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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.

The Boat House Cafe by Linda Cardillo

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Also by Linda Cardillo:

The Boat House Cafe, October 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Across The Table, June 2010
Trade Size
A Mother's Heart, April 2009
Mass Market Paperback
The Valentine Gift, January 2008
Paperback
Dancing on Sunday Afternoons, February 2007
Paperback

THE BOAT HOUSE CAFE
By: Linda Cardillo

First Light #1
Bellastoria Press
October 2014
On Sale: October 1, 2014
Featuring: Mae Keaney
344 pages
ISBN: 1942209002
EAN: 2940150550704
Kindle: B00OEBQ65E
Paperback / e-Book
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Romance Historical

The islanders of Chappaquiddick have a saying: β€œSome come here to hide; others come to heal.”

Above a crumbling sea wall at the isolated northern tip of Chappaquiddick Island sits a weathered cottage that gives shelter to Mae Keaney, who returns to the island at the beginning of World War II determined to distance herself from a past filled with pain and regret. Fiercely independent, she defies both the societal conventions of the island and its unforgiving natural world until a catastrophic fire threatens her livelihood, the Boat House CafΓ©. After reluctantly accepting help from a Wampanoag tribal member, she forms an uneasy alliance that leads her to an understanding of the wisdom of the β€œPeople of the First Light” and restores her faith in herself.