October Reads Worth Falling For

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

Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna by Maia Chance

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The Ravine, February 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Body Next Door, August 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Naughty on Ice, November 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Bad Neighbors, April 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Bad Housekeeping, March 2018
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Teetotaled, November 2017
Trade Size / e-Book
Gin and Panic, November 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Bad Housekeeping, June 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Teetotaled, October 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna, February 2016
Paperback / e-Book
Joy to the Worlds, December 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Come Hell or Highball, September 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Cinderella Six Feet Under, September 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Snow White Red-Handed, November 2014
Paperback / e-Book

BEAUTY, BEAST, AND BELLADONNA
By: Maia Chance

Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery #3
Berkley Prime Crime
February 2016
On Sale: February 2, 2016
Featuring: Comte de Griffe; Professor Penrose; Ophelia Flax
320 pages
ISBN: 0425271641
EAN: 9780425271643
Kindle: B00X593FFA
Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery Cozy | Mystery Historical

Variety hall actress Ophelia Flax knows how to win over an audience. That’s why she’s accepted the marriage proposal of the brutish Comte de Griffe to nettle her occasional investigative partner—and romantic sparring partner—the pompous if dashing Professor Penrose.

But with his boorish table manners, wild mane of hair, and habit of prowling away the wee hours, the comte has shredded Ophelia’s last nerve. She intends to disengage from her feral fiancé at his winter hunting party—until Penrose, his lovely new fiancée, and a stagecoach of stranded travelers arrive at the comte’s sprawling château. Soon she can’t tell the boars from the bores.

When one of the guests is found clawed and bloody in the orangerie, Ophelia is determined to solve the murder before everyone starts believing the local version of Beauty and the Beast. But until the snows melt, she can’t trust her eyes—or her heart—since even the most civilized people hold beastly secrets...