September Giveaway

Happy September.

Okay, that doesn’t have the same ring as Happy Friday. 🙁 Yesterday I (finally) made a trip to the post office and it wasn’t pretty. I won’t go on rant but the post office is charging more and more for less and less service and even the cheap “media mail” for sending books is becoming ridiculous and is starting to make Friday Giveaway quite cost prohibitive even within the U.S. I did note that sending a box of books was only $2 more than sending an individual book. WTF?

For at least the remainder of the year, we will be switching Friday Giveaway to a monthly giveaway of at least 3 books and possibly a bonus book (depending on the size of the box I have). I do have a few more individual books that I need to send out but I needed more mailing envelopes.  I have been doing Friday Giveaway for about decade.   Hopefully, we can continue the giveaways even if only in a monthly grouping as I get so many books and I can’t read them all. I hate for them to just sit on my shelf collecting dust when they could go to your house and then dusting them becomes your problem.

Just leave a comment to be entered in this month’s giveaway, and if you have any alternate suggestions for the giveaways, then let’s hear it. 🙂

Giveaway is for paperbacks (and one hardcover) and is open to U.S. residents only. Giveaway ends Friday, September 27th.

Buried Too Deep by Karen Rose.
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose comes another explosive novel in the New Orleans series, where some secrets are worth dying for—or killing to keep.

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Employed as the nighttime security guard of Broussard Private Investigations, Phineas Bishop has been working through overwhelming PTSD episodes from his Army service while still utilizing his military skills. But when a violent break-in occurs at the office, the accusatory eyes of the NOPD glance to Phin, and he resolves to track down the intruder and clear his name.

Phin’s only lead and witness is Cora Winslow, a spirited librarian who also needs answers. Her father’s body has been discovered under a recently demolished building, murdered twenty-three years ago. So, who has been sending her the handwritten letters—written and signed by him—every year since she was five? Someone wants to keep Cora in the dark. And now, they’re coming for her.

As Cora’s bodyguard, Phin is surprised by his fondness for the woman’s fierce determination and research prowess. But New Orleans’s Garden District holds secrets as old as the streets themselves. With help from the entire Broussard P.I. team, Phin and Cora enter a labyrinth of fraud and homicide that threatens to bury them all.

The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean.

It’s her wedding day and it’ll be the happiest day of her life…won’t it?

Amanda Dean would say she’s an okay artist and a loyal friend, but what she’s best at is falling in love. A self-proclaimed bi disaster who has had her heart broken more times than she cares to count, Amanda can’t help opening herself up. As she gets ready on the day she’s waited a lifetime for, memories of her past loves run through her mind, with one glaring red sign blinking above them—is this “the one”?

Will it be:

the fit water polo player,
the fashionista,
the dependable hedge fund manager,
or the one where the timing was never quite right.

Now, on the day of her wedding—a day where everything already seems to be going wrong—Mandy must decide if she’s willing to risk it all one last time or if she’ll escape while her whole heart is still intact.

Equal parts heartwarming and bittersweet, The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean expertly weaves the wonder and terror of falling in love into a beautifully crafted story about the joy that can be found when you’re willing to dust yourself off and try again.

How to Hide in Plain Sight by Emma Noyes

On the day she arrives in Canada for her older brother’s wedding, Eliot Beck hasn’t seen her family in three years. Eliot adores her big, wacky, dysfunctional collection of siblings and in-laws, but there’s a reason she fled to Manhattan and buried herself in her work—and she’s not ready to share it with anyone. Not when speaking it aloud could send her back into the never-ending cycle of the obsessive-compulsive disorder that consumed her for years.

Eliot thinks she’s prepared to survive the four-day-long wedding extravaganza—until she sees her best friend, Manuel, waiting for her at the marina and looking as handsome as ever. He was the person who, when they met as children, felt like finding the missing half of her soul. The person she tried so hard not to fall in love with… but did anyway.

Manuel’s presence at the wedding threatens to undo the walls Eliot has built around herself. The fortress that keeps her okay. If she isn’t careful, by the end of this wedding, the whole castle might come crumbling down.