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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.

An Absence of Motive by Maggie Wells

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Also by Maggie Wells:

Arkansas Abduction, October 2026
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Danger on the Midway, July 2026
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Ozarks Conspiracy, June 2025
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Catching a Hacker, March 2025
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Shadowing Her Stalker, February 2025
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Ozarks Witness Protection, July 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Foothills Field Search, June 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Trial in the Backwoods, October 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
For the Defense, September 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
An Absence of Motive, August 2021
Paperback / e-Book
To Make You Feel My Love, May 2020
Paperback / e-Book
Double Play, November 2018
Paperback / e-Book
Double Play, November 2018
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Play for Keeps, April 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Love Game, February 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Last First Date, September 2014
e-Book

AN ABSENCE OF MOTIVE
By: Maggie Wells

A Raising the Bar Brief #1
Harlequin
August 2021
On Sale: July 27, 2021
Featuring: Marlee Masters; Ben Kinsella
ISBN: 1335489061
EAN: 9781335489067
Kindle: B08SJM3M9H
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Romance Suspense | Thriller Legal

He was an outsider

And the only man she could trust.

Attorney Marlee Masters’s brother was murdered. Proving it means working with Sheriff Ben Kinsella and facing down the nasty whispers in their rural Georgia town. Although the gossips accuse Marlee of being the real threat, there's a stalker vowing retribution if the two don’t end the investigation. Ben won’t abandon Marlee in her hour of need, but will she have to place herself in even more peril to catch the killer?

From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.

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Raising the Bar

An Absence of Motive
AN ABSENCE OF MOTIVE
#1.0 β€’ August 2021
For the Defense
FOR THE DEFENSE
#2.0 β€’ September 2021
Trial in the Backwoods
TRIAL IN THE BACKWOODS
#3.0 β€’ October 2021