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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.

Don't Be Afraid by Rebecca Drake

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Also by Rebecca Drake:

Only Ever You, April 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book / audiobook (reprint)
The Swamp Killers, March 2020
e-Book
Just Between Us, January 2019
Trade Size / e-Book
Don't Be Afraid, September 2006
Paperback

DON'T BE AFRAID
By: Rebecca Drake

Pinnacle
September 2006
384 pages
ISBN: 0786018054
Paperback
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Suspense

Be Afraid…

It’s a beautiful house--a perfect place to live. To dream. To start a life together. It’s the perfect place for so many things, he thinks as he puts on the gloves and reaches for her, enjoying her screams. But today, it’s a perfect place to die.

Be Very Afraid…

Steerforth, Connecticut, was once an idyllic, sleepy New England town. But now, the leafy streets and picture- perfect houses have turned shadowy and menacing, every small detail suddenly becoming suspect: lost toys placed carefully on back porches, lights blazing in a house that should be empty, closet doors standing slightly ajar, mysterious flowers wrapped in black tissue paper. And the bodies…

Or Else You’re As Good As Dead…

A serial killer has come to Connecticut. He is watching, honing his skills, waiting, for the perfect time to make them pay for what they’ve done. And when he’s through, home will never be sweet again…