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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Southern Peril by T. Lynn Ocean

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Also by T. Lynn Ocean:

Southern Peril, July 2009
Hardcover
Southern Poison, June 2009
Paperback (reprint)
Southern Poison, September 2008
Hardcover
Southern Fatality, August 2008
Mass Market Paperback
Southern Fatality, September 2007
Hardcover
Sweet Home Carolina, May 2006
Hardcover
Fool Me Once, June 2005
Hardcover

SOUTHERN PERIL
By: T. Lynn Ocean


Jersey Barnes
Minotaur Books
July 2009
On Sale: July 7, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 0312383479
EAN: 9780312383473
Hardcover
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Mystery Woman Sleuth

Savvy security specialist Jersey Barnes assures everyone that she has retired for good this timeβ€”she had a party with a three-layer cake and champagne toasts to prove it. But when a judge calls in a favor, the former field- trained government agent agrees to figure out what secrets might be putting the judge's brother, Morgan, in danger. His car searched, his apartment burglarized, and it appears as though somebody is watching his every move.

Not one to overreact, Morgan dismisses the judge's attempt to help him as an over-protective big sister's paranoia. He just wants to succeed in his new business venture, Argos. Wilmington's most hip restaurant, Argos guest list is legendary. When Morgan's father died, the eatery was left solely to Morgan. Despite his lack of experience in the food industry, the introverted bachelor is determined to keep his father's legacy alive.

It's only when Morgan has a close call with death that he confides in Jersey: his father may have been murdered, and Morgan thinks he knows why. But he can't divulge further details without opening the door to his own humiliating secret, and risk losing Argos.

While trying to keep her zany father and his poker buddies out of trouble, and exploring unfamiliar territory with her steamy business partner-turned-lover, Jersey stays on the case in her historic hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina.