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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 Bride at Last and a Mother at Heart by Carolyne Aarsen

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Also by Carolyne Aarsen:

Second-Chance Cowboy (Cowboys of Cedar Ridge), June 2017
Mass Market Paperback
Courting the Cowboy, January 2017
Paperback / e-Book
Trusting the Cowboy, July 2016
Paperback / e-Book
The Cowboy's Homecoming, May 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Bachelor Baker, August 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Baby Promise, January 2011
Paperback
Cattleman's Courtship, July 2010
Paperback
Close To Home (Love Inspired), November 2009
Mass Market Paperback
The Matchmaking Pact, October 2009
Mass Market Paperback
A Family For Luke, January 2009
Mass Market Paperback
Finally A Family, June 2008
Paperback
Yuletide Homecoming, November 2007
Paperback
A Bride at Last and a Mother at Heart, August 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Any Man of Mine, July 2006
Paperback

A BRIDE AT LAST AND A MOTHER AT HEART
By: Carolyne Aarsen

Steeple Hill Women Fiction
August 2006
384 pages
ISBN: 0373652658
EAN: 9780373652655
Paperback (reprint)
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Inspirational Chick Lit

A Bride at Last
The return of Clint Fletcher had the whole town buzzing β€” and Nadine Laidlaw wondering. Because this unforgotten, unforgettable man had made it clear he'd come back for her. And she just wasn't sure she could believe in the love they had both denied for so long.

A Mother at Heart
Miriam Spencer returned to her hometown in search of the simple faith she'd lost. But she found widower Jake Steele β€” the man she'd always loved β€” and his sweet young daughter. Now she couldn't stop dreaming of somehow becoming part of this loving little family.