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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.

Hard Time by Cara McKenna

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Also by Cara McKenna:

Her Best Laid Plans, September 2023
e-Book
Ride It Out, September 2017
e-Book
Midtown Masters, March 2017
e-Book
Downtown Devil, June 2016
Trade Size / e-Book
Burn It Up, November 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Crosstown Crush, September 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Drive It Deep, June 2015
e-Book
Lay It Down, August 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Hard Time, April 2014
e-Book
Unbound, October 2013
e-Book
Dirty Thirty, October 2010
e-Book
Backwoods, September 2010
e-Book
Willing Victim, August 2010
e-Book

HARD TIME
By: Cara McKenna


InterMix
April 2014
On Sale: April 15, 2014
Featuring: Eric Collier; Annie Goodhouse
310 pages
ISBN: 1101622016
EAN: 9781101622018
Kindle: B00GY9SK4O
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Romance Contemporary

In this all-new novel from the author of After Hours and Unbound, a woman with a rocky past finds romance in the last place she’d ever expect...

Annie Goodhouse doesn’t need to be warned about bad boys; good sense and an abusive ex have given her plenty of reasons to play it safe. But when she steps into her new role as outreach librarian for Cousins Correctional Facility, no amount of good sense can keep her mindβ€”or eyesβ€” off inmate Eric Collier.

Eric doesn’t claim to be innocent of the crime that landed him in prison. In fact, he’d do it again if that’s what it took to keep his family safe. Loyalty and force are what he knows. But meeting Annie makes him want to know more.

When Eric begins courting Annie through letters, they embark on a reckless, secret romanceβ€”a forbidden fantasy that neither imagines could ever be real…until early parole for Eric changes everything, and forces them both to face a past they can’t forget, and a desire they can’t deny.