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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.

A Bride Most Begrudging by Deeanne Gist

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Also by Deeanne Gist:

A Bride Most Begrudging, June 2017
Mass Market Paperback
Tiffany Girl, May 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Fair Play, May 2014
Paperback / e-Book
It Happened At The Fair, May 2013
Paperback / e-Book
Love On The Line, October 2011
Paperback
Maid To Match, June 2010
Paperback
Deep in the Heart of Trouble, June 2008
Paperback
Measure of a Lady, June 2006
Hardcover

A BRIDE MOST BEGRUDGING
By: Deeanne Gist

Bethany House
June 2017
On Sale: June 6, 2017
464 pages
ISBN: 0764230603
EAN: 9780764230608
Mass Market Paperback
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Romance Historical | Romance Anthology

They agreed to a marriage of convenience . . .

Virginia Colony, 1643. Taken prisoner on a ship departing England, Lady Constance Morrow is nearly unrecognizable by the time she arrives in the colonies aboard a ship carrying goods and "tobacco brides." Farmer Drew O'Connor is seeking not a wife but a maid to tend his house and care for his young sister. Still, after an unusual series of events, he is all but forced to marry the feisty redhead, who claims to be the daughter of an earl and wants to go back to England.

But nothing about this situation is convenient, least of all their attraction to each other.

Both headstrong and determined, Drew and Constance seem to be in perpetual disagreement about her expected responsibilities and her unconventional ideas, but there is a fiery energy between them that refuses to be denied. However, Drew made a promise, and he will honor it . . . even if it means sending her home.