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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.

Cold Waters by Debbie Herbert

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Also by Debbie Herbert:

Treacherous Mountain Trail, January 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Not One of Us, February 2021
Trade Size / e-Book / audiobook
Appalachian Peril, August 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Scorched Grounds, February 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
Cold Waters, May 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Appalachian Abduction, March 2018
e-Book
Appalachian Prey, February 2018
Paperback / e-Book
Siren's Call, June 2015
e-Book
Siren's Treasure, November 2014
e-Book
Siren's Secret, November 2013
Paperback / e-Book

COLD WATERS
By: Debbie Herbert

Thomas & Mercer
May 2019
On Sale: May 1, 2019
Featuring: Violet
332 pages
ISBN: 1542042488
EAN: 9781542042482
Kindle: B07HF4SCB7
Hardcover / e-Book
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Suspense | Thriller Crime

From USA Today bestselling author Debbie Herbert comes a thrilling story of murder and madness set in the darkest corner of Alabama.

Everyone thinks fourteen-year-old Violet is a murderer. After a summer-night swim with her best friend, Ainsley, Violet is found confused, wandering in the forest--and Ainsley’s never seen again. But without a body, murder charges won’t stick, so Violet is sent away.

After more than a decade in a psychiatric ward, Violet returns to her broken-down hometown of Normal, Alabama, to claim her dead mother’s inheritance and help her overworked sister care for their unstable, alcoholic father. Violet, still haunted by that night eleven years ago, endures horrific flashbacks and twisted hallucinations while townsfolk spit accusations--and for all she knows, they’re right.

As the summer heats up, details of Ainsley’s fate appear like a beast’s wild eyes, watching in the darkness, and grim revelations about Violet’s family threaten to devour her. Already on the edge of madness, Violet must fight to keep her sanity long enough for the terrible truth to burst from the cold, dark waters.