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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.

Ghost In The Machine by Barbara J. Hancock

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Also by Barbara J. Hancock:

Legendary Beast, October 2018
e-Book
After Always, October 2018
e-Book
Harlequin E Shivers Box Set Volume 4, October 2014
e-Book
The Girl in Blue, October 2014
e-Book
Silent is the House, July 2014
e-Book
Shivers Box Set Vol. 3, July 2014
e-Book
Ghost In The Machine, September 2011
e-Book
Awakening The Beast, October 2009
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GHOST IN THE MACHINE
By: Barbara J. Hancock

Samhain Publishing
September 2011
On Sale: August 30, 2011
80 pages
ISBN: 1609285174
EAN: 9781609285173
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Rule number one: Run from the Shadows. Unless one knows the secret that will save you. A Cybershock StoryI live in a world of waifs and shadows. Live might be an overstatement. I scrounge and scramble and survive in an atmosphere made thick and gray by the ashes of the Fallen. And sometimes I dream of sunlight. My parents were taken, even though they followed all the rules. Never scavenge at night. Never talk to Shadows. Don’t fight the Sweepers. Run. Run. Run. Now that they’ve taken my little brother, Douglas, I’ve realized I’ve only been surviving for him. I have two choices: Follow him or lie down and die. I can’t just quit after years of struggle. I wouldn’t know how if I tried. Determination is all I have left. And then I meet him. He claims to be a rogue who can help me find my brother. It’s got to be a lie. But I don’t run. I stop. I listen. And I make a deal with a Shadow even though I know it will mean the death of me. Never talk to Shadows. But no one ever told me what would happen if I kissed one. Warning: May cause fantasies of forbidden kisses from dark heroes who balance on the edge of evil. Where shadows wait and ashes fall...