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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.

When You Went Away by Michael Baron

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Also by Michael Baron:

Leaves, October 2012
Trade Size / e-Book
Spinning, April 2012
Trade Size / e-Book
A Winter Discovery, November 2011
Paperback / e-Book
Anything, October 2011
Paperback / e-Book
The Journey Home, May 2010
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Crossing the Bridge, January 2010
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
When You Went Away, October 2009
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book

WHEN YOU WENT AWAY
By: Michael Baron

A novel of love, loss, and life's endless surprises

Story Plant
October 2009
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Featuring: Ally; Gerry
352 pages
ISBN: 0981956807
EAN: 9780981956800
Kindle: B003JTHBWE
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Contemporary

Only a few months ago, Gerry Rubato had everything he thought he needed from life. He was passionately in love with his college sweetheart after nearly twenty years of marriage, he had a bright, independent–minded daughter, and he had the surprising addition of a new child on the way. Then everything changed with stunning rapidity. With little explanation, his daughter ran away with her older boyfriend. Then, only a month after giving birth to their son, his wife died suddenly.

Now, Gerry needs to be everything to his infant child while he contends with two losses he can barely comprehend. And when a woman walks into his life as a friend and their relationship verges on something more, Gerry must redefine all that he knows about himself, about love, about loyalty, and about his dreams.

An emotionally charged story filled with warmth, humor, wisdom, and unforgettable characters, When You Went Away is a novel you will take to your heart.