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Thanks to Courtney Brach of Touchstone Publicity/Simon & Schuster, Inc., I am giving away one copy of A Single Breath.

Book Description:

Eva Bowe has only been married for eight months when her husband, Jackson, is swept to his death while fishing on a cold December morning. Weighed down by confusion and sorrow, Eva decides to take leave of her midwifery practice in London and visit Jackson’s family in Tasmania with the hope of grieving together.

 Instead, she discovers that the man she loved so deeply is not the man she thought she knew. Jackson’s father and brother reveal a dark past, exposing the lies her marriage was built upon. As Eva struggles to come to terms with the depth of Jackson’s deception, she realizes everything that she believed to be true about her husband’s life in the years before their meeting—is borrowed entirely from someone else’s life.

Eva must also confront her growing attraction to Jackson’s brother, Saul, whose life bears an eerie resemblance to Jackson’s invented one. The attraction is mutual as Saul offers her intimacy and passion, while answering Eva’s most troubling questions.  Unsure whether she will be able to move forward in life, or be forever haunted by her husband’s past, Eva realizes her greatest dilemma: which brother has she really fallen in love with?

 Threading together beautiful, wild settings and suspenseful twists, while contrasting the heartbreak of death against the rugged splendor of Tasmania, A SINGLE BREATH is a gripping tale of secrets, betrayal, and new beginnings.

About Lucy Clarke:

Credit James Bowden

Credit James Bowden

Lucy Clarke is the author of the novel Swimming at Night, which Library Journal called “a great read for fans of smart contemporary women’s fiction as well as thriller and mystery readers,” and has a degree in English Literature from Cardiff University. She and her husband James, a professional windsurfer, spend their winters traveling and their summers at their home on the south coast of England.

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Thanks to Kayleigh Clark of Berkley/NAL/Penguin Group (USA), I am giving away one print copy of A Fall of Marigolds.

A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away….

September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries…and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she’s made. Will what she learns devastate her or free her?

September 2011. On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, widow Taryn Michaels has convinced herself that she is living fully, working in a charming specialty fabric store and raising her daughter alone. Then a long-lost photograph appears in a national magazine, and she is forced to relive the terrible day her husband died in the collapse of the World Trade Towers…the same day a stranger reached out and saved her. Will a chance reconnection and a century-old scarf open Taryn’s eyes to the larger forces at work in her life?

About Susan Meissner:

Susan Meissner was born in San Diego, California, the second of three. She spent her childhood in just two houses.

Her first writings are a laughable collection of oddly worded poems and predictable stories she wrote when she was eight.

She attended Point Loma College in San Diego, and married her husband, Bob, who is now an associate pastor and a chaplain in the Air Force Reserves, in 1980. When she is not working on a new novel, she is directing the small groups ministries at The Church at Rancho Bernardo. She also enjoy teaching workshops on writing and dream-following, spending time with my family, music, reading great books, and travelling.

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