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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.

Breathing Under Water by Jacqueline Friedland

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Also by Jacqueline Friedland:

Breathing Under Water, August 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Counting Backwards, March 2025
Paperback / e-Book
The Stockwell Letters, September 2023
Paperback / e-Book
That's Not a Thing, April 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
Trouble the Water, May 2018
Trade Size / e-Book

BREATHING UNDER WATER
By: Jacqueline Friedland

Narrators: Annalee Scott, Cassandra Campbell

Harper Muse
August 2026
On Sale: August 4, 2026
384 pages
ISBN: 1400347335
EAN: 9781400347339
Kindle: B0G6RZRNPH
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Women's Fiction Family Life

The current is threatening to pull them under.

Berry thought she had it figured out—juggling her vice-principal role while raising her sixteen-year-old autistic son, Leo. But when a promotion opportunity collides with her family's deepest needs, she must confront whether she's been fighting the wrong battles all along.

McKenna is drowning. Between caring for her grandmother with dementia, losing her swimming scholarship, and facing homelessness, the college student's carefully constructed world is crumbling. Her only lifeline? Teaching swim lessons to children with autism—including Leo.

As these two women's paths converge in the most unexpected way, they discover that sometimes the people who need saving the most are the ones who end up saving you.

A deeply moving exploration of motherhood, sacrifice, and the extraordinary connections that emerge when we're brave enough to let others see our struggles.