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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Children of the Savage City by Elizabeth Heider. In a place where secrets are currency, Naples is always hungry. A quiet evening mass at the historic Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo erupts into horror when a young au pair is murdered in one of the secluded chapels. The only witness, the daughter of the US Ambassador, refuses to speak to anyone except Nikki Serafino.
Still reeling from betrayal in her last major case, Nikki has pulled back from the sharp-edged vigilance that once defined her role as liaison between Italian police and the US military. She keeps her head down, works her shifts, looks after her aging family, teaches self‑defense, and avoids getting pulled into anything messy. But this case refuses to let her stay invisible, dragging her into a maze of deception that forces old wounds and buried loyalties to the surface.
As Nikki and her friend, Naples officer Valerio Alfieri, dig deeper, they uncover a hidden architecture of power designed to shield the guilty and bury the truth. Both carry debts that could destroy them, and the question becomes whether they can withstand the pull of a corruption that consumes everything in its path.
Set amid the tumult of modern Naples, the city of Gomorrah and My Brilliant Friend, where beauty and rot coexist on the same narrow streets, Nikki and Valerio must navigate a world where even the most principled are forced to reckon with what survival truly costs.

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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel. At seventy‑seven, Pepper Mills feels far too old to be starting over somewhere unfamiliar. She never wanted to move into the Vista View Retirement Community in Austin, Texas, close to her three adult children, but far from the life she imagined. Yet once she settles in, she finds unexpected friendships and even falls in love. Then come the exhaustion, the nausea, the disorientation. Her family fears the worst: cancer, dementia, a stroke. But after a battery of tests, the diagnosis is something no one could have predicted: Pepper is pregnant.
When the news spreads, Vista View becomes a magnet for reporters, activists, and researchers, all eager to claim a piece of the story. As the world closes in, Pepper must figure out what she wants, even as some choices are taken out of her hands.
Enormous Wings is a fierce, timely novel about agency, autonomy, morality, and the limits placed on women’s bodies. It explores what happens when control is stripped away, and how love, family, friendship, and desire can still transform a life, no matter how late the hour.

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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.

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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Night Songs by Alli Dyer. On the morning of her eighteenth birthday, Rhea learns a truth that upends everything she thought she knew: her mother was Lulabelle “Belle” Powers, the legendary voice behind some of country music’s most beloved songs, and Rhea has just inherited her vast estate. Determined to understand the woman she barely remembers, she heads to Nashville to follow the trail Belle left behind. But as she meets the people who knew her mother best, Rhea senses that pieces of the story are being carefully withheld.
Years later, Belle’s closest friend Hess finally confesses what she’s been hiding. Belle believed the women in their family were doomed to die at thirty‑three, the same age she was when her plane went down under mysterious circumstances. Hess insists it was only superstition, yet Rhea can’t shake the feeling that something dark is circling her, especially as her own life begins to echo Belle’s in unsettling ways.
Searching for the truth, Rhea turns to her mother’s music and uncovers Belle’s final, unreleased album, Night Songs. What she finds within it pulls her back to her origins and reveals connections she never imagined.

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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Phone Swap by Lia Louis. Allie Lake, a scientist heading home after finishing a research assignment, finds herself stuck next to troubled movie star Milo Ford on her flight. She has zero interest in chatting, her project has ended, she’s moving in with her sister, and her romantic life is a void. Milo, meanwhile, longs for a break from fame and scrutiny, but instead he’s on his way to film in the remote Romanian mountains while the press closes in on a secret he’s desperate to protect.
After the flight, they both discover they’ve accidentally swapped phones. It should be an easy fix, except Milo is about to disappear onto a remote set for a month, and Allie has no idea he’s famous. All she knows is that a stranger now holds her entire digital life.