Galley Giveaway: SINS OF THE HOUSE OF BORGIA by Sarah Bower

CLOSED.

Sourcebooks is offering a galley copy of SINS OF THE HOUSE OF BORGIA by Sarah Bower to one of my readers. This novel is due to be released on March 8, 2011. Here's your chance to get your hands on an Advanced Readers Copy (ARC) before it hits the stores!

This is a short contest with a special entry requirement,

so act fast but read carefully!

Rules for entering this giveaway

 are at the bottom of this post.

SINS OF THE HOUSE OF BORGIA

by Sarah Bower

Pub. Date: March 2011

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Incorporated

Format: Paperback , 544pp

Sales Rank: 225,632

ISBN-13: 9781402259630

ISBN: 1402259638

Description (from the publisher):

Violante isn’t supposed to be here, in one of the grandest courts of Renaissance Italy. She isn’t supposed to be a lady-in-waiting to the beautiful Lucrezia Borgia. But the same secretive politics that pushed Lucrezia’s father to the Vatican have landed Violante deep in a lavish landscape of passion and ambition.

Violante discovers a Lucrezia unknown to those who see only a scheming harlot, and all the whispers about her brother, Cesare Borgia, never revealed the soul of the man who dances close with Violante.

But those who enter the House of Borgia are never quite the same when they leave—if they leave at all. Violante’s place in history will test her heart and leave her the guardian of dangerous secrets she must carry to the grave.

About the author (from Amazon.com):
Sarah Bower teaches creative writing and was UK editor of the Historical Novels Review for two years until the beginning of 2006 when she stepped down to make more time for her own writing. Sarah lives in rural north Suffolk with her husband, two grown up sons, and two golden retrievers.

RULES FOR ENTERING THE GIVEAWAY:

• Leave an original comment on this post telling me in what historical period and country you would like to have lived and why. You must answer this question in order to qualify! Include an email address with your comment so that I can contact you if you do win. Use a spam-thwarting format such as geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com or geebee.reads [at] gmail [dot] com

• You must leave an email address in order to qualify. If I can't contact you, you can't win!

• You can earn an extra entry by being or becoming a Follower or Subscriber of this blog and telling me about it in a separate comment.

• Blog about this contest and provide me with the link to the post in a separate comment, and I'll give you yet another entry.

• Tweeting about this contest and providing me the link in a separate comment will get you one more entry. I've added a Retweet button at the bottom of every post.

• Stumble this blog, Digg it, or Technorati Fave it, whatever, and leave a separate comment for another entry.

• Open to residents of the U.S. and Canada only (Sorry!) Winner must provide a U.S. or Canadian street address. The publisher is unable to deliver to P.O. Boxes.

• PLEASE NOTE: One win per household. If you win this title in another contest hosted at another blog, the publisher will only send one copy per household address.

• Deadline for entry is 11:59 p.m. EST on Wednesday, February 9, 2011.

• Winner will have 24 hours to respond to my email announcing that they have won; if I don't hear from a winner, I will draw another name.

• Winners are determined using the sequence generator at Random.org.

Thank you to Beth
at Sourcebooks

for making this giveaway possible.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.