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

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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:

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Giveaway: Banquet of Lies by Michelle Diener

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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.

(how to enter)

On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway.  Your comment MUST include your email so I can contact you….if you do not enter an email in the comments your entry will be void. Winners will be notified by email the day after the giveaway closes and have five days to respond, it not another winner will be chosen. 

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Review: Banquet of Lies by Michelle Diener

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In Sweden one fateful night, the life of a young English woman changes forever. Giselle Barrington witnesses the murder of her father, a spy for the British crown. While in Sweden, Giselle’s (Gigi) father procures a dangerous document that if discovered could mean a political nightmare for England, France, Sweden, and Russia!

It’s for this document he is killed for. He gave the document to Gigi to keep safe shortly before he will killed. After witnessing the murder Gigi knows three things–she must take the document safely back to England and second, the person who killed her father was also British which means there is a traitor in her father’s circle, and finally that man who killed her father will surely come for her next.

She needs to get it in into the hands of someone she can trust but she’s been away from the English court for so long and her father basically kept her in the dark as to his dealings.

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Announcement: Winner of The Secret Daughter of the Tsar by Jennifer Laam

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And the winner of The Secret Daughter of the Tsar by Jennifer Laam is…..

Grace T. (follows on Twitter @Bookwithoutpics)

The winner will be notified via email.

Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher for making this giveaway possible!

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Review: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

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Reading this book was like peeling the petals off of a flower, each petal a little more beautiful than the one before.

This novel is a complex family saga surrounded by the beauty of the budding botanical world.

We begin with the base born Henry Whittaker who dares to dream and make something of himself.

After stealing his way into some wealth, his father’s employer discovers that poor Henry has been robbing him blind.

Instead of turning him over to the authorities, he sends Henry on a voyage with the famous explorer Captain Cook.

On that voyage Henry learns a great deal about botany and life, and when he returns to England four years later he is rewarded with another voyage, this time to South America.

Here is learns more about cultivating plants and exotic botany. After a falling out with his benefactor, Henry ventures out on his own and quickly becomes one of the wealthiest men in America.

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