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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.

Before I Called You Mine by Nicole Deese

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Also by Nicole Deese:

The Voice We Find, April 2025
Paperback / e-Book
The Roads We Follow, May 2024
Paperback / e-Book
The Words We Lost, April 2023
Paperback / e-Book
All That It Takes, April 2022
Paperback / e-Book
All That Really Matters, April 2021
Paperback / e-Book
Before I Called You Mine, March 2020
Hardcover / e-Book

BEFORE I CALLED YOU MINE
By: Nicole Deese

Bethany House Publishers
March 2020
On Sale: March 31, 2020
368 pages
ISBN: 0764234951
EAN: 9780764234958
Kindle: B07VQKQ2C9
Hardcover / e-Book
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Romance Contemporary | Fiction

"After many failed matchmaking schemes, Lauren is committed to one goal-becoming a mother. But to satisfy the adoption agency's requirements, she must remain single, which proves to be a problem when Joshua appears. With an impossible decision looming, she will have to choose between two deep desires"--