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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.

Mad About Mia by Millie Criswell

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Also by Millie Criswell:

Asking for Trouble, April 2006
Paperback
No Strings Attached, July 2005
Paperback
Body Language, November 2004
Paperback
Mad About Mia, December 2003
Paperback
What to Do About Annie, July 2001
Paperback
The Pregnant Ms. Potter, February 2001
Paperback
The Trouble with Mary, January 2001
Paperback
Marrying Man, April 2000
Paperback
True Love, June 1999
Paperback

MAD ABOUT MIA
By: Millie Criswell

Ballantine
December 2003
Featuring: Nick Caruso; Mia DeNero
325 pages
ISBN: 0804119945
Paperback
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Romance Chick-Lit

It might be hard to picture impish Mia DeNero as a bodyguard, but what she lacks in size she makes up for in determination. So when straight-laced Nick Caruso walks into her office and says he needs protection from the mob because of a book he's writing, she doesn't hesitate to take the job. Moving the studious author into her apartment seems like the best way to protect him from shady characters. But soon after he's settled in, the thick, nerdy glasses come off and Mia starts wondering who's going to protect her from this irresistible new client.

Posing as a geeky author on the run from the mob is making FBI agent Nick Caruso crazy. But if it will help him shut down a money laundering operation out of Little Italy, he can ignore the wimp jokes for a little while longer. It's harder to ignore the sassy woman he hired to be his "bodyguard." There are a number of things he'd like Mia to do to his body, and guarding isn't on the list. As things heat up-on the job and in the apartment-Nick begins to see he's in danger of losing his heart to the woman he's deceived, and who is determined to save his life....