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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.

A Deadly Entanglement by Cathy Pegau

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Also by Cathy Pegau:

A Deadly Entanglement, September 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
A Murderous Business, September 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Blood Remains, May 2024
Paperback / e-Book
Murder on Location, March 2017
Trade Size / e-Book
Borrowing Death, July 2016
Paperback / e-Book
Murder On The Last Frontier, December 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Rulebreaker, August 2011
e-Book

A DEADLY ENTANGLEMENT
By: Cathy Pegau

Harriman & Mancini #2
St. Martin's Press
September 2026
On Sale: September 15, 2026
384 pages
ISBN: 1250356512
EAN: 9781250356512
Kindle: B0G7737GBB
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Historical | Mystery Woman Sleuth

In A Deadly Entanglement, two queer women in turn-of-the-century New York must work together to uncover the rotten truth.

The truth isn’t always easy…


Margot Baxter Harriman has just survived her deadliest scandal as President of B&H Foods, and now there’s nowhere to go but up. Which is why she’s organizing a fundraiser for the crowded, overworked city charity hospital, where she hopes to do good and give back–until a body falls past a second-floor window.

The nurse’s death is quickly ruled a suicide, but fellow nurse CeeCee Foxmoor, Margot’s friend and the live-in partner of investigator Rett Mancini, isn’t so sure: this isn’t the hospital's first suspicious death. CeeCee’s concerns draw both Margot and Rett into an undercover scheme to untangle the threads behind the deaths everyone else is ready to overlook.

Then another death catches their attention: Margot's old classmate checked into the Caspian, a luxury clinic catering to the New York elite, but never checked out. And the circumstances surrounding her death feel eerily familiar...

As both the secrets and bodies pile up, Rett and Margot realize that while money can buy anything, behind ward doors, everyone pays a price. This time, their search for the truth might cost the people they love.

Cathy Pegau’s A Deadly Entanglement is the captivating follow-up to A Murderous Business, where two women’s determination challenges the cost of greed–and the price of failure.

Harriman & Mancini

A Murderous Business
A MURDEROUS BUSINESS
#1.0 β€’ September 2025
A Deadly Entanglement
A DEADLY ENTANGLEMENT
#2.0 β€’ September 2026