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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 Queen and the Countess by Anne O'Brien

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Also by Anne O'Brien:

The Queen and the Countess, July 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Royal Game, November 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Shadow Queen, May 2017
Hardcover
The King's Concubine, June 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Queen Defiant, June 2011
Trade Size
The Virgin Widow, November 2010
Trade Size
Conquering Knight, Captive Lady, March 2009
Mass Market Paperback
The Runaway Heiress, August 2006
Paperback
Broken Vows, Mended Hearts, June 2006
Paperback
The Enigmatic Rake, March 2006
Paperback
The Outrageous Debutante, December 2005
Paperback

THE QUEEN AND THE COUNTESS
By: Anne O'Brien

The spellbinding new historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author!

Orion
July 2025
On Sale: June 24, 2025
464 pages
ISBN: 1398711241
EAN: 9781398711242
Kindle: B0D69ZF1DN
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Friendship

KEEP THY FRIENDS CLOSE,
THY ENEMIES CLOSER...

England 1450s

Queen Margaret knows she must protect the crown, and her son Prince Edward's claim to it, at all costs. It is up to her to fight for their inheritance, with her husband King Henry becoming increasingly frail. And as the Wars of the Roses rage on, Margaret's enemies lurk close, threatening to unravel everything she is trying to protect.

Anne, Countess of Warwick, has long striven to be a loyal and accomplished wife to the Earl of Warwick. But when she develops an unlikely alliance with the Lancastrian Queen Margaret, her husband's adversary, she wonders how much power now lies in her hands to determine the course of history.

Crossing enemy lines, the pair strike up a thorny friendship - yet in the midst of treachery and the turmoil of battle, can the two women trust each other?

Or is it only a matter of time before war drives a sword between them...

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Your favourite authors love Anne O'Brien:

'It kept me riveted until the last page' BARBARA ERSKINE
'Tremendous and engrossing' NICOLACORNICK
'Be warned: it's incredibly addictive' TRACY BORMAN
'Anne O'Brien gets right inside the heads of her medieval characters' JOANNA HICKSON