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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.

Directive 51 by John Barnes

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Also by John Barnes:

Gaudeamus, February 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Meeting Infinity, December 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Last President, September 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Daybreak Zero, March 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
Directive 51, April 2010
Hardcover

DIRECTIVE 51
By: John Barnes


The first book in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy from a master of the genre

Ace Books
April 2010
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Featuring: Heather O'Grainne
496 pages
ISBN: 044101822X
EAN: 9780441018222
Hardcover
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Science Fiction

Heather O'Grainne is the Assistant Secretary in the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumors surrounding something called Daybreak. The group is diverse and radical, and its members have only one thing in common-their hatred for the Big System and their desire to take it down.

Now, seemingly random events simultaneously occurring around the world are in fact connected as part of Daybreak's plan to destroy modern civilization-a plan that will eliminate America's top government personnel, leaving the nation no choice but to implement its emergency contingency program...Directive 51.