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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.

Magnolia Skies by Susan Crandall

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Also by Susan Crandall:

The Myth of Perpetual Summer, June 2018
Paperback / e-Book
The Flying Circus, July 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Whistling Past the Graveyard, July 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Sleep No More, January 2010
Mass Market Paperback
Seeing Red, February 2009
Mass Market Paperback
Pitch Black, June 2008
Paperback
A Kiss in Winter, January 2007
Paperback
On Blue Falls Pond, January 2006
Paperback
Promises to Keep, March 2005
Paperback
Magnolia Skies, August 2004
Paperback
Back Roads, June 2003
Paperback

MAGNOLIA SKIES
By: Susan Crandall

A story of duty and sacrifice for family and country, of forgiveness and loss, of finding your way to the home of your heart.

Warner
August 2004
Featuring: Luke Boudreau; Analise Abbot
416 pages
ISBN: 0446614106
Paperback
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Romance

Army Ranger Luke Boudreau commanded a secret mission that went horribly awry. The physical wounds he takes away from the experience are inconsequential compared to his guilt for the loss of a fellow soldier -- a man who will never be recognized for his bravery because of the covert nature of their operation. When Luke is recovered enough, he travels to Grover, Mississippi to pay his respects to the woman who gave her son to the service of his country. He must do so in a way that doesn't reveal the true circumstances of the man's death. He braces himself for a mother's bitter anger, secretly hoping this encounter will begin to deliver him from torment.

However, what he finds in Grover is far from either recrimination or absolution. He is quickly drawn into a family that desperately needs his help -- a younger brother bent on self-destruction and a mother with a secret burden of her own. And most shocking of all, he discovers a beautiful widow he didn't know exhisted -- a woman who tempts him to break his own moral code.