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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.

EVEN THE NIGHTS ARE BETTER
By: Margot Dalton

Crystal Creek
Harlequin Special Releases
November 2008
On Sale: November 1, 2008
Featuring: Vernon Trent; Carolyn Townsend
288 pages
ISBN: 0373250843
EAN: 9780373250844
Paperback
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Romance Contemporary | Series

Crystal Creek…where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures.

Vernon Trent has loved Carolyn Townsend ever since they were in the first grade together. But he never told her, and by the time he came back from Vietnam, she was married.

Now, twenty years later, the widowed Carolyn can sense there is something Vern wantsto share with her. Suddenly she isn't sure she wants to hear what her old friend has to say. It could change things between them forever.