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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 Second Horseman by Kyle Mills

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Also by Kyle Mills:

Fade In, August 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Oath of Loyalty, May 2024
Paperback / e-Book
Code Red, September 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Lethal Agent, October 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
The Immortalists, December 2011
Paperback / e-Book
Lords Of Corruption, April 2009
Hardcover
Darkness Falls, March 2009
Mass Market Paperback
The Second Horseman, May 2007
Mass Market Paperback
Fade, May 2006
Mass Market Paperback
Smoke Screen, October 2004
Trade Size
Sphere Of Influence, September 2003
Paperback
Burn Factor, February 2002
Mass Market Paperback
Free Fall, February 2001
Mass Market Paperback
Storming Heaven, August 1998
Hardcover
Rising Phoenix, July 1998
Mass Market Paperback

THE SECOND HORSEMAN
By: Kyle Mills

St. Martin's Press
May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Featuring: Brandon Vale; Catherine Juarez; Richard Scanlon
352 pages
ISBN: 0312934173
EAN: 9780312934170
Mass Market Paperback
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Thriller Political

Brandon Vale is a career thiefβ€”the best there is. Or at least he was before he was thrown in prison for a jewel heist gone bad. And even more embarrassing, it was a sloppy little job that he had nothing to do with.

His time is going fairly quietly until the night he's broken out against his will by Richard Scanlon, the now retired FBI agent who framed him in the first place.

Scanlon, who still maintains ties to the U.S. intelligence community, has discovered that a Ukrainian crime organization is auctioning twelve nuclear warheads to the highest bidder, but he can't convince the government that the sale isn't a hoax. The only way he can get his hands on the $200 million necessary to take the warheads off the market is to do something that goes against everything he stands for: Steal it.

The choice Brandon is given is simple: Help Scanlon and hope to live through it, or turn himself in and face the repercussions of his "escape."

Suddenly Brandon finds himself with only weeks to plan a Las Vegas heist that he's been dreaming about for years, but has always thought was probably impossible. And to make matters worse, Scanlon insists on choosing his team personally. Led by the relentlessly intelligent and undeniably beautiful Catherine Juarez, not a single one of the former government operatives he picks has so much as shoplifted a pack of gum in their lives.

As the day of the heist approaches, Brandon's carefully constructed plans begin to break down and he suspects that the elaborate double-cross he's devised to save himself could cost millions of people their lives. He finally has to ask himself just how far he's willing to be dragged into a game that he can only lose.