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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Play Nice by Rachel Harrison, a darkly stylish descent into the secrets we bury beneath curated perfection. Clio Louise Barnes is thriving, at least online. As a sought-after stylist and influencer, her glossy world sparkles. But hidden beneath the filters lies the childhood she’d rather forget: a mother unraveling, a house said to be possessed, and a family torn apart by a story no one wanted to believe.
After her mother Alex’s sudden death, Clio inherits the very home at the center of it all. Her sisters see scars and trauma; Clio sees content gold. But as she starts renovating for her followers, unsettling memories rise with the dust, and so does something else. Something that was waiting.
As she dives into Alex’s long-dismissed memoir, Clio begins to question everything she thought she knew. Because the deeper she digs, the more she realizes: the house isn’t done with her. And its secrets could be the undoing of the perfect life she’s built.

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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Blood Trail by Brad Preston, a gripping thriller where survival, memory, and fate converge deep in the wild. In a cabin tucked far from civilization, two fugitives, Bonnie and Clyde, are running out of road. Their plan to disappear is coming undone.
Meanwhile, Will is haunted by recurring dreams of a girl he met briefly years ago, just before tragedy fractured his world. In his sleep, she cries out for help, and he’s driven to uncover the truth, if it’s not already too late.
In the same remote forest, Travis and his father live off the grid, bound by no one’s rules but their own. When Will’s desperate search intersects with the fugitives’ final stand, the tangled paths of the past and present lead to a reckoning in the heart of the wilderness.

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Step into suspense with the Goodreads giveaway for A Killer Getaway by Sienna Sharpe.

Every summer for the past five years, Lily Lennox has shuttered her thriving business to take a minimum-wage lifeguard job at the exclusive Riovan Wellness Resort in the Caribbean, a decision no one in her life quite understands. What they don’t know is that each of her visits has coincided with a string of mysterious deaths.

Lily keeps a low profile, blending in with tourists and influencers while quietly carrying out her mission: to make dangerous, toxic people disappear. But this summer, investigative journalist Daniel Black is digging into the island’s history, and Lily might be his newest lead.

Can she keep her secrets buried, or will her growing feelings for Daniel threaten everything, including her next kill?

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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Rules of the Heart by Janice Hadlow. Set in England in 1794, Lady Henrietta Bessborough is well-acquainted with the delicate art of discreet affairs. Married and in her thirties, she knows the rules well: don’t embarrass your husband, stay under society’s radar, and never fall in love. But when Lord Granville arrives, dazzling and twelve years her junior, Henrietta finds herself slipping beyond all her boundaries. As her passion intensifies, so does the scrutiny of the Ton, threatening her reputation and unraveling everything she believed she could control.

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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Like Family by Erin O. White. In the picturesque town of Radclyffe, New York, Ruth and her wife Wyn raise their four children on a quaint farm surrounded by friends, fresh bread, and quiet swimming holes. It’s a peaceful life, on the surface. Beneath it lies a secret Ruth hasn’t shared with anyone, not even Caroline, her closest friend.
Caroline treasures her connection with Ruth and hopes her son will grow up surrounded by love, not loneliness. But their families are tangled in ways even they don’t fully understand. Caroline’s husband wants to avoid drama, yet his sperm donation to his cousin and her wife has introduced complications no one prepared for. And now, the children born from that act are asking questions with no easy answers. Sometimes, the people we love demand more than we’re ready to give.

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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck. At 26, Sam Pulaski thought she'd be knee-deep in academic success, living solo in a bustling city. Instead, she’s stuck juggling student debt, a going-nowhere service job, a chaotic almost-relationship, and five long years of sharing her mom’s condo in Ohio. She’s banking on getting into a PhD program to finally hit play on the adult life she’s been waiting for.
Meanwhile, Nick, her mom’s new neighbor, is everything Sam’s not: grounded, committed, and laser-focused on raising his nine-year-old daughter, Kira, post-divorce. He traded a glamorous jet-setting career for the stability of managing a chain restaurant, all for her. Two lives headed in opposite directions, until they crash into each other in unexpected ways.

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Verb Ninja, Dive into powerful storytelling. One winner will receive 30 copies of Tengo Miedo by John Brittain, a gripping read that sparks discussion and connection. It’s a prize built for classrooms, book clubs, or community collections arriving August 1.

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Book Throne, One Book Throne reader will score 10 page-turning paperbacks and a $200 Amazon gift card to load up on even more reads or whatever else catches their eye. Final call hits at midnight on August 10.

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Step into a haunting exploration of memory, loss, and identity with The Topography of Pain by Ivan Lesay. Enter the Goodreads giveaway for a chance to win this evocative novel that charts three lives across shifting epochs and a shared homeland. Nada grapples with autonomy and morality as illness reshapes her worldview. Jaro is left raw and reflective as his ideals unravel during political transformation. And Adam, born of their shadows, drifts through a world as ambiguous as promising. From lofty dreams to unspoken regrets, their stories echo with sorrow, resolve, and transformation.

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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for a chance to win Hollow, Karina Halle’s atmospheric new novel, a seductive, sinister twist on the legend of Sleepy Hollow. Since childhood, Kat Van Tassel has known she was promised to Brom Bones, her best friend. That future was shattered when Brom vanished as a teen, leaving behind a trail of mystery in their haunted hometown.
Now nineteen, Kat arrives at the elite Sleepy Hollow Institute, where dark secrets coil beneath the surface. Her new teacher, the magnetic and mysterious Ichabod Crane, ignites a fascination with forbidden magic that awakens something inside her. Then Brom returns, forever changed, his memories erased, his soul fractured, and Sleepy Hollow begins to bleed.
As gruesome murders spread and whispers of the Headless Horseman intensify, the trio spirals into a tangled web of lust, obsession, and danger. What they uncover might explain Brom’s madness, or doom them all. Hollow is a gothic fever dream pulsing with desire, dread, and deadly secrets.