Scotland Sweepstakes
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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for A Slash of Emerald by Patrice McDonough. London, 1867: In polite society, young women may dabble in painting, but pursuing art as a true profession is another matter entirely. Dr. Julia Lewis, well acquainted with the dismissiveness faced by women in unconventional roles, isn’t shocked when Scotland Yard brushes off her friend Mary Allingham’s report of a break‑in at her studio. Mary is only one of several “lady painters” being targeted by vandals.
At the same time, artist models, women already treated as expendable, are disappearing. Inspector Richard Tennant takes these incidents seriously, believing they may be connected to the anonymous, venomous letters sent to other members of the Allingham family. For Julia, the situation grows even more tangled thanks to Tennant’s past relationship with Mary’s sister‑in‑law, Louisa, and her own unexpected response to that complicated history.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Cry Havoc by Rebecca Wait. After a humiliating family scandal forces sixteen‑year‑old Ida Campbell to flee Scotland, she earns a scholarship to a struggling girls’ boarding school on the isolated southern coast of England. The Headmistress, an eccentric woman fixated on the Cold War and the threat of nuclear disaster, seems oddly startled that Ida accepted the offer, but Ida hopes St. Anne’s might give her a fresh start. That hope fades when she learns her new roommate, the notorious Louise Adler, has a reputation as an arsonist and an unbreakable outsider.
Ida barely has time to settle in or unravel Louise’s mysteries before a new teacher, Matthew Langfield, joins the staff. The students are instantly fascinated. After all, who willingly signs up to work at St. Anne’s? But Eleanor Alston, the school’s geography teacher, senses something off about him. Her suspicions deepen as a strange illness begins sweeping through the school, leaving girls with sudden limb jerks and unexplained seizures, and turning St. Anne’s into a place far more dangerous than Ida ever imagined.
