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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.

Emergence by C.J. Cherryh

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Also by C.J. Cherryh:

Divergence, September 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Alliance Rising, December 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Divergence, September 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Resurgence, January 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Faded Sun Trilogy Omnibus, July 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Regenesis, January 2019
Trade Size
Emergence, January 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Convergence, January 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Convergence, April 2017
Hardcover
Visitor, April 2017
Mass Market Paperback
Tracker, April 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Protector, April 2013
Hardcover
Intruder, March 2013
Paperback / e-Book
Intruder, March 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Betrayer, March 2012
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Deceiver, April 2011
Paperback
Betrayer, April 2011
Hardcover

EMERGENCE
By: C.J. Cherryh

FOREIGNER #19
DAW
January 2019
On Sale: January 8, 2019
368 pages
ISBN: 0756414164
EAN: 9780756414160
Kindle: B073PB22BS
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Science Fiction Space Opera

The nineteenth book in the beloved Foreigner space opera series begins a new era for human diplomat Bren Cameron, as he navigates the tenuous peace between human refugees and the alien atevi. Bren Cameron, acting as the representative of the atevi's political leader, Tabini-aiji, as well as translator between humans and atevi, has undertaken a mission to the human enclave of Mospheira. Both his presence on the island and his absence from the continent have stirred old enemies to realize new opportunities. Old hatreds. Old grudges. Old ambitions. The situation has strengthened the determination of power-seekers on both sides of the strait. Bren knows most of them very well, but not all of them well enough. The space station on which the world increasingly relies is desperate to get more supplies up to orbit and to get a critical oversupply of human refugees down to the world below. Rationing is in force on the station, but the overpopulation problem has to be solved quickly—and Bren's mission on Mospheira has expanded to include preparation for that landing. First down will be the three children to whom Tabini's son has a close connection. But following them will be thousands of humans who have never set foot on a planet, humans descended from colonists and officers who split off from Mospheiran humans two hundred years before in a bitter parting of the ways. There is no way the atevi, native to the world, will cede any more land to these new arrivals: they will have to share the island. But certain Mospheirans are willing to use force to prevent these refugees from settling among them. Bren's job is as general peacemaker—but old enemies want war. Is Bren's diplomatic acumen enough to prevent a war that both sides are prepared to wage?