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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.

Hawke by Ted Bell

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Also by Ted Bell:

Spy, September 2025
Mass Market Paperback
Pirate, May 2025
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Hawke, April 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Sea Hawke, October 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Sea Hawke, December 2021
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Dragonfire, June 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Dragonfire, August 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Overkill, February 2019
Mass Market Paperback
Overkill, May 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Patriot, September 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Warriors, April 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Phantom, September 2012
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Phantom, July 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
Warlord, July 2011
Paperback
Warlord, September 2010
Hardcover
The Time Pirate, April 2010
Hardcover / e-Book
Tsar, July 2009
Paperback (reprint)
Tsar, October 2008
Hardcover / e-Book
Nick Of Time, May 2008
Hardcover / e-Book
Assassin, May 2008
Paperback (reprint)
Spy, August 2007
Paperback
Hawke, November 2006
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Spy, August 2006
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Spy, August 2006
Hardcover / e-Book
Pirate, July 2006
Tall (reprint)
Pirate, August 2005
Hardcover / e-Book
Assassin, July 2005
Mass Market Paperback
Assassin, July 2004
Hardcover / e-Book
Hawke, June 2004
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Hawke, June 2003
Hardcover / e-Book

HAWKE
By: Ted Bell

Pocket Books
April 2023
On Sale: April 11, 2023
608 pages
ISBN: 1668012774
EAN: 9781668012772
Kindle: B000FC0PJO
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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Other Editions
Mass Market Paperback (reprint - June 2004), Paperback (reprint - November 2006), Hardcover (June 2003)

Mystery | Thriller | Fiction

On a yacht in the warm blue waters of the Caribbean, a little boy named Alex Hawke, hidden in a secret compartment, witnesses the brutal murder of his parents at the hands of two strange men. The only survivors of the attack, Alex and his father’s black parrot, Sniper, are sent back to the island off the coast of England where his family had lived and where generations of Hawkes have called home ever since their pirate forebear, the legendary Blackhawke, was betrayed and hung by the British.

Decades later, the boy, now a grown man and a naval hero, returns to the Caribbean on a special mission for the United States and Great Britain. His task is to find a secret Stealth submarine that has mysteriously disappeared and the men responsible for the theft. Once there, however, Hawke begins to have flashbacks about the night of his parents’ murder. He has also brought along with him a piece of paper his father had pressed into his hands before locking him into the compartment—an ancient treasure map.

Hawke begins to puzzle through his own tragic history and the meaning of the map, even as the search for the submarine intensifies. As Hawke nears the end of his search for his parents’ killers and the men who stole the submarine, he begins to realize that they are one and the same and that to the victor not only will go unimaginable military power but also one of the greatest treasures in the world.