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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.

The First Cut by Dianne Emley

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Also by Dianne Emley:

Killing Secrets, August 2015
e-Book
The Night Visitor, September 2014
e-Book
Love Kills, June 2010
Paperback
The Deepest Cut, March 2009
Hardcover
Cut to the Quick, February 2009
Paperback
The First Cut, December 2008
Paperback (reprint)
The First Cut, September 2006
Hardcover

THE FIRST CUT
By: Dianne Emley

Detective Nan Vining #1
Ballantine
September 2006
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Featuring: Nan Vining
352 pages
ISBN: 034548617X
EAN: 9780345486172
Hardcover
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Mystery Police Procedural | Suspense | Fiction

After surviving a ferocious assault in the line of duty, Detective Nan Vining has returned to the Pasadena police force. Her newest assignment: cuffing the killer of a Los Angeles policewoman who was unceremoniously dumped on a Pasadena hillside. Could this spiteful, vicious crime be related to Vining's own assault?

Determined to make headway amid the rigorous demands of work and family, Vining is reluctant to share with others the extrasensory visions she's experienced since her attack-yet these deeply troubling psychic clues may just lead to a solution in this disturbingly bizarre case. As she follows the bloody trail, using every resource available, Vining closes in on a kinky husband-and-wife murder team . . . desperate to intercept them before their next sadistic killing.