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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 Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards

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Also by Mark Edwards:

One of the Family, August 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
The Wasp Trap, July 2026
Trade Paperback
The Wasp Trap, September 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The Psychopath Next Door, February 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Darkest Water, April 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Keep Her Secret, June 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Hollows, July 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
The Retreat, May 2018
Trade Size / e-Book
The Devil's Work, September 2016
Paperback / e-Book
Follow You Home, July 2015
Paperback / e-Book
From the Cradle, November 2014
Paperback / e-Book

THE WASP TRAP
By: Mark Edwards

A Novel

Atria Books
July 2026
On Sale: July 14, 2026
352 pages
ISBN: 1668204789
EAN: 9781668204788
Trade Paperback
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Thriller Psychological | Thriller Crime

A dinner party in a beautiful Notting Hill townhouse turns into a sinister game as six old friends are forced to spill their darkest secrets…or else.

Six friends reunite in London to celebrate the life of their recently deceased ex-employer, a professor that brought them together in 1999 to help build a dating website based on psychological testing.

But what is meant to be a night of bittersweet nostalgia soon becomes a twisted and deadly game. The old friends are given an ultimatum: reveal their darkest secrets to the group or pick each other off one by one.

It soon becomes clear that their current predicament is related to their shared past. The love questionnaire they helped develop in 1999 for the dating site was also turned into a tool for weeding out psychopaths: The Wasp Trap. This experiment and the other tragic events of that summer long ago may help reveal the truth behind a killer hiding in plain sight.

Alternating between the past and present with a colorful ensemble of characters, The Wasp Trap is a fast-paced and twisty thrill ride that is perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Alice Feeney.