Welcome to a new cover reveal!

Today we have the pleasure of sharing the cover of Be Mine, a new thriller published by Datura Books, written by Lizzy Barber.

Let's take a look at the blurb:

When Beth joins wellness group ‘Elixir,’ she thinks it is the answer to everything. So why, ten years later, is she still running from them? And what do they want from her, now?

Beth is a new mother struggling to find her place in the world. She is exhausted, mentally and physically, but her anxieties are not simply the fears of a first-time mum. A terror burns in her, fuelled by a secret past she is lucky to have escaped. When a letter arrives, bearing only the infinity symbol, Beth knows immediately it is from them. And that her past is finally catching up with her...

Ten years earlier, on the heels of a messy breakup, Beth meets the effervescent Marissa who introduces her to “Elixir” – a health and wellness organisation that she promises will change Beth's life forever. She quickly becomes intoxicated and convinced it is the solution to all her problems. No task is too great, even as the gruelling exercise classes become more frequent, even as the therapy sessions become more costly, even as their ‘requests’ become ‘demands,’ Beth convinces herself this is what she wants.

Then, when she falls for the brand’s enigmatic leader, Tate, she can’t imagine life without Elixir. But as Beth’s star begins to rise, Marissa’s starts to fall. And though Marissa tries to warn her of the darkness lurking beneath the brand’s gleaming exterior, Beth finds she cannot let go.

Time for the cover!

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Lizzy Barber

Lizzy Barber is a London-based, Richard & Judy best-selling author of psychologial thrillers. She studied English at Corpus Christ College, Cambridge University before dabbling in acting and film development, after which she spent 14 years working in restaurant branding and marketing with her older brother, restauranteur Jamie Barber.

Her debut novel, MY NAME IS ANNA, is the winner of the Daily Mail First Novel Competition, and was published in 2019 in the UK by Penguin Random House, by Mira/Harper Collins in the US and by Albatros in Slovakia.

OUT OF HER DEPTH was published in 2022 by Pan Macmillan in the UK and Harper Collins in the US and was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick. TV rights have been optioned by Eleventh Hour Films.

NANNY WANTED was published in 2023 by Pan Macmillan.

BE MINE will be published in the US and UK in May 2025 by Datura Books, with foreign editions coming to Ukraine and India.