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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.

Candy Apple Red by Nancy Bush

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Dangerous Behavior, May 2017
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The Killing Game, July 2016
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You Can't Escape, July 2015
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Wicked Ways, December 2014
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Nowhere Safe, September 2013
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Something Wicked, June 2013
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Nowhere To Hide, September 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Nowhere to Run, August 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Hush, July 2011
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Miracle Jones, July 2011
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Lady Sundown, July 2011
e-Book (reprint)
Wicked Lies, June 2011
Paperback / e-Book
Blind Spot, July 2010
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Unseen, April 2009
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Wicked Game, February 2009
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Ultra Violet, September 2008
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Ultra Violet, October 2007
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Electric Blue, September 2007
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Candy Apple Red, September 2006
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Candy Apple Red, October 2005
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CANDY APPLE RED
By: Nancy Bush

Jane Kelly #1
Kensington
September 2006
Featuring: Jane Kelly
320 pages
ISBN: 0758209061
EAN: 9780758209061
Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery Woman Sleuth

Jane Kelly is through with following men anywhere. Last time she did, she left Southern California for the dubious charms of Lake Chinook, Oregon, where she’s traded in bartending for the much more glamorous trade of process serving. (Well, she can tell herself it’s glamorous, anyway.) And the boyfriend, of course, is long gone.

So she’s thirty, she’s single, she’s living in a town where fishing is more important than fashion, and one of her closest friends is an β€œinformation specialist”—which is a fancy way of saying private detective. Odder still, she’s been helping him out, which makes the criminology courses she took a few years back with her ex at least worth the tuition. She’s not making any lifetime commitments, but when Portland divorce attorney Marta Cornell calls with a P.I. job, the money involved sounds like the answer to her dwindling bank accountβ€”until she learns Tess Bradbury wants her to investigate the disappearance of Bobby Reynolds.

Four years ago, without warning, Bobby murdered his young family and promptly vanished. No one disputed that he’d slaughtered his own flesh and blood except Tim Murphy, his best friendβ€”and Jane’s ex, the one guy she’s never quite gotten over. The murders had driven a wedge between him and Jane, and finally drove him right out of town. Now he’s on his way back, to attend a Lake Chinook Historical Society benefit that Cotton Reynolds, Bobby’s father, is hosting.

Every alarm bell in Jane’s head is clanging, but before she can say β€œNot on your life,” Marta has convinced her to accept Tess’s assignmentβ€”an interview with Tess’s ex- husband, Cotton, who she believes has been in contact with Bobby. It looks like Jane’s going to be following men around againβ€”this time with a tape recorder and a camera.

To top it off, an only vaguely remembered aunt has left her a homely pug named Binky and her mother is once again threatening to head north and settle in Oregon. With a brand-new job she’s learning as she goes along and the man who broke her heart into a million pathetic little pieces back in town, Jane’s life just went from stress-free to completely stressed-out. And that’s before she finds the dead body in the lake…