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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.

Tainted Gold by Lynn Michaels

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Also by Lynn Michaels:

Tainted Gold, December 2012
e-Book (reprint)
Marriage by Design, August 2006
Paperback
Captain Rakehell, February 2006
Paperback
Honeymoon Suite, January 2005
Paperback
Return Engagement, September 2003
Paperback
Mother of the Bride, June 2002
Paperback

TAINTED GOLD
By: Lynn Michaels

Samhain Publishing
December 2012
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Featuring: Desmon Cassil; Quillen McCain; Tucker Ferris
240 pages
ISBN: 1619211971
EAN: 9781619211971
Kindle: B00A7FL84U
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Romance

Appearances can be deceiving…

Quillen McCain’s anger is hot enough to burn down every tree on her twelve acres of wooded property. She may be a poor freelance artist, but no amount of wealthy businessman Desmond Cassil’s moneyβ€”or his thinly veiled threatsβ€”will make her sell this land.

It’s not only the home of the annual Cassil Springs Renaissance Festival, it’s sacred ground. The place her father died while mining for gold. The only way Cassil will build an amusement park on it will be to pry the deed out of her cold, dead hand.

She’s still fuming when handsome fellow Ren player and geologist, Tucker Ferris, catches her eye. Then as the tenants of her Victorian homeβ€”her only source of steady incomeβ€”begin bailing, Tucker becomes an ally. And when a suspicious accident lands her in the hospital, he captures her heart.

As they race to discover just how far Cassil will go to get what he wants, Quillen and Tucker’s relationship is threatened by a series of cold, ground-shaking truths. Forcing them both to realize just how much they stand to lose.

This book has been previously published.

Warning: This book contains a stubborn heroine, a handsome hero who’s more than a pretty face, and enough twists and turns to count as an amusement park ride!