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HAUNTED HULA-WEEN
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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
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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.

How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa Cole

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Also by Alyssa Cole:

How to Find a Princess, November 2024
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
One of Us Knows, April 2024
Paperback / e-Book
Marple, September 2023
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A Hope Divided, February 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Marple, September 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
An Extraordinary Union, August 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
How to Find a Princess, June 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
How to Catch a Queen, December 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
When No One Is Watching, September 2020
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
A Prince on Paper, May 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Can't Escape Love, March 2019
Paperback / e-Book
An Unconditional Freedom, February 2019
Paperback / e-Book
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy, January 2019
e-Book
A Duke by Default, August 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
A Princess in Theory, March 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
A Hope Divided, December 2017
Trade Size / e-Book
An Extraordinary Union, April 2017
Trade Size / e-Book
Mixed Signals, October 2015
e-Book
Signal Boost, May 2015
e-Book
Sweet To The Taste, March 2014
e-Book

HOW TO CATCH A QUEEN
By: Alyssa Cole


Runaway Royals
Avon
December 2020
On Sale: December 1, 2020
Featuring: Shanti Mohapi; King Sanyu
384 pages
ISBN: 0062933965
EAN: 9780062933966
Kindle: B07WYYW5YP
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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Romance Contemporary | Multicultural African-American

An arranged marriage leads to unexpected desire, in the first book of Alyssa Cole’s

Runaway Royals series…

When Shanti Mohapi weds the king of Njaza, her dream of becoming a queen finally comes true. But it’s nothing like she imagined. Shanti and her husband may share an immediate and powerful attraction, but her subjects see her as an outsider, and everything she was taught about being the perfect wife goes disastrously wrong.

A king must rule with an iron fist, and newly crowned King Sanyu was born perfectly fitted for the gauntlet, even if he wishes he weren’t. He agrees to take a wife as is required of him, though he doesn’t expect to actually fall in love. Even more vexing? His beguiling new queen seems to have the answers to his country’s problems—except no one will listen to her.

By day, they lead separate lives. By night, she wears the crown, and he bows to her demands in matters of politics and passion. When turmoil erupts in their kingdom and their marriage, Shanti goes on the run, and Sanyu must learn whether he has what it takes both to lead his people and to catch his queen.

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Video Book Club - January 27, 2021

Runaway Royals

How to Catch a Queen
HOW TO CATCH A QUEEN
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