Marriage Sweepstakes
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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for A Gift Before Dying by Malcolm Kempt. After a disastrous high‑profile murder case, Corporal Elderick Cole is banished to the stark, isolated expanse of Nunavut, a vast Arctic territory defined by brutal cold, sweeping wilderness, and months of darkness. Cut off from his family and awaiting the outcome of a civil lawsuit that could destroy what remains of his career, Cole endures his exile in solitude.
Everything shifts when he comes upon the body of Pitseolala, a troubled Inuit girl he had once promised to protect. Her death forces him to confront the ghosts he thought he’d left behind, his broken marriage, his estranged daughter, and the wounds he never truly healed.
As his life and investigation begin to unravel, Cole finds an unexpected ally in Pitseolala’s younger brother, Maliktu, another outsider navigating his own grief. Together, they discover the one thing that unites them: a relentless drive to uncover the truth and bring her killer to justice.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Florentine Entanglement by Pamela Norsworthy. Since 1939, art student Eleanor has been stranded in fascist Italy, living in the shadows and hiding who she truly is. When the war finally ends, she crosses paths with Talbot, an intelligence officer drawn to her resilience, her mind, and her beauty. He’s convinced he can lift the sorrow left behind by the dreams the war stole from her.
They marry and move to Washington, DC, where Talbot joins the newly formed CIA. Eleanor, meanwhile, struggles to adapt to a city whose pace and sensibilities feel worlds away from the grace of Florence. As Talbot climbs the ranks, their marriage begins to crack. He turns to the young secretaries assigned to him, blaming his betrayals on Eleanor’s distance and detachment.
Then, a U‑2 spy plane mission he oversees goes disastrously wrong, exposing his misconduct and putting both his career and his freedom at risk. With his life collapsing around him, Eleanor faces a decision that could force her to reveal dangerous secrets of her own.
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.
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 Dragon of Denmark by Jennifer Ivy Walker. Skårde the Scourge, the battle-hardened and illegitimate son of Danish king Harald Bluetooth, has carved out his fearsome reputation through countless victories and profitable raids, earning him the title Dragon of Denmark. But when his father orders him to sail to Normandy and secure a political alliance through an arranged marriage to the daughter of Richard the Fearless, Skårde sees the command as nothing short of exile.
Ylva, the illegitimate daughter of Richard the Fearless, is a Druid priestess and Celtic healer gifted with prophetic sight. Her visions have already shown her the Viking warrior she is destined to wed, a man who terrifies her. Leaving her quiet Breton village behind, she travels to Normandy to face the future she cannot escape.
When the Frankish king launches a brutal assault to drive the Vikings from Normandy and captures Richard’s clifftop stronghold, the Dragon of Denmark must forge unlikely alliances. With the help of Ljósálfar Light Elves, a powerful Viking völva skilled in seiðr magic, and a vitki capable of transforming into a falcon, Skårde sets out to reclaim the ducal palace and confront the destiny that binds him to Ylva.
