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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.

Cake and Punishment by Maymee Bell

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Also by Maymee Bell:

Batter Off Dead, December 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Cake and Punishment, November 2018
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Cake and Punishment, May 2018
Hardcover / e-Book

CAKE AND PUNISHMENT
By: Maymee Bell

In the first of a delectable new Southern-set baking cozy series, Sophia Cummings, pastry chef extraordinaire, must craft the perfect cake for an old friend?s wedding while sifting through the suspects in a murder.

A Southern Cake Baker Mystery #1
Crooked Lane Books
May 2018
On Sale: May 8, 2018
ISBN: 1683315715
EAN: 9781683315711
Kindle: B075QJM2W8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Trade Size (reprint - November 2018)

Mystery Cozy | Mystery Culinary | Mystery Amateur Sleuth

Bucolic Rumford, Kentucky has glowing fields of bluegrass, a fine selection of bourbons, and now a professional pastry chef. Broken-hearted Sophia Cummings has come home from New York City. She’s not there a minute before she’s charmed into making her high school friend Charlotte’s wedding cake. The kitchen at the Rumford Country Club seems perfect until Chef Emile’s body is discovered, sprawled near the stove, a cast iron skillet on the floor close by.

With one look at the shiny, new frying pan, Sophia knows it’s not Emile’s. She offers her knowledge to Sheriff Carter and her talents to Evelyn, the manager, who needs an interim chef. The mood in the country club is grim: Emile’s peppery personality had burned members and staff alike. Sophia wonders which one of them burned him?