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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.

Not Perfect by Elizabeth LaBan

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Also by Elizabeth LaBan:

Beside Herself, November 2019
Trade Size / e-Book
Not Perfect, February 2018
Trade Size / e-Book
Pretty Little World, January 2017
Trade Size / e-Book
The Restaurant Critic's Wife, January 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
The Tragedy Paper, February 2013
Hardcover / e-Book

NOT PERFECT
By: Elizabeth LaBan

From Elizabeth LaBan, the acclaimed author of The Restaurant Critic?s Wife, comes a captivating and very funny novel about a wife and mother?s fall from grace, and why keeping up appearances is not her biggest secret.

Lake Union Publishing
February 2018
On Sale: February 1, 2018
304 pages
ISBN: 1542049814
EAN: 9781542049818
Kindle: B074CFP95V
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Women's Fiction Contemporary

Tabitha Brewer wakes up one morning to find her husband gone, leaving her no way to support herself and their two children, never mind their upscale Philadelphia lifestyle. She’d confess her situation to her friendsβ€”if it wasn’t for those dreadful words of warning in his goodbye note: β€œI’ll tell them what you did.”

Instead, she does her best to keep up appearances, even as months pass and she can barely put food on the tableβ€” much less replace a light bulb. While she looks for a job, she lives in fear that someone will see her stuffing toilet paper into her handbag or pinching basil from a neighbor’s window box.

Soon, blindsided by catastrophe, surprised by romance, and stunned by the kindness of a stranger, Tabitha realizes she can’t keep her secrets forever. Sooner or later, someone is bound to figure out that her life is far from perfect.