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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 Calamity Cafe by Gayle Leeson

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Also by Gayle Leeson:

Dead Man's Hand, February 2021
Paperback / e-Book
A Murderous Misconception, May 2020
Paperback / e-Book
Murder Ink, January 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Designs on Murder, April 2019
Paperback / e-Book
Sleighing It in Kinsey Falls, December 2018
e-Book
Yule Be Dead, December 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Putting Down Roots in Kinsey Falls, October 2018
e-Book
Hightail It to Kinsey Falls, June 2018
e-Book
Honey-Baked Homicide, December 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Silence of the Jams, April 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Calamity Cafe, June 2016
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book

THE CALAMITY CAFE
By: Gayle Leeson

First in a new cozy mystery series featuring Southern cooking that is to die for.

Down South Cafe #1
NAL
June 2016
On Sale: June 7, 2016
Featuring: Amy Flowers; Ryan Hall
304 pages
ISBN: 1101990783
EAN: 9781101990780
Kindle: B015DLUS8E
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Mystery Cozy

Aspiring chef and small-town Virginia native Amy Flowers is ready to open her own cafΓ© offering old-fashioned Southern food. But her dream may go up in smoke when someone kills the competition...

Tired of waiting tables at Lou’s Joint, Amy Flowers doesn’t just quitβ€”she offers to buy the place from her bully of a boss, so she can finally open the cafΓ© of her dreams. Amy can't wait to serve the kind of Southern, down-home treats and dishes that her grandmother always loved to the kooky cast of regulars at the restaurant. She knows her comfort food will be the talk of the sweet, small town of Winter Garden, Virginia.

At first Lou Lou refuses to sell, but when she seems ready to make a deal, she tells Amy to come see her. Showing up at the eatery ready to negotiate, Amy is shocked to find her former employer murdered. As the prime suspect, Amy will have to clear her name by serving up the real killerβ€”and with Lou Lou’s stack of enemies, that’s a tall order.

Includes delicious Southern recipes!

Down South Cafe

The Calamity Cafe
THE CALAMITY CAFE
#1.0 β€’ June 2016
Silence of the Jams
SILENCE OF THE JAMS
#2.0 β€’ April 2017
Honey-Baked Homicide
HONEY-BAKED HOMICIDE
#3.0 β€’ December 2017