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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.

Keys to the Castle by Donna Ball

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Also by Donna Ball:

Flash, May 2015
Trade Size / e-Book
Keys to the Castle, January 2011
Trade Size / e-Book
Love Letters From Ladybug Farm, October 2010
Trade Size
At Home On Ladybug Farm, October 2009
Trade Size
A Year On Ladybug Farm, March 2009
Trade Size
Gun Shy, August 2007
Paperback
Rapid Fire, December 2006
Paperback
Smoky Mountain Tracks, March 2006
Paperback
Mossy Creek, May 2001
Paperback
Sweet Tea And Jesus Shoes, May 2000
Paperback

KEYS TO THE CASTLE
By: Donna Ball

Some homes change your life. Others change your heart...

Berkley
January 2011
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Featuring: Sara Graves
336 pages
ISBN: 0425239306
EAN: 9780425239308
Kindle: B0049H9AS8
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Romance Chick-Lit | Women's Fiction Contemporary

The author of the Ladybug Farm series delivers an exhilarating new novel of a middle-aged woman who follows her heart to love and happiness.

When a dashing French poet swept forty-something workaholic Sara Graves off her feet, she did something completely unexpected: She married him. Then three weeks later he died, leaving her a house she can’t afford to keep in a country she’s never been to.

Traveling to France to settle the estate, Sara is shocked to discover that her husband wasn’t the impoverished poet he claimed to beβ€” and that the estate he left her is a 400-year-old crumbling castle in the Loire Valley. Now Sara must sell Chateau Rondelais before it (not to mention her late husband’s disarmingly handsome lawyer and best friend) makes her question her decision to leaveβ€”and opens her heart to change and all its unexpected possibilities.

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