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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 Boyfriend Candidate by Ashley Winstead

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Also by Ashley Winstead:

Hot Girl Murder Club, July 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The Future Saints, January 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
This Book Will Bury Me, November 2025
Trade Paperback
This Book Will Bury Me, October 2025
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
This Book Will Bury Me, April 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Midnight Is the Darkest Hour, July 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Midnight Is the Darkest Hour, October 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
The Boyfriend Candidate, May 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Last Housewife, April 2023
Paperback / e-Book
The Last Housewife, August 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, April 2022
Trade Paperback
Fool Me Once, April 2022
Trade Size / e-Book / audiobook
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, August 2021
Hardcover / e-Book

THE BOYFRIEND CANDIDATE
By: Ashley Winstead


Graydon House
May 2023
On Sale: May 9, 2023
368 pages
ISBN: 1525804960
EAN: 9781525804960
Kindle: B0BC1VSNQ4
Trade Paperback / e-Book
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Women's Fiction | Romance Comedy

“Charming, swoony, and utterly unputdownable. I LOVE this book!”
—LYNN PAINTER, New York Times bestselling author of Better Than the Movies



A laugh-out-loud rom-com about learning to embrace living outside your comfort zone.

As a shy school librarian, Alexis Stone is comfortable keeping out of the spotlight. But when she’s dumped for being too meek—in bed!—she decides she needs to change. And what better way to kick-start her new more adventurous life than with her first one-night stand?

Enter Logan, the gorgeous, foul-mouthed stranger she meets at a hotel bar. Audacious and filterless, Logan is Alexis’s opposite—and boy, do opposites attract! Just as she’s about to fulfill her hookup wish, the hotel catches fire in a freak lightning storm. In their rush to escape, Logan is discovered carrying her into the street, where people are waiting with cameras. Cameras Logan promptly—and shockingly—flees.

Alexis is bewildered until suddenly pictures of her and Logan escaping the fire are all over the internet. Turns out Logan is none other than Logan Arthur, the hotshot candidate challenging the Texas governor’s seat. The salacious scandal is poised to sink his career—and jeopardize Alexis’s job—until a solution is proposed: he and Alexis could pretend to be in a relationship until election day…in two months. What could possibly go wrong?