Well, this cover gets our attention. A red blood-spattered necktie rests between two pillow on a white sheet. In fact, everything either a shade of white or blood red.

So we have something to go on. Clearly there’s an intimate relationship – since the tie is no longer being worn, and a bed with two pillows. So it’s not unreasonable to surmise this book has some sex scenes.  Works for me.

And the blood tells us there’s violence in the mix, too. So we have sex and violence and the title tells us the main character is a guy. Or the main villain, anyway. Is the guy who wore the tie the victim or the psychopath?

Though the cover is provocative, the publisher decides to pull us in a little more with small text reading, “Is he the man of your dreams of your worst nightmare?”

Clearly the book is aimed at a female audience, who most likely have boyfriend horror stories of their own and might relish living someone else’s nightmare for a change.

So we like this cover a lot. I does the job and makes a book browser want to read it.