October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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Once Upon a Friendship, February 2022
e-Book
Ask Me to Stay, March 2019
Trade Size / e-Book
Cowboys For Christmas, November 2018
e-Book
Falling Star, April 2018
Trade Size / e-Book
Rising Star, September 2017
e-Book
The Last in Love, June 2017
Paperback / e-Book
Her Hopes and Dreams, November 2016
Paperback / e-Book
My One and Only, May 2016
Paperback / e-Book
The Sutherlands, March 2016
e-Book
Our Now and Forever, November 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Small Town Summer, July 2015
e-Book
His First and Last, May 2015
Paperback / e-Book
More to Give, November 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Cowboys for Christmas, November 2014
e-Book
Home to Stay, April 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Up to the Challenge, October 2013
Paperback / e-Book
Meant To Be, May 2013
Paperback / e-Book

UP TO THE CHALLENGE
By: Terri Osburn

Opposites attract in a sexy tale of unexpected love

Anchor Island #2
Montlake
October 2013
On Sale: October 22, 2013
Featuring: Lucas Dempsey; Sid Navarro
347 pages
ISBN: 1477809686
EAN: 9781477809686
Kindle: B00CH5QG1S
Paperback / e-Book
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Romance Contemporary | Women's Fiction Contemporary

The sophomore effort of a new author continues to enchant...

When the Dempsey patriarch suffers a heart attack, Lucas Dempsey steps up to keep the doors of the family restaurant open. The proverbial prodigal son returns home to Anchor Island—putting family first and his quest to make partner at his high-powered law firm on hold. Sporting a bruised ego after losing his fiancée to his older brother, Lucas would rather walk on glass than spend six weeks within spitting distance of the happy couple. But family duty calls. And that duty includes working side-by-side with a tantalizing spitfire intent on driving him mad.

Tough-as-nails boat mechanic Sid Navarro is happy to trade her tools for an apron to help the Dempseys in their time of need. That is, until she realizes she’ll be working alongside Lucas, the man she’s loved from afar since she first laid eyes on him in high school. Lucas could charm the paint off a schooner, but Sid knows she doesn’t fit his girl-next-door type. To show her true feelings would mean certain heartbreak, but the temptation of Lucas in her bed might be more than she can resist.

After a rocky start punctuated by verbal barbs and exasperating arguments, things heat up between them—big-time —but their steamy affair turns more than casual in a matter of weeks. Sid’s life has become the dream she’s always wanted, and Lucas has fallen hard for the last woman he ever expected to love.

But this affair has an end-date, as Lucas must return to his life and career in the big city, a place where Sid would never fit in. When the end comes earlier than expected, walking away turns out to be a challenge neither of them wants to win.