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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.

The Reluctant Rake by Jane Ashford

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Also by Jane Ashford:

Lost Time, November 2025
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The Duke Has Done It Again, June 2024
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The Duke's Best Friend, September 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
A Gentleman Ought to Know, March 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Blame It on the Earl, September 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Earl on the Run, March 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Duke Who Loved Me, September 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
When You Give a Rogue a Rebel, April 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Earl's Well That Ends Well, January 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
A Favor for the Prince, July 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
A Duke Too Far, May 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Reluctant Rake, November 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
How to Cross a Marquess, August 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
A Lord Apart, April 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Earl to the Rescue, December 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Brave New Earl, August 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Duke Knows Best, December 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Last Gentleman Standing, September 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Nothing Like a Duke, May 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Lord Sebastian's Secret, January 2017
Paperback / e-Book
What the Duke Doesn't Know, September 2016
Paperback / e-Book
Heir To The Duke, January 2016
Paperback / e-Book
First Season / Bride to Be, October 2015
Paperback / e-Book
A Radical Arrangement, August 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Married To A Perfect Stranger, March 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Bride Insists, March 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Once Again A Bride, February 2013
Paperback / e-Book

THE RELUCTANT RAKE
By: Jane Ashford

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November 2019
On Sale: October 29, 2019
416 pages
ISBN: 1492697931
EAN: 9781492697930
Kindle: B07S42BG14
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Romance Historical

The Reluctant Rake
Proper, elegant Miss Julia Devere is shocked when she spies her fiancé in the arms of another woman. She awakens to the fact that the game of love can be played by very different rules than her own. And unless she can beat this new mistress at her own game, Julia stands to lose all that she suddenly realizes she wants.

How to Beguile a Baron
Miss Susan Wyndham's and Miss Marianne MacClain's debut at the first ball of the season is ruined when they realize they're wearing the same gown—and enamored of the same gentleman. Randal Kenyon, Baron Ellerton, is the most eligible lord in London. And far from making peace, he sparks a battle between the pair of dazzling young beauties who now want only him.