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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.

What The Duke Desires by Jenna Petersen

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Also by Jenna Petersen:

The Secrets of a Lady, September 2011
e-Book
A Scoundrel's Surrender, August 2011
Paperback
Rogue for a Night, May 2011
e-Book
Undeniable, May 2011
e-Book
Almost A Spinster, May 2011
e-Book
The Unclaimed Duchess, September 2010
Mass Market Paperback
What The Duke Desires, November 2009
Mass Market Paperback
Her Notorious Viscount, April 2009
Mass Market Paperback
Lessons From A Courtesan, July 2008
Paperback
Seduction is Forever, October 2007
Paperback
Desire Never Dies, January 2007
Paperback
From London With Love, August 2006
Paperback
Scandalous, October 2005
Paperback

WHAT THE DUKE DESIRES
By: Jenna Petersen


The Billingham Bastards #1
Avon
November 2009
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Featuring: Lillian Mayhew; Simon Crathorne
384 pages
ISBN: 0061470821
EAN: 9780061470820
Mass Market Paperback
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Romance Historical

Simon Crathorne has never felt quite β€œright” in his own life. Even with his friends, he never fit. But now his father is dead and he has inherited the Dukedom, and all the responsibility that goes with it. And since his father was always known as a highly moral, upstanding man, Simon has big shoes to fill. Lillian Mayhew doesn’t buy the late Duke’s exalted reputation one bit. A lifetime of hearing her father talk about the man’s sins and seeing the torment her family endured at his hands has made her bitter and a final secret she discovered as her father lay dying has turned her bitterness to a drive to destroy the good name of the man she feels wronged her. No matter the price.

But when Simon and Lillian meet, sparks fly and passion erupts, leaving Lillian with an ugly choice. Can she abandon her quest for revenge, just as she is on the cusp of fulfilling her duty? Or will she betray a man whose past turns out to be a murky sea of lies and betrayals neither one could have ever anticipated? A man whose kiss could change her life forever.

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