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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 Summer Kitchen by Lisa Wingate

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Also by Lisa Wingate:

Shelterwood, June 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Before We Were Yours, December 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
A Thousand Voices, November 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
The Book of Lost Friends, April 2020
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Never Say Never, May 2019
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Word Gets Around, February 2019
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Talk of the Town, September 2018
Paperback / e-Book
Before We Were Yours, June 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Sea Keeper's Daughters, September 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Story Keeper, September 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Wildwood Creek, February 2014
Paperback / e-Book
The Prayer Box, September 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Summer Kitchen, July 2009
Trade Size
A Month of Summer, July 2008
Trade Size

THE SUMMER KITCHEN
By: Lisa Wingate

Blue Sky Hill
NAL
July 2009
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Featuring: Sandra Kaye Darden; Cass Blue
384 pages
ISBN: 0451226933
EAN: 9780451226938
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Contemporary | Women's Fiction

From the author of A Month of Summer, an inspiring new novel in the Blue Sky Hill series about one woman’s effect on a struggling Dallas neighborhood.

With her adopted son missing and the rest of her family increasingly estranged, Sandra Kaye Darden is drawn to the little pink house where her Uncle Poppy once provided security. What begins for Sandra as a simple painting project, meant to prepare the house for sale, becomes a secret venture that eventually changes everything.

Cass Blue is having trouble keeping food on the table since she ditched foster care. When Sandra Kaye shows up with lunch one day, Cass has no way of knowing that the meeting will lead to the creation of a place of refuge that could reunite a divided community.

In this moving story of second chances, two unlikely allies realize their ability to make a difference…and the power of what becomes known as the Summer Kitchen to nourish the soul.