Winter Solstice Giveaway
Open internationally from December 18th through January 5th, 2025
As many of my readers know, I am big on paying forward all the kindness and gifts that have come my way since my first book was published. This solstice season, I would like to honor those who have given their time or funds to non-profit organizations.
First Prize is a Primal ticket to Apollycon this April at the Gaylord National in Washington, DC. This includes access to events Wednesday through Saturday including a special event tote with a signed Apollycon edition, panels, the coronation event, both signing days, and the after-party. For more information on what the ticket entails, take a look at the Apollycon website.
Second Prize is a one-of-a-kind 3D cover for the next book in the Damsels of Discovery, The Lady Sparks a Flame. The hugely talented Aiysha Panbam will rebind an ARC of TLSAF and create a cover inspired by the book. Please take a look at her IG page to get a sense of the amazing and unique bookart that she creates. @aiyshasbookgallery
Rules for Giveaway
1. Either DM me on Instagram @elizabetheverettauthor or email me at elizabeth@elizabetheverettauthor.com and send me proof of either hours worked or donations made to a non-profit organization in 2024 for one entry.
2. For an extra entry, DM me the receipt for a pre-order of The Lady Sparks a Flame from Burn Bright Books.
Burn Bright Books is a romance-only online bookstore in Rochester, NY. The owner, Shauna, is on maternity leave right now with her third child and is spending her leave looking at storefronts to make her dream of a brick-and-mortar bookshop here in Upstate come true. This is for US residents only. For international residents, proof of pre-order from any independent bookstore is eligible.
This giveaway is sponsored by me and is open to international readers. The giveaway is open from December 18-January 5, 2024 and winners will be announced January 6, 2024 on all my social media platforms.
Book Two of the Damsels of Discovery
A Lady with a past. A man with ambition. A romance far from London society that might bridge their divides.
Lady Phoebe Hunt never anticipated returning from exile. A fatal choice drove her from England, but the death of her father—and the revelation of his debts—has brought her home. Once she settles her father’s estate, she will return to America, where she has reinvented herself. There’s no reason to remain, not even for one gravitationally challenged but deliciously tempting entrepreneur: Sam Fenley.
Samuel Fenley is all ambition. Rising from shop boy to wealthy investor, he’s left knocking on doors that open only for those with a title. Unless he buys the damned door itself—and the estate that goes with it. Sam offers to relieve Phoebe of her burdens, but is her crumbling mansion all Sam wants? Or is it the Lady herself?
When threats from Phoebe’s past spark new dangers, Sam and Phoebe discover that neither is what the other expected. Standing on the edge of disaster, the disgraced Ice Queen will have to decide if she wants to forge through life alone, or let an unlikely hero melt her heart.
** NB – A NOTE FOR READERS**
Dear Reader,
Before you read this story know that there is frank discussion of nonsuicidal self-harm within these pages. Tread slowly and if this is painful, be gentle with yourself.
Phoebe’s experience with nonsuicidal self-harm might be familiar to some who have either experienced it themselves or have watched loved one’s self-harm.
To anyone who believes a young woman in an abusive household who self-harmed in the eighteen hundreds is historically inaccurate because there are no records of such incidences, I ask you to take a moment and consider whether the men with a stranglehold on recording and retelling our history would know or care about a very real, very frightening coping mechanism used overwhelmingly by adolescent women.
They were there, those girls who couldn’t feel until it hurt, who chose to inflict pain on themselves rather than wait for pain to be inflicted by others. They were there and I honor and respect them and do the same for all of you who walk this path.
Be well.
Elizabeth Everett