Announcement: Winner Banquet of Lies by Michelle Diener

And the winner of Banquet of Lies by Michelle Diener is…..

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The winner will be notified via email.

Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to HFVBT and the publisher for making this giveaway possible! Be sure to check out the other tour stops for more giveaways and author interviews as well as reviews!

Review: Tiger’s Curse (The Tiger Saga #1) by Colleen Houck

For recent high school graduate, Kelsey Hayes, the summer is all about finding a job so she can start community college in the fall.

But in a sleepy Oregon town, there are not a lot of job opportunities for high school grads so when she is offered a job at a traveling circus she quickly accepts.

The jobs sounds pretty easy: selling tickets, helping clean up after shows, and she gets to live on sight….oh and she has to help care for the circus tiger.

She isn’t really sure what to do about the tiger, on one hand he scares her but she finds him oddly intriguing and comforting. Every night after the show she sneaks into the tiger tent to read to him and draw.

One night after the show, Kelsey finds a man outside the tiger’s cage. She learns that he has offered to purchase the tiger and take him back to India to a tiger refuge. But there is a catch–he wants Kelsey to accompany him and the tiger to India.

After talking to her foster parents, they agree to let her go as it would be a great for her to travel and possibly gain some job experience. When she arrives in India, it’s soon revealed that everything is not what it seems.

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Review: Bellman and Black: A Ghost Story by Diane Setterfield

As a child, William Bellman makes one tragic mistake that will haunt him all his life. Though it doesn’t seem like a big deal, William soon finds out what a big deal it was.

William is showing off for a few of his friends. He has perfected his slingshot and to impress his friends he claims he can hit a rook (of the raven family) with absolute precision.

When he kills the bird with that fateful shot, he has no idea it will be the mistake that alters his life and the lives of those present that day forever and those that William cares for most.

The Bellman family has done quite well for itself over the years. They are widely known for their textile mill throughout the country side. When William reaches adulthood, his uncle takes him under his wind and start showing him the ropes of mill operation.

His uncle’s own son has zero interest in the running of the mill so that means that when the uncle dies the mill for go to his son but he will need a trusted advisor to run it for him.

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Special Feature: Upcoming Holiday Reading Michele Gorman’s Christmas Carol

I always try and post about new upcoming cover reveals, author chats, and other literary related events and I know a lot of you are out there looking for new for your holiday reading lists!

So I thought this sounded like a cheeky book to add to your holiday reading!

Michele Gorman’s Christmas Carol is coming down the chimney on October 24th!

Gorman is also the author of the hilarious chick lit series, Single in the City.

This latest novella is a wickedly funny re-imagining of Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol. Here is a summary of the novella:

One winter wedding, two happy couples, three ex-boyfriends… And a very uncomfortable weekend.

Carol hates Christmas. Being recently dumped, she’s not crazy about weddings either. So her sister Marley’s nuptials, over the Christmas weekend, are making her positively Scrooge-like.

When she arrives for the weekend at the stately home in rural Scotland to find her three ex-boyfriends in attendance, Carol has no choice but to face her ghosts to discover what really happened in those relationships, learning a lot about herself in the process. As the snow falls outside and the fire crackles in the hearth, might one of the wedding guests become the harbinger of Christmases to come?

Available globally in paperback and eBook at these fine locations:

Giveaway: Banquet of Lies by Michelle Diener

Feast your eyes on the delicious new historic romance!

Thanks to Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tour and the publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of Banquet of Lies by Michelle Diener for your enjoyment!

Giveaway runs 10/24/13 to 10/31/13

Winners will be announced 11/1/13.

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