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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.

A Reason to Live by Maureen McKade

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Also by Maureen McKade:

Where There's Fire, October 2008
Paperback
A Reason To Sin, March 2008
Paperback
A Reason to Believe, August 2007
Paperback
A Reason to Live, September 2006
Paperback
Convictions, October 2005
Paperback
How to Lasso a Cowboy, May 2004
Paperback

A REASON TO LIVE
By: Maureen McKade

Berkley Sensation
September 2006
On Sale: September 5, 2006
Featuring: Creede Forrester; Laurel Covey
304 pages
ISBN: 0425212203
EAN: 9780425212202
Paperback
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Romance Historical

How could I refuse the wish of a dying man?

May 30, 1865: During the War, I watched over too many young boys in the hospital, comforting them as they cried out for those they loved, as they whispered their final thoughts to me. Keeping a record of their names, families, and last words seemed a small tribute to their sacrificeβ€” until the war ended, and I found a new mission in life.

I would visit the loved ones of those poor soldiers and deliver their messages so that some comfort could be found even in grief…

But Laurel Covey never expected to find a man like Creede Forresterβ€”an ex-gunslinger who rode all the way from Texas to Virginia in the hope of finding his son and ended up saving her from a band of ruffians. It pains her deeply to tell him of his boy’s death, and she believes that in his heart, Creede blames himself for driving his son away. But there is something more to this rugged, weary man. Something that draws Laurel closer to him…something she cannot resist…