spent in the Wild West. and if the truth about her travels EBOOK ISBN: 9781250122551 comes out, Tessa will be shunned. A hasty marriage is her only option and PRICE: $7.99 / $10.99 CAN. Gavin, who has taken a shine to her—and her estate—is her best chance. What begins as a scandalous proposition slowly turns into something more PAGES: 368 passionate than either Tessa or Gavin ever expected. Could it be that true SPINE: 7IN H | 4IN W IN love has been waiting at home in the Highlands all along? CTN COUNT: 48 CPDA/CAT: 24/HISTORICAL KEY SELLING POINTS: ROMANCE • Kerrigan Byrne's first novel, The Highwayman, was an instant in-house, RIGHTS: UK: ST. MARTIN'S PRESS reviewer and reader favorite. The book received amazing raves, even TRANSLATION: ST. MARTIN'S PRESS comparing Dorian and Farah to Rochester and Jane in Jane Eyre. Publishers SETTING: VICTORIAN LONDON Weekly said "The romance is raw, edgy and explosive...the path they take ORIGIN: ORIGINAL through adversity makes the triumph of love deeply satisfying." AUTHOR HOME: SPANISH FORK, UT • Kerrigan garnered a starred review from Library Journal, was a Summer Spotlight title, and made the Top 5 of their Best Books of 2015: Romance list. She was also an RT Top Pick and was nominated for RT's Reviewer's MARKETING Choice Best First Historical Romance and they called her "a force in the National Print Publicity genre." National Advertising • Kerrigan Byrne is perfect for fans of Sarah MacLean.