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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.

Mary Carter

Mary Carter

Blogging at Fresh Fiction

Carlene O'Connor | 20 Questions: MURDER ON AN IRISH FARM
February 15, 2022

Pseudonym: Carlene O'Connor.

Mary Carter is a novelist and workshop leader at The Chicago Writer’s Loft. Her works include: Home With My Sisters, London From My Windows, Meet Me in Barcelona, Three Months in Florence, The Things I Do For You, The Pub Across the Pond, My Sister’s Voice, Sunnyside Blues, Accidentally Engaged and She’ll Take It. In addition to her novels she has written six novellas: Return to Hampton Beach/(SUMMER DAYS), A Southern Christmas (OUR FIRST CHRISTMAS) A Kiss Before Midnight (YOU’RE STILL THE ONE) A Very Maui Christmas in the New York Times bestselling anthology HOLIDAY MAGIC, and The Honeymoon House in the New York Times bestselling anthology ALMOST HOME. Her works are translated into over 7 languages. Under the pen name Carlene O'Connor, she also writes The Irish Village Mystery Series, currently featuring Murder in an Irish Village and Murder at an Irish Wedding.

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Series

Books:

Almost Home, June 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
She\'ll Take It, September 2018
Trade Size
Home with My Sisters, October 2017
Mass Market Paperback
Home with My Sisters, October 2016
Trade Size / e-Book
Sunnyside Blues, July 2016
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Accidentally Engaged, May 2015
Hardcover / e-Book (reprint)
Our First Christmas, October 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Summer Days, May 2014
Paperback / e-Book
You're Still The One, March 2013
Paperback / e-Book
Holiday Magic, November 2010
Paperback
My Sister's Voice: Every love leaves an echo..., June 2010
Trade Size
Almost Home, August 2009
Paperback