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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 Long Farewell by Bob Van Laerhoven

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Also by Bob Van Laerhoven:

The Firehand File, April 2026
e-Book
The Long Farewell, September 2025
Paperback / e-Book
Scars of the Heart, June 2024
Paperback / e-Book
The Shadow of the Mole, March 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Alejandro's Lie, August 2021
Hardcover / e-Book

THE LONG FAREWELL
By: Bob Van Laerhoven

Independently Published
September 2025
On Sale: September 2, 2025
374 pages
ISBN: 4824156718
EAN: 9784824156716
Kindle: B0FPK7P459
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A young man with an Oedipus complex in 1930s Dresden, Hermann Becht loses himself in the social and political motives of his time.

His father is in the SS, his mother is Belarusian, and his girlfriend is Jewish. After a brutal clash with his father, Hermann and his mother flee to Paris. Swept along by a maelstrom of events, Hermann ends up as a spy for the British in the Polish extermination camp Treblinka.

The trauma of what he sees in this realm of death intensifies his pessimistic outlook on humanity. In Switzerland, the famous psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung tries to free Hermann of his frightening schizophrenia, but fails to unravel the power of the young man's emotions, especially his intense hate for his father.

What follows is a tragic chain of events, leading to Hermann's ultimate revenge on his father: the apocalyptic bombing of Dresden.

THE LONG FAREWELL is an unforgettable exploration of fascism's lure and the roots of the Holocaust. More than ever, the novel is a mirror for our modern times.