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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.

Excerpt of Hell on Wheels by Karen Kelley

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Kensington
June 2006
Featuring: Josh Pierce; Cody Carlyle
320 pages
ISBN: 0758211716
Paperback
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Romance Contemporary

Also by Karen Kelley:

Smoking Hot, June 2013
Paperback / e-Book
Where There's A Will, September 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Where There's Smoke, May 2012
Trade Size / e-Book
The Wolf Prince, November 2010
Paperback
The Falcon Prince, August 2010
Paperback
The Jaguar Prince, April 2010
Trade Size
Dating Outside Your DNA, December 2009
Paperback
The Bad Boys Guide To The Galaxy, August 2009
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Earth Guys Are Easy, July 2009
Paperback (reprint)
How To Seduce A Texan, June 2009
Paperback
Close Encounters Of The Sexy Kind, June 2009
Paperback
My Favorite Phantom, January 2009
Paperback
I'm Your Santa, October 2008
Paperback
Cosmic Sex, February 2008
Trade Size
I'm Your Santa, October 2007
Trade Size
Double Dating with the Dead, September 2007
Trade Size
The Morgue the Merrier, September 2007
Paperback
Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind, April 2007
Trade Size
Texas Bad Boys, September 2006
Trade Size
Hell on Wheels, June 2006
Paperback
Temperature's Rising, October 2005
Trade Size
Southern Comfort, May 2005
Paperback (reprint)
Southern Exposure, April 2005
Trade Size
Bad Boys With Expensive Toys, October 2004
Trade Size
Southern Comfort, August 2004
Trade Size

Excerpt of Hell on Wheels by Karen Kelley

No doubt about it: Cody Carlyle is the hottest bounty
hunter around with a well-deserved reputation for bringing
in the toughest skips. If she’s learned one motto in this
businessβ€”and in lifeβ€”it’s this: never turn your back.
Never give an inch. And never, ever offer your heart.

Fellow bounty hunter Josh Pierce has had his eye on Cody’s
every luscious curve for quite some time. The hunky ex-
undercover cop would love to show her that some things are
worth believing in, things like the kind of ecstasy he’d
happily show her in bed. Hey, fighting this kind of white-
hot attraction is just wrong. So why not give in to a
little Josh Pierce temptation? Why not share one amazing,
toe-curling night of indescribable, head-scrambling
passion and then walk away, no hard feelings? But the
night they spend together is beyond amazing. It’s sheer
bliss. Not that it could ever happen again. Could it?

What was supposed to be a one-time deal is quickly
becoming a very tempting habitβ€”one they could stop at any
time, of course. Like after the next time. Or maybe next
weekβ€”no rush. Suddenly, two bounty hunters who never
believed in anything are open to everything, scared of it
all, and ready to discover what happens when you go after
the biggest catch out there…true love…

Excerpt from Hell on Wheels by Karen Kelley
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