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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.

Catherine Bruns

Catherine lives in Upstate New York with a male dominated household that consists of her very patient husband, three sons, two cats and dogs. She has wanted to be a writer since the age of eight when she wrote her own version of Cinderella. Fortunately, Disney never sued. Catherine holds a B.A. and dual major in English and Performing Arts and is a former press release writer and newspaper reporter.


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Series

Cookies & Chance Mysteries | Cindy York Mysteries | Italian Chef | Aloha Lagoon Mysteries

Books:

Sifting Through Secrets, July 2026
Cookies & Chance Mysteries #16
e-Book
Holidays & Homicides, December 2025
e-Book
Death Whisk, September 2025
Cookies & Chance Mysteries #15
e-Book
Death of the Hula Girl, June 2025
Aloha Lagoon Mysteries #25
e-Book
Planes, Candy Canes, and Hearses, December 2024
Cookies & Chance Mysteries #14.5
e-Book
In the Blink of a Pie, November 2024
Maple Syrup Mysteries #3
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Syrup to No Good, November 2023
Hardcover
Bake, Batter, and Roll, October 2023
Cookies & Chance Mysteries #13
e-Book
A Doomful of Sugar, November 2022
Maple Syrup Mysteries # 1
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Seasoned with Murder, September 2022
Cookies & Chance Mysteries #12
e-Book
The Enemy You Gnocchi, November 2021
Italian Chef Mysteries #3
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Knee Deep in Dough, May 2021
Cookies & Chance Mysteries #10
e-Book
Jeopardy in High Heels, October 2020
High Heels Mystery Series #12
e-Book
It Cannoli Be Murder, August 2020
Italian Chef #2
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Icing on the Casket, May 2020
Cookies & Chance Mysteries #9
e-Book
Ginger Snapped to Death, November 2019
Cookies & Chance #8
e-Book
Penne Dreadful, August 2019
Italian Chef Mysteries #1
e-Book
Penne Dreadful, August 2019
Italian Chef #1
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Priced to Kill, April 2016
Cindy York Mysteries #2
e-Book
Baked to Death, January 2016
e-Book
Killer Transaction, November 2015
Cindy York Mysteries #1
e-Book
Tastes Like Murder, September 2015
Cookies & Chance Mysteries #1
e-Book