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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.

UNDERAN AFRICAN SKY
By: Elene Catrakilis

Belvedere House
March 2026
On Sale: March 10, 2026
320 pages
ISBN: B0GLCWSXST
EAN: 9798999173713
Kindle: B0GFGH3TTP
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
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Women's Fiction Historical

For fans of Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns and Kristin Hannah's Firefly Lane, Under an African Sky is the story of the friendship of two women, one white, one Black, who navigate a new world where their personal lives are thrown into tumult while a nation's political upheaval tests their bonds.

 

As apartheid begins to unravel, South Africa teeters between hope and unrest. The dreams each woman holds for their children are reshaped by forces beyond their control and their friendship is weighted to a breaking point. History is seldom kind to individuals, but sometimes, even as a country convulses with pain, the human spirit has a capacity to endure beyond understanding.

"Catrakilis has written a compelling family drama that is also a timely story about race, immigration, and the pain of assimilating in a city halfway around the world while longing for home."

- Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes and Vigil Harbor.