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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.

Half Past by Victoria Helen Stone

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Also by Victoria Helen Stone:

Bald-Faced Liar, June 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Follow Her Down, June 2024
Paperback / e-Book
The Hook, May 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Last One Home, April 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Problem Child, April 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
False Step, July 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Jane Doe, August 2018
Paperback / e-Book
Half Past, September 2017
Trade Size

HALF PAST
By: Victoria Helen Stone

Lake Union Publishing
September 2017
On Sale: September 19, 2017
ISBN: 1477819797
EAN: 9781477819791
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Women's Fiction Contemporary

At forty-five, Hannah Smith is at a crossroads. That’s her spin on it. The reality is she’s divorced, jobless, and moving back to her family home in Iowa to keep an eye on her mother, who’s slipping into dementia. Her return stirs up the same unnerving sense of disconnect Hannah has felt since childhoodβ€”always the odd girl out, the loner outshone by her two older sisters. Hannah knew the feelings of hurt would come back. But she never expected fear. Because when her mother looks into her eyes and whispers, β€œYou’re not my daughter,” Hannah is beginning to believe it’s not just the rambling of a confused woman.

It’s the truth.

Now Hannah’s following the trail of a family mystery to the dark coast of Big Sur, where years ago a lie was bornβ€” and buried. As frightened as she is to unearth it, Hannah knows this is the last chance she has before her pastβ€”and all its terrible secretsβ€”are lost forever.