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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.

Playing with Destiny by Phillip Thomas Duck

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Also by Phillip Thomas Duck:

Dirty South (Kimani Tru), August 2009
Paperback
Whispers Between The Sheets, January 2009
Mass Market Paperback
Counterfeit Wives, December 2008
Paperback
Dirty Jersey, July 2008
Paperback
Apple Brown Betty, April 2007
Trade Size
Playing with Destiny, March 2007
Paperback
Grown and Sexy, April 2006
Trade Size

PLAYING WITH DESTINY
By: Phillip Thomas Duck

Kimani Press Sepia
March 2007
On Sale: March 1, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 0373830394
EAN: 9780373830398
Paperback
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Multicultural African-American

As brothers, Colin and Courtney Sheffield know their lives will always be connected. But their mistakes, and those of their absent father before them, have tangled them in a web of bitterness and regret neither of them can shake.

A writer constantly struggling to live up to the hype surrounding his first book, Colin is haunted by an event in his past that still darkens his dreams and casts a shadow over his marriage to Liza, a former model with ghosts of her own to vanquish. Even the birth of their beautiful daughter, Lyric, can't hold them together when Colin begins to measure every word he writes against that of another bestselling author who has taken an interest in himβ€”and his brother.

Basketball is Courtney's lifeblood. With only one year of college left, he's willing to leave school when rumors of a valuable NBA contract promise to make him everything his brother is notβ€”a true success, and a winner his mother will finally be proud of. But with all he's ever dreamed of within reach, he begins to wonder if he wants something else moreβ€”a true relationship with Chante, the only woman he's ever loved, and the mother of a child who may or may not be his.