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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.

Dating, Dining, and Desperation by Melody Carlson

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Also by Melody Carlson:

We Wish You a Messy Christmas, September 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
All Booked Up, March 2026
Paperback / e-Book
Once Upon a Christmas Carol, September 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Welcome to the Honey B&B, March 2025
Paperback / e-Book
The Christmas Tree Farm, September 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Just for the Summer, March 2024
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
A Royal Christmas, September 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Second Time Around, March 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
A Quilt for Christmas, September 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Looking for Leroy, March 2022
Paperback / e-Book
A Christmas in the Alps, September 2021
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The Christmas Swap, September 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
The Happy Camper, March 2020
Paperback / e-Book
Christmas in Winter Hill, September 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Courting Mr. Emerson, March 2019
Paperback / e-Book
A Christmas by the Sea, September 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Christmas Blessing, September 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Under a Summer Sky, June 2017
Paperback / e-Book
The Christmas Angel Project, September 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
All Summer Long, June 2016
Paperback / e-Book
Home, Hearth, and the Holidays, October 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Christmas Joy Ride, September 2015
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Once Upon A Summertime, June 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Love Gently Falling, January 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Trading Secrets, November 2014
Paperback / e-Book
The Christmas Cat, September 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Dating, Dining, and Desperation, February 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Once Upon a Winter's Heart, January 2014
Trade Size / e-Book
A Home At Trail's End, July 2013
Paperback / e-Book
A Simple Song, June 2013
Paperback / e-Book
Lock, Stock, and Over a Barrel, June 2013
Paperback / e-Book
A Dream For Tomorrow, February 2013
Paperback / e-Book
Westward Hearts, September 2012
Paperback / e-Book
River's End, August 2012
Paperback / e-Book
River's Call, February 2012
Trade Size / e-Book
Here's to Friends!, September 2011
Paperback / e-Book
River's Song, July 2011
Paperback

DATING, DINING, AND DESPERATION
By: Melody Carlson


Dear Daphne #2
B&H Books
February 2014
On Sale: February 4, 2014
Featuring: Daphne Ballinger
324 pages
ISBN: 1433679310
EAN: 9781433679315
Kindle: B00I9I8X04
Paperback / e-Book
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Inspirational Romance

Daphne Ballinger has learned to accept her deceased, eccentric aunt’s strange request that she marry in order to inherit her estate, along with taking over her aunt’s hometown paper’s advice column.

But knowing and accepting that God’s will be done becomes harder when a new neighbor, a divorced socialite, learns of Daphne’s predicament and takes on the task of finding her the perfect man, even if it includes speed dating. When God does open Daphne’s heart, it is instead to take in a young girl left parent-less and in the care of her dying grandmother. It may be a temporary arrangement until the girl’s uncle returns from the Marines, but God uses Daphne to speak His heavenly love and protection into the life of the child -- whom Daphne soon discovers has a very handsome and single uncle.

Dear Daphne

Lock, Stock, and Over a Barrel
LOCK, STOCK, AND OVER A BARREL
#1.0 β€’ June 2013
Dating, Dining, and Desperation
DATING, DINING, AND DESPERATION
#2.0 β€’ February 2014
Home, Hearth, and the Holidays
HOME, HEARTH, AND THE HOLIDAYS
#3.0 β€’ October 2015