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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.

Contract For Marriage by Barbara DeLeo

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Also by Barbara DeLeo:

The Bouquet List, September 2014
e-Book
Last Chance Proposal, December 2013
e-Book
Dishing Up Desire, July 2013
e-Book
Contract For Marriage, September 2012
e-Book

CONTRACT FOR MARRIAGE
By: Barbara DeLeo

Entangled
September 2012
On Sale: September 14, 2012
Featuring: Christo Mantazis; Ruby Fleming
ISBN: 0015674770
EAN: 9781622669820
Kindle: B009B5D0IY
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Romance Contemporary

Pregnant and alone after her ex–lover's death, magazine editor Ruby Fleming's not about to give up her home to the man who broke her heart—until she discovers her mother left half of the estate to somebody else, and she realizes she's trapped.

Property tycoon Christo Mantazis wants the one thing his riches can't buy—the villa where his mother has lived and worked as housekeeper for forty years. That it's the same house he was banished from after being caught making love to the owner's irresistible daughter stirs up old memories and now he wants her more than ever.

When Christo offers a marriage of convenience, Ruby knows it's the only way for them to get what they want. Ruby needs her baby to have the link to its past, Christo needs his mother to retain her home, and for him to have the child he could never father.

But it's another need—to have Christo again—that Ruby must resist at all costs.