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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 Better To Hold You by Alisa Sheckley

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Also by Alisa Sheckley:

Moonburn, June 2009
Mass Market Paperback
The Better To Hold You, March 2009
Mass Market Paperback

THE BETTER TO HOLD YOU
By: Alisa Sheckley


Being Married to a Werewolf Gives New Meaning to the Words "High Risk Relationship."

Abra Barrow #1
Del Rey
March 2009
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Featuring: Abra Barrow; Red Mallin
336 pages
ISBN: 0345505875
EAN: 9780345505873
Mass Market Paperback
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Fantasy Urban

SHE KNOWS WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.

Manhattan veterinarian Abra Barrow has more sense about animals than she has about men. So when her adored journalist husband returns from a research trip to Romania and starts pacing their apartment like a caged wolf, Abra agrees to move with him to a rural mansion upstate in order to save her marriage.

But while there are perks to her new life, particularly in the bedroom, Abra soon discovers that nothing in the bucolic town of Northside is what it seems. The local tavern serves a dangerous, predatory underworld. Her husband has developed feral new appetites and a roving eye, and his lack of humanity isn’t entirely emotional. As the moon waxes full, Abra must choose between trusting the man she married, taking a chance on a seductive stranger, or following her own animal instincts.

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