NMLP P-022908 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Hot Ice

Nora Roberts · Bantam Books · 1987

The 1987 Bantam paperback original is the true first; there was no hardcover or trade first. A later Bantam hardcover reissue (ISBN 0553802747) is first thus only. Separately, Roberts also wrote as J.D. Robb (the In Death series); those firsts are collected on their own and the pseudonym was kept secret early on.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-022908 for "Hot Ice" by Nora Roberts (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-022908, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).