October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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Also by Lynn Messina:

A Lark's Gambit, August 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
A Wretched Folly, March 2026
e-Book
A Highly Courageous Adventure, November 2025
e-Book
A Lark's Regret, July 2025
e-Book
A Pernicious Fabrication, March 2025
Paperback / e-Book
A Lark's Release, November 2024
Paperback / e-Book
A Vicious Machination, July 2024
e-Book
A Lark's Conceit, February 2024
Paperback / e-Book
A Murderous Tryst, November 2023
e-Book
Prejudice & Pride, December 2015
e-Book
Little Vampire Women, May 2010
Paperback
Savvy Girl, August 2008
Paperback
Never on a Sundae, October 2004
Trade Size

A LARK'S RELEASE
By: Lynn Messina

A Regency Cozy

Verity Lark #4
Potatoworks Press
November 2024
On Sale: October 25, 2024
332 pages
ISBN: 1942218966
EAN: 9781942218968
Kindle: B0D7TR8YBQ
Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery Cozy | Mystery Historical | Mystery Hobbies

It is hardly surprising Verity Lark can’t sleep at night with all the thoughts darting through her mind: her recent stay in Newgate, her debt to Colson Hardwicke, the horrible abuse suffered by the children at Fortescue’s that her reporting on the orphan asylum several years earlier had failed to uncover.

And then of course there are the shooting lessons she has promised to give to the Duchess of Kesgrave. Verity has spent three months cruelly mocking the former spinster for her investigative pretensions, and now she is obligated to teach the woman how to fire a deadly weapon.

It is madness!

Thank goodness she stumbles onto a forged antiquities ring when she visits the British Museum with Hardwicke. Finally—something benign to focus her brain on.

Alas, when a murderer strikes close to home, threatening every member of her household, Verity realizes just how grossly she misunderstood the situation. Far from harmless, the counterfeit scheme is in deadly earnest, and now she must figure out the identity of a ruthless enemy who doesn’t care whom he hurts in his quest to eliminate her.