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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.

Keep Your Friends Close by Leah Konen

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Also by Leah Konen:

The Last Room on the Left, January 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Keep Your Friends Close, January 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
You Should Have Told Me, January 2023
Trade Paperback
The Perfect Escape, January 2022
Trade Size
All the Broken People, August 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
All the Broken People, July 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
The Last Time We Were Us, May 2016
Hardcover / e-Book

KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE
By: Leah Konen

G.P. Putnam's Sons
January 2024
On Sale: January 9, 2024
Featuring: Mary; George; Annie
384 pages
ISBN: 0593544722
EAN: 9780593544723
Kindle: B0C1YB4J8N
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Thriller Psychological | Women's Fiction

How well do you know your friends?

Isolated and embroiled in a custody battle, Mary is desperate for a friend. So when she meets the charming and enigmatic Willa at a Brooklyn playground, their connection feels fated. But during a margarita-fueled moms’ night out, Mary shares her darkest secret about her ex, George, and the next morning Willa simply disappears. No calls, no texts, nothing.

Two months later, Mary’s divorce is almost finalized, and she’s trying to build a new life for her son in upstate New York. On her first day in town, she runs into Willa . . . only Willa’s name is now Annie, and she’s got an entirely new family in tow. When George turns up dead and Mary becomes the prime suspect, she has no choice but to turn to her only friend in town: Willa.

As coincidences—and evidence—pile up, Mary begins to wonder whether Willa had something to do with George’s death. Is the woman a friend or a foe, a confidante or just a con? Mary must uncover the truth before she loses everything.