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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.

Girl Underwater by Claire Kells

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Also by Claire Kells:

Forgotten Trail, November 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Vanishing Edge, April 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
An Unforgiving Place, November 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Girl Underwater, August 2016
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Girl Underwater, April 2015
Hardcover / e-Book

GIRL UNDERWATER
By: Claire Kells

Dutton
April 2015
On Sale: March 31, 2015
Featuring: Avery Delacorte; Colin Shea
306 pages
ISBN: 0525954937
EAN: 9780525954934
Kindle: B00L9AXQEC
Hardcover / e-Book
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Trade Size (reprint - August 2016)

Suspense | New Adult

An adventurous debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer’s harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love herβ€”only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness.

Nineteen-year-old Avery Delacorte loves the water. Growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, she took swim lessons at her community pool and captained the local team; in high school, she raced across bays and sprawling North American lakes. Now a sophomore on her university’s nationally ranked team, she struggles under the weight of new expectations but life is otherwise pretty good. Perfect, really.

That all changes when Avery’s red-eye home for Thanksgiving makes a ditch landing in a mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies. She is one of only five survivors, which includes three little boys and Colin Shea, who happens to be her teammate. Colin is also the only person in Avery’s college life who challenged her to swim her own events, to be her own personβ€”something she refused to do. Instead she’s avoided him since the first day of freshman year. But now, faced with sub-zero temperatures, minimal supplies, and the dangers of a forbidding nowhere, Avery and Colin must rely on each other in ways they never could’ve imagined.

In the wilderness, the concept of survival is clear-cut. Simple. In the real world, it’s anything but.