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Santorini Sunsets by Anita Hughes: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on August 3, 2016
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Santorini Sunsets by Anita HughesSantorini Sunsets by Anita Hughes


Thanks to Staci Burt of St. Martin’s Press, I am giving away one print copy of Santorini Sunsets by Anita Hughes.

Description of Santorini Sunsets by Anita Hughes


Brigit Palmer is thrilled to be on the Greek Island of Santorini. She’s here for her wedding to Hollywood heart-throb Blake Crawford, one of America’s most eligible bachelors. Brigit’s parents have rented a villa, and soon guests will arrive from all over the world for the intimate ceremony.

Brigit is a New York socialite, and she’s just given up her position at a Manhattan law firm to run her father’s philanthropic foundation. Things are finally falling into place. Love, career, family. Everything is going so well…until she steps into the garden and sees her ex-husband Nathaniel hiding in the rose bushes. 

Nathaniel, a failed novelist, announces that Blake sold the rights to the wedding to HELLO! Magazine for two million dollars (donated to charity), and he is the reporter assigned to write the story. Everyone expects Brigit to have her happily ever after, including her mother who taught her how to lead the perfect lifestyle, her younger sister Daisy who impatiently wishes for her own love story, and of course, her fiancé. Things are supposed to work out for them. But when Brigit discovers an unsettling secret about Blake, she questions everything she’s ever believed about love, and wonders if she’s better off alone.

Told in Anita Hughes’ spectacularly descriptive prose, SANTORINI SUNSETS is a story about family bonds, first loves, and the question of when to let go and when to hang on as tight as you can.

Praise for Anita Hughes


“With her magnificent descriptions of Majorca’s beauty and mouth-watering morsels, Anita Hughes takes you on a romantic journey that will leave you breathless. Island in the Sea: A Majorca Love Story is a decadent delight that must be savored!” —Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke, authors of The Status Of All Things

“What a delicious book. Anita Hughes’ writing is so rich in detail that you can practically taste the almond cake and smell the sea as you turn the pages. An absorbing read and an utterly delightful escape.” —Cristina Alger, author of This Was Not The Plan and The Darlings

“The lush, colorful Majorcan setting is every bit as important as the plot in Hughes’ sensuous romance. Readers will be seduced by the food, sun, residents, and magic of Majorca along with plucky Juliet as they enjoy her romantic adventure.” —Booklist

About Anita Hughes


Santorini Sunsets by Anita Hughes

Photo Credit: Sheri Geoffreys

Anita Hughes is also the author of Island in the Sea, Rome in Love, French Coast, Lake Como, Monarch Beach and Market Street. She attended UC Berkeley’s Masters in Creative Writing Program. Hughes lives in Dana Point, California, where she is at work on her next novel.

Giveaway of Santorini Sunsets by Anita Hughes


This giveaway open to Canada and the U.S. only and ends on August 19, 2016 midnight pacific time.  Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.

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Jul 16

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Once Upon A Wine by Beth Kendrick: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on July 26, 2016
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Once Upon A Wine by Beth KendrickOnce Upon A Wine by Beth Kendrick


Thanks to Danielle Dill of  Berkley & NAL, I am giving away one print copy of  Once Upon A Wine by Beth Kendrick.

Description of Once Upon A Wine by Beth Kendrick


From the “sharp, sassy, [and] surprisingly emotional”* author of Put a Ring on It, New Uses for Old Boyfriends, and The Week Before the Wedding, a new novel set in the charming seaside town of Black Dog Bay, Delaware…
 
Cammie Breyer needs a big glass of cabernet—her restaurant failed and her chef boyfriend left for a hotter kitchen. Just when she thinks she’s hit rock bottom, her Aunt Ginger calls with a surprise. She’s bought a vineyard—in Delaware. At Ginger’s command, Cammie returns to Black Dog Bay, the seaside town where she spent her childhood summers with her aunt and her cousin, Kat.
 
The three women reunite, determined to succeed. There’s only one little problem: None of them knows the first thing about wine making. And it turns out, owning a vineyard isn’t all wine and roses. It’s dirt, sweat, and desperation. Every day brings financial pitfalls, unruly tourists, romantic dilemmas, and second thoughts.  But even as they struggle, they cultivate hidden talents and new passions. While the grapes ripen under the summer sun, Cammie discovers that love, like wine, is layered, complex, delicious, and worth waiting for… 

About Beth Kendrick


Once Upon A Wine by Beth Kendrick

Photo Credit to NAL (TR) 2016

Beth Kendrick is the author of twelve women’s fiction novels, including Put a Ring On It, New Uses for Old Boyfriends, Cure for the Common Breakup, The Week Before the Wedding, The Lucky Dog Matchmaking Service, and Nearlyweds, which was turned into a Hallmark Channel original movie. She lives in Arizona with two big rescue mutts and vacations at the Delaware beach, where she devotes a great deal of time to eating local strawberries and drinking wine. You know, for research.

Giveaway of Once Upon A Wine by Beth Kendrick


This giveaway open to the U.S. only and ends on August 12, 2016 midnight pacific time.  Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.

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Apr 16

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Audacity of Goats (North of the Tension Line, Book 2) by J. F. Riordan: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on April 16, 2016
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Audacity of Goats by J. F. RiordanAudacity of Goats (North of the Tension Line, Book 2) by J. F. Riordan


Thanks to Felicia Minerva of Beaufort Books, I am giving away two print copies of The Audacity of Goats by J. F. Riordan.

Description of Audacity of Goats by J. F. Riordan

All is not well north of the tension line. A series of unsettling nighttime incidents have left the islanders uncertain whether to be nervous or annoyed. Are they victims of an elaborate teenage prank, or is there a malevolent stranger lurking on the island? Meanwhile, out-of-state owners of a new goat farm seem to consider themselves the self-proclaimed leaders of the island; Pali, the ferry captain, is troubled by his own unique version of writer’s block; and Ben, the captain’s ten year-old son, appears to be hiding something. But it is only when the imperturbable Lars Olafsen announces his retirement and Stella announces her candidacy for his office that the islanders realize that trouble is brewing. Fiona must decide whether
it is time to leave the island for good, or to make another reckless gamble.

Second in the award-winning North of the Tension Line series, The Audacity of Goats is the continuing tale of Fiona Campbell, and her reluctant adventures among the pleasures, mysteries, and exasperations of small town life.

About J. F. RiordanAudacity of Goats by J. F. Riordan


A transplanted Midwesterner, J. F. Riordan lives in exile from Washington Island with her husband and two and a half dogs. She blogs at  http://northofthetensionline.net 

Giveaway of  Audacity of Goats by J. F. Riordan


This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on April 29, 2016 at 12 am pacific time.  Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.

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