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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.

The Accidental Bride by Denise Hunter

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Falling Into Us, October 2026
Paperback
Falling Into Us, October 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
More than Friends, April 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
The Second Story Bookshop, October 2025
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
The Summer of You and Me, May 2025
Paperback / e-Book
Before We Were Us, September 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Before We Were Us, September 2024
Paperback / e-Book
Love, Unscripted, March 2024
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Wildflower Falls, September 2023
Paperback / e-Book
A Novel Proposal, April 2023
Paperback / e-Book
Harvest Moon, September 2022
Paperback / e-Book
Mulberry Hollow, April 2022
Paperback / e-Book
Bookshop by the Sea, April 2021
Paperback / e-Book
Carolina Breeze, May 2020
Paperback / e-Book
Lake Season, November 2019
Paperback / e-Book
Summer by the Tides, June 2019
Paperback / e-Book
Saving Grace, March 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Mending Places, March 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Finding Faith, March 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Honeysuckle Dreams, May 2018
Paperback / e-Book
Blue Ridge Sunrise, November 2017
Paperback / e-Book
Sweetbriar Cottage, June 2017
Paperback / e-Book
Smitten Book Club, February 2014
Paperback
Secretly Smitten, January 2013
Paperback
The Accidental Bride, January 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Smitten, December 2011
Paperback / e-Book
A Cowboy's Touch, March 2011
Paperback
Driftwood Lane: A Nantucket Love Story, July 2010
Paperback
The Convenient Groom, May 2008
Paperback

THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE
By: Denise Hunter

Thomas Nelson
January 2012
On Sale: January 3, 2012
ISBN: 1595548025
EAN: 9781595548023
Kindle: B005ENBCD2
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Romance Contemporary | Christian

When a wedding reenactment turns real, this cowgirl suddenly finds she’s an accidental bride. Shay Brandenberger is raising her daughter in Moose Creek, Montana on her childhood ranch, nestled against the Yellowstone River. Despite her hard work, she can’t seem to keep her head above waterβ€”and now the bank is threatening to foreclose. She prays for a miracle, but the answer she receives is anything but. Having agreed to play the bride in the Founders Day wedding reenactment, Shay is mortified to be greeted at the end of the aisle by none other than Travis McCoy, her high school sweetheartβ€”the man who left her high and dry for fame and fortune on the Texas rodeo circuit. Then the unthinkable happens. Thanks to a well-meaning busy body and an absent minded preacher, the wedding reenactment results in a legal marriage. But before Shay can say annulment, Travis comes up with a crazy proposal. If she refuses his offer, she’ll lose her home. But if she accepts, she may lose her heart. Shay isn’t sure if the recent events are God’s will or just a preacher’s blunder. Will trusting her heart to the man who once shattered it be the worst mistake of her life? Or could their marriage be the best accident that ever happened?