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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.

Hot, Shot, and Bothered by Nora McFarland

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Also by Nora McFarland:

Going to the Bad, August 2012
Trade Size / e-Book
Going To The Bad, August 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Hot, Shot, and Bothered, August 2011
Trade Size
A Bad Day's Work, August 2010
Trade Size

HOT, SHOT, AND BOTHERED
By: Nora McFarland

Hawkins Mystery #2
Touchstone
August 2011
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Featuring: Lilly Hawkins
304 pages
ISBN: 1439155569
EAN: 9781439155561
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Mystery Cozy

TV news photographer Lilly Hawkins is on the biggest assignment of her career. A deadly wildfire is racing through the California mountains toward the town of Elizabeth Lake. After barely slipping in ahead of road closures, Lilly has her hands full photographing the massive evacuation and approaching inferno. She has no time to cover the accidental drowning of a reckless party girl in the lake . . . until she learns the victim’s name.

When Lilly knew her thirteen years ago, Jessica Egan was a principled environmental activist and not a bit reckless or wild. Could she have changed that much, or is a killer exploiting the chaos surrounding the fire to disguise a murder?

Soon Lilly’s juggling the story she should be covering with the story she can’t let go. What could have been the motive for Jessica’s death? Was it sexual jealousy, long- held grudges, or just plain old-fashioned greed that got Jessica killed? Meanwhile, Lily has to contend with her station’s low-budget technology, the antics of her dodgy uncle Bud, and the alarming job offers her boyfriend is fielding from big-city competitors. Lilly is racing against the clock to get answers. If only the murdererβ€”or the fireβ€”doesn’t get her first . . .

Lily Hawkins

A Bad Day's Work
A BAD DAY'S WORK
#1.0 β€’ August 2010
Hot, Shot, and Bothered
HOT, SHOT, AND BOTHERED
#2.0 β€’ August 2011
Going to the Bad
GOING TO THE BAD
#3.0 β€’ August 2012