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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.

Little Gale Gumbo by Erika Marks

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Also by Erika Marks:

The Last Treasure, August 2016
Trade Size / e-Book
Stealing Hearts, February 2015
e-Book
It Comes In Waves, July 2014
Paperback / e-Book
The Guest House, June 2013
Paperback / e-Book
The Mermaid Collector, October 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Little Gale Gumbo, October 2011
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LITTLE GALE GUMBO
By: Erika Marks

Penguin
October 2011
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Featuring: Ben Haskell; Camille
432 pages
ISBN: 0451234650
EAN: 9780451234650
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Romance Contemporary

When Camille and her two teenage daughters fled New Orleans for the island of Little Gale off the coast of Maine, the islanders were initially more suspicious than welcoming. Twenty-five years later, Camille's Creole restaurant, The Little Gale Gumbo CafΓ©, has become an island staple-as has the legacy of her romance with islander Ben Haskell. Camille and Ben, along with their children, created a new family unit with a seemingly unbreakable bond.

But when Ben is found unconscious in his home, next to the body of Camille's estranged husband, old secrets and suspicions reemerge, and the family must reunite to hope for Ben's survival. But as revelations come to the surface, so do long-held secrets that will test the limits and definitions of family.