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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for The Sacred Space Between by Kalie Reid. For a thousand years, the Abbey has ruled through memory magic—power stolen from exiled saints. At fifteen, Jude was cast out to the desolate moors, a sacrifice to keep his growing magic in check. Now, nearly ten years later, he craves a quiet life, far from the Abbey’s reach.
But when Maeve arrives, an unwavering iconographer sent to paint a new image of him, Jude is determined to send her packing. That is, until he realizes she carries the same forbidden magic as he does. And the icons she creates might just hold the power to unravel the Abbey’s grip once and for all.

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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Meant for Me by Betsy St. Amant. Lincoln “Linc” Fontenot prefers a simple life, lifting weights, running his crawfish business, and keeping his social circle to a tight three people. Zoey Lakewood has always been one of them, the rare burst of sunshine in his otherwise overcast world. But when Linc suddenly finds himself the guardian of a teenage girl, his quiet routine is upended, and Zoey becomes more essential than ever.
Zoey’s known for her infectious joy, but after losing both her home and her beloved beignet shop in an uninsured fire, even she’s struggling to stay upbeat. So she and Linc strike a deal: she’ll help him navigate teen parenting, and he’ll give her a place to stay while she rebuilds. It’s strictly platonic until proximity starts rewriting the rules of their friendship.

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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree. Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller’s life for decades, but now, in the face of crippling ennui, transplants herself to the city of Thune to hang out her shingle beside a long-absent friend’s coffee shop. What could be a better pairing? Surely a charming renovation montage will cure what ails her!
If only things were so simple…
It turns out that fixing your life isn’t a one-time prospect, nor as easy as a change of scenery and a lick of paint.
A drunken and desperate night sees the rattkin waking far from home in the company of a legendary warrior surviving on inertia, an imprisoned chaos-goblin with a fondness for silverware, and a thumping hangover.

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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Over Yonder by Sean Dietrich. Woody Barker, a retired cop with a stubborn heart and a houseboat named Ship Happens, spends his days trading barbs and lingering glances with his ex-wife and shuffling between cardiology appointments. After surviving multiple heart attacks, he’s weighing the pros and cons of quitting smoking just to make it onto the transplant list. But everything changes when an old flame, on her deathbed, drops a bombshell: Woody has a seventeen-year-old daughter named Caroline.
Caroline’s life is a mess. Pregnant and stuck in a cycle of poor decisions, her only constant is a deadbeat boyfriend named Tater. But when her dying mother pleads with her to return to the singlewide trailer and dig beneath the bathroom vanity for something that “needs to be gone yesterday,” Caroline stumbles into a dangerous scheme. What she uncovers could shatter everything she knows, or finally give her the chance to rewrite her story.

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( 3 Winners ) (Quick Ending) Books-A-Million. Enter the Books-A-Million 5-star read Giveaway. THREE lucky winners will receive a signed copy of A CURSE CARVED IN BONE by Danielle L. Jensen.
We'll choose the winner on 8/4!

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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for This Memory Alternate Cover by Kelly Elliott. I’ve loved Gavin since high school, even though he shattered my heart back then, and that pain still lingers. Now, thanks to our best friends being married, we’re constantly in each other’s orbit. When they ask me for a favor that could change everything for all of us, I don’t hesitate. I say yes, knowing it’ll bring me closer to Gavin than I’ve been in years.

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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Furlough by Jacob Moon. After serving five years for a crime he didn’t commit, Eddie Grassle is finally free, and determined to meet the young son he’s never known. But one wrong move lands him back behind bars, this time implicated in a murder he didn’t see coming. Facing a life sentence, Eddie stages a daring escape, risking everything for a fleeting chance to find his child.
Pursued through the treacherous swamps of southwest Florida by law enforcement and a deadly assassin, Eddie races against time. Meanwhile, a seasoned homicide detective, sensing something off in the case, must confront a corrupt prosecutor and her haunted past to bring Eddie in alive. With just thirty-six hours before he vows to surrender, Eddie must defy the odds to reach the only person who might redeem him.

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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for The Debt Collector by Steven Max Russo. Abigail Barnes may be young and petite, but don’t let her looks fool you; she’s a hardened drifter who earns her keep collecting debts for shady bookies and loan sharks. When she rolls into Hackensack, New Jersey, from Baltimore and takes a gig with a small-time bookie, things take a deadly turn: her new boss ends up murdered.
With a major Wall Street firm setting up shop in town, the media frenzy over the killing puts pressure on the police to act fast. They turn to Ronnie “Slacks” Falcone, a mob boss with deep ties to organized crime in Jersey City, hoping he can help track down the killer. But in a town where money talks and secrets run deep, nothing is ever as simple as it seems.

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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Wreck by Catherine Newman. Rocky is anxious, nostalgic, and still sharp-witted as ever, living a seemingly ordinary life in Western Massachusetts with her husband Nick and their daughter Willa, who’s returned home after college. Their son Jamie has just started a new job in New York, and Rocky’s widowed father, Mort, has moved in, rounding out a household that feels perfectly, hilariously normal.
But things start to shift when Rocky becomes fixated on a nearby accident that barely touches their lives, and a looming medical concern she hopes will never come close. What begins as everyday chaos slowly unravels into something deeper, as Rocky grapples with the fragility of the life she’s built and the quiet fears that threaten to upend it.

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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for A Murder in Paris by Matthew Blake. Olivia Finn, a memory specialist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, is jolted awake by a late-night call from the police in Paris. Her French grandmother, Josephine Benoit, has turned up at the historic Hotel Lutetia in a state of panic, claiming she was murdered there at the end of World War II.
When Olivia arrives in Paris, she finds Josephine confused but adamant that the memory is real. Stranger still, hotel records confirm that a woman did die in that very room in 1945. As Olivia digs deeper, she must confront the possibility that her grandmother’s haunting recollection might not be a delusion, but a long-buried truth.