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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.

Where the Blame Lies by Mia Sheridan

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Also by Mia Sheridan:

Where the Truth Lives, December 2026
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Where the Blame Lies, July 2026
Trade Paperback
The Fix, November 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Heart of the Sun, May 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Heart of the Sun, May 2025
Paperback / e-Book
Unwanted, July 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Falling for Gage, May 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Becoming Calder, October 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Finding Eden, October 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
All the Little Raindrops, September 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Grayson's Vow, July 2023
Paperback / e-Book
Stinger, June 2023
Paperback / e-Book
Kyland, May 2023
Paperback / e-Book
Travis, April 2023
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Bad Mother, April 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
More Than Words, June 2018
Paperback / e-Book
Most of All You, October 2017
Trade Size / e-Book

WHERE THE BLAME LIES
By: Mia Sheridan

Bloom Books
July 2026
On Sale: June 23, 2026
384 pages
ISBN: 1464275521
EAN: 9781464275524
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Romance Suspense

New York Times bestselling author Mia Sheridan delivers a heart-pounding and twisty romantic suspense for fans of Jennifer Hartmann and Colleen Hoover.

Abducted. Terrorized. Imprisoned.

At nineteen years old, college student Josie Stratton was kidnapped by a madman and held shackled for ten months in an abandoned warehouse before she finally escaped her hellish prison.

Eight years later, when the body of a young woman is found chained in the basement of a vacant house, Cincinnati Police Detective Zach Copeland is instantly reminded of the crime committed against Josie Stratton. Zach was just a rookie on the perimeter of that case, but he's never forgotten the traumatized woman with the haunted eyes.

As more information emerges, the crimes take on an even more sinister similarity. But Josie's attacker died by suicide. Does the city have a copycat on its hands? A killer who picked up where the original perpetrator left off? Or are they facing something far more insidious?

Josie has spent the last eight years attempting to get her life back on track, but now there's a very real chance she could be the unknown suspect's next target. As Zach vows to keep her safe, and Josie finds herself responding to him in a way she hasn't responded to any man in almost a decade, the investigation takes on an even more complex edge of danger.

As past and present collide, Josie and Zach are thrust toward a shocking and chilling truth. A revelation that threatens not only Josie's life, but everything she's been fighting so desperately to reclaim.