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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.

Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo

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Also by Beth Pattillo:

Dashwood Sisters Tell All, April 2011
Paperback / e-Book
Jane Austen Ruined My Life, February 2009
Paperback
Heavens To Betsy, June 2005
Trade Size
Princess Charming, January 2003
Paperback

JANE AUSTEN RUINED MY LIFE
By: Beth Pattillo

GuidepostsBooks
February 2009
On Sale: February 3, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0824947711
EAN: 9780824947712
Paperback
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English professor Emma Douglas has always done everything just the way her minister father told her she should-a respectable marriage, a teaching job at a good college, and plans for the requisite two children. Life was prodigiously good, as her favorite author Jane Austen might say, until the day Emma finds her husband in bed with another woman. Suddenly, all her romantic notions a la Austen are exposed for the foolish dreams they are