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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.

Immediate Family by Eileen Goudge

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Also by Eileen Goudge:

The House on Mountain Laurel Lane, November 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
All They Need to Know, October 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Bones and Roses, August 2014
e-Book
Once In A Blue Moon, October 2009
Hardcover
The Diary, April 2009
Hardcover
The Diary, April 2009
Paperback
Domestic Affairs, June 2008
Hardcover
Woman in Red, July 2007
Hardcover
Immediate Family, May 2006
Hardcover
Something Warm from the Oven, October 2005
Hardcover
Otherwise Engaged, March 2005
Hardcover

IMMEDIATE FAMILY
By: Eileen Goudge

Pocket Books
May 2006
Featuring: Emerson Fizgibbons; Franny Richman; Jay Gunderson; Stevie Light
352 pages
ISBN: 0743483197
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction Contemporary

Fifteen years after graduation, best friends Jay, Franny, Emerson, and Stevie meet at their college reunion. Life has taken each of them in different directions -- Jay is a married man with a baby on the way while Franny yearns for a child as she searches for love in all the wrong places. Divorced single mom Emerson is drawn to a man who challenges everything she's come to believe about finding a once-in-a-lifetime love. And Stevie's life has recently been rocked by a shocking revelation -- the answer to a family secret that will shatter everything she believes about herself.

Now the bond between the foursome takes a surprising twist, one that changes how each feels about family and friendship. One thing is certain: They will all find their heart's desires in the last place they imagine -- as they discover that family is less about blood ties than the warm embrace of ones who accept them as they are.