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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.

Southern Poison by T. Lynn Ocean

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Also by T. Lynn Ocean:

Southern Peril, July 2009
Hardcover
Southern Poison, June 2009
Paperback (reprint)
Southern Poison, September 2008
Hardcover
Southern Fatality, August 2008
Mass Market Paperback
Southern Fatality, September 2007
Hardcover
Sweet Home Carolina, May 2006
Hardcover
Fool Me Once, June 2005
Hardcover

SOUTHERN POISON
By: T. Lynn Ocean


Jersey Barnes #2
Minotaur Books
September 2008
On Sale: September 2, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 0312383460
EAN: 9780312383466
Hardcover
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Mystery Woman Sleuth

The last time Jersey Barnes tried to quit her career as a security specialist and leave home without a weapon, she ended up in the middle of a high-stakes cover-up and a scheme to steal millions from hardworking Americans. This time her early retirement is for real. Friends threw her a party to prove it. There was a cake and everything

But out of the blue, her former handler shows up with other ideas. When Jersey tells him she doesn’t want an assignment---even if does come with an upfront hazard-pay bonus---he reminds her of a clause in the contract she signed back when she was first recruited to work for the government: a pesky paragraph that says she can be recalled into service at any time

With boating and golfing plans on hold yet again, Jersey straps on her weapon of choice and goes undercover to help root out a terrorist threat---only to learn that another more sinister plot is in the works. And things aren’t any more relaxing at home, either. Just as she starts to explore a steamy relationship with her hunky pub manager, Ox, his ex-wife flies in from California to reclaim him.