Brother Sweepstakes - Page 1
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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibañez. In 15th‑century Volterra, sculptress Ravenna Maffei joins a competition run by a mysterious, immortal family who promise an extraordinary reward to the winner. Determined to save her brother, she reveals a rare magical ability, an act that’s dangerous in a city where magic is outlawed. Her secret puts her in immediate danger, and she is kidnapped by the Luni family and taken to Florence, a place of stunning beauty and ruthless ambition.
In Florence, Ravenna is forced into an impossible challenge where failure means certain death at the hands of Saturnino dei Luni, the family’s cold and enigmatic heir. Yet beneath his harsh exterior lies a vulnerability that pulls her closer than she ever expected.
At the same time, Ravenna’s forbidden magic has drawn the attention of the Pope, who is waging war against Florence, the Medici, and magic itself. He sees her abilities as a potential weapon in his relentless campaign.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Lost Man by Jane Harper. Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright reunite for the first time in months at the remote fence line dividing their cattle ranches in the desolate outback. There, at their feet, lies their third brother, Cameron, dead.
In this isolated stretch of Australia, where their homes are three hours apart, the brothers were still each other’s closest neighbors. Cameron, the middle brother, managed the family homestead. Yet something drove him to venture out alone into the brutal heat.
Nathan, Bub, and Nathan’s son return to Cameron’s ranch to face the family he left behind, his wife, daughters, mother, their longtime employee, and two recently hired seasonal workers.
As they mourn Cameron’s death, suspicion begins to grow, and Nathan is forced to confront long‑buried family secrets. If someone pushed Cameron toward his fate, the vast emptiness of the outback leaves only a handful of possible suspects.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for You, With Your Waiting by Leslie Lacin. In the summer of 1941, as Nazi forces advance into the Soviet Union, fourteen‑year‑old Bronya wants nothing more than to play her violin. She has just secured a coveted spot at the Moscow Conservatory, but when war shatters every expectation she held, she carries her worn violin case with her into the unknown, treating it as both protection and promise. Her younger brother Avsey, bright and solitary, clings to a birch box filled with small stolen family treasures, a secret refuge against the turmoil closing in around him. With their mother institutionalized and their father preparing to defend the motherland, the siblings are torn apart and thrust into impossible choices. Bronya is sent to the Ukrainian fields to harvest wheat, her violin her only companion, while Avsey evacuates with neighbors who abandon him, forcing him to survive through instinct, luck, and the precious contents of his birch box.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Counting Game by Sinéad Nolan. In southwestern Ireland in 1995, two children walk into the woods, and only one returns. When thirteen-year-old Saoirse Kellough vanishes, fear sweeps through the tight-knit rural community. She isn’t the first girl to disappear in the forest, a place long whispered to be haunted, and the only witness is her younger brother, Jack, who refuses to say a word. Saoirse vanished while playing the Counting Game, a ritual meant to keep evil at bay, and Jack is determined to guard the forest’s secrets.
Freya Hemmings, a psychotherapist still grappling with her own grief, is brought in to help investigators reach Jack. As the desperate search for Saoirse intensifies, the Kellough family begins to fracture under the weight of suspicion and fear. Everyone is a potential culprit, and the deeper Freya and Jack venture into the truth, the more perilous their path becomes.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Hard Times by Jeff Boyd. Buddy Mack finds himself caught between two clashing worlds. As an English teacher at a South Side Chicago high school known for its football team but struggling in nearly every other way, he works hard to spark his students' love of literature. Among them, he’s especially focused on three boys who constantly push his limits yet show real potential: Zeke, the star athlete; Truth, the charming talker; and Dontell, the student he believes has the brightest future. At home, his wife, Chrissy, a successful corporate lawyer, wants to move to a larger house on the North Side and start a family, but Buddy feels conflicted about what that change would mean. The only person he feels he can confide in is Chrissy’s younger brother, Curtis, a Chicago cop whose corruption complicates everything even further.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Dark Current Rising by Ashley Farley. Detective Lane Sutherlin returns to Tidewell, Virginia, not because she wants to, but because her childhood best friend, Addie, has disappeared without a trace. The small waterfront town she once called home now feels heavy with memories and unresolved tension. Her father, once a respected judge, is slipping deeper into dementia, and old conflicts with her brother resurface the moment she arrives. As Lane investigates Addie’s life, she uncovers far more than she expected: an abusive marriage, quiet betrayals, and influential men intent on protecting their own interests. Each clue pulls her deeper into the world of Tidewell’s polished elite and the corruption hidden beneath their perfect surfaces. Before long, Lane realizes Addie may not have been the only one in danger.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Uplift by Jessica Mann. When humans threaten her high mountain wilderness, a bold young bird must rally others to work together to protect their shared home. Born in a spruce tree among a proud clan of Clark’s Nutcrackers, Columbina and her brothers spend long winter nights listening to the elders’ ancient stories and summer days gathering the precious pine seeds their survival depends on. But Columbina’s sharp mind and restless curiosity lead her to question the clan’s long‑held traditions. She forms unlikely friendships with birds and animals beyond her own kind and learns about the Tall Ones, dangerous beings from the south who bring destruction wherever they go. While her family refuses to see the truth, Columbina becomes increasingly aware of the growing threat.
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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Fire Line by Maggie C. Gates. In the final installment of the Griffith Brothers series, a grumpy cowboy and an even grumpier chef, accustomed to casual encounters and quick goodbyes, are stunned to find themselves tangled in a deeper, if antagonistic, connection after one unexpected night together.
Lennon lives by three rules: committing crimes is never a group project; don’t start fights; finish them; and never try to hustle a hustler. She knows she should have walked away from that smooth-talking cowboy, because good things don’t happen to people like her. But he wouldn’t leave her alone. And he should have realized that if you can’t stand the heat, it’s best to stay out of the kitchen.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Glowing Hours by Leila Siddiqui. In the summer of 1816, London proves hostile to Mehrunissa Begum, newly arrived from India to deliver her brother’s letter of inheritance before returning to her comfortable life in Lucknow. But her brother is nowhere to be found, and without money for the journey home, she takes refuge in a boardinghouse for Indian housemaids. Determined to survive, Mehr decides to find work and begin saving. She is soon hired at the estate of Mary and Percy Shelley, rising young artists burdened by secrets. Mary, quiet and brooding, takes a particular interest in her new housemaid and invites her to join the Shelleys, Mary’s half sister Claire, the eccentric Lord Byron, and his physician, John Polidori, on a summer trip to Lake Geneva.
