“The Mister” is scheduled for publication on April 16, 2019. “She has hit her stride again, with an erotic love story that’s full of suspense, adventure and menace - a story that gives us a peek behind the curtain into worlds most of us can only imagine.”

“Readers are going to be surprised and delighted with the romance that James has in store for them,” Messitte said. Vintage Books publisher Anne Messitte praised James as “an extraordinary storyteller” in the news release. “The Mister” seems to have some similarities to the “Fifty Shades” books, with the male protagonist, Maxim, described by the publisher as a man with “good looks, aristocratic connections and money,” much like Christian in James’ previous novels. The movies were box office hits despite receiving largely negative reviews from critics.

The books also formed the basis for three films, which starred Jamie Dornan as Christian and Dakota Johnson as Anastasia. Her novels have sold more than 150 million copies around the world. It became the first instalment in the Fifty Shades novel series that follows the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey.

This was as part of the NYTs combined print and e-book fiction list. The novels were savaged by critics, but quickly became bestsellers, and James cashed in on their success by publishing two reprises of the books, “Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian” in 2015 and “Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian” in 2017. Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. 30: The number of weeks '50 Shades of Grey' was number one on the New York Times best-sellers list.

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