• Harper paperbacks will simultaneously issue new editions of Lost, Mirror Mirror, and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister with more literary covers to bring the widest possible readership to these classic novels.
• Harper paperbacks will publish Maguire’s The Next Queen of Heaven, which was previously published as a limited-edition paperback by Concord Free Press, and the trade paperback of Matchless in October 2010.
• The current trade paperback edition of Lost (ISBN: 9780060988647) will remain in print.

Famed children’s book author Winifred Rudge travels to London to research a ghost story about a woman who is being haunted by Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival she finds that her stepcousin John Comestor has mysteriously disappeared, and a ghostly presence has taken over his apartment in the 19th-century rowhouse once owned by Winnie’s great-great-grandfather. Is it the ghost of the grandfather, who family legend claims was Charles Dickens’s childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? The ghost of Jack the Ripper? Or a spirit from a more ancient age? Winnie finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of spectres and shades, some from her family’s dim history and some from her own unremembered past.

In the spirit of A.S. Byatt’s Possession and touching on A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, and the legend of Jack the Ripper, Lost creates a rich fictional world.