Marriage Sweepstakes
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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Jilted Countess by Loretta Ellsworth. Roza Meszaros once dreamed of becoming a ballerina, but the war shattered her ambitions and wiped out her aristocratic family’s wealth. When she meets an American soldier named Joe, she believes her luck has finally changed. He vows to marry her and bring her to the United States. After two long years spent gathering the money and documents she needs to emigrate, Roza arrives in Minnesota only to learn that Joe has already married someone else.
Refusing to give up on her new life in America, Roza seeks help from well‑known newspaper columnist Cedric Adams. He shares her story and photograph with his military readership, asking them to help her find a husband. The reaction is astonishing: nearly 1,800 World War II veterans flood the newspaper with telegrams, flowers, candy, and even cash, which Adams calls a world‑record number of marriage proposals.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Skin Contact by Elisa Faison. After the sudden death of her mother, Frances feels unmoored, smaller, older, and painfully aware that the world no longer sees her as it once did. At thirty‑two, she’s now older than the great‑aunt she was named for, a woman whose life ended in the seventies under mysterious circumstances tied to an affair.
Her husband, Ben, is determined to help her reclaim her spark. So when Frances proposes opening their marriage, he agrees. Over the next two years, they push into new territory, exploring their desires, testing boundaries, wrestling with jealousy and temptation, and defending their choices to friends who don’t understand. They do it all side by side, committed to navigating the experiment together.
But when Ben unexpectedly falls in love with someone else just as Frances discovers she wants stability and a child, the two of them must finally face what their choices have set in motion.
