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Winter Fruit
by DeAnna Knppling
Adrienne hides a secret face from the world: she craves eating with an insatiable, magical hunger. Only her husband, Miklos, an undertaker, knows the truth. And yet loves her, passionately. Because of her appetites, not in spite of them.
Then Miklos dies of a heart attack, and his brother Andros, the owner of the family Greek restaurant, creates a feast that tests Adrienne’s resistance to the core. Andros has somehow learned Adrienne’s secret. He wants to possess her, all of her, flesh and bone, and now Miklos isn’t there to stop him. But he wants more than just Adrienne…
Someone removed Miklos’s great bull of a heart from his chest after he died. And Andros thinks Adrienne might have done something horrible with it. Adrienne must discover what rules her: her love of Miklos, or her appetites…