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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.

A Woman to Blame by Susan Connell

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Also by Susan Connell:

Sparks, October 2013
e-Book
Palmetto Princesses, August 2012
e-Book
The Big Beach Book, August 2012
e-Book
Some Kind Of Wonderful, June 2012
e-Book (reprint)
A Woman to Blame, May 2012
e-Book
A Man Like This, May 2012
e-Book
Double Trouble In Paradise, April 2012
e-Book
Rings On Her Fingers, November 2011
e-Book (reprint)
Pagan's Paradise, October 2011
e-Book (reprint)
Trouble In Paradise, September 2011
e-Book (reprint)
Glory Girl, August 2011
e-Book (reprint)

A WOMAN TO BLAME
By: Susan Connell

Author Self-Published
May 2012
On Sale: May 12, 2012
ISBN: 0014419440
EAN: 2940014419444
Kindle: B00789YLJM
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Romance Contemporary

All Rick Parrish wants is his bar back!

Pappy's Crab Shack is the go-to place for the marina owner & fishing boat captain to kick back, have a cold beer, some conch fritters and, for a little while, leave some unfortunate memories behind. Watching those gaudy-awful sunsets from his favorite chair isn't bad either. So the last thing he wants is his Florida Keys hangout turned into a fancy-ass French restaurant.

Rick returns from vacation to find Pappy is in the hospital and has given granddaughter Bryn (a design consultant) carte blanche to "improve" Pappy's Crab Shack. A furious Rick and a determined Bryn go head to head over the changes. Rick insists nobody on Malabar Key is interested in a gourmet restaurant while Bryn insists it's just the thing to improve business on the key.

Bryn senses Rick has a secret in his past compelling him to fight the changes but she grits her teeth and waits for him to explain. Just what does tiny August Moon Key have to do with Rick and his former wife? Meanwhile Bryn and Rick are shanghaied to co-chair a fund raiser for a new ambulance, but the unwanted sexual attraction they have for each other is complicating everything.

Well into the renovations Bryn comes to realize her upscale restaurant is not a good fit for the laid back life style on Malabar Key. She bravely confesses this to Rick. He is awed by the redhead's humble admission. They can no longer put off the inevitable and begin an intimate and very passionate relationship. Still Bryn wants to know what happened to Rick five years ago out on August Moon Key.