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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.

Storybook Ending by Poppy Alexander

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Also by Poppy Alexander:

How to Find a Romance in a Bookshop, August 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
The Battle of the Bookshops, August 2025
Hardcover
The Battle of the Bookshops, August 2025
Paperback
Storybook Ending, August 2024
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
The 12 Days of Christmas, November 2022
Paperback / e-Book
The Littlest Library, July 2022
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
25 Days 'Til Christmas, October 2019
Paperback / e-Book

STORYBOOK ENDING
By: Poppy Alexander


Avon
August 2024
On Sale: August 20, 2024
352 pages
ISBN: 0063340623
EAN: 9780063340626
Kindle: B0CPCYJDZ7
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Romance Contemporary

From the author of The Littlest Library—a heartwarming novel about a widowed children’s book author who moves into a cottage in the English countryside and finds herself face-to-face with the handsome and brooding blacksmith who lives next door.

In her books she can write “happily ever after”— but real life? That’s another matter…

For children’s book author Imogen, an idyllic life in the English countryside seems like the perfect fit for her and her husband. But when tragedy strikes, Imogen is left widowed, and finds herself moving into Storybook Cottage alone with only her monstrously narcissistic cat for company.

After discovering she is pregnant, Imogen grows determined to embrace a new start in Middlemass, with its duckpond, cricket matches and village fêtes. The only thing Imogen can’t seem to shake is her neighbor—a brooding, artisan blacksmith named Gabriel—who she can’t quite decide is friend or foe. That is until she realizes, thanks to an arcane clause in her deeds, that Gabriel— not just an artist, but lord of the local manor house— has the power to take her home and leave her completely broke.

Devastatingly, he seems keen to do exactly that. Yet, Imogen finds herself drawn to him nonetheless. And in her darkest hour, Gabriel may just be the bright spot to save Imogen in more ways than one.